Welcome to a New Year of Audio Drama and our second part of “Epiphany” from Sandbox Radio Live! Not to forget the 2016 NADSWRIM (or is that GADSWRIM, CADSWRIM or WADSWRIM we leave it to you to decide!)
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Favourite colourful metaphor, Gregg Taylor!
One of my treasured times in the morning is the early ride to school. Once the car windshield has been sufficiently scraped, and the engine makes its protesting chugs to start, on goes the ipod, and the car stereo plays the only music worthy of a car ride- radio drama.
This morning was As the Northern Star- episode three of season 11 of Black Jack Justice. In a genre that’s already littered with modern greats like Harry Strange, The Scoop Sisters, TamLynn P.I. and Jim Nolan among others, after eleven years Jack Justice and Trixie Dixon still top the charts.
Detective noir dialogue can be unnecessarily stilted and in danger of parodying itself. Taylor has both an ear for the lingo of the age, a quick wit, and an understanding that characters need a reason to bust a few chops. The chief reason is the often boredom-staving opportunities the protagonists have to lean on a proverbial sore spot.
Taylor makes the writing easy. He’s said in the past (go look up our annual round table events), that keeping Justice and Dixon quiet after a while so they don’t crowd out the plot is more of a challenge than writing witty repartee. Taylor’s style is so effortless, that one would think that Dash Hammett would be wiping the tears of joy from his priority podcast feed (Of course some folks think Dash’s liver is still alive and fueling up using regular at some rundown dive in the Big Apple).
Of course, the success goes to the Decoder Ring Theatre team. Andrea Lyons as Trixie and Christopher Mott who voices Jack along with Taylor and his talented wife Clarissa Der Nederlanden Taylor make the solid base that so many friends from their days on stage complete the powerful scripts.
The upshot is, as I work on Phillipa Graves (arguably older than those Justice and Dixen kids), it’s really important to remember consistency and talent are what drives the best modern pulp detective show out there. So raise a cup of Joe!
There may have been a lot of birthing pains, but thanks to the generosity of Society Members we retire the old battle scarred Digirack 002 and we bring the Zoom R24. Among the many benefits, there’s multi-track recording capability (of course), the ability to record all by its lonesome for a live recording, and of course a great way to use Reaper for a new year.
Happy Spin Around the Sun for the all those in the podcasting world, from all of us, at EVP and the Sonic Society!
David brings us “Epiphany” part one from Sandbox Radio Live as our final episode of 2015. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
David Farquhar and Voices in the Wind Productionsbrings us “The Spirit of Christmas” for our holiday week episode. Jack and David, together again banter. Be safe, be warm, be happy, and listen to great audio drama through the seasons!
With a SPECIAL EXTRA seasons greetings from the First Society Member!
David presents Battleground Productions latest exciting steampunk series for tonight`s feature BRASS! Right here, on the Sonic Society!
In the Guardian newspaper, Miranda Sawyer asks a very simple question: Why are Americans so much better at making podcasts than the British?
I for one think that Ms. Sawyer has the ideas backwards. She suggests in the article that you have to do massively produced shows to get them to be successful and that the British podcasters don’t do that. But the truth is, Serial is an NPR show, and if the BBC wanted to throw its weight and creativity around a “Serial type” podcast, it would do just as cracking, I would say.
In the end, people are hungry for good stories. Isn’t that why we love Radio Drama in the first place?
John Madden was “making movies with the lights turned out” by releasing the incredible NPR Star Wars radio drama. With the help of Brian Daley, this never before tried extended series of the original trilogy was an instant sensation and starred Mark Hamill (who Madden proclaimed as a “natural” in radio drama) and Anthony Daniels of C-3P0 fame. Other stars included Ann Sachs as Princess Leia Organa and Perry King as Han Solo (a film role he lost to Harrison Ford, but ended up playing the swashbuckling Solo longer in the extended series than Indy himself).
As The Force Awakens breaks all box office numbers known to humanity, have a listen to NPR’s remembrances of when radio drama sparkled after a low fizzle for decades in That Time NPR Turned ‘Star Wars’ Into A Radio Drama — And It Actually Worked!
The incredibly versatile and talented Steven Jay Cohen comes in to talk about audio production, Broken Sea, acting, and his new passion project Listen 2 a Book!
Virginia helps out Jack with co-hosting while David Ault rests up his Kris Kringly self. Tonight’s special feature comes from Austin Beach andAudioblivious with “Natural Selection”. Hold on to your hats and your screams!