Born to Teachers and Amateur Audio Enthusiasts in the small rural community of Belwood, Jack's first love was stories- writing, reading, telling, and singing. He developed his acting skills through High School, University, and through film and community theatre.
Jack writes the lion's share of Sonic Cinema Production's (previously Electric Vicuna) Audio Drama scripts and has his own writing site at www.jackjward.com. Jack also is the middle of book writing, screenplay production, and is the CEO of the Mutual Audio Network- where he and the best people in the world Listen & Imagine, Together!.
He's thrilled to co-host the Sonic Society with his wonderful, talented, friend David Ault as they enter their second decade in the medium!
There may have been a lot of birthing pains, but thanks to the generosity of Society Members we retire the old battle scarred Digirack 002 and we bring the Zoom R24. Among the many benefits, there’s multi-track recording capability (of course), the ability to record all by its lonesome for a live recording, and of course a great way to use Reaper for a new year.
Happy Spin Around the Sun for the all those in the podcasting world, from all of us, at EVP and the Sonic Society!
David brings us “Epiphany” part one from Sandbox Radio Live as our final episode of 2015. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
As we get closer to the end of the year, reflections on the past, anxiety in the present, and dire predictions for the future provide all kinds of fear in the season. No matter what you do, our guarantee from David Ault and Jack Ward and everyone of us that listens as a Society member is that we’re here. We’ve come together in this past decade and longer, to share, to grow, and to expand our wonder at the world of audio storytelling.
Keep Calm. The story of the original poster is a testament to the power of words. And whether they are written on a piece of paper and hidden away for fifty years, or recorded in digital format and nearly lost for fifty years, words have meaning. Stories are perhaps the very stuff of the universe as certainly as they are the stuff of the human soul.
From all of us, to all of you, on this great spinning little blue marble against the ebon sea. We have one thing to say…
Keep Calm. And carry on listening to Audio Drama.
And Merry Christmas
David Farquhar and Voices in the Wind Productionsbrings us “The Spirit of Christmas” for our holiday week episode. Jack and David, together again banter. Be safe, be warm, be happy, and listen to great audio drama through the seasons!
With a SPECIAL EXTRA seasons greetings from the First Society Member!
Thanks to audio connoisseur from Broken Sea Audio, Bill Hollweg, we were reminded recently of archive.org’s collection of High Adventure!
Feeling like you need a little excitement in your life? Give High Adventure a try!
High Adventure is sometimes billed “The Mutual Network’s answer to Escape!” In fact, the Mutual anthology premiered on March 1, 1947. There were audition episodes for Escape at the end of February and the middle of March, 1947, but the program did not begin regular broadcast until July. Some reviewers consider Escape to be Suspense’s little brother. In that line of thinking, High Adventure could be thought of as a distant cousin.
Sonic Echo may be gone for the ages, but OTR is still going strong over at archive.org!
Hot on the heels (or is that feels) of our Sonic Speaks interview with Steven Jay Cohen, we have another great link to share. Steven’s incredibly detailed: Audiobooks in the Classroom: A Field Guide!
I know this time around I’m going to be paying attention to this “finely tuned” wisdom as I get my students to listen to some great literature. A must for all educators and learners alike!
David presents Battleground Productions latest exciting steampunk series for tonight`s feature BRASS! Right here, on the Sonic Society!
In the Guardian newspaper, Miranda Sawyer asks a very simple question: Why are Americans so much better at making podcasts than the British?
I for one think that Ms. Sawyer has the ideas backwards. She suggests in the article that you have to do massively produced shows to get them to be successful and that the British podcasters don’t do that. But the truth is, Serial is an NPR show, and if the BBC wanted to throw its weight and creativity around a “Serial type” podcast, it would do just as cracking, I would say.
In the end, people are hungry for good stories. Isn’t that why we love Radio Drama in the first place?
John Madden was “making movies with the lights turned out” by releasing the incredible NPR Star Wars radio drama. With the help of Brian Daley, this never before tried extended series of the original trilogy was an instant sensation and starred Mark Hamill (who Madden proclaimed as a “natural” in radio drama) and Anthony Daniels of C-3P0 fame. Other stars included Ann Sachs as Princess Leia Organa and Perry King as Han Solo (a film role he lost to Harrison Ford, but ended up playing the swashbuckling Solo longer in the extended series than Indy himself).
As The Force Awakens breaks all box office numbers known to humanity, have a listen to NPR’s remembrances of when radio drama sparkled after a low fizzle for decades in That Time NPR Turned ‘Star Wars’ Into A Radio Drama — And It Actually Worked!
The incredibly versatile and talented Steven Jay Cohen comes in to talk about audio production, Broken Sea, acting, and his new passion project Listen 2 a Book!
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