Owing to a request from Mary Dalton, a poet and an English Professor at Memorial University, I acquired a copy of my radio piece “Early Newfoundland Errors”.   I understand she means to teach with it.

The play was produced by Glen Tilley, with whom I worked on The Great Eastern.  In the fashion of much of The Great Eastern this play was recorded “on location”, or at least clear of the studio.   All at the helm of the great nautical machine shared a profound distaste for the flat and artificial nature of canned sfx and the spatial dynamics of acting to a microphone.  I believe we brought some new vitality to an otherwise dying medium by taking to the field.   There is a scene in “Early Newfoundland Errors”, recorded on a roadside in winter, that well demonstrates the sonic advantages of the technique.

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