KID SIMPLE: a radio play in the flesh
By Jordan Harrison
Directed by Krista D’Agostino
October 30th – November 14th at The Factory Theatre
791 Tremont St., Boston
Synopsis from Holland Productions: “Moll, a girl who invents things, wins the science fair with a machine for hearing sounds that can’t be heard. But when a shape-shifting Mercenary steals the invention (and her heart), she must embark on a quest to save noise as we know it. In a quirky fable of innocence and experience Moll crosses chasms and rafts rivers into a world where sound is always more than what meets the ear.”
Kid Simple was a very sound-heavy show. The production required the creation of several sound collages, which represented the things that Moll’s incredible machine could “hear.” The machine, when pointed at an object, heard everything that object had ever “heard.” Sound was a huge part of the show – Joye Thaller, a talented local Foley artist, provided live sound, and I provided digital sound. Together, we were responsible for over 200 sound effects.
I recorded the actors saying the various lines in rehearsal, and then spliced them together with ambient and background noise. The first collage is what we hear when Moll points her machine at a school blackboard.
KID SIMPLE “Chorus of Teachers” by TheAndyHicks
This next collage was heard later in the show, as the machine begins to break down.
KID SIMPLE – “Babble 3″ by TheAndyHicks
The collages were recorded and edited with Cakewalk’s Sonar software, with some sound effects courtesy of the good people at Freesound.org.
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