ABSTRACT
Despite their differences, radio and television have several aspects in common: both broadcasting arts, they constitute laboratories of sensory fabrication. The chapter emphasizes this construction of sensory landscapes in 20th-century France, called radio-morphosis and tele-morphosis. On the one hand, the creation of new radio soundscapes and the taking into account of listeners’ perceptions are highlighted. On the other hand, when applied to the television, the question of how to appeal to the senses is discussed. More globally, besides the fact the creation is linked to the concern with making the human presence perceptible, the human spectacular is at the heart of the television project, not only through the strength of the picture, but also through the sound. Thus, a big importance is granted to the common identities between radio and television. This is fairly far removed from the perspective that associates television, photography, and cinema as arts only concerned with reproduction, or those which underline the specificity of such and such a medium. This approach gives greater place to showing how radio and television provide a spectacle, and awaken our senses.
