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Last night was read through for Chatterbox Audio Theater's upcoming Rip Van Winkle adaptation, in which I am playing the dog (among other roles, including a ghost-mutineer-bowling afficionado). Which meant I spent a good portion of last night panting, barking, growling, and whining. Just like every other night.

For those who've done audio work (I'm looking at you, derspatchel), a couple of questions:

• Do you know of any non-electronic means of giving a voice an otherworldly, ethereal quality? We'd like our ghosts to sound ghostly.
• Beyond actual bowling, any ideas about imitating the sound of bowling? Consider that this is the bowling of the damned, so it will need to be more awesome than actual bowling.

Also, I need to turn in a bio and headshot for the web site. This marks the first bio I've had without a word count limit, so I'm considering composing it of theatrical anecdotes instead of a c.v.

We record Saturday night! Maybe it'll be up on their website by Christmas.





No matter, the ship's sinking. And the ship sank

Comments

[spatch]

1. There are some echo tubes which may work well to create vocal reverb. I'm thinking something like the "thunder tube" with one end open and a spring attached to the other side. It may work; experimentation is key.

Another eerie idea is to use several voices together as a single voice, deliberately not in unison, each saying the line starting soft and fading out when appropriate (and having the voices all say a key line in complete unison before fading off on their own) but considering the source material, I don't think those are the kinds of ghost voices you're looking for. I'm guessing you want either hollow and/or slightly wispy-whispery?

2. Oh that's a challenge that'd make my Foley artists slaver and rub their hands together wickedly. Hmm. You go up on Saturday? Let me quickly pick their brains and see what we may be able to spitball for you. We were able to create a creaking rowboat for Tomes II over Halloween with two oars in oarlocks, one paddle in a bucket of water, and some creaking, and an overturning carriage with a crashbox made of implements shoved in a wooden slat crate and then, well, overturned, while someone "clicked" two wooden bits together to emulate the turning wheel's eventual slowdown.

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We go up on Saturday, but Foley experiment night is Thursday, so I'm working on coming up with ideas by then. Although you've already given me a couple of avenues to pursue.