“When David Foster Wallace, reading the audiobook version of his newly published collection of essays, “Consider the Lobster” (Time Warner AudioBooks), hits one of its many footnotes, listeners may be inclined to adjust the volume – his voice sounds suddenly distant, as if he has fallen down a well. Then, footnote finished, his voice returns just as abruptly to normal. But don’t touch the dial. The voice manipulation, for which audiobook producer John Runnette used a “phone filter” – a voice-through-the-receiver effect used in radio dramas – was an attempt to aurally convey Mr. Wallace’s discursive, densely footnoted prose.”
Link: How Should a Book Sound? And What About Footnotes? (nytimes.com)
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