| In an homage to the show that “ended it all” for the silent era of movies, and indirectly the Golden Age of Radio Drama, we look at Lux Radio Theater‘s “The Jazz Singer”, tonight on Sonic Echo. We all love you Mammeee! |
Author: Jack (Page 126 of 175)
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!
Jack has a grand time talking with Matthew McLean about his favourite subject on the Audio Drama Production Podcast. Join in an have a listen!
| Jack and David make some rash decisions when they transmit the awesome Mega Tales– Tales of the Devil’s Tower episode one to three! |
| Jack sits down to chat with the great innovator of modern audio theatre, Dirk Maggs from Perfectly Normal Productions to talk about the medium they love so well. |
| For the second week in a row, we are pleased to bring back Cary Grant to the stage! The double feature on Sonic Echo tonight comes fromGulf’s Screen Guild Theater with “On Borrowed Time” and “Arsenic and Old Lace”. Two great comedies that laugh great together! |
If you missed it the first go around, don’t you dare miss it this time! BBC Radio 4 is planning a repeat performance of Dirk Maggs, Neil Gaiman, and Terry Pratchett‘s amazing audio adaptation Good Omens from the sixth to the tenth of April and completing the series on Saturday the 11th in a tribute to the great Sir Terry.
The Brits really know how it’s done! Tony Pitts in this article talks about how he began in a soap opera and has found himself acting in a Spielberg blockbuster in this Yorkshore Post.
How does it fit the Society? Well, Mr. Pitts points out the thing we all know,
“I love radio. I actually think that it is the most powerful medium.”
Yes indeed, they do call you Mr. Pitts!
Robert Montenegro muses in the BigThink Blog that maybe Audio Books are really the next step to bringing back Audio Drama. He notes that from a piece in NPR, that something big is coming down the pipeline with the audioverse. While this may not be such big news for the Society, we’re all excited that it’s starting to look like many others are catching up!
Jack-in-the-machine locates The Incredibly Spaced Out Adventures of Jupiter Jackson by Eric Herman this week on the Sonic Society!
Sonniss has released for a limited time, for free, a ten gig audio sound effect bundle NOT TO BE MISSED by audio drama producers and creators. As this article from bedroomproducersblog explains:
Sonniss has released GameAudioGDC Bundle, a completely free to download sound collection featuring over 10 GB of high quality royalty free sounds for video game development and other creative work.
The library was released on March 7th and it will remain a free download until April 2nd. Sonniss states that they’re giving away this sound collection in order to give back to the video game developers community, despite of not being able to join the GDC2015 conference this year. They are also running a huge game audio sale on their website at the moment, aka GameAudio Special.
So get on board Sonicateers! Grab your bundle while you still can. They recommend the torrent for it!