Three Elements of Radio
STATION 3YC’s "Sounds, Words and Music," an attempt to explore the evocative power of the radio’s: three elements, was undoubtedly the most exciting programme of the week. One hopes that the NZBS will continue its experiment. Now to the difficulties. In "Manifest Destiny," the straight historical story, plus the metaphysical ideas which arose from it, pulled all the musical and sound effects down into the form. Here, a vast idea concerning man’s place in the universe was apt to let the theme spread like a dusky marsh from which fose great rocky shapes of meaning, For such explorers there is the danger of using eerie sounds which, as in the case of the first talkies, threaten to exclude the range of exciting sounds
which lie planes above the echoing voices, windy chimneys or the too literal "heartbeat: of humanity." This last gave me much to think about. Why did I not object to the loved sound of waves -or rivulets and yet with this larger-than-life item have the feeling that art must not leave things raw but must translate them into its own more calm and objective terms? Here and there, too, the sounds did not. appear to be related to the words which preceded
them.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 10
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211Three Elements of Radio New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 10
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