Here’s what’s been going on…

Searcher & Stallion was featured on the Sonic Society radio show in December:
SonicSociety.org

Kendall’s “Dreams and Wings” soundtrack CD is now available online:
Dreams and Wings Soundtrack on eMusic

I did an interview with Fred Greenhalgh at RadioDramaRevival:
RadioDramaRevival.com

S&S “Dreams and Wings” is available for Itunes RSS feed at Podiobooks.com:
PodioBooks.com

Garth is wrapping up his “Stallion fights a Dragon” story.

Brad is wrapping up his story “The Seductress”.

I Can’t wait to get back into the studio!

Scott H

Dreams & Wings Ep 1: Download

Dreams & Wings Ep 2:: Download

Dreams & Wings Ep 3:: Download

Dreams & Wings Ep 4:: Download

Or, if you prefer, you can now download all 4 episodes at once with your favorite BitTorrent client. Download via Mininova

One line to retake in Ep 4
Rebuild SFX for final scenes in Ep 4
Need to re-tweak mix levels in eps 1-4 (bah)
So we’re …..you know……. 99.99999% done with “Dreams and Wings”

I can’t express enough how I want this show done and “in the can”. (In the old fashioned days when audio tape or film was used, when a project was finished, the reel of tape would be placed in tinny metal dinner plate sized short metal container or “can”.) I suppose a modern version would be “I want the show done and on the thumb drive!” This setback was like a baseball bat to the face.

Kendall has spent a while remixing the music he created for the 4 episodes of “Dreams and Wings” into a coherent 90 minute piece. Last night Kendall and I were hosting an electronic music show On KRCL ( twitter.com\showwithnoname ) and we played the full 90 minutes of score music over the radio. If you’d like a copy, then send an email to getssmusic@gmail.com
(of course I don’t see why we couldn’t make that music available in the forums)

Kendall is digging through the thousands of instruments in “Omnisphere” so we can find the couple of dozen “self dynamic” instruments that can be used to singlehandedly create music for a whole scene by basically holding down the middle C key on the keyboard. If we can find enough of these instruments (and I think we are), then show production can be improved by a factor of 10. It will open up a whole new world for us.

Off to work on the next story.

Scott H

So we’re …..you know……. 99.99999% done with “Dreams and Wings”

Download Dreams & Wings Ep 1 (near final version) or listen below:

Download Dreams & Wings Ep 2 (near final version) or listen below:

Download Dreams & Wings Ep 3 (near final version) or listen below:

Download Dreams & Wings Ep 4 (near final version) or listen below:

Eps 1 and 2 are pretty much done. Eps 3 and 4 for are waiting for the acted bits to be plugged in.

Thanks to Mike the webmaster for straightening up the members only audio access area in the forums so its easier for folks to find and download the older shows as well as this newer story.

If you take the time to download these beta versions of shows, then please give us feedback about the things you like/don’t like/ or make sense/don’t make sense. Is this enjoyable? Are you eager to hear what happens in the next S&S story?

Scott H

‘Searcher’ was performed by Paul Kiernan
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0452593/

‘Stallion’ was performed by Micheal Todd Behrens
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1909655/

Both of these fellows are SLAC people
http://www.saltlakeactingcompany.org/

The craft table was excellent. Hopefully over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be able to insert this work into the final versions of the show. They say with movie editing that they never ‘finish’ editing, but rather the movie ‘escapes’ to go to the premier. But seriously, we’re running out of things to fix.

Scott Howard

We think we have talent lined up for the acted bits, and we should be recording at Woodshar studio as soon as we can get in.
www.woodshar.com

Allright!!!!! We’re definitely moving to another web host so you folks can actually download and listen to shows without interruption. And yes, I’ll post the latest versions!

Garth and I have been talking about recording “truck with engine off coasting down dirt road and skidding around corners”. Wish us luck.

Scott H

After Garth’s hard drive crash, it took us a while to get all 4 eps back in order. (turned out the grease between the chip and the heatsink and dried out, which caused overheating, which caused shutdown, which caused the Raid0 to rebuild, which caused some sound files to be cut into 64kb segments and shuffled like a deck a cards.) The server is running normally again. (ooo but it sounds like the seeds of a story idea)

For the lack of a nail a horseshoe was lost
For the lack of the horseshoe, the horse fell
For the lack of a horse, a rider was lost
For the lack of a rider, a message was lost
For the lack of a message, a battle was lost
For the lack of a battle, the war was lost
For the lack of the war, the kingdom was lost
All for the lack of a nail.

Anyway…

I now have 4 fresh CD’s that I get to listen to in my car. We had my mom as “suit computer voice”. She has a great ‘motherly tone’ but you could hear that the technobabble was tripping her up and it was destroying the suspension of disbelief. So we recorded Madelyn Gilbert instead and plugged that in and I think its a good addition to the show. Garth has found some additional ways to plug in comments from the suit that help illuminate the story that I hadn’t thought of. Garth has some cool sound effects sequences in ep 4 that I enjoy listening to over and over.

We’re close enough to the end that I’m not going to post these beta versions.
(You can get them at the party)

Garth makes the shows in 5.1 surround sound and he has a groovy cool tool that automatically mixes it down to a decent stereo mix. So we HAVE a 5.1 mix, but no plans in distributing it at this time.

Haven’t heard pricing from Metropolispost so I’m back to looking at a studio in West Valley to get down the 4 or 5 acted parts.

When we first started making these shows in the early 90’s, the only avenue for listening was ‘live radio on Sunday night’ which meant a person only had 1 chance to listen and understand what’s going on. this meant that everything had to be overemphasized. Today’s world of IPOD’s, P2P, and super large hard drives means that people can easily rewind and review. So now, I expect people to go back and listen closer to sections. The end result is that I am adamant about not putting in the little 30 second blurb at the beginning of each ep that says “Last time on Searcher and Stallion…….” That worked fine when I was a kid watching “the Six Million Dollar Man”, but now I figure people will just go back and listen to the whole last episode.

Hehehe speaking of which, It was Kendall’s idea that the title sequence of S&S was patterned after the greatest title sequence of all time “The six million dollar man”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39co0zKbQAQ

And in ep 2 of “Dreams and Wings” when the Searcher shifts from jogging fast to “doubletime” in my mind I envision Searcher running like Steve Austin.

With the Army’s “Future Warrior 2010 program”, the concept of soldiers wearing futuristic super powered suits is not that far off. In Salt Lake City is a company called Sarcos that is working on a supersuit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ4J69EEpu4
(Can you imagine a 4′10 gal lifting a 2000 lb bomb over her head and attaching it to the underside of a bomber on an aircraft carrier!)
As soon as some one figures out how to provide the insatiable power such a suit requires………………….

As the 3 of us keep reminding ourselves, we need to get this show done while its still science fiction, and not science history.

Scott Howard