The Witch Hunter Chronicles was a triumphant Audio Epics fantasy radio drama series from Domien De Groot and Eline Hoskens (the dynamic duo of modern audio fantasy production). With original music from Peter Van Reit, Witch Hunter is back- and this time as an audio novel. This thirteen hour long legendary audio is a must buy for any lover of Tolkienesque fantasy. Buy Witch Hunter the Audiobook today and receive a tremendous new release price!
Author: Jack (Page 113 of 179)
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!
Welcome to a New Year of Audio Drama and our second part of “Epiphany” from Sandbox Radio Live! Not to forget the 2016 NADSWRIM (or is that GADSWRIM, CADSWRIM or WADSWRIM we leave it to you to decide!)
Favourite colourful metaphor, Gregg Taylor!
One of my treasured times in the morning is the early ride to school. Once the car windshield has been sufficiently scraped, and the engine makes its protesting chugs to start, on goes the ipod, and the car stereo plays the only music worthy of a car ride- radio drama.
This morning was As the Northern Star- episode three of season 11 of Black Jack Justice. In a genre that’s already littered with modern greats like Harry Strange, The Scoop Sisters, TamLynn P.I. and Jim Nolan among others, after eleven years Jack Justice and Trixie Dixon still top the charts.
Detective noir dialogue can be unnecessarily stilted and in danger of parodying itself. Taylor has both an ear for the lingo of the age, a quick wit, and an understanding that characters need a reason to bust a few chops. The chief reason is the often boredom-staving opportunities the protagonists have to lean on a proverbial sore spot.
Taylor makes the writing easy. He’s said in the past (go look up our annual round table events), that keeping Justice and Dixon quiet after a while so they don’t crowd out the plot is more of a challenge than writing witty repartee. Taylor’s style is so effortless, that one would think that Dash Hammett would be wiping the tears of joy from his priority podcast feed (Of course some folks think Dash’s liver is still alive and fueling up using regular at some rundown dive in the Big Apple).
Of course, the success goes to the Decoder Ring Theatre team. Andrea Lyons as Trixie and Christopher Mott who voices Jack along with Taylor and his talented wife Clarissa Der Nederlanden Taylor make the solid base that so many friends from their days on stage complete the powerful scripts.
The upshot is, as I work on Phillipa Graves (arguably older than those Justice and Dixen kids), it’s really important to remember consistency and talent are what drives the best modern pulp detective show out there. So raise a cup of Joe!
As you wait for the next great Biff Straker episode, enjoy the incredibly fun and orgiinal PULP-0-MIZER. It slices and dices, and provides the very best of diesel punk!
It’s 2016 and time to upgrade your equipment.
How about some affordable microphones? The Recording Revolution blog has some great ideas for you. Happy Year of the Audio!
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!