How good would a television broadcast without any commentary be to the US Open finale. With the unique yet omnipotent sound of ambient sound. It is so obvious that it tells us the unsaid. The silence and murmur, the intensity of the ball being hit, the reflections of the player, the fine print of what happened in the time-outs, the ball kids anecdotes. In short, the sound map that took place in the three and a half hours of the match between Alcaraz and Ruud in that final in history.
That it paradoxically prevented commentators from listening. Fortunately, the voices of the audience are already beginning to rise, demanding this kind of “bareback” transmission with ambient sound and no commentator. The legacy of radio may have gone too far. Television broadcasts matured not so long ago that they were assimilated. Now we have the opportunity to experience matches and sporting events in immersive High Definition, almost “touching” the heroes of success we admire, without anyone having to tell us what we saw with our own eyes.
A broadcast wrapped in ambient sound only gets you to the sporting event you want to follow in the purest possible way: without intermediaries. At the last European Games held in Munich and Rome, for budgetary reasons, RTVE Play presented the marks of many tests without the commentators voicing them. They made pure peace. The water of swimming pools. Density of tartan. And there is no one to get on our nerves.
I believe this formula will be implemented gradually for most gourmets.