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!
An updated version of the Radio Drama entry in wikipedia, has a number of incredible radio drama groups and organizations. Included among the brethren and sisterhood is EVP and The Sonic Society.
You keep listening, we’ll keep happily making. An Audioverse for us all!
The incomparable Cayenne Chris Conroy from Tek Diff did some of his usual vocal magic the upcoming Torment: Tides of Numenera this past summer. How many of us will buy it, just to hear him?
Check out how awesome the game sounds in this PCGamesN Review:
The world of Torment may well be the most imaginative gaming has ever seen. ‘Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic’ said Arthur C. Clarke, and it’s a law that developers inXile have run with. The Ninth World is neck-deep in ‘magic’, AKA technology from a billion years in the future, and you can tell that the writers have had a riot of a time creating it.
If you tune into SouthWaves Radio, check out the latest flourish of Audio Drama. Station Manager Jamie Dyer has our Sonic Society on twice Thursdays. Sonic has the classic beshttp://www.southwavesradio.co.uk/behind-southwaves-02-09-2016/t times drive times of 9-10 AM and 7-8 PM.
Check out this article on the SouthWaves site for details of all the great changes on the air!
The Rise Of Audio Drama
My focus in the last week, has been increasing the amount of audio drama heard on the station. The first thing I did was ask the community, and they delivered. I was inundated with lots of companies wanting their productions and series played out on the station. It is important to know that we negotiate with every company, as each have their own conditions. I had a few issues during the talks, but they were quickly sorted out. Many companies are concerned that we might run ads on the stream, and thus earn money from their content. This is not the case, and I have explained this previously. We are run by a series of donations, funding and from my own pocket. After all of the conversations that have taken place this week, I am pleased to announce that we have secured a number of series and productions, all of which are listed below.
Although we have taken on a large variety of new programming, we are still open to welcoming more audio drama companies into the fold. If you’re a company or organisation that are interested in getting some extra exposure, then do not hesitate to contact us!
Sonic Society friend David Farquhar, has a phenomenal announcement from Moonlight Audio:
MOONLIGHT AUDIO THEATRE Sets New Monthly Milestone at 115,000 Downloads
Canada based Moonlight Audio Theatre is thrilled to announce that August 2016 has been our best month ever with 115,000 Downloads. Wow! I still remember those days when we thought 20,000 to 30, 000 downloads per month was totally awesome.
Thanks to all the listeners who downloaded the audio drama offerings on the Podcast and to all the audio drama producers and production companies out there. It just goes to show you that Radio/Audio Drama is alive and well in the Digital World.
Currently, there are approximately 549 FREE Shows and 115 PREMIUM shows covering all genres available for downloading or streaming via our website or various Apps.
Total downloads to date: 2,300,000
Moonlight Audio Theatre Is Your Portal To The Best In Modern Audio Drama Suspense, Mystery, Horror, Sci-Fi, Supernatural, Drama, Comedy, Halloween, Christmas And Special Features.
Check It Out!
MOONLIGHT AUDIO THEATRE
http://www.moonlightaudiotheatre.ca/
Absolutely check out MAT! The very best in an Audio Drama netflix!
David Ault brings us the season finale of Sonic Summerstock Playhouse with “Death of a Doll” from The Narada Players and Pete Lutz, and “Candy Matson- The Black Cat” from Jack Ward and the Shadowlands Theatre Players. Not to mention an extra at the end!
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Wired Magazine made a point that horror and sci-fi has given a new rise to Podficts– fictional podcasts. The idea that people are doing effectively narrative audio stories (even going as far as audio drama) to tell stories to their listeners. We’ve listed many in the past two years, but the number seems to be growing!
From the article:
DAN POWELL VANISHED in January 2016. Before he did, though, the audio archivist sent his friend Mark a set of tapes, chronicling his attempts to organize a series of audio interviews that had been recorded at a creepy apartment building 20 years earlier. The podcast chronicles each approaching footstep, each rat scurrying by—and each realization that dawns as Dan learns more about the sinister song that affected the lives of the building’s eccentric residents back in the 1990s. If you want to see what he saw, though, you’ll have to imagine it yourself: Dan is the fictional protagonist of Archive 81, a found-footage horror podcast.
The real Dan Powell is also an audio archivist, although he denies any haunted recordings or horror experiences. Instead, he spends his days reviewing different sound effects for Soundsnap, an online commercial sound library. “I listen to thousands of different door slams,” Powell says. “I thought, is there a way to take a work environment of listening to weird sounds, and put a horrific twist on that?”
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The world of the future brought to you by the past!
NASA has released large TIF images of a bunch of their posters. You can bet you’re going to see some new Biff Straker images come from these. Do you need art in your audio drama?
Head right over to The Jet Propulsion Lab and remember the great worlds of what yesterday’s tomorrow can bring!
Texas Radio Theatre podcast with Rich Frohlich presents “The Atomic Trap” from Sky King in a live read through performance, while our actors at Electric Vicuña Productions take the stage with Gunsmoke “Sins of the Father” and the guiding hand of Richard Summers. All here on the penultimate episode of Summerstock Playhouse 2016!
It may sound a little bizarre to all of us at the Sonic Society, but Ki Sung at KQED News finished an article entitled Listening Isn’t Cheating: How Audio Books Can Help Us Learn.
I remember reading some time back an experiment that had hooked up an MRI to various participants. Those who read a book had a lot of “magic” happening in the brain as readers need to envision settings, characters, sights, and sounds. However, Audio Drama works the brain even more, as a single sound may be the only cue a listener gets in which to build a world. Audio books sort of bridge the two mediums.
However you slice it, audio is good for the brain.
Oh, and television? You guessed it. Leaves the cranium with a cold whistling sound in comparison.
Kevin Hartnell’s music in the audio drama world is right up there with other greats like Kevin MacLeod from Incompetech, Jeffrey Gage from Colonial Radio Theatre, Peter Van Riet from Epic Audio and Sharon Bee from EVP.
So, it’s always with the enthusiasm of Christmas morning that we get news of more of his work being part of the Creative Commons. So go to the Kevin Hartnell Free Music Archive Page and use whatever tracks you can for your next great opus. Just make sure you follow the CC instructions and give the man credit where credit is due!
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