A person made this: Alternative listening practices and their application in modern audio drama

I recently graduated from university, making the title of this blog slightly redundant I suppose, however I think its kind of cute to keep it as is for now.

Part of my final year was creating an Audio Paper, essentially instead of a final dissertation I was expected to write, record, and edit my thesis in audio. This is what I present to you now.

I think too much context will defeat the purpose of the medium I created it in so I'm simply going to present you with the abstract and an embedded link for you to listen.

ABSTRACT

By looking into alternative listening practices within the context of Modern Scripted Audio Drama, both as a medium as well as a contemporary sonic culture, this Audio paper will attempt to analyse the material qualities of Audio Drama and theorise ways that these practises may be applied. As well as give insight into how the culture of Audio Drama can be steered in a more open, accessible, experimental and radical direction. 

There is not much of a crossover between sound arts and Audio Drama. By making these analyses and interpretations, This audio paper will attempt to bridge that gap, and provide some practical directions and ideas.

Much of the research was done through analysis of relevant sources and interviews with several figures who work within Audio Drama who each provide a different perspective on the medium.  

The ultimate conclusion is an encouragement to the Audio Drama community, both listeners and producers, to learn to love and intentionally use “bad” audio and to seek out productions made by newer creators. The hope being that more marginalised voices will use audio drama to create politically radical productions and audio drama as a whole will begin to be made in more experimental ways.