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Green Audio Thumb

March 26, 2016 / / 0 Comments
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Jemaine Clement Returns to Radio with the Podcast Uncle Bertie’s Botanarium. The article by Garrett Martin at Paste Magazine, tells us that the new podfict The Mysterious Secrets of Uncle Bertie’s Botanarium is about the life story of Lord Joseph Banks, the British botany and natural history scientist from Captain Cook‘s sea voyages. Banks brought back such exotics like eucalyptus to the west.
The script is written by acclaimed writer and director Duncan Sarkies, James Milne, and artist Stephen Templer, and is only inspired by history, drawing in elements of comedy and parody.

For his part, Clement is thrilled to be working in the audio world again:

“It’s a mixture between reading a book and watching a movie. Some of it’s provided for you like a movie, like the performances, but a lot of it you have to imagine yourself when you’re listening to it. I’m hoping podcasts will bring radio comedy and radio drama back.”

Welcome to the Society, Mr. Clement. Welcome to the Society.
New episodes of the Botanarium arrive every Wednesday!

Mike Says So!

March 25, 2016 / / 0 Comments

usimic-640x426Those entering the world of audio start to discover quickly those folk who love the engineering side of the audio world. It’s hard to argue that anyone loves it more than the Slovak label LOM. In this enigmatic article, These mics capture sounds from the edge of human hearing – and beyond the article goes into depths and clips with some of the amazing sounds that are being captured beyond our current easy listening perceptions.
Who knows. Maybe some day we’ll catch a little more of the world beyond like Huff Paranormal claims he can do with his Ghost Boxes.
Until then, we’re happy to hear the almost unlistenable from electro-magnetic wavelengths to the world of ambient noise. Keep Listening!

Mark(ing) Time till April!

March 23, 2016 / / 0 Comments

marktime2016 MARK TIME AWARDS OPEN FOR SUBMISSION UNTIL APRIL 30TH

The 2016 Mark Time Awards are given in recognition of the best audio theatre productions in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery/detective.  As a legacy project of the Firesign Theatre, the awards encourage creative use of the audio arts medium which includes writing, voice performance, sound effects, acoustic environments, musical underscoring, and technological accomplishment. The finalists will be announced May 10th online and the winners will be a presented at the 2016 HearNow Festival, in Kansas City, Missouri.  Go to www.marktimeawards.org for entry forms and 2016 guidelines.

From Radio Play to Stage Play

March 21, 2016 / / 0 Comments

oculuscropped2-20160314123936109More great Radio Drama that was translated and adapted for the stage as The Edmonton Journal Reviews Under Milk Wood.

From the article:

Originally released in 1954 as a radio drama and later adapted for the stage, this “play for voices” was written in the aftermath of the Second World War to portray a sense of innocence and humanity driven by human goodness.

Under Milk Wood depicts the thoughts and desires of the inhabitants of Llareggub, a fictional fishing village in writer Dylan Thomas’s home country of Wales. The production opens on an invitation from the narrator to “hear the dreams” of the sleeping villagers. Llareggub’s townspeople are a diverse group of characters, including Captain Cat, the blind, retired sea captain haunted by visions of his past, and the lovesick Mog Edwards and Myfanwy Price, with dreams only of each other. The figurative language is captivating, littered with humour and imagery, depicting not only the simple provincial life of Llareggub’s inhabitants but also their deepest desires.

Was War of the Worlds Broadcast the First VR Experience?

March 20, 2016 / / 1 Comment

oculuscropped2-20160314123936109This UK Market Magazine Article suggests that while Oculus Rift may represent an entirely new world of virtual entertainment and immersion, maybe the original virtual reality or VR gold standard belongs to radio drama. Consider the authors, Gavin and Jason Fox’s suggestion that Orson Welles and War of the Worlds provided the greatest trick to the mind, and come back and comment your own thoughts on their theory!

 

Many a True Word Hath Been Spoken in Radio

March 19, 2016 / / 0 Comments
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A star-studded cast will be performing in BBC‘s latest release of Shakespeare‘s classic tragedy King Lear.

The play about the elderly King and his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, is to be broadcast on Radio 3, May 8th and stars Ian McDiarmid famous for his role as Palpatine in Star Wars in the lead role.

No stranger to Lear, McDiarmid has played the King in 2005 from the Edward Bond’s 1971 rewrite of the original work.

An all Scottish casting will include Bill Paterson will play Gloucester and Paul Higgins the role of Edmund, while Brian Vernel will play The Fool and Michael Nardone the role of Kent. The daughters will include Frances Grey, from Edinburgh, as Regan, Joanna Vanderham, from Scone, Cordelia and Madeleine Worrall, from Edinburgh, will play Goneril.

Details of the upcoming performance can be found in this article of Herald Scotland.

Best Foote Forward

March 18, 2016 / / 0 Comments

ken-foote (1)Ken Foote muses over at CBS Local about the sunny days of radio drama after seeing an episode of The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson and the titanic voice actor Orson Welles. While talking about the difficulties of working as an actor and as part of the crew during live radio drama, Foote considers the powerful gateway show CBS Radio Mystery Theater starring the unforgettable E.G. Marshall as your host and narrator.

Go check out the article, but then consider mentioning to Mr. Foote how audio drama has come back in the modern age!

The Pictures are Better

March 17, 2016 / / 0 Comments
The Kiggins Theatre has become a regular destination for Willamette Radio Workshop. The Love Street Playhouse production of "It's a Wonderful Life" stars Kevin Taylor as George Bailey and Bethany Pithan as Mary. Both actors are from Longview. (Darcie Elliott Photography) The Love Street Playhouse production of "It's a Wonderful Life" features (from left) Kevin Taylor of Longview, Kim Dewey of Vancouver, Lou Pallotta of Ridgefield, Bethany Pithan of Longview and Steve Taylor of Battle Ground. (Darcie Elliott Photography) The North End Players Theater Company. The Kiggins Theatre has become a regular destination for Willamette Radio Workshop. Sam Mowry is director of the Willamette Radio Workshop. The Kiggins was packed on Halloween for the Willamette Radio Workshop's run of scary sci-fi plays.

The Kiggins Theatre has become a regular destination for Willamette Radio Workshop. 

“Radio is better because the pictures are better,” says Sam Mowry, Willamette Radio Workshop director and one of our all time favourite actors (catch his performance in EVP‘s Muse of Madness)

From the article: The Magic of Old Time Radio Rings Through Kiggins:

The Willamette Radio Workshop has carved itself a successful niche performing holiday and other themed shows — like “The War of the Worlds” at Halloween, “A Radio Christmas Carol” in December and “The Hobbit” for author J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday every January — but director Mowry said he loves branching out farther. Last Halloween, instead of “The War of the Words,” Willamette Radio tried two early science fiction classics, “R.U.R.” and “The Fall of the City”; and earlier in the year it was an original Superman script, locally relevant and blatantly political, about oil trains and environmental danger.

“We’re always looking for new and different things and John Barber has helped us push that boundary,” Mowry said. “This year for Women’s History Month, isn’t it great that we can do two of the greatest shows ever written for radio — and they were written by a woman?”

You can believe in the magic of radio drama as well. Willamette Radio Workshop is a little bit of fairy-dust in Portland and beyond!

 

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