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The Radical Art of Radio

October 28, 2014 / Jack / 0 Comments

Alana Valen alana-valentine tine’s play, “The Ravens” has gotten a decidedly sonic debut. The award winning BBC playwright had some lovely words to say about our favourite medium. “Radio drama creates an intimate connection with listeners.” In a News Australia article by Elissa Blake, the author writes, “In an era seemingly dominated by the Twitterverse and YouTube videos of cats in parachutes, writing plays for radio seems like an ancient art. But a Sydney playwright has injected new life into the medium.”

Someone please introduce, Miss Blake to the amazing variety we have in the Sonic Society and welcome her to the next Society Meeting!

Sonic Speaks- 0108- Moonlight and the Wind

October 26, 2014 / Jack / 0 Comments

Tonight on Sonic Speaks our guest is the Audio Drama entrepreneur and producer David Farquhar. David speaks to us about his love of Audio Drama through his two major productions Voices in the Wind Theatre and the “Netflix of Audio Drama”, Moonlight Audio Theatre!

Sonic Echo- 0108- A Shadow of the Past

October 24, 2014 / Jack / 0 Comments

Tonight’s performance of Sonic Echo in our “October Orson” month is the role Orson made a legend The Shadow with “Circle of Death” and “The League of Terror”!

Sound Language

October 23, 2014 / Jack / 0 Comments

We’re not strangers to teaching and radio drama. Jack has done many seminars with educators on including Audio Drama in the classroom. David has been very involved in theatre with young people for many years, and in this case, Ginny can appreciate the subject best.

In his “Language Mastery” blog, Matthew Pink makes a coherent argument for Radio Drama making waves in language learning. Using active and passive learning audio drama can indeed provide a lot of opportunity in learning new vocabulary and new languages- and as always its a took you take with you where ever you go!

Please Stand By!

October 22, 2014 / Jack / 0 Comments

In an effort to save our donors some money, and to put the bucks back into new equipment, The Sonic Society has been experimenting with some free server storage.

That experiment is now over. We’ve found that too many listeners saw our URL disappear for them when traffic started to ramp up from show releases and page visits. So we’re moving back to a modestly priced server as we continue to keep working on updates.

Our webmistress, the wonderfully talented Ginny has been doing a great job with the wordpress site and I think you can appreciate- as we do- the amazing functionality she’s brought to it for Season 10.

Ginny, David, and I, and all our guests are doing our very best to try to keep the interruptions at a minimum as we move the server over, but please be patient as we work to wrinkle out all the bugs and continue to improve your experience.

Thanks so much,

Jack!

Episode 399- Revenge of the Pulppourri

October 21, 2014 / Jack / 0 Comments

Jack and guest host Pete Lutz find themselves at the beginning of a very strange mystery and a very fine pulp adventure with Mr. Lutz’s own Pulp-Pourri Theatre and “Blood Has Sticky Fingers”!

World Audio Drama Day- October 30th

October 20, 2014 / Jack / 0 Comments

In honour of the amazing Orson Welles terror-filled broadcast of War of the Worlds, several folks have put together a Facebook page celebrating WORLD AUDIO DRAMA DAY! If you’re on the book of faces, make certain your go to the link and hit LIKE! Pass it on to your own friends on your own page, and keep the momentum going. Just 10 days till the World goes Audio Dramatic!

Sonic Speaks- 0107- An Old Revival Meeting

October 19, 2014 / Jack / 0 Comments

This week on Sonic Speaks, Jack has a chat with long time friend of the Society and audio drama enthusiast, and producer provocateur Frederick Greenhalgh from Fine Rune Productions and the awesome Audio Drama showcase series Radio Drama Revival.

Sonic Echo- 0107- A Geste of Orson’s

October 17, 2014 / Jack / 0 Comments

Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre on the Air produced a staggering number of adaptations of classic fiction and drama. One of the least quoted but one of Jack’s favourites is the immortal tale of the desert “Beau Geste”, our feature for tonight’s October Orson month!

The Sparkliest Silver Lining

October 16, 2014 / Jack / 0 Comments

When you’re on the hunt for more Audio Drama, don’t forget to look in the sky… or rather in the clouds. While there’s all kinds of concern in the media right now about using i-clouds to store your data, here’s one place where you can be sure you’ll be safe to look up some listening. EC Bond shares with us a great collaborative place for those folks who use SoundCloud to put up their finished audio drama works. The Modern Audio Drama stream is a super place to find your favourites and new ones too! Come walk the clouds!