Aurotica
Jack | November 22, 2015
When I created the Audio Drama Ratings System for audio producers everywhere to be a helping hand in identifying various content warnings for listeners, I was aware that audio drama is the most intimate of mediums. Just try listening to the sounds of movie lovemaking scene at some point, you’ll notice its far more X-rated in […]
Bring Back the Trans-Atlantic!
Jack | November 21, 2015
If you’re a fan of the fast-paced, hard-clipped, almost-English accents of the 20’s and 30’s, you’ll remember it as Trans-Atlantic or Mid-Atlantic accent. Especially effective for enunciating in Audio Drama, it has a kind of machine gun speed comedic style which is sadly missing. While many people can do a great parody of the Trans-Atlantic, […]
Grab Your Secret Agent Kits
Jack | November 20, 2015
Straight from the website, Code Named Cygnus is an interactive radio drama that uses speech recognition to cast you as the secret agent in a branching story. Use your voice to operate the game on your iPhone/iPad for a high quality acoustic experience of dialogue performance, sound effects, and music. Play as a secret agent in […]
Ear-ly Tales of Horror
Jack | November 16, 2015
What’s creepier than cover art of a bunch of floating ears? Erin Kohn from Indiewire interviews the Glass Eye Pix gurus- Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid, to talk about their third season of audio horror “Tales From Beyond the Pale”. Both gents are fans of the medium and especially of the power of telling a scary story in which the […]
DIY Sound Booth!
Jack | November 11, 2015
Years ago I went to the new building of CBC in Toronto. A friend of mine had arranged a tour through their branch Radioworks. I got to stump the lady giving the tour with my knowledge of my beloved public broadcaster and I got to drool over their sound stage. The stage, I fear, is […]
Audio Mystery Drama
Jack | November 8, 2015
Audio Drama is rife with opportunities for innovation and experimentation. For example, take a walk with Wonderland and solve a puzzle at the end of each chapter. We all need great reasons to keep active. My father just told me that a research tells us that a daily thirty minute walk is more healthy than […]
The Cleansed Re-released!
Jack | November 4, 2015
Fresh from his success of Locke and Key, Fred Greenhalgh has re-released full feature versions of his premiere series The Cleansed. According to Fred: I have re-released the original 16 episodes of Season 1 and Season 2 as UNCUT podcasts, with new narrative ‘guideposts’ to help orient the listener. If you’ve been holding off listening […]