“Like sitting inside a phone” is an audio paper directed by Jacob Kreutzfeldt and Sandra Lori Pedersen about the “paradoxical position” that radio studio has: a place made for the people, but yet is acoustically silent and solitaire.
The podcast goes around the idea of “non-place” developed by Marc Augé as a feature of typical supermodernity: also known as hypermodernity, is a type of mode of society that reflects an inversion of modernity in which the function of an object has its reference point in the form of an object rather than function being the reference point for form (the final meaning of an object is reversed from the standpoint of functionalism (the idea of designing things only for the purpose it is intended) by favouring social constructivism (the idea that postulates the human development through the engagement with others).
The podcast explores the testimonials of various radio users, from the perspective of those who do it professionally, which is contrary to those who listen to it on a daily basis.
If the term radio is demoted for its functional purpose, we come across a place where ironically promotes the opposite of what it creates: radio studios are closed spaces, with no sunlight access, silent, acoustically monotonous, and technically overwhelming. Whilst when listened, the radio listener gets the warm frequencies of a human voice coming through condenser microphones, sometimes jingles and a sense of space and amusement is created additionally.