The Inner Sound of the Outer World
Microphones cannot capture situations as they are percieved. A car crash on tape lacks everything that the experience of an accident amounts to: the surprise, the holding of breath, the shock, the sadness.
Microphones cannot capture situations as they are percieved. A car crash on tape lacks everything that the experience of an accident amounts to: the surprise, the holding of breath, the shock, the sadness.
Through original recordings and outtakes from finished pieces, Jens Jarisch demonstrates how important everything else besides the spoken word in a documentary can be.
This session features a couple of German audio excerpts, which you'll find translations of in the Extras section below.
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Jens Jarisch has spent half his life in Berlin, where he currently works as an independent producer of one-hour radio documentaries.