Did you know? Our first microsode can be heard TODAY over at @sditepod! Featuring Alasdair Stuart and Virginia Spotts, this is a nightmare you wont want to miss: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3zaNXefRl5ThZfy4GJ36vQ?si=QmoxQzIuQuWNfJYMCXXYeA

Cast Announcement!

Folks, we are beginning our CAST AND CREW ANNOUNCEMENTS TODAY!!! My name is Stephen Indrisano and I'm the writer of Shelterwood, as well as playing the part of Nicholas DeRoso - a man on a quest to find his long-lost sister in a suburb beyond reality.

For some of my other work, check out my performances on Mayfair Watchers Society and @roguemaker, my producer bona fides on @re-dracula, and my writing on @sditepod

FWD: Someone Dies In This Elevator

Our first feed drop! We'll be periodically sharing audio dramas we think fans of Re: Dracula will also like. I hear there's an oncoming droughtula, and hopefully you can fill your podcatcher with other great shows.

Someone Dies in this Elevator is spoiler-driven anthology podcast where there is always an elevator and someone always dies in it - but everything else is different.

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My podcast recommendation of the hour is Someone Dies In This Evilvator, which is about someone getting their shoelaces caught in an escalator and dying, immediately

My podcast recommendation of the hour is Evil Hallway To Nowhere, in which a person goes through the harrowing ordeal of taking one right turn in a hall and then gets where they need to go. It’s a four hour audio movie.

A bonus episode of SDITE arrives tomorrow and you're not gonna believe what happens in it.

Hey,

Pst.

You wanna see how much world I can build in 20 minutes?

Official Episode Description: Smile, you’re on camera. This episode contains the sound of a gunshot at the end of the episode, discussion of systemic inequality, and death in an elevator.

A huge thanks to Tal for inviting me!! This was a lot of fun and involved so many more people than I'm used to. The team (I was on a team!!) I was on, absolutely wonderful.

This is also a great chance to pspsps people to the rest of the series: here

Audio drama creators of all experiences are welcome to join the Audio Drama Creators discord server!

Someone Dies In This Elevator is a spoiler-driven anthology podcast where there is always an elevator and someone always dies in it - but everything else is different.

I'm having kind of a strange few days.

First off, in case someone stumbles in by accident here are the most basic background details.

My name is Trace Callahan. I'm a composer, sound designer, game, story, and audio nerd from Maine living in Florida. I'm in love with collaborative storytelling. I also work at a school as a day job doing of all things, bookkeeping and budgeting. Being a spreadsheet nerd helps with both! Anyway, back to the last few days.

School is out for the week for Thanksgiving, so my original plan involved a nice, meaty list of projects I wanted to work on, some promises I wanted to keep, and maybe a bit of cleaning. I lined up some sound redesigns, a few podcast episodes to design, a bit of writing, a few songs, and probably a decent amount of AC Syndicate playing. Instead, Friday night like many people I reached a certain point with Twitter, my internet home-ground, and have spent a lot of the last few days looking into different social media, trying to find my friends and coworkers as they too gently or loudly migrate. I've spent more time on social media in the last 4 days than I have in the last 2 months!

I'm beginning to see a path forward with all that, and my wordy brain is absolutely enjoying writing longer things again, but the weirdness continues in other ways.

The height of it involves the song I linked. So Much More to Say is from the Someone Dies in This Elevator episode The Cop, the Clerk, and the Body. I could say a lot of things about this episode (and am now thinking that might be part of what this blog is for) but for now, I'll stick to the point. This song and all of the music in the episode is diegetic, being played by the hotel's lobby band and dance band as the episode flows between locations.

This final song plays in the lobby near the end of the episode, a simple jazz trio playing some suitably emotional but unassuming music. It's sparse and simple and just the right amount of sad. The musicians are a bit tired. It's been a long night and the dance upstairs means they aren't getting many tips. Imagine my delight, surprise, and then confusion when I noticed it getting a huge uptick in plays on Spotify, looked into it, and found out it was picked up by an EDM playlist! I don't know how, or why, or who. I absolutely hope they're enjoying it, and as this week continues its weird, unexpected way toward Thanksgiving, I'm glad for every listen no matter how much head-scratching I might do.

Here’s a bunch of free tools I’ve used in the making of @sidequestingpod and other audio dramas!

I wrote up a comprehensive list of what an audio drama producer does.

Spoilers: It’s a LOT.

I’ve ran SO MANY casting calls, and I wrote up how I like to do them! If you’re thinking about running your first casting call for audio drama, it might be a helpful read.

Horror podcasts: what if there was a hole that was just too deep. would that be fucked up or what?

me: im having a lovely monday what a beautiful start to the week<3

universe: did you just say you wanted to be locked in the elevator for over an hour🤭

There’s no good way to do it asjdfasdjkfa

“Sorry for your loss; listen to my podcast!!” sakjlkkllklk

Someone Dies In This Elevator summarizing all podcast recs

Someone Dies in this Elevator earns bonus points for including the rating and content warnings before each episode. Super helpful if your hands are full or you're driving and can't check the show notes.