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!
Tonight Jack and David present three shows beginning with the feature Kraken Mare from the good folks at YAP Audioand The Audio Drama Production Podcast. Ending with two shorts- Bells in the Batfry episode #149 and the remake of the classic Wavefront from EVP Name Please starring Erika Sanderson and David Ault.
It’s Audio Drama Time!
Alex Dueben from The Beat, a blog on Comics Culture, took time to interview everyone’s favourite fedora wearing mystery man of Canada’s Steel town, Gregg Taylor.
This grand interview speaks to Gregg’s incredible creative reach in the last decade plus, and his recent endeavors in motion comics. Watching his recent comics brought to life by the Decoder Ring Players, brought back childhood memories of 60’s Captain America and Hulk barely animated series. Those were heady days of imaginings. While The Red Panda hasn’t yet developed its own cartoon series, the motion comics are the next best thing.
And with the terrifying thought that we may no longer have more audio adventures, lets support the DRT folks in every opportunity!
Check out the interview here true believers!
We in the Society love all things audio, and with Halloween coming up, it only makes sense we look at some of the most unexplained audio clips we have. While there’s many, Matthew Santoro does a good job in his youtube channel outlining ten famous sounds. How many of them do you know?
Wooden Overcoats comes back for a second round with “Tempting Fete” and we continue with our John Bell’s Bells in the Batfry extravaganza with episode 187! IT’S AUDIO DRAMA TIME!!!
Snowronin1 (is it winter already?) provides for fans of Red Sun a glimpse of audio drama actress Lauren Eilola at medium.com. This off the cuff and fluffy conversation gives a little looksee behind the actors voice talents.
This week in the Society another premiere with “The Bane of Rudyard” from Wooden Overcoats and more great classic laughs with John Bell’s Bells in the Batfry, episode #147. It’s Audio Drama Time!
I will admit to having certain goals as a writer. The first is that my stories connect with an audience. The second is that my stories have meaning for an audience. And the third is that my stories last the test of time. Few writers in the science fiction genre can check all three of those goals better than Philip K. Dick. PKD had a unique way of challenging conventional reality for his readers, and the BBC is now streaming a new adaptation of his famous Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? that was made popular as the Ridley Scott powerhouse Blade Runner. As fantastic as the movie was, it veered far from Dick’s original vision. The audio drama is much closer. Have a listen to the free stream on BBC 4 while you’re still able and marvel at a master of the mystic arts of storytelling.
Mathew Kresel in WarpedFactor has a great review on the show as well.
Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? is a novel that is perhaps best known for being the inspiration behind Ridley Scott’s now classic film Blade Runner, which famously built itself on top of the concepts Dick created, taking character names and a few situations before largely running off and doing its own thing to some extent. Dick’s novel is thus a different beast from the film it inspired, something that makes the two part BBC radio adaptation from 2014 that has recently been re-broadcast on Radio 4 Extra all the more intriguing.
Prosound has a great article on In the Studio: Tips for Controlling Vocal Sibilance. If you’re unaware of what “sibilance” is, very quickly it is the strong consonants that are stressed (sometimes overly so) in recordings. If you’ve ever listened to someone who let’s their S’s linger a little longer than usual, that could be a problem of sibilance in a recording. This lovely article focuses on how to set up your recording area to cut back on sibilance, and what tips you could use to de-esser them.
Who doesn’t want to punch a Nazi? Certainly not Betsy McGuyver does not want to punch a Nazi…
While we sit back and try to figure out the above sentence, may we happily present Wide Eyed Audio with tonight’s feature “Betsy McGuyver- Nazi Puncher”. It’s Audio Drama Time!
A while back Erik Hermansen from See Space Labs has given us at the Sonic Society the joy of experiencing the Worst Sound ever. So, interestingly awful is this contest, NPR had a little segment on it. Have a listen to All Things Considered and imagine just how bad it can get!
Sound designers have been competing this week for the honor of “Worst Sound in the World,” organized by See Space Labs. Listen to some of the submissions, if you can stand it.
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