The pacing of this piece reminds me almost of spoken word poetry. It's cut in such a way that it's got that 'word jazz' quality of two versions of the same voice co-narrating a story.
The minimal sound effects and production elements give this piece a very stylized, stripped-down radio drama feel.
This is great hard-boiled midnight radio material.
This piece had a fascinating editing style, where breaths are taken out, different effects are placed on the narrator’s voice at appropriate places and unique long pauses at key junctures in this strange story. The story itself and the storytelling were very well done, but it didn’t keep my interest throughout. I think it has to do with the fact that this 20-minute piece could’ve been 10 minutes shorter. Frankly, although the editing style was unique, it got tiring after five minutes. The ear is use to listening to breaths and the ends of sentences and the brain uses that opportunity to digest what was just presented. The story needs more of those opportunities to allow the listener to catch up with the narrator. The story was dark, had surprising twists and had a unique portrayal about the despair of alcoholism. It’s so unique that, although I wouldn’t air it as it presently stands, it is worth a good listen because of the very unique story telling method and production finesse.
This piece invokes powerful images of the depths of a man's inner feelings as he hits "rock bottom". Alcoholism, recovery, and the strong place religion plays in the latter are covered in the story. Also captured are the feelings of racing thoughts, hallucinations, distrust, panic, and the associated feelings of living on the edge of sanity. Excellent use of sound effects!
Good job on keeping me interested without music or to many sound effects. I also liked the close or no space edit between lines . I would certainly listen to this if I knew when and where to find it on the radio . There seems to be a huge lack of fiction on the radio . Lots of reality/ducomentary type stuff and I miss good fiction . I'm just a listener not a professional . Thanks for the fun entertainment .
The overlapping of lines combined with long silent pauses is a bit disorienting at first. For the first half of it the editing kept distracting me from the story. My recomendation to the contributor would be to sort of ease the listeners into that editing style.
I'm not really into the Christian stuff so I won't really comment on the plot.
Comments for The Devil's Radar
Produced by Hans Anderson
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5 comments
Aaron Henkin
Posted on September 01, 2004 at 06:51 AM | Permalink
Review of The Devil's Radar C1
The pacing of this piece reminds me almost of spoken word poetry. It's cut in such a way that it's got that 'word jazz' quality of two versions of the same voice co-narrating a story.
The minimal sound effects and production elements give this piece a very stylized, stripped-down radio drama feel.
This is great hard-boiled midnight radio material.
Erik Nycklemoe
Posted on August 02, 2004 at 11:20 AM | Permalink
Review of The Devil's Radar C1
This piece had a fascinating editing style, where breaths are taken out, different effects are placed on the narrator’s voice at appropriate places and unique long pauses at key junctures in this strange story. The story itself and the storytelling were very well done, but it didn’t keep my interest throughout. I think it has to do with the fact that this 20-minute piece could’ve been 10 minutes shorter. Frankly, although the editing style was unique, it got tiring after five minutes. The ear is use to listening to breaths and the ends of sentences and the brain uses that opportunity to digest what was just presented. The story needs more of those opportunities to allow the listener to catch up with the narrator. The story was dark, had surprising twists and had a unique portrayal about the despair of alcoholism. It’s so unique that, although I wouldn’t air it as it presently stands, it is worth a good listen because of the very unique story telling method and production finesse.
Gilbert Orosco
Posted on July 08, 2004 at 11:31 AM | Permalink
Review of The Devil's Radar C1
This piece invokes powerful images of the depths of a man's inner feelings as he hits "rock bottom". Alcoholism, recovery, and the strong place religion plays in the latter are covered in the story. Also captured are the feelings of racing thoughts, hallucinations, distrust, panic, and the associated feelings of living on the edge of sanity. Excellent use of sound effects!
Bryan Robinson
Posted on July 07, 2004 at 04:14 PM | Permalink
Review of The Devil's Radar C1
Good job on keeping me interested without music or to many sound effects. I also liked the close or no space edit between lines . I would certainly listen to this if I knew when and where to find it on the radio . There seems to be a huge lack of fiction on the radio . Lots of reality/ducomentary type stuff and I miss good fiction . I'm just a listener not a professional . Thanks for the fun entertainment .
Andrew Morton
Posted on June 26, 2004 at 01:00 PM | Permalink
Review of The Devil's Radar C1
The overlapping of lines combined with long silent pauses is a bit disorienting at first. For the first half of it the editing kept distracting me from the story. My recomendation to the contributor would be to sort of ease the listeners into that editing style.
I'm not really into the Christian stuff so I won't really comment on the plot.