Eric Webster was standing in a Fleet Farm when he saw a flexible metal sheet. He grabbed it and after he started shaking it, his face lit up with glee. That’s when a confused-looking employee stepped ...

Ora Nichols was the first — and only — woman to run a radio sound effects department during the Golden Age of Radio. She led the CBS sound team and, along with her husband Arthur Nichols, is credited ...

One day last week German listeners, tuned to their home stations, caught the cultured enemy accents of First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill himself, coming over the same Nazi radio that ...

The sounds of wind, crackling fire and sword fights are among the sound effects produced for a new fictional radio play inspired by real news events. Director Zack Myers, playwright Anna Victoria and ...

A wealth of radio shows, constructed from dialogue and sound effects, and with a touch of narration and music, is free on the internet. By Barry Yourgrau In the image and video cacophony of our world, ...

Since 2010, the Claire Rosen & Samuel Edes Prize for Emerging Artists has offered recent graduates of four universities, UChicago among them, the chance at a $30,000 award. This year, the prize was ...

On-air radio personality "Big Jon" Auerbach opened his daylong "Super Saturday" show last week by playing the theme from the "Bonanza" television show and letting out a yell. "Hang onto your spurs, ...

Ora Nichols was the first — and only — woman to run a radio sound effects department during the Golden Age of Radio. Remembering Ora Nichols, A Pioneer Of Radio Sound Effects Ora Nichols was the first ...