When, in the 1950s, television replaced radio as the principle medium of home emenainment, the listener no longer had to use his or her imagination. Favorite characters and their actions became visually detailed. Society has increasingly relied on images created by others to give form and definition to the world in which all live.Passive viewing has become the routine of both the family at home, and the students in the classroom. Creating images within the mind has become a skill no longer taught as an imponam aspect of the school curriculum.Fonunately, there are many individuals who are rediscovering the role that audio can play in stimulating the imagination. Working in an audio medium provides the producer with the opponunity to rediscover the power of human imagination. This anicle explores the concept of the “theater of the mind”, and the design factors which need to be considered in the creation of audio works for the ear.
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Gary Ferrington (1994) studied this question.