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Jack and Vincent Price…

April 28, 2011 / Jack / 0 Comments

It was an opportunity that made me giddy at the thought.

Vincent Price… the master of horror, the voice of so many great OTR shows I remembered, and an offer from Colonial Radio Theatre my favourite audio drama company to write a script for the comic line from Bluewater.

And now it’s out for everyone to hear on spinning CD.

Vincent Price Presents… Volume 2 including works from the astounding M.J. Butler and riveting Patrick Hume.

Canadian Amazon Store has it too!

Feels good to be in good company. Thanks Jerry and Mark and everyone!

Script Frenzy- How Do I Write Scripts?

April 10, 2011 / Jack / 0 Comments

A listener wrote in to the Huey mailbag this week asking for some tips on writing audio drama scripts and so I dug this article out that I originally wrote for the Sonic Society season 1 and reposted on my writing blog. So good luck to everyone involved in Script Frenzy this month and if you need a couple of tips, here’s something on writing Audio Cinema.

Chronicles of Mars!

April 10, 2011 / Jack / 0 Comments

Here’s a treat! Colonial Radio Theatre (Check out their new gorgeous look for the website) unveils a large trailer of their adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles.

What a great collaboration this has been in the audio world!

CRT and Bradbury have put together other great gems like

The Halloween Tree

Something Wicked this Way Comes

and Dandelion Wine.

Order your Martian Chronicles now… and enjoy one of the great classics of Bradbury done by his own favourite audio drama team!

If you’ve got an ear to listen….

April 3, 2011 / Jack / 0 Comments

Tonight on New Radio Theater at KCNR 1460 AM in Redding tune in at 4 PM PST to listen to a brief interview with Jack as they present “Soul Survivor” for their listening audience. Live streaming available!

Send in your kind words to the folks for supporting audio drama and let them know you care!

Priceless News

April 3, 2011 / Jack / 2 Comments

THIS JUST IN…. from Jerry Robbins and Colonial Radio Theatre and their collaboration making audio drama adaptations of ‘Vincent Price Presents’ Comics have accepted Jack J. Ward’s adaptation “Family of the Night” and will release the episode October 4th, 2011.

Mr. Ward is already hard at work on another adaptation for Colonial Radio and is pleased to make CRT his first professional contribution.

The Internet Audio Drama Database

March 28, 2011 / Jack / 4 Comments

As mentioned on last week’s Sonic Society, we’re hard at work putting together a structure that I’m calling “The IMDB of Audio Drama”.

There’s a co uple of phases of completion needed:

Phase 1: Design– Progress 35%

Phase 2: Testing

Phase 3: Importing Documents– I’ll be putting up for folks an Excel Spreadsheet with instructions to allow various Audio Drama companies and individuals to complete their files and mass importing and correcting any mistakes.

Phase 4: Usernames and Passwords- I’ll be opening the floor to people who want a username and password to begin the process of maintaining and entering new content as it comes. This new phase will allow for an “Editors” window in which anyone with Editing ability will see all documents that have been Entered and be able to edit, delete, or approve into the wider database.

The platform is built solidly on the Lotus Notes database structure which is amazing for unstructured text, and robust enough to hold up to 64 gigs of data.

So why this? Why not?

Loads of people have been making some awesome tools, but this kind of spot has always been one of my dreams. A one-stop shopping place for people to look up Actors, Musicians, Producers, Audio Drama plays and Audio Drama Organizations. Want to see all the plays with Mark Kalita? Or scripts written by B.K. Turning? Or available episode of the OTR classic Gunsmoke? Here’s where you will get it all!

Cheers!

Jack

A Midnight Review…

March 11, 2011 / Jack / 0 Comments

Out of Columbus, Ohio can be heard WCBE 90.5 FM, the voice of NPR in the region, and now a great new advocate for the return of Radio Drama!

Midnight Audio Theatre is a weekly audio drama show that can be heard on the wireless and through live streaming live on the web Friday nights at midnight (11PM CST) as well as through their podcast!

Currently, as well as Darker Project’s Five Minute Fears, Dreamcatcher, and The Leviathan Chronicles, you can also get to listen to EVP’s The Dead Line Anthology!

Check out their home page at Midnight Audio Theatre today and support another great foothold of bringing Radio Drama back to the airwaves!

iTune Sonic in Again!

March 9, 2011 / Jack / 1 Comment

If you’ve been like us and sitting at the edge of our ipods the last eight days, you realize that the Sonic Society feed was just not getting through into itunes!

With a lot of help from the good folks at I-tunes at the customer service desk as to what happened, I can say now that I see the last two episodes are finally hitting my itunes player and we’re back to normal (fingers crossed!)

Thanks so much for your patience in this harrowing week and a bit (And people wonder why I’m getting a little light on the top!).

Thanks especially to Michael Hudson and everyone who sent us messages (sometimes as frantic as us!) wondering what happened to the feed. But we’re back, and with any good fortune we’ll be staying that way.

Excelsior!

Jack

What Could Have Been if we didn’t pull a Bono

January 30, 2011 / Jack / 0 Comments

(With thanks to Bill Hollweg from Broken Sea for passing this gem on)

From the Duke Law site:

http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/pre1976

This site celebrates “Public Domain Day” the first of every year – Unfortunately, since the advent of the Sonny Bonno Public Domain Deprivation Act, there has been little to celebrate.

And those who attempt to rein in the few morsels of PD which escaped the net receive labels such as “Pirate” by others who may not consider this status relevant.

A thought for the group:

As the end of the Bonno extension approaches at the end of this decade, it may be worth anticipating that plans may be afoot to effectuate a further extension. Perhaps such plans may be opposed by drawing attention to the politicians who deprive a deserving public of their cultural heritage.

Another worthy step: Plant more trees.

Real Estate Crunch

January 28, 2011 / Jack / 6 Comments

Remember the show Realtor and the CEO by Larissa Naples? Well, in the latest example of Corporate Copyright buffoonery it looks like her show has been shut down by threatening litigation over the question of whether the word “realtor” is in the public domain or not.

Where’s our elected officials to protect us when these kinds of attempts to own the language are committed?

Do your part and say something about it.

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Maybe you will be the extra voice to fight back at this and show we won’t be bullied. Please Help!