Bangwave Radio wants you to celebrate World Theatre Day with Radio Drama. And why not? Can you think of a better way than to listening to some great OTR like The Halls of Fantasy or The Haunting Hour? Or of course, you can just tune in to Sonic Echo every Friday night for the rest of Season 10 of the Sonic Society and get you thirst for old time radio quenched there!
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If you missed it the first go around, don’t you dare miss it this time! BBC Radio 4 is planning a repeat performance of Dirk Maggs, Neil Gaiman, and Terry Pratchett‘s amazing audio adaptation Good Omens from the sixth to the tenth of April and completing the series on Saturday the 11th in a tribute to the great Sir Terry.
The Brits really know how it’s done! Tony Pitts in this article talks about how he began in a soap opera and has found himself acting in a Spielberg blockbuster in this Yorkshore Post.
How does it fit the Society? Well, Mr. Pitts points out the thing we all know,
“I love radio. I actually think that it is the most powerful medium.”
Yes indeed, they do call you Mr. Pitts!
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 it’s starting to look like many others are catching up!
Sonniss has released for a limited time, for free, a ten gig audio sound effect bundle NOT TO BE MISSED by audio drama producers and creators. As this article from bedroomproducersblog explains:
Sonniss has released GameAudioGDC Bundle, a completely free to download sound collection featuring over 10 GB of high quality royalty free sounds for video game development and other creative work.
The library was released on March 7th and it will remain a free download until April 2nd. Sonniss states that they’re giving away this sound collection in order to give back to the video game developers community, despite of not being able to join the GDC2015 conference this year. They are also running a huge game audio sale on their website at the moment, aka GameAudio Special.
So get on board Sonicateers! Grab your bundle while you still can. They recommend the torrent for it!
Famed mystery writer Jeffrey Deaver, author of such blockbusters as The Skin Collector, The October List, and The Kill Room, among others has decided that his latest story won’t be released as a novel ever. That’s right, you can only get The Starling Project as… you guessed it… an audio drama!
According to the New York Times article, Audible and others are betting on the power of the audio story, and what was once just good enough for simple narration is becoming more and more “enhanced”. In other words, radio drama lives again. What a lovely release!
In an interesting article in Midroll, Paul Riismandel argues that a recent critical article from Variety entitled “Why Serial Won’t Do Much for Podcasting or Hollywood” just doesn’t get it. The Variety article suggests exactly what it promises in the title- in that the explosively popular Serial from NPR won’t make any inroads into adapting its radio series into movies or even make a breakthrough for the relatively small listening audience of the podcast.
Riismandel, however provides a couple of examples as to how that’s already happened, and podcasts are ready for the big show. What do you think?
When Tim Heffernan of Dramapod fame contacted us to talk about his new exciting project- that being the remake of the website to a comprehensive collection of Audio Drama Feeds, albums, and shows hosted by The Dramapod we were thrilled! Imagine all the productions out there that still haven’t found an RSS Feed or a place to disseminate amongst the masses. After our discussion, I considered how we could be involved.
For many years, fans of the Sonic Society and Electric Vicuña Productions have asked us to provide a separate feed of EVP’s original work.
So here’s our chance. Every Wednesday, check the new Electric Vicuña Podcast feed for a re-release of our shows chronologically in time. Who knows, maybe even Gate will be done by then? Please join us for Wednesday’s EVP releases on the new feed from Dramapod!
As we round the final lap for NADSWRIM this year, it’s time to check in! How are you doing? Are you pacing yourself or will it be a race to the final finish line? Make sure you share with us on twitter or facebook as to what you’re doing! No matter your writing race, make sure you make you make it a personal first! Good luck on the final week!
While you’re in the midst of your writing frenzy of NADSWRIM this month, take a moment and have a listen to the incredible free content coming from the Internet’s largest provider of audio at Audible.com. Further to Black History month in Canada, Audible is providing four new free audio drama every Wednesday. Sign up and download today!