| Author | Message | ||
     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Anyone hear this on radio 7? The latest play, The White Hare, was one of the creepiest and yet most magically atmospheric things I've heard in ages. A juicy half hour and one that makes me wonder why we're not all going on about it in horror/radio world. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Here it is - you have three days! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00grv3d | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.110.69 |
Thanks Tony! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
You listening? It's really good. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
I have to say, it works great in a darkened bedroom at midnight, when it's actually aired. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I'll give it a listen tonight. Wish you could download these things... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
I know! | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.243.30.125 |
there are ways... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Really? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.208.7 |
Tape recorder. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.208.7 |
Ha. The warning before the prog says it contains adult themes, and language. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.208.7 |
Mark Gatiss would really fit in on this board. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.208.7 |
Let's have a big warm welcome for a new member: Mark G. Hi Mark! <silence> | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.243.30.125 |
for example, with a little cable you could loop back the audio out from your soundcard to the line in and then use a freeware audio program like Audacity to record any audio. Alternatively there are softwares that can let you record anything that would be sent to the soundcard. I have one of those on my mac ("Wiretap"). I recently used it to record a streaming live concert. Or, more old fashioned, you could connect the audio output of your computer to your hifi and record it on a cd if you have a cd writer, and later import it again as mp3. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.208.7 |
Brilliant, Tom! Why didn't I think of that first example? This feels like one of those moments when The Doctor realises how to tech a solution to something! Time to run down corridors and plug stuff in... | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.208.7 |
There's a lovely morsel of free software called "Audacity" which can record anything that goes into your microphone jack as an mp3 or wav file: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
But! I need pictures! Telling me what to do! Anyone hear the play? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146 |
I think Audacity should be able to capture a web stream as well; unfortunately I can't get it to do that at the moment... | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.208.7 |
Listening to it right now, Tony. Just now they're sheltering from a storm in a ruin. That could be any horror story, couldn't it? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
I loved it. So much atmosphere - and, rare in horror, poetry. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.208.7 |
Here you go, Tony. With pictures! http://members.lycos.co.uk/perceptualmotion/download/recording_tape_or_vinyl.pdf | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.208.7 |
I've got a lot of those man in black plays in mp3. The most successful of them are oblique and surprising. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Thanks! Now listen to the thing! You have the lights out, I hope... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Hmm... oblique. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.208.7 |
Yeah, quirky. The ones that don't work feel like Tales from the Crypt stories, boring divine ironic revenge tales. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146 |
Just listened to it - pretty atmospheric, I thought... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Like I said - in bed, at midnight with the lights out, it was ace. Who was the author? It doesn't say on the site at all. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Recorded on location, too, which always helps. The Tower was good, too. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.196.109 |
Looping the output back into the computer mic jack works! Fantastic! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
 Er, what do I need to buy again? Have you recorded loads of stuff? | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.213.27.228 |
That's a great idea, about the loop from the line out to the mic jack! Can't believe I never thought of that before, myself. There are loads of good radio stuff that I never bother with because I only have the time to listen to them while I commuting. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146 |
The quality won't be great, although it will work. Programs such as 'Audacity' mentioned above will record 'what you hear' so it'll save a file of the streamed program that can then be saved or bunged* on a CD. *technical term | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.90.11 |
The White Hare was good. It had something the old "Man in Black"s lacked -- ambiguity. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.90.11 |
I've only taped that so far. One thing: using Audacity you've got to turn off the option to play as you record or you'll get an echo. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
Hmm. Maybe I'll try and get that lead today and record it. Yes - ambiguity, and not just revenge again. But more than that there was a sense of the landscape in the story, and so much atmosphere, and little snatches of dialogue that suggested the characters had interior lives and thoughts. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.202.107 |
I must give it another listen with the ending in mind. It's always tricky to communicate ideas from the mouths of characters with natural-sounding dialogue. |