The Icebox Radio Workshop: Recent Episodes
The Icebox Radio Theater
Experimental, new actors, kid's stuff; it's all here. The Workshop is the place the Icebox Radio Theater lets its collective imagination fly!
Join Jeff for a chat about the recordings that had a profound influence on the people that make the Icebox Radio Theater. You listen together with the host as he or she offers insights and takes your questions in the comments field. In this premire episode, Jeff goes WAY back to a childhood favorite: Disney's "Stories and Songs from the Haunted Mansion"
A recording of an interview by Mason and Barb of the KFAI morning show of Jeff talking about 'The Fall of the House of Usher & Other Stories' at the Bryant Lake Bowl. Recorded April 12, 2019.
The sound of fear is one we can easily imagine. A scream, the screech of tires indicating a near auto accident, the cries of a loved one in danger. These are all sounds we can understand and categorize. But what about anxiety? Fear's slow moving cousin? While fear is a burst of negative energy, anxiety is a slow drip. If fear creates an immediate response, anxiety focuses on what might happen next. It is more difficult to grasp or describe. We just know it when we feel it. But what does anxiety sound like?
The following piece explores what social anxiety might sound like from inside the mind of a sufferer. The foundation of the piece is a field recording of a man visiting a grocery store on a snowy day. He goes inside, selects two purchases, pays, and leaves. This was accomplished with a small recorder and a pair of binaural microphones the recordist wore in his own ears. All the people you hear were actual patrons of the store and were unaware they were being recorded.
After this base recording was complete, other sounds were mixed in, many of them manipulated so they were no longer recognizable but suggestive of something deeper.
A man seeks to travel back in time to save his wife using only the power of his mind. The 'contest' play for the IBRT's 2017/18 season, written and produced by Jeffrey Adams. Originally entered in the 2018 United Kingdom International Radio Drama Fest.
It was 13 years ago today that I flew to Minnesota for the first time to attend a gathering called CONvergence and pick up a Silver Ogle Award for 2nd-best horror or fantasy audio drama of the year. So very much happened because of that trip, I thought it appropriate to share the creepy little feature that started it all. Starring Jeffrey Adams and a not-quite 10-year old Rachel Malasig.
Icebox Radio Theater's Jeffrey Adams tries to explain what CONvergence, the yearly sci fi Con in Bloomington Minnesota, means to him.
A microphone, a mixing board, two iPods set to YouTube, and a low-power FM transmitter. These are the tools used for ‘The Broadcast’ an experimental series by Jeffrey Adams. There is no plan, there is no script. There is only the impulse to move from one sound element to another, music to spoken word, stories to nonsense sounds. Mind and memory are played like a musical instrument, and all of it broadcast over the air. As you read this, the radio signals are still heading out into space from their origin on earth.
All sounds in this recording are owned by their creators. Jeffrey Adams and the Icebox Radio Theater make no claims of ownership on any sounds contained in this recording.
And IBRT workshop production where three people play 6 parts! Plus SFX! It's "5-Minute Mystery: The Sound Effects Murder" with David Griffith