Great article here about how audio theatre, technology, and the real world are beginning to interact in surprising and provocative new configurations. Earbud Theater gets a shout-out, which has some chests bursting around the Earbud Lair, and not for the
Blog Dust
Fallen off on the blogging this year – I would say it’s because I’m busy but I think I’m basically always busy. What really happens, I suspect, is that in very intense periods I can find it difficult to reach
Winding it up
Yesterday we closed a production of the musical version of Little Women in Laguna Hills. It was my first musical in 16 years, and you can chalk the end of my hiatus up to the fact that director Aurora Long
Make a noise
One of the unspoken commandments of Earbud Theater is that we should try to do something with every episode that we’ve never done before. I’m cutting together a new piece now, called Bubbles, and while it’s going to be far
Derelict in my duties
It feels like I do more self-promotion than ever, which I’m sort of ambivalent about. I have come around to its necessity in the era of the “personal brand”; and it has actually had positive benefits to my career; although
Busy day in that lair
This is a nice unplanned changeover – the same day I turn in the final cut of my new Earbud Theater podplay, Escape (The End of Humanity Song), we’re all about to gather in the Earbud lair to record my
In Which I Consistently Fail to Make Things Easy on Myself
Last night, the Earbud Theater crew went back into the studio to record another audio drama. Our July play, Bea Little (written/directed by Earbud founder Casey Wolfe), is in the final stages of post-production and should be made public in
We Have Made Contact
Habitat is here. By which I mean it is now available for download and streaming! Actually, this is only possible at the Earbud website at this exact moment; Earbud’s web designer needs to re-do something with our RSS feed to
Gesamtkunstwerk
Premiering tomorrow at Earbud Theater: HABITAT Artwork by Kevin Necessary There’s a word I love: “gesamtkunstwerk”, roughly from German, it means “total artwork”, and was used by Wagner to describe opera as an artistic mode that could unify many artistic
Rolling multiple rocks, because Sisyphus was a punk
I just turned in my cut of Habitat. The producer may have a tweak or two, but I think the show is basically in broadcast form. Which means we just need to get our finished artwork in, and then count