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Sometimes I play this game where I just keep working on a thing until Reaper crashes, and that's how I know it's time to close up shop for the night.

Thanks, crashy DAW-friend!

#composer #reaper #daw with an attitude

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Audio Drama Sunday - 26th November

Happy Audio Drama Sunday! I’ve had SUCH a good week of listening this week. I love it when you find a new show and it’s exactly what you didn’t even know you were looking for! Here’s what I listened to this week! 

🧳 Travelling Light by @monstrousproductions (3) Oh MAN, I loved this episode. I think my wife was ever so slightly concerned when I came home singing about seeing bees in the arse end of November, but what a fantastic way to world-build! I’m looking forward to finding out more about the lovely-seeming alien with the translator issues and beautiful embroidery!!

🤴 InCo by @itmeblog (S2 27-31) Breaking and entering is so overrated. Breaking and EXITING is where it’s really at. I am disturbed by Nova’s findings at the GU HQ and I hope that little explosion destroys everything it needs to. 

🏛 @the-mistholme-museum TRANSCEND oh what a cool exhibit this episode! I was left thinking about this little red pencil for long after listening! And they made it to the beach!! I actually love the head of retrieval too much for him to slip into the hivemind - I hope they both get out of there!

🌨️  @thewhitevault (3) hhhhhh oh my god. These guys are just truly awful, I really hope Iffy’s plan to outsmart them works. I’m still trying to figure out how the parallel stories are going to piece together but I know it’s going to be so satisfying when it clicks! 

❤️‍🔥 The Love Talker (4) This show is DARK, man. There was one particular scene this week that had me trying to recoil from my own headphones (it was not successful) and I can’t stop thinking about it and feeling sick. But, hey, if you’re looking for an actually nasty horror to get you through this cold winter, The Love Talker might be for you. 

🌹@desperado-podcast My new love!!!! I was looking for something with a good backlog of episodes after finishing W359 and remembered how much I loved the @levianpod pilot so figured I would check out another show by the same creator and I’m so glad I did!! I’m on episode 12 and I’m absolutely in love with Desperado. The characters feel so real and their banter is so fun! It's so interesting to learn more about magic systems from a range of cultures as well. I’m so invested and I can’t wait to listen to more!!

I’m off to listen to more Desperado, have a good week! 👋

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Because learning is almost always both fun and a good idea, I'm diving into a mixing class! Excited to see where it takes me.

#composer life #mixing #new class #reaper #when i ask why i don't have free time someone share this with me

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Aaaaaa I'm so excited to be able to join in the Carmilla fun!

Trace Callahan will be doing music for the Carmilla! I've worked with them on Someone Dies In This Elevator, and I'm such a big fan of how they bring emotion into music. Check out the podcasts The Last Echoes and This Planet Needs a Name to get a feel for Trace's score. It's spectacular. You heard their music in the trailer, and you'll hear more pieces in the show itself. 

Brad Colbroock is coming on as our dialogue editor! I've worked with them on nearly every podcast I've produced, including Sidequesting, What Will Be Here?, and Someone Dies in this Elevator. Brad is an audio editing wizard with an esoteric knowledge of plugins and a godly devotion to Reaper (it's an editing program). Whenever I need something to sound good, I take it to them. 

Support Carmilla, A Re: Dracula Miniseries by joining the patreon!

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Trace Callahan will be doing music for the Carmilla! I've worked with them on Someone Dies In This Elevator, and I'm such a big fan of how they bring emotion into music. Check out the podcasts The Last Echoes and This Planet Needs a Name to get a feel for Trace's score. It's spectacular. You heard their music in the trailer, and you'll hear more pieces in the show itself. 

Brad Colbroock is coming on as our dialogue editor! I've worked with them on nearly every podcast I've produced, including Sidequesting, What Will Be Here?, and Someone Dies in this Elevator. Brad is an audio editing wizard with an esoteric knowledge of plugins and a godly devotion to Reaper (it's an editing program). Whenever I need something to sound good, I take it to them. 

Support Carmilla, A Re: Dracula Miniseries by joining the patreon!

#music for vampires #i get to help make a thing #carmilla #there's always a cello

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Ella Watts of @camlannpod is returning as our director and associate producer! As a director, Ella has worked for the BBC, Six to Start, Marvel, and numerous indie audio dramas. You might know her work from Doctor Who: Redacted or Eliza: A Robot Story. If you listened to Re: Dracula, you're familiar with her incredible talent. I'm ever so excited to work with her more! 

Jamieson Ridenhour is coming on as a script editor and executive producer! You might know his work from Palimpsest, a fantastic horror podcast. He is also a professor of English who has taught on Carmilla for over a decade and edited the Valancourt edition of the novella. I couldn't have a better collaborator for adapting Carmilla to audio. Jamie knows audio drama, horror, and Carmilla. It's perfect!

Support Carmilla, A Re: Dracula Miniseries by joining the patreon!

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Hello fans of Re: Dracula who were introduced to fiction podcasts through the updates from our good friend Jonathan Harker! Now that the story's over (sob!), would you like some recommendations for some other audio dramas that you might enjoy, made by some of the folks who worked on the podcast?

Jonathan Sims, who played our local phonograph enthusiast, is the writer of the hugely popular horror podcast, The Magnus Archives. The Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute records statements made by members of the public, detailing strange encounters with the supernatural. What soon becomes clear is that these statements do not describe separate and unrelated events, and a bigger and horrific picture begins to emerge. Also appearing as recurring characters in this series are both Sasha Sienna and Alasdair Stuart.

Karim Kronfli is a prolific voice actor, and while he might be best known for his roles in both Re: Dracula and The Magnus Archives, he has voiced a wide range of characters in many different fiction podcasts. Out of all the ones he's appeared in, I would recommend urban fantasy anthology series, Unseen. The unseen world exists alongside ours, but only a few humans can see it. It's a world where magic and magical creatures exists, and Karim's character tells his story in episode 7, titled We Ourselves.

Beth Eyre and Felix Trench played twins Antigone and Rudyard Funn in Wooden Overcoats, a British sitcom set on the tiny fictional island of Piffling, in the English Channel. The twins run a funeral parlor together, the only one on the island, until a newcomer arrives. Eric Chapman (played by Tom Crowley) sets up a much more successful funeral parlor, and the story is narrated by the Funns' house mouse, Madeline.

Alan Burgon plays the Interviewer in The Amelia Project. The Amelia Project is a secret organisation, and clients come to them looking for their help in faking their deaths. The Interviewer listens to each client's story, before concocting unique and often elaborate ways in which they will stage their deaths, before being reborn into a new identity.

David Ault is also a very recognisable voice to anyone who spends a considerate amount of time listening to fiction podcasts, and The Kingmaker Histories feels like an appropriate choice here. A weird steampunk series set in the Valorian Socialist Republic in 1911 , this story involves found family, its own intriguing magic system, and being gay and doing crime.

Our favourite cowboy, Giancarlo Herrera, plays one of the protagonists in sci-fi action/thriller, Primordial Deep. Spinner is part of a team which is sent deep beneath the sea to investigate the resurgence of creatures thought to be long-extinct. There's plenty of horror to be had here, as something ancient is stirring in the depths of the ocean.

As for the crew? Tal Minear works on so many podcasts, and if you like fantasy stories, I would recommend the delightfully lighthearted Sidequesting, which follows new adventurer Rion, as they help people on their travels. If you would like some more horror, there's their spoiler anthology series, Someone Dies in This Elevator.

Hannah Wright's Inn Between is a fantasy series based on D&D. Each episode follows a party as they meet in the Goblin's Inn, in between adventures, as the tavern follows them around wherever they go.

Stephen Indrisano's upcoming docu-horror Shelterwood promises to be a series which explores the horror of suburbia, as it follows one man's quest to find his missing sister. Until this is released, I would recommend Do You Copy, in which Stephen plays one of the protagonists. This found footage horror series follows the events which unfold after the closure of Red Tail National Park, and the people who were left inside the park, after its mysterious closure.

Ella Watts is regarded as a walking encyclopedia of all things audio fiction, and has worked on several high-profile projects, including directing both Doctor Who: Redacted and Marvel Move. Her upcoming Camlann is a post-apocalyptic series due to be released next year, inspired by Arthurian legends and British folklore. She is also the executive producer of Tin Can Audio's (who are also producing Camlann) beautiful experimental series, The Tower. The protagonist of this story, Kiri, leaves her life behind to climb an impossibly high tower, making phonecalls along the way.

Newt Schottelkotte's Where The Stars Fell is a supernatural fantasy set in the town of Jerusalem, Oregon. Cryptozoologist Dr Edison Tucker arrives in the town to carry out some research, and meets her roommate, author Lucille Kensington. There's so much more to this strange town than first meets the eye, with a huge revelation at the end of season one.

If you're new to fiction podcasts, welcome! I hope this short (ish!) and very much non-comprehensive list gave you some ideas of what to listen to next!

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#is it wrong this made me think of Girl In Space?

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Revisiting the Hundred Acres

Nestled in amongst the other projects I'm having a good time with is this. Revisiting and remixing music from the first book (season?) of Silly Old Bear to release as an album. It's probably going to take a little while to pick out the right bits and get everything ready, but everything about this music makes me feel good in a simple, nostalgic way! Plus, learning to make better videos is exciting too!

(Important note, this is an example of me Not Yet being better at making videos)

#audio drama #audio fiction #fiction podcast #winnie the pooh #composer #silly old bear

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Carmilla will feature Alan Burgon as General Spielsdorf, Karim Kronfli as Laura's Father, and Jonathan Sims as The Doctor! I'm thrilled to be able to work more with these folks from Re: Dracula. Alan and Jonny are playing characters somewhat similar to their Re: Dracula roles, but Karim is doing a full 180 and playing a kind father instead of the Big Bad. It's gonna be a great time.

Support Carmilla, A Re: Dracula Miniseries by joining the patreon!

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This is mostly for Accountability Reasons, but I'm thinking of putting together a post about my experience with Re: Dracula, because I have Several Thoughts about fandom and engagement and fanworks and memes

#Would read this so very gleefully!

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5 days left for Starfall auditions! Come get your roles while they’re still hot and fresh!

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MOOD: Girl In Space

Credit: https://twitter.com/dyingsirin/status/1095264394341216257 

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CASTING CALL

ANNOUNCING THE CASTING CALL FOR SEASON TWO OF SEEN AND NOT HEARD!

Follow this link for a brief informational form, a link to the casting call, and to submit your audition.

Please share far and wide, especially with deaf/hard of hearing folks who may be interested in auditioning. No experience required!

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My ace self working on this film "Ooh, this is a good story and it's well done and I love doing sound design yay!" My ace self deciding to check out the fandom on Tumblr "Wow... umm... thirsty?" Anyway, I helped make a thing and it's good!

#vox akuma #sound design #ace life #Youtube

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We're going to be adapting Carmilla!

Stay tuned to hear the trailer on the Re: Dracula feed in a week, or join our patreon and listen right now! Since we're funding the miniseries via patreon, there will be lots of perks and early access audio for supporters. Production will take place in 2024, once we've fully wrapped Re: Dracula!

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EXCITING NEWS!

The casting call for Seen and Not Heard's second season will be posted Sunday, November 5! Check back here for all the info, but for now, a few basic details as we put the finishing touches on the audition form:

We are casting: 1 main role 2 supporting roles 6 featured roles, 3 of which are ONLY for deaf/HOH actors 3-5 ensemble roles Actors of marginalized identities will be given priority in the casting process. All roles may be adjusted to fit the actor as necessary.

Non-union. All roles paid. Compensation will be detailed in the casting call and, dependent upon successful fundraising, will increase. Please share with anyone who may be interested!