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 David and Jack have Songonauts episode 2 from Jonathan Mitchell and David Devereux’s exciting and compelling series Tin Can episodes one and two as Season 12 storms on!
Don’t forget to send us your audio memories of the past 500 episodes of The Sonic Society!
RTÉ and Northern Ireland Screen are looking for writers for online dramas and comedies. Check out this link from the BBC Writing Room website.
RTÉ and Northern Ireland Screen are seeking submissions from writers and producers to develop five new, original online dramas for the new season of Storyland.
Writers from the worlds of television, film, theatre, literature, documentary and journalism are sought, whether or not they have previously written for film or TV.
And there’s more good news for writers! In a change to previous years, the writer will be at the centre of the drama. RTÉ and Northern Ireland Screen will commission five scripts and work closely with the writers and producers on their development. Once the scripts are ready for pre-production, directors will be contracted. In total, five single dramas of up to 20 minutes duration – and each with a budget of €30,000 – will be commissioned and shown both nationally and internationally on RTÉ Player.
Want to find out more? There’s an explanatory open day in Dublin on Wednesday, 21st September and another in Belfast on Thursday, 22nd September. (Further details below).
The closing point for Storyland submissions is noon on Thursday, October 13th, 2016 (Irish Standard Time).
It’s essential you establish exactly what the organisers require and you can get the necessary information plus details about how to apply at the official Storyland website.
The intrepid Gregg Taylor brings us Red Panda as the costumed hero saddles up one more time in “Remember When” for our premiere of Sonic Society Season 12, and thanks to Jonathan Mitchell we present a new exciting series Songonauts.
Do you have some money just aching to be used for the greater good? Look into the Whisper Room. While certainly a little pricey for most audio dramaphiles, the Whisper Room could be that perfect isolation box for your recording.
Just a thought!
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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