From the north, a brand new audio drama to set the flower fairies giggling and the right merry olde days a tittering. Eli McIlveen from the Forgery League is our guest in Sonic Speaks as we talk about comedy, writing in Audio Drama, and his triumphant series Alba Salix!
It actually is more like 80 minutes of comedic action instead of just 60!
The Thrilling Adventure Hour packs a pile of fun in their live performances and according to The New Zealand Herald is just the right format for Los Angeles writing duo Ben Blacker and Ben Acker to hone their craft.
Folks who aren’t yet fans of the awesome AD have yet to experience some of their regular episodes like “Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars” and interplanetary cowboy tale and “Beyond Belief”, featuring Nick and Nora Charles, the high society ghostbusters among many other other sketches.
Find and subscribe the Thrilling Adventure Hour and enjoy hours (or more) of fun! You’ll really get the Bens.
We continue with our May Meta-human month and the exciting aerial adventures ofJimmie Allen written by two World War I flying aces, and just aces for all of us here in Sonic Echo!
If you heard part one of my essay on the Audio Story over at the Audio Drama Production Podcast, you heard that I identify the audio landscape as having three corners like a triangle. Drama and Narrative are pretty easily defined with strong connections to play and novel sensibilities, but the third corner belongs exclusively to Experimental- the realm of sketches, surrealistic art pieces, and sometimes nonsensical aural works. Many of these are great comedic gems that intentionally break the fourth wall or provide some very mixed up non-directive story pieces.
Here’s another great example:
Have a listen to some of Samuel Beckett’s Avant-Garde Radio Plays: All That Fall, Embers, and More available now through youtube. Have a listen to the unusual and provocative!
Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing on July 18th the fourth collection of Saburouta’s yuri manga Citrus. Along with the collection will be a special CD audio drama. The audio drama will relate a new episode in their relationship. Ayana Taketatsu and Minami Tsuda reprise the leads after voicing them in an earlier preview.
Cast includes:
Yuzu Aihara: Ayana Taketatsu
Mei Aihara: Minami Tsuda
Matsuri Mizusawa: Sayaka Horino
Himeko Momokino : Yurika Kubo
Harumi Taniguchi : Yukiyo Fujii
So if manga is your jam, and Citrus is your flavour, go have a listen to the news!
Jack-TORDIS completes previous instructions with an over-sized double feature of Midnight Radio Theater’s “Woman in the Basement” (R-Rated) and Alba Salix Episode 4!
Pioneer in Modern Audio Drama, Kc Wayland from We’re Alive shows up with Jack to talk about his successful zombie series and his latest upcoming kickstarter projectLockdown.
Icebox Radio Theater has announced a new direction for their podcast shows. IBRT Director, Jeffrey Adams identifies the changes in a recent PRESS RELEASE. Go have a look at how the IBRT is moving into the future. We’re all a twitter about it here in the Society!
Sonic Echo continues this week with the radio serialized version of the iconic Terry and the Pirates. Grand adventure for May Meta-human month!
Jack-TORDIS releases previous instructions when we are treated with an large double feature of Midnight Radio Theater’s “Disposable Life” and Alba Salix Episode 3!
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