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!