| Jack sits down to chat with the great innovator of modern audio theatre, Dirk Maggs from Perfectly Normal Productions to talk about the medium they love so well. |
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| For the second week in a row, we are pleased to bring back Cary Grant to the stage! The double feature on Sonic Echo tonight comes fromGulf’s Screen Guild Theater with “On Borrowed Time” and “Arsenic and Old Lace”. Two great comedies that laugh great together! |
If you missed it the first go around, don’t you dare miss it this time! BBC Radio 4 is planning a repeat performance of Dirk Maggs, Neil Gaiman, and Terry Pratchett‘s amazing audio adaptation Good Omens from the sixth to the tenth of April and completing the series on Saturday the 11th in a tribute to the great Sir Terry.
The Brits really know how it’s done! Tony Pitts in this article talks about how he began in a soap opera and has found himself acting in a Spielberg blockbuster in this Yorkshore Post.
How does it fit the Society? Well, Mr. Pitts points out the thing we all know,
“I love radio. I actually think that it is the most powerful medium.”
Yes indeed, they do call you Mr. Pitts!
Robert Montenegro muses in the BigThink Blog that maybe Audio Books are really the next step to bringing back Audio Drama. He notes that from a piece in NPR, that something big is coming down the pipeline with the audioverse. While this may not be such big news for the Society, we’re all excited that it’s starting to look like many others are catching up!
Jack-in-the-machine locates The Incredibly Spaced Out Adventures of Jupiter Jackson by Eric Herman this week on the Sonic Society!
Sonniss has released for a limited time, for free, a ten gig audio sound effect bundle NOT TO BE MISSED by audio drama producers and creators. As this article from bedroomproducersblog explains:
Sonniss has released GameAudioGDC Bundle, a completely free to download sound collection featuring over 10 GB of high quality royalty free sounds for video game development and other creative work.
The library was released on March 7th and it will remain a free download until April 2nd. Sonniss states that they’re giving away this sound collection in order to give back to the video game developers community, despite of not being able to join the GDC2015 conference this year. They are also running a huge game audio sale on their website at the moment, aka GameAudio Special.
So get on board Sonicateers! Grab your bundle while you still can. They recommend the torrent for it!
| David Ault sits down and chats with the David Cummings from the grand and wildly popular horror, No Sleep Podcast. |
Famed mystery writer Jeffrey Deaver, author of such blockbusters as The Skin Collector, The October List, and The Kill Room, among others has decided that his latest story won’t be released as a novel ever. That’s right, you can only get The Starling Project as… you guessed it… an audio drama!
According to the New York Times article, Audible and others are betting on the power of the audio story, and what was once just good enough for simple narration is becoming more and more “enhanced”. In other words, radio drama lives again. What a lovely release!
| On the big old time radio show tonight the showcase inspiring Screen Directors’ Playhouse with “Shadow of a Doubt” starring Cary Grant and featuring our screen director des jours, Sir Alfred Hitchcock! |