Category: SmackSound blog (Page 5 of 21)

Jay Smack VO – new spot for GameDay Collections

It’s funny how things turn out sometimes.  Funny “interesting”, I mean.  I first approached this copy with an NFL Films, John Facenda-type of read in mind.  That was based on the direction and the subject matter.  But the client actually directed me away from that a little. And the end result was much better and more appropriate than what I had envisioned.  That’s the beauty of collaboration and highlights the subjective nature of creativity.  There’s never one answer, but when you work together to find what best serves the project it’s win/win. #voiceover #jaysmackvo

Good Eye Podcast – RJ Zimmerman – Untapped Keg Podcast

RJ Zimmerman has been sober from alcohol, drugs, gambling and other addictive substances and activities for 8 years.  He started the “Untapped Keg” podcast to address and create a community of people who are trying to life a fuller life without the barriers that certain substances and activities can create.  But also included in that community are people who want others to live according to what is best for them and choose to indulge in certain substances and activities within reason and responsibly.  He talks about a culture that all but requires people to partake lest they suffer exclusion and how it makes living a sober life by choice that much more difficult.  He talks about the importance of connection with one’s self as well as family and friends.

Untapped Keg website

On Apple Podcasts

On YouTube

Good Eye Podcast

Good Eye Podcast – Maryfrances Porter – Nonprofits and Strategic Data

Nonprofits can sometimes be at a loss to paint a detailed picture of the impact they’re making.  “Just HOW and HOW MUCH are we helping our constituents and our community?”  Maryfrances Porter of Partnerships for Strategic Impact can help answer that question and many more.  Nonprofits often don’t know what they know and think that the mission is enough.  By using detailed data they can learn so much that it can lead to evolution and adaptation of that mission and sometimes even changing the nature of the mission itself.

https://impactstorycoaching.com/

https://www.facebook.com/impactstorycoaching

https://www.instagram.com/impactstorycoaching/

Good Eye Podcast

WRIR’s River City Limits – 4-1-23

This episode was originally broadcast on WRIR‘s local music show (one of them anyway) River CIty Limits, which runs every Saturday evening at 5 and hosted by a revolving line-up of DJs.  This episode of RCL features new music from Bucket, Cream Dream, Jonathan Vassar, DUST~, McKinley Dixon, Crucial Rip, Horsehead and Honest Debts and more local music that’s not as new.  It also features a single by Deau Eyes, the recent winner of the Newlin Prize for Richmond area music.

Much of the music played on River City Limits and the Studio B RVA podcast can be found on my Bandcamp page.  As much of the music as possible played on both shows is purchased.

Full playlist:

BUCKET – World Turned Upside Down – NEW

CREAM DREAM – No Answer – NEW

twain – King of Fools

JONATHAN VASSAR – A Thousand Miles a Minute – NEW

DUST – Gourmetsh – NEW

McKINLEY DIXON – Run, Run, Run (Kitchen Table Session) – NEW

CRUCIAL RIP – Violent Retribution – NEW

Erik Larson – Nomen Est Omen none

DEMONS – Inauguration Day

PYRAMID MASS – Wars

GNAWING – Gimme Tinnitus – NEW

SPOOKY COOL – I Lick The Sweat off Your Back

V.E. – I Started A Joke -Bee Gees cover

SAMMI LANZETTA – The Bordlerline

DEAU EYES – Make Some Time -won the Newlin Award

STRAWBERRY MOON – You, Me, and Mystery

PPIRANHA – Placