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I love Land Whale Murders audio drama because it feels my deep hole of missing british comedy series(yes it’s about New-York what about it)
to me? not native even to the language less so to culture. What defying british humor is ability to show The Worst most pathetic people ever and then make me laugh about it.
probably while contemplating class war and other systematic problems of our society too
3 for the ask game, please!
Multiple requests for this one! The question is:
3. What are some audio dramas that inspire you? Both in general and for your podcast.
This is such a massive question. I've previously talked about Limetown being a massive influence, and frankly Season 1 is still the absolute peak of the 'fake true crime' subgenre. They caught lightning in a bottle with this one.
I always have to shout out @roguemaker for being an incredible production to be involved with - that show regularly inspires me to do better as a producer, and to experiment more with form and character dynamics as a writer!
Similarly, @sditepod has been an inspiration for me since day 1 of making my own stuff, just in terms of "here's how you completely commit to one idea and stick with it." One of my big pet peeves across media is anything that gives up on its framing device or central 'gimmick', and Someone Dies In This Elevator shows how you can do 10,000 variations on a very simple theme.
I of course have to mention my two first obsessions in podcasting, Pseudopod and Knifepoint Horror, which are both very much going strong. These are shows that really inspire me to approach my writing as literature, and to keep my craft going regardless of the chaos of life. These shows are like sharks, in an evolutionary sense: perfectly suited to exactly what they do and damn near as old as the water they swim in.
I always shout out In Strange Woods for making me cry repeatedly and often. This one is also one of the only things I listened to while hiking the 200 miles of Camino Primativo with my wife last summer, as a "break in case of emergencies" motivational rally.
In terms of more recent productions, @whatsthefrequencypodcast, @what-happened-in-skinner, and @thegospelofhaven are some of my favorites that I've devoured in the last year or so!
And I could go on! But here's the thing, right? I got into podcasting because podcasts have gotten me through some really tough times. The Adventure Zone: Balance was my lonely summer companion walking up and down a 1.5 mile hill from a terrible mall summer job in like 2016. The Black Tapes and Tanis were there with me in the hellish depths of high school. Even now, podcasts are what I reach for when I need an escape. So in that way, the whole medium is an inspiration for me - these things can be so powerful, and if I'm a devotee of anything it's the beautiful tradition of aural storytelling. I love podcasts in a very real way, and I love the people who make them.
Here are some of my favorite weird/experimental audio dramas! They're pushing what this medium can do and I love them for it.
So honor to be mentioned among these great shows. 🥰🥰🥰
Julia Morizawa and Richard Penner Join Exercises in Sound
I haven't done a great job of hyping my newest show, Exercises in Sound, lately. Partly that's because it's summer, which means I've been traveling, and visiting family, and spending more time at home on family activities. Partly it's because I've really wanted to focus on hyping The Perfect Sentence, by @vandreasonable, which I truly believe is a tremendous work of personal art that I want all of you to go check out. (And it's only 90 minutes start to finish--shorter than a Marvel movie!) Partly it's because I've been dedicating more and more time to official @greaterblogston projects, including continuing work on scripts for Season 5! But Exercises in Sound has continued releasing episodes weekly all this time (well...I missed one week), and we have two new additions to the cast! (And these won't be the last new cast members to come!)
In the role of narrators, I'm very excited to welcome Julia Morizawa (of The Bright Sessions! As well as Omi Ogawa on Greater Boston.) and Richard Penner (of The Infinite Now! As well as Thomas Thomas on Greater Boston.). These performances were recorded remotely (the Jordans were recorded together in a local studio), but in a live session with James Oliva directing. These are two actors I always love working with, and it was such a treat to work with them in a live session!
Just as Jordan Higgs and Jordan Stillman both alternately play both roles of Character A and Character B, Julia and Richard are taking turns in the role of Narrator, exploring how their particular approaches to narration impact the tone of the story and the sympathies of the audience.
Additionally, the introduction of narration has added variations to the script itself, exploring how stylistic differences in narration script can alter the story, looking especially at differences in close versus distant narration, removed vs biased narration, and simply the impact of having more or less detailed narration.
Julia and Richard have appeared in three episodes each so far, with more to come! You can find them in: Narrated A Narrated B
Over-Narrated A Over-Narrated B
Bike Ride Narration A Bike Ride Narration B
Exercises in Sound, Animal Episodes
A couple of silly, fun episodes that I don't think I've highlighted:
EiS: Too Many Cats
"Too Many Cats" was an episode I had planned from very early on, so I was able to ask James to direct Jordans Higgs and Stillman to perform a take of the scene specifically as if inundated with cats. I hadn't expected him to jump in as a cat himself, but it really helped make the performance work! This version features more improvisation by the actors than most others, which I think can really help a performance feel more natural.
The best part here, though, is how the actors made the cats a proxy for their argument--Jordan Stillman especially directs several of her lines to the cats, in tones intended for the cats, while the words and insinuations remain clearly pointed at B. I think there's a real lesson here in how a scene can become more interesting when characters have some physical complication or activity demanding a portion of their attention, rather than just needing to say their lines in a vacuum. This can be introduced at any stage in the process--the writer can account for it in the script, the directing can introduce complications during the performance, and sometimes the sound designer can even introduce physical activity for the characters themselves. (I do this often.) But I find it pretty consistently makes for a richer experience.
EiS: Character A is a Small Dog
This one uses one of the standard template performances, with Jordan Higgs in the role of Character B, while Character A--the one who wakes up alone--is actually a small dog, anxious about its owner's absence. I'd had this in mind for a while, but a visit to James earlier in the summer bumped it up in my priorities--I was amused to learn that he is one of those people who leaves the television on to keep his dogs calm when he goes out. It's a detail that works perfectly with the established structure of the scene, but not one I'd thought consciously about until I saw his dogs watching television.
Narratively, what I love about this version is how much it changes B's character and the central conflict. It becomes much more internal, more about B wrestling with feeling bad about leaving A alone.
It also particularly amused me to have the dog storm out of the kitchen upon seeing the ice cream. Even dogs have standards! (But also, raisins can make a dog very sick, so it's doubly justified in rejecting the offered "treat.")
Just as collector culture has applied a new coat of varnish to antiquated formats like the cassette tape, the ease and ubiquity of podcasts have revived that old-timey format of the radio drama. Modern technology, a wider embrace of genre fiction, and post-streaming binge culture have allowed a wealth of programs such as Limetown or Homecoming to achieve popular success, some even attracting mainstream talent. Writer and voice actor James Oliva caught the bug, himself, when he jumped onboard the cast of his longtime friend Alexander Danner’s show Greater Boston, a tragicomic magic-realist anthology series previously covered on this site.
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Started a new (to me) podcast (what's the frequency?) and I am instantly hooked WE ARE SO BACK
Please welcome Jordan Cobb, Kristen DeMercurio, Felix Trench and Zach Valenti to the Arden family.
I have a new podcast recommendation up! Want a unique audio experience set in 1940s LA? Love psychadelic horror and detective noir? Check out What’s the Frequency!
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I've got something new coming very soon: http://www.exercisesinsound.com Based on Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style (1947) and Matt Madden’s 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (2005, also based on Queneau), this takes the idea and applies to it audio storytelling. It’s one scene, reimagined over and over. 99 times, perhaps?
The historian from The Land Whale Murders has been sleeping with the wife of the historian from The Kingmaker Histories for years, and he still hasn’t worked it out. Once he even caught them in bed, and only mentioned that they could turn up the heat in the house, they didn’t need to huddle naked in the bed for warmth.
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Wonderful, yes, imagine: the world's stupidest academics. Imagine they are being killed off one by one. Imagine they are so so bad at solving mysteries and they're trying anyway. And now imagine this is all taking place in a ridiculous rendition of Gilded Age New York City. Also Teddy Roosevelt is there.
You are imagining The Land Whale Murders, an absolutely incredible show that's HILARIOUS. If you like Fawx & Stallion or The Kingmaker Histories, you are legally required to listen to The Land Whale Murders.
There has never been an artist that has had greater influence over shaping the way I see the possibles that storytelling can be.
There is no hiding the influence he had on this show. In fact I credited him in every interview I ever gave. He brought enigmatic poetry to his films. He always created with purpose and message, no matter how seemingly obtuse. He was fearless. Never feeling the to explain his art or finding himself seduced, like so many of us would, revealing the mysteries of our art in an effort to be understood… accepted.
I will mourn his passing for the rest of my life.
đź–¤ David Lynch đź–¤
I leave you with the most beautiful sentiments I have ever heard.
Happy December! May I have a podcast? Bonus points for intense platonic relationships.
What's The Frequency?
A psychedelic noir audio drama podcast set in 1940s Los Angeles.
Recently, radio broadcasts in the city have been reduced to static, leaving a popular radio serial as the only remaining show on the air. Even then the show finds itself continuously interrupted by a mysterious broadcast. A lone distorted voice reaching out for help.
Follow Walter “Troubles” Mix and his partner Whitney as they search for a missing writer and navigate through a city quickly falling into madness. Could the mysterious voice be the culprit? Will anyone be able to stop the madness from spreading?
And… What’s The Frequency?
I started listening to podcasts late December and have been tracking the time I spend listening ever since. In honour of reaching 420 hours and over a thousand episodes (if you include bonus content), I drew this commemorative piece. Drawn on Procreate Pocket, total time: 11 hrs.
The Fiction Podcasts represented here (in order of when I listened):
Caravan
Two Princes
Gay Future
Dreamboy
The London Necropolis Railway
Crossing Wires
What’s the Frequency?
Death by Dying
The Magnus Archives
The Fall of the House of Sunshine
Within the Wires
Alice Isn’t Dead
Welcome to Night Vale
The Penumbra Podcast
Our Fair City
The Angel of Vine
Greater Boston
1994
The Lost Cat Podcast
King Falls AM
Harlem Queen
Moonface
Minefire
All’s Fair
Five Years
Nine other (primarily non-fiction) podcasts are not represented. Yeehaw anyway that was fun!
One week left to audition for the Land Whale Murders season 3 cast! We're accepting submissions through September 1st. Learn more and submit your audition at https://bit.ly/lwmS3casting.
This series is for all the historical fiction peeps! Brought to you by the people that brought you the hilarious Fall Of The House Of Sunshine AND the creator of our show What’s The Frequency?
Are you a voice actor or an aspiring voice actor? Here is your chance to be a part of something special…. and weird. Very very very weird… and silly…. very very silly.
Pick a platonic M&F podcast pair I enjoy that mainstream media probably would've made romantic:
Clara & Fleet (Victoriocity)
Benny & Peri (The Far Meridian)
Blake & Lazari (Unknown 9)
Leona & Fell (Starfall)
David & Riyo (I am in Eskew)
Maya & Reed (The Antique Shop)
Bet & David (Seen and Not Heard)
Troubles & Whitney (What's The Frequency?)
Fern & Guy (Erraticus)
Heather & Taylor (Middle:Below)
Luca & Pip (Ghost Wax)
Anticipated Q&A:
