Tonight on New Radio Theater at KCNR 1460 AM in Redding tune in at 4 PM PST to listen to a brief interview with Jack as they present “Soul Survivor” for their listening audience. Live streaming available!
Send in your kind words to the folks for supporting audio drama and let them know you care!
THIS JUST IN…. from Jerry Robbins and Colonial Radio Theatre and their collaboration making audio drama adaptations of ‘Vincent Price Presents’ Comics have accepted Jack J. Ward’s adaptation “Family of the Night” and will release the episode October 4th, 2011.
Mr. Ward is already hard at work on another adaptation for Colonial Radio and is pleased to make CRT his first professional contribution.
As mentioned on last week’s Sonic Society, we’re hard at work putting together a structure that I’m calling “The IMDB of Audio Drama”.
There’s a co uple of phases of completion needed:
Phase 1: Design– Progress 35%
Phase 2: Testing
Phase 3: Importing Documents– I’ll be putting up for folks an Excel Spreadsheet with instructions to allow various Audio Drama companies and individuals to complete their files and mass importing and correcting any mistakes.
Phase 4: Usernames and Passwords- I’ll be opening the floor to people who want a username and password to begin the process of maintaining and entering new content as it comes. This new phase will allow for an “Editors” window in which anyone with Editing ability will see all documents that have been Entered and be able to edit, delete, or approve into the wider database.
The platform is built solidly on the Lotus Notes database structure which is amazing for unstructured text, and robust enough to hold up to 64 gigs of data.
Here’s my pass at the front end. Notice this screen shot was cropped before it says: “© COPYRIGHT 2011 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FOR THE INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED”
So why this? Why not?
Loads of people have been making some awesome tools, but this kind of spot has always been one of my dreams. A one-stop shopping place for people to look up Actors, Musicians, Producers, Audio Drama plays and Audio Drama Organizations. Want to see all the plays with Mark Kalita? Or scripts written by B.K. Turning? Or available episode of the OTR classic Gunsmoke? Here’s where you will get it all!
Cheers!
Jack
Out of Columbus, Ohio can be heard WCBE 90.5 FM, the voice of NPR in the region, and now a great new advocate for the return of Radio Drama!
Midnight Audio Theatre is a weekly audio drama show that can be heard on the wireless and through live streaming live on the web Friday nights at midnight (11PM CST) as well as through their podcast!
Currently, as well as Darker Project’s Five Minute Fears, Dreamcatcher, and The Leviathan Chronicles, you can also get to listen to EVP’s The Dead Line Anthology!
Check out their home page at Midnight Audio Theatre today and support another great foothold of bringing Radio Drama back to the airwaves!
(With thanks to Bill Hollweg from Broken Sea for passing this gem on)
From the Duke Law site:
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/pre1976
This site celebrates “Public Domain Day” the first of every year – Unfortunately, since the advent of the Sonny Bonno Public Domain Deprivation Act, there has been little to celebrate.
And those who attempt to rein in the few morsels of PD which escaped the net receive labels such as “Pirate” by others who may not consider this status relevant.
A thought for the group:
As the end of the Bonno extension approaches at the end of this decade, it may be worth anticipating that plans may be afoot to effectuate a further extension. Perhaps such plans may be opposed by drawing attention to the politicians who deprive a deserving public of their cultural heritage.
Another worthy step: Plant more trees.
Remember the show Realtor and the CEO by Larissa Naples? Well, in the latest example of Corporate Copyright buffoonery it looks like her show has been shut down by threatening litigation over the question of whether the word “realtor” is in the public domain or not.
Where’s our elected officials to protect us when these kinds of attempts to own the language are committed?
Do your part and say something about it.
Maybe you will be the extra voice to fight back at this and show we won’t be bullied. Please Help!
