ABSTRACT
This chapter assumes that media strongly impacts the creation of sense of place, and frequently makes use of more than visuality. Audio drama and audiobook have become increasingly popular in the past few years due to the ubiquitous availability of digital media; the following investigation uses audio drama to show how audio media in general has a cognitive impact on the listener without directly using the environment. A text-based analysis of the audio plays' scripts can reveal how certain places are described and connoted. The deconstruction of the detective novel genre in audio drama helps listeners understand the importance of places of action. Soundframe is a rather vague soundscape element for evoking places of action. The last soundscape element is keynote. It combines human, nature, and technology sounds sometimes even atmospheric music into a collage that supports dialogue and even storyteller.
