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Missives from the Masters

| August 9, 2018

Archive.org isn’t just a treasure-trove of old-time radio drama, apparently, there are other great classics to appreciate like this one Radio Directing from Earle McGill who was a superstar of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Mr. McGill was a well-known directory, producer, and casting director for their Radio Workshop among other projects.  

Audio on the Rise

| July 19, 2018

More signs that the Rise of Audio is on its way. Canada’s Booknet Press posted some interesting stats and trends. From the article: More than half, or 61%, of Canadian publishers are now producing digital audiobooks, which is up from 37% in 2016, according to a new report from BookNet Canada. Increasing production may be related […]

Hear it and Weep

| June 21, 2018

A recent study from UCL in association with Audible has discovered something interesting- however maybe something we audiophiles already knew. Audio Books are more engaging emotionally to people than watching film or television. But, we already know that audio can be the most intimate of mediums. If you’re wearing your headphones or earbuds, a good […]

There Is a Great Disturbance in the Force…

| December 27, 2016

If you grew up in the seventies or eighties, you couldn’t avoid the iconic presence of Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in Star Wars. Many post modernist reviews of perhaps the first modern blockbuster series in movie history dwell on the dearth of women in the original trilogy. The fact was, it would have been […]

Bored House-listeners

| December 25, 2016

Using the illusionary trick of two microphones to create a surround sound playback, Mills & Boon intend to take their romance novels into the audiobook world. We’ve long lamented in the Sonic Society that while there’s no end to speculative fiction, horror and mystery shows (and we’re fans of all those), there aren’t a whole lot […]

Audible Channel Surfers

| September 15, 2016

From Yahoo: Amazon.com just added a new perk to its Prime program. Prime subscribers in the U.S. will now enjoy unlimited free access to a new short-form digital audio service from Audible Inc. called Audible Channels. Subscribers also will get a rotating selection of more than 50 audiobooks from Audible’s catalog. Audible describes itself as […]

Cribbing Notes

| August 18, 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 […]

Be Inquisitionary! (Or at least a Witch Hunter)

| January 6, 2016

The Witch Hunter Chronicles was a triumphant Audio Epics fantasy radio drama series from Domien De Groot and Eline Hoskens (the dynamic duo of modern audio fantasy production). With original music from Peter Van Reit, Witch Hunter is back- and this time as an audio novel. This thirteen hour long legendary audio is a must buy […]

Audiobooks- with Class!

| December 16, 2015

Hot on the heels (or is that feels) of our Sonic Speaks interview with Steven Jay Cohen, we have another great link to share. Steven’s incredibly detailed: Audiobooks in the Classroom: A Field Guide!  I know this time around I’m going to be paying attention to this “finely tuned” wisdom as I get my students to […]

Transforming the AB to AD

| March 18, 2015

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 […]