This week we present 4077th “The Hangman’s Dozen” and Erik Kershaw’s “Room for Three”. Loads more news and Matt Leong. What more could you ask for?
Author: Jack (Page 119 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!
From MPR News: The Old Log Theater on the shores of Lake Minnetonka will host an unusual show tonight.
The live performance of a radio drama called “Pirates of Harrison Bay” will feature a cast of senior citizens who are all coping with memory loss.
The actors are participants in Sojourn Adult Day Services, a Mound, Minn.-based provider of artistic and therapeutic activities for seniors and adults with special needs.
MPR News host Cathy Wurzer spoke with longtime Twin Cities broadcaster J.B. Eckert, the show’s director and writer.
Biff Straker, “The Haunted World” is on the air! Your narrator, Mark Bruzee, along with Kid Rocket (Colm Ward) brings you the next installment of the hero of the cosmos- Biff Straker, in the fabulous Spaceways!
David is on the microphone while Jack figures out gadgets with this incredible release from Jeffrey Gardner and Our Fair City Season One in its complete remastered golden towered audio visions!
Okay maybe “psycho-sonicstry” won’t be as popular as “satellite actors” or even “podjecting” and other terms we’ve come up with here in Sonic Society laboratories, but it’s hard not to consider the affect of audio dramatic storytelling on the psyche. Certain tales work especially well in different mediums. Television and movies have been excellent at adapting many novels, but some remain tantalizingly out of reach. Frank Herbert’s Dune series never really match on film the power and philosophy of the books.
But maybe audio drama could. There’s a strange hybrid feeling that audio has with stage (which we’ve mentioned before), film, movies, and the written word that almost bridges the gap. Maybe its because all the pictures are still manufactured in your head.
Not that HBO won’t try. Their success of Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin has emboldened the flick fairies of the cable realm to give a shot at Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy as a series.
But before we make “psycho-history” a buzz word again, check out OpenCulture’s homage to Mr. Asimov in the world of radio drama and our own psycho-sonicistry with Hear Radio Dramas of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy & 7 Classic Asimov Stories.
Try it out a couple of times. It might grow on you.
Psycho-Sonicistry. Psycho-Sonicistry. Psycho-Sonicistry…
People in tin foil hats are around everywhere.
The good news is that Tinfoil.com is not a place where the sanity-challenged folks gather but rather a spot where you can enjoy some of the oldest recorded sounds- including wax cylinders that have stood the test of time. I’ve always thought how heartbreaking it was that a wax recording of Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson was melted down to make candles during World War II. Necessity is not only the mother of invention, but sometimes the destroyer of art.
In the meantime, go have a look and a listen at some of the great sounds from the past, kept in their crackly goodness today!
Double feature night with Sonic Society this week andMisfits Audio presenting Mike Murphy with “Milly Foster- Macabre Investigator and Oh Where, Oh Where Can She Be?” and “Raise Your Glass” on Our Fair City. Jack and David are your hosts. You are our guests. It’s Sonic!
We’re getting closer and closer to Halloween, a time which happens to be the most favourite for audio drama writers and producers. More horror audio drama hits the airwaves in October than any other time of the year. Tony Palermo has a great page to give helpful hints to the wannabe horror writer of radio. His article, Writing Radio Horror Stories give a series of great references to help turn your blood filled pen cold with fright.
What are you planning to release at Halloween? Are you headed for a Transcontinental Terror?
Podcasting has been a roller coaster of ups and downs with long stretches of inclines and declines. Joey Keeton’s article “The Unfortunate Truth about the Podcasting Industry” in The Kernal blog. Keeton gives a good overview of where folks lie in their understanding and use of podcasts and the art of podcasting. Where are you?
The long wait is over! Biff Straker Year Zero begins tonight! Sit back and experience the beginning of the legend. Written and Directed by Jack J. Ward. Produced by Josiah Ambrose. Music by Sharon Bee. Starring Jack Ward and Eric Benson. Mark Bruzee is your announcer. AIM FOR THE STARS!
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