La construcción de imágenes a través de la mezcla sonora del podcast Fausto

Abstract

This paper examines the podcast Fausto, a true-crime story based on real events, to explore how sound narratives create mental images and add another dimension to the relationship between visuality and narrative. To this end, it proposes the concept of auditory narratives, which includes story-driven podcasts, audio documentaries, and scripted audio based on real events, as phenomena that also link visuality and literature. Likewise, it draws on audionarratology, a field of study exploring the intersection of narrative and oral-auditory modes of expression in media. If auditory narratives create messages and generate emotions and mental images, it is because they use the elements of radio or sound grammar —voice, music, sound effects, and silence— as semiotic systems to construct narrative meaning. These systems work together through a creative process that combines them to tell a sound story and construct a specific worldview: sound montage. Finally, a grammar for auditory narratives is proposed to analyze Fausto and to apply the five levels of decoding proposed by Christian Metz.