Some fantastic news from David Farquhar, Executive Producer of Voices In The Wind Audio Theatre. Audio Drama is going to have yet another fantastic stream to reach out people like it’s never done before:
On Tuesday December 7th 2010 a new and innovative way of delivering audio dramas to a mobile audience was launched on the Blackberry Smart Phone. The Moonlight Audio Theatre Podcast APP on the Blackberry features the best in modern audio drama programming covering all genres. With some 40 million Blackberry users across North America there is potentially a huge audience to tap into. Audio dramas can now be easily listened to while riding on the bus, waiting for your next flight at the airport, on long drives, while waiting at the Doctor’s office or at work. The Blackberry MOONLIGHT AUDIO THEATRE PODCAST is available instantly, anywhere, anyplace at anytime, no PC required.
What that means of course is that those folks who are good with their blackberries but lousy with subscriptions to podcasts and the like can listen any time, anywhere, on demand to audio drama.
How is this not good FANTASTIC news!?
Kevin Sorbo, John Billingsley and Bonita Friedericy Star in New Audio Drama to Benefit “A World Fit For Kids”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BURBANK, CA Nov. 17, 2010 – Macabre Mansion® Presents “The Fall Of The House Of Usher” – an original Audio Drama adaptation of the short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Starring Kevin Sorbo (“Hercules, the Legendary Journeys”, “Gene Roddenberry’s, Andromeda”), John Billingsley (Star Trek: Enterprise, “The Others”, “True Blood” “2012”), Bonita Friedericy (NBC’s Chuck), and Jim O’Rear (The Dead Matter, Day Of The Dead, Star Trek 4, Lethal Weapon 3, Cop & 1/2).
SYNOPSIS:
“Driven to the edge of insanity, Roderick Usher believes unknown forces torture his every moment. In a final attempt at finding a moments peace, he begs his childhood friend to come to his aid. Upon arriving, Roderick’s friend soon discovers all is not what it seems in the macabre HOUSE OF USHER.”
This audio adaptation stays true to Poe’s original vision with only minor changes in dialogue. The script consists of four speaking roles; Roderick Usher (O’Rear), Madeline Usher (Friedericy), the family Doctor (Billingsley) and the Narrator (Sorbo) who is an un-named childhood friend of Roderick. The Audio Drama has the same feel and style of the classic Old Time Radio shows.
A portion of the proceeds from “The Fall Of The House Of Usher” are being donated to “A WORLD FIT FOR KIDS” the leading nonprofit provider of after school physical activity and youth development programs for children and teens – http://www.worldfitforkids.org/
Macabre Mansion® Presents “The Fall Of The House Of Usher” is AVAILABLE NOW on audio compact disc for a retail price of $ 14.95 and includes two bonus commentary tracks featuring Kevin Sorbo and Jim O’Rear. https://www.createspace.com/1853775
For more information on Macabre Mansion® Presents “The Fall Of The House Of Usher” visit http://www.macabremansion.com/index.php?room=usher
Behind the scenes photos from the Burbank California recording session: http://www.macabremansion.com/news/?q=node/302
Promotional Videos:
http://www.macabremansion.com/news/?q=node/322
Perfect timing for the holidays! Pick up a couple of copies of Colonial Radio Theatre‘s “Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot” by the always clever and wry pen of Walter Koenig. Working together on this project Mr. Koenig and Jerry Robbins have put together a triumph of a science fiction audio drama!
Listen to this fun and engaging tale and get an extra for gifts! Or just point family to the site and say, “Here! This is what I want for Christmas”. Shopping made easy, the audio drama way 🙂
Synopsis: From the mind of Walter Koenig (Star Trek: The Original Series, Babylon 5) comes Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot – a science-fiction comedy unlike anything you’ve ever heard before! When an alien invasion annihilates most of humanity, it’s up to a small pocket of survivors to restart civilization. There’s just one problem: they’re all losers.
From an Irish pub to the Florida Everglades, from the outermost reaches of space to the innermost regions of the mind, join a rag-tag group of humans and aliens as they face the end of one way of life and the beginning of another.
Packed with absurdity, pathos, wry observations about human nature, and a story that will keep you on your toes until the final word, Buck Alice is an emotional journey you’ll want to take again and again.
With a full-cast, a sweeping original music score, and thousands of sound effects, the award winning Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air proudly presents a black comedy with a heart that pumps slightly acidic blood. Grab a manhole cover and prepare yourself for a story that begins when all others end – Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot!
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