Category: Music
I’m always fascinated with how Audio Drama compares, contrasts and connects with other media. This fantastic piece on how silent movies sing when the original orchestral music is played in concert with the film. Music has a powerful effect on the way we take in stories. It’s fascinating that no matter whether you see your stories primarily, or take them in through the ear. Music can provide the mood that draws in the tension of a scene, or the comedy of a moment. Sharon Bee‘s incredible mood mixtures for The Dead Line Anthology and the Wavefront Anthology series has been instrumental in Electric Vicuna Production‘s tension. What music has added to your experience of audio drama?
Scott Mosher who is currently working on the revamp of “Faith” for EVP sent along this handy music production site. You’ll find it along with other resources in the Public Domain Resources section as well. The Audionautix site has a lot of cool music for various purposes in your upcoming Audio Drama. Check it out!
Kevin Hartnell’s music in the audio drama world is right up there with other greats like Kevin MacLeod from Incompetech, Jeffrey Gage from Colonial Radio Theatre, Peter Van Riet from Epic Audio and Sharon Bee from EVP.
So, it’s always with the enthusiasm of Christmas morning that we get news of more of his work being part of the Creative Commons. So go to the Kevin Hartnell Free Music Archive Page and use whatever tracks you can for your next great opus. Just make sure you follow the CC instructions and give the man credit where credit is due!
According to this NYU News article:
Undergraduates, graduate students and alumni who graduated no earlier than 2013 can submit their pieces to the NYU Radio Play Contest via email by March 1. Submissions will be judged based on narrative quality and writing style, among other criteria.
Ana Maria Allessi, Vice President of Digital Innovation and Publisher at HarperAudio believes that the submissions should be natural extensions of the students’ current work. The winner will receive 25 percent of net profits of total digital recordings sold and 10 percent of total CD units sold. HarperCollins, a publishing company since the 50’s has all the specified terms and conditions and exclusive rights distribution rights to the winning piece.
NPR asks the question “Can you hear quality audio?” with this interesting series of music segments that included compressed and uncompressed elements of songs, Jacob Ganz challenges you to pick the WAV. Go ahead, and take the test! We’re not afraid to say that we failed, but then again, none of these clips are audio drama!
| The incredible singer, musician, composer, Sharon Bee is our special guest this week on Sonic Speaks. Sharon talks to us about writing the music for Electric Vicuña Productions like The Dead Line, Gate, Wavefront, and Firefly- Old Wounds |
It’s HERE and you know you can’t wait for it! Mask of the Red Panda Issue #1 from Monkeybrain Comics, art by Dean Kotz and written by our own amazingly prolific Canadian pulpster Gregg Taylor!
It’s just 99 cents, less than a cup of Joe and much more satisfying! Have a gander, Gus!
And enjoy the review!
It’s HERE! It’s HERE! It’s FINALLY HERE!
BROWNCOATS STEP UP AND GET YOUR FULL LENGTH CD OF FIREFLY OLD WOUNDS MUSIC!
Straight from the Composer/Songwriter- Sharon Bee!
FOURTEEN TRACKS OF ORIGINAL MUSIC INSPIRED BY THE AMAZING FIREFLY SERIES BY JOSS WHEDON!
Check out the music
Buy the CD!!!
Bring back the great memories of the first Firefly Audio Drama with Sharon Bee’s inspiring ode to Browncoats everywhere!
From the minds of Jon Baker and the other good folks at Dick Dynamo comes “Dick Dynamo, the 5th Dimensional Music Experience”.
There are many types of modern audio drama companies out there. Many companies offer a variety of fair, and some precious few focus on one or two ideas to put all their efforts in a concept.
The good folks at Dick Dynamo are in the latter camp, and it shows. The episodes of Dick Dynamo are cleverly written, lovingly acted, and produced with such panache and style that you could set your watch to their accuracy.
In fact, the one complaint that could be made against Dick Dynamo, is that there’s simply not enough shows to sate the hunger for more!
Enter in Dick’s Musical Experience, that once again mirrors the affection the team has for this series. This fun album is filled with great beats, hilarious lyrics, and many more reasons for everyone to download and enjoy these tunes before they are no longer offered free and snatched up by some record label!