The Message is out! Mac Rogers’ exciting new serialized podfict is our feature tonight for a taste. Go listen to the rest of the series on itunes!
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What’s creepier than cover art of a bunch of floating ears?
Erin Kohn from Indiewire interviews the Glass Eye Pix gurus- Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid, to talk about their third season of audio horror “Tales From Beyond the Pale”. Both gents are fans of the medium and especially of the power of telling a scary story in which the visuals are all in the mind. Have a look at the interview… If you dare!
Years ago I went to the new building of CBC in Toronto. A friend of mine had arranged a tour through their branch Radioworks. I got to stump the lady giving the tour with my knowledge of my beloved public broadcaster and I got to drool over their sound stage.
The stage, I fear, is empty as of late. But at the time imagine a huge room with various leveled parts of the ceiling which allowed the actors to stand in different places and provide different echos be it a large hall or a small room. Down one side on a series skateboard like rollers were a series of windows and half doors with latches and chains and a variety of knobs. Off to the side was a working washroom and working kitchen entirely microphoned built only for sound effects. Ranging down at the end outwards like the long tail of an “L” was a hall with various pits. Each pit was filled with different material from gravel, dirty, garbage, and leaves to emulate walking.
It was a audiophile’s paradise. Long have I wanted to create my own perfect sound space.
Well, you may not have space or the money to create a national broadcasting standard sound stage, but with this Do It Yourself Booth you’ll be sounding like the pros in no time!
Peter Gruenbaum’s episode 3 of “The Sting of the Dark Tower” fromCoiled Stories, and Neil Gustin’s “Ankh- Endings and Beginnings” from Twilight Audio Theatre are Jack and David’s post Halloween double-feature treats tonight!
Audio Drama is rife with opportunities for innovation and experimentation. For example, take a walk with Wonderland and solve a puzzle at the end of each chapter. We all need great reasons to keep active. My father just told me that a research tells us that a daily thirty minute walk is more healthy than working out to be a triathlete. How great would it be to engage in a relaxing mystery game and take that long walk as well? This is the power of Audio Drama, exercise your mind and body to make you live longer!
Fresh from his success of Locke and Key, Fred Greenhalgh has re-released full feature versions of his premiere series The Cleansed. According to Fred:
I have re-released the original 16 episodes of Season 1 and Season 2 as UNCUT podcasts, with new narrative ‘guideposts’ to help orient the listener. If you’ve been holding off listening to The Cleansed, or just want to listen and enjoy things all over again, please jump in with both earbuds in!
Take the opportunity to listen to this amazing series now!
Homophones are not unusual to us in the Sonic Society but when we speak of Serial out of the Box we’re not talking about the your breakfast food in a bowl but rather the popular Pandora (sadly blocked here in Canada) being awarded streaming rights for season two of the immensely popular NPR series- Serial.
Care to have a listen in? Be prepared to open the box!
The incredible, compelling series Sting of the Dark Tower by Peter Gruenbaum from a tale probably written by C.S. Lewis is our double feature tonight as David leads the microphone and Jack waves from the bed of restoration after Hal-Con.
In Slate Magazine yesterday, Mac Rogers- creator of the “found footage” style of audio drama that I’m going to call fictionalized podcasts or Podficts from now on. It’s a kind of fusion of audio drama and podcasting in which the hosts identify the podcasts and recordings as real, but they are truly fictionalized.
While some folks have identified this as “Docudrama” that doesn’t feel right to me either. Wikipedia identifies a docudrama as:
“A docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of radio and television programming, feature film, and staged theatre, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. On stage, it is sometimes known as documentary theatre.”
And these Podficts aren’t in anyway re-enactments of actual events.
What’s exciting is we’re looking at a very new kind of fusion of the audio drama form. Mac Rogers seems very excited at the idea of serializing story telling and he offers a look at some of the rules he would suggest to produce. While I love all kinds of audio drama in the foray, and I hope this brings new listeners to the medium, I’d hate to see this become the only form of choice. It would be like saying the only popular television style is first-person camera shows. After a while, it’s important to let the audience know the medium is robust and diverse!
This special Sonic Speaks interview has Jack speaking with Jacqueline Ball from Audioflix about the plans of Brian Pappas and Tim Knofler and the entire AF team to develop “The Netflix of Audio” and the great hope for monetizing the next stage in the Silver Age of Modern Audio Movies. Whether you want unlimited streaming of incredible new and classic content, or you are a writer or producer interested in getting some recognition and financial remuneration, have a listen!