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Ear Canals

July 3, 2015 / / 0 Comments

OxfordMatt Oliver in the Oxford Mail points out a new trend in audio drama goodness- walking tours of historic sites. Or in this case, paddling tours of the Oxford Canals. Tom Dick and Debbie Studio, local based producers, have taken the winners of some historical plays about the Oxford Canal, developed, edited, and uploaded the four, 10-minute pieces to the Oxford Canal Heritage Project’s website. All were performed in the St. Barnabus Church, Canal Street structure and do an excellent job chronicling the history of the historic waterways.

In our interactive society, how many more great audio are we going to find out about?

 

Shred-AD Plans

July 2, 2015 / / 0 Comments

RedwoodWhat do you do when your plans to perform Shrek the Musical fall apart?

Why you go back to the drawing board- or the listening board as is the case of Redwood Area Theatre.

In this article from Redwood Falls Gazette by Joshua Dixon we discover:

Lorna Lueck-Plaetz, current RAT president, said, “We all figured, ‘Well, we won’t be doing a show this summer.’ Then board member Kurtis Parlin pointed out the Marshall theatre group has done some radio shows during the winter months.”

Two out of the three shows were taken from Old Time Radio:

• The Man Who Thought of Everything, about a couple planning to elope, with every possible contingency taken into account.

• The Wills, which originally starred Lucille Ball, is the story of a woman whose husband urges her to go to a lawyer to get a will, then goes to the store to buy rope, poison, etc. etc.

• A Retrieval Reformation, based on a short story by O. Henry, tells the story of a safe-cracker who’s wanted by the law — and the surprising way he is exposed.

Auditions were held June 11th, and now its all about getting the actors in costume and bringing he forties back to live on stage and in imagination. Go Redwood!

Audio Issues

June 28, 2015 / / 0 Comments

norwichA group of Norwich folk who call themselves the Ashby Court Entertainers amateur dramatics group, have worked to raise awareness about domestic violence by producing a new radio drama entitled “Ruby Wedding”. One of the great values of the intimacy of audio is that it can really connect with listeners on a whole range of issues and concerns.

One of the great benefits of audio is how little it takes (comparatively) to get a project off the ground and into the hands of your audience. Well done, Norwich!

 

Outsourcing Your Audio Drama

June 27, 2015 / / 0 Comments

TelescopeWe’re in a very flexible time for audio drama, maybe the best time to be making it since its creation.

Case in point, New Hampshire Public Radio had the idea to Outsource A Radio Drama. After selecting Sean Hurley from NPR to manage the project, he went to Fiverr, the microjob website and selected everything from a psychic to pick the show title, to writers, actors and the like to produce.

The result was an interesting piece. Have a listen for yourself!

Learning How to Eat Your (Radio) Vegetables

June 26, 2015 / / 0 Comments

RDreturnsAden Rolfe, whose series A Thoroughly Wet Mess is getting a kind of kickstart of its own through the powerhouse Serial, thinks its about time for people to get back to some audio creativity. According to the article from The Sydney Morning Herald, The digital age has taken radio to both the cutting edge of modern broadcasting and back in time – delivering the freedom of independently produced, listen-when-you-like podcasting that at the same time is a throwback to the medium’s golden age – pre-television, when radio serials were the dominant form of household entertainment. 

“I think the main thing that comes off the back of things like Serial and some of the other podcasts … is that it creates a real audio literacy,” Rolfe says.

Rolfe says that about ten years ago audiences were a little scared listening to creative radio, but thanks to Serial it’s opened the field wide open.

Feeling a little smug are you? Just because Audio Drama listeners aren’t above the trend, doesn’t mean we’re not above a little backslapping each other for either. Congratulations!

Seaburn Goes Down Easy

June 25, 2015 / / 0 Comments

jaysykesSonic Society alumni, Jay Sykes who brought us the awesome Seaburn, has just won the gold for Best Student Radio Drama at the New York Festival’s International Radio Program Awards for The World’s Best Radio Programs. Wow! Congratulations Jay, from all of us here at the Sonic Society, you entranced us with your entry, it’s only fair that you seduce the rest of the world with your work. All the best to the future, and send us more shows!

 

Frozen Waves

June 25, 2015 / / 0 Comments

cbcnorthWant to really chip away the icy resistance you get when you talk about your love of Audio Drama? Feeling snowed under when you try to get a radio station interested in putting on your favourite audio series? Well, maybe it’s time to go north!

According to this Radio World article by James Careless, Radio is Essential in the Canadian Arctic. Careless details the real challenges of those who live in the Arctic Circle. Isolation and limited entertainment might just be a playground for a new segment and generation of audio drama enthusiasts. So strap on those snow shoes or mukluks and get mushing your way to a new audience!

 

Tending the Garden

June 24, 2015 / / 0 Comments

podcastIt’s been a slow ride through the RSS feeds and the gentle eddies of subscription space, but as we wind down our tenth season of the Sonic Society and a pretty busy one with three shows a week (Sonic Echo, Sonic Speaks and of course the Sonic Society) it’s important to see how far we’ve gone and where we’re actually going to be.

Witness in case of point, the article in the New York Times by Farhad Manjoo entitled Podcasting Blossoms, but in Slow Motion. Podcasting is very much like gardening. You have to constantly tend to your feed, weed out the flubs in your recordings, and let the listenership bloom. Manjoo says that after ten years the growth is still slow, but it is continually growing. We’ll get there, together.

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