Jack and David showcases an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s 2BR02B from Pulp-Pourri Theatre and The Adventures of Jack Nimble from Matt Leong!
Author: Jack (Page 117 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!
The Macaulay Library at Cornell University, home of the world’s largest and oldest collection of nature recordings, just uploaded the whole, totally searchable, archive online for free. 9,000 species from across the world are documented in 150,000 audio recordings, totaling 10 terabytes and a run time of 7,513 hours.
The library has been building its holdings since 1929, amassing recordings from 75% of the world’s bird species (it operates within the Cornell Lab of Ornithology after all) and a growing collection of insect, fish, frog, and mammal recordings as well. It took the archivists a dozen years to digitize the whole kit and caboodle.
This represents just a small fraction of the estimated 8.7 million species living on earth, and still, it’s far and away the best catalogue detailing what life on earth sounds like.
So get downloading some of the best sounds for your next great African adventure in audio drama!
BBC4 is providing some unique opportunities to listen to plays this month. Check out the article at newsonnews:
BBC Radio 4 has announced that one of the plays would be the broadcast premiere of Arthur Miller’s unproduced screenplay The Hook. It has also announced that the series will also feature world premieres of Heart Of Darkness by Orson Welles, and The Blind Man by Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman – all sitting in the station’s drama slot on Saturday afternoon at 2.30pm across three weekends in October.
Jeremy Howe, Drama Commissioner for BBC Radio 4, says: “To discover an unmade screenplay of the calibre of any of these is a find in itself, but to unearth three is little short of a miracle. I hope our audience will agree that being offered these three masterpieces on consecutive Saturdays is a massive treat. Get yourself a long drink, a bucket of popcorn, and sit back and enjoy the cream of Hollywood in its heyday – three brand spanking new stories from Arthur Miller, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles.”
“Creative Writing is a vibrant subject area at The Open University, with courses from beginner and undergraduate, to MA and PhD level. We are thrilled to collaborate with BBC World Service in this important and unique competition, encouraging and supporting talent internationally.”
So says Doctor Derek Neale of The Open University Faculty of Arts in consideration of the call for scripts from the incredible BBC World Service and the British Council. The 25th global annual contest that is looking for two winners- one with English language as a first and another with English language as a second will take submissions for 53 minute plays until January 31st, 2016.
The International Playwriting Competition which has included entries from 83 countries in the past, looks forward to scripts from anyone outside the UK, whether established or new writers.
Look for all the details in The Eagle Online article.
Tom Meadows waxes absolute poetry in describing his love for the audio adventures of Hunt the Truth in his article at moviepilot.com.
Listening to HUNT the TRUTH provoked nostalgia in me, bringing back those memories of The Shadow. In some way, it felt as though I was a child again. Radio Dramas and Audio Series are more effective and popular than most people today would think. At times, if executed perfectly, can be just as much if not more entertaining than movies. I say that because unlike movies where it is unfolding before your eyes, Audio alone leaves visualization to you and you alone allowing your imagination to be mesmerized by the drama you’re hearing.
And I can honestly say, HUNT the TRUTH more than exceeded in delivering us a dramatic and thrilling tale about the Halo universe as we know it.
Are you sold? Time to go hunt for your own truth with Episode 0.
Jashae Slaughter’s science fiction epic Last Day: Origins episodes one and two is our feature tonight on the Sonic Society and your hosts, as always, are David Ault and Jack Ward.
From audio tape to film strip as hit Radio 4 play from Morwenna Banks makes its way to Hollywood. Great audio drama scripts get worked into movies at times and this story about the tragedy of cancer among a group of friends is no exception. Banks who has made a name for herself writing comedic characters won the annual Tinniswood award for radio drama for the play, and when accepting the prize she thanked those who had taken a chance on a “cancer drama with laughs”, adding that Goodbye was her attempt “to make sense of the death of three friends”. All the details of Morwenna Banks, the radio play Goodbye and the subsequent film can be found in this article from The Guardian
Through the years we’ve seen many adaptations from movies, stage, and novel form into the medium of audio drama. It’s rare to see the reverse, but Sam Wheeler from Bates College is taking Norman Corwin’s famous “They Fly through the Air with the Greatest of Ease” and adding stage directions and elements to contextualize to a stage play. In preparation, Mr. Wheeler read 25 scripts to get ready to bring the theatre of the mind to the theatre of the stage. Details can be found in Riley Hopkin’s article in The Bates Student.
It seems like everyone everywhere are getting into the act. Radio Drama on the stage is a fantastic way to get a production mounted and shown to audiences. Main Street Theatre is no exception. October 23rd, 24th and 25th at the Native Sons Hall, in Sutter Creek, MST proudly presents “The Count of Monte Cristo” one of our favourites. If you’re in the area, go have a listen and a look see!
Details from Broadway World.
Awakening from a fall through the shanty town of Geln, Biff sees a rocket ship crash and meets up with Commander Angela Degan and Professor Ildeen Thermopoli of Nova Command!