In classes we have been talking about mixing surround sounds as a method for achieving immersion for a sound piece and it has got be thinking a lot about applications in my personal medium of podcast audio drama, I feel that it is an interesting pathway for quite unique experiences within that medium however due …
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Fourth Man, Autopan
After taking a look at the opening scene to Blade runner the idea of using a bassy heartbeat rhythm has been stuck in my head, after taking a look at the autopan function in class I decided I’d give it a go, after tweaking a basic synth drone I put it through the autopan effect, …
Free writing and experiments with voice
I did some free writing in order to get a sound source of the voice with a good provenance, I went in trying to write from Shackleton’s perspective at the time of the march in the snowfields. this is what I ended up with I then recorded myself reading this into ableon live, I put …
Queerness in Audio Drama, Interview with Casper Oliver
I interviewed Casper on the 17th of may, I had never spoken or really interacted with Casper outside of organising and actually doing this interview, however I had seen them around and to me seemed quite prolific within the community. We also had other interviewee David Orion as a friend in common. Casper is “an …
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4th man, creating a synth preset
The Fourth man, Experiments with space
One of my aims for ‘The Fourth Man’ is to create a sense of immersion within in the space of the piece, my initial approach was to do the usual formula of sound in both diegetic and non-diegetic form (score and ambience, sound effects and soundscape) under the speech, but recently I have felt this …
Queerness in Audio Drama, Robin Howell interviews
Unfortunately, due to issues with the internet at my student accommodation the recording of the interview with robin was lost, luckily they were kind enough to send me the written answers to their questions. Robin is the creator of the audio drama ‘Seren‘, a dystopian sci-fi podcast in which they also star, write, and produce. …
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Queerness in Audio Drama, Interview with David Orión Pena
I interviewed David on the 12th of May, these days he’s very busy with his job outside of his podcast and so I was very thankful that he managed to find time for me. David writes, produces and stars in his podcast ‘Dos: After You‘ a podcast about a trans-man in love with a god. …
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Queerness in Audio Drama, Ando Valentine
Ando Valentine is a writer, musician, and creator and star of her audio drama podcast ‘Shadows of a Dark Past’, their talents are many and their skills even more so. I have known Ando for a while as first a fellow player in a game of dungeons and dragons and then as a friend. I …
Queerness in Audio Drama, interview with Jaclyn Seelagy
Jaci is the co-founder of the podcast network ‘Faustian Nonsense‘ (of which I am a member) and a showrunner of upcoming audio drama ‘Jack of All Trades‘. She works tirelessly to keep FN afloat alongside other co-founder Amelia Kinch and is working on ‘Caveat Emptor’ as well and joins Amie in being a ‘recovering attorney” …
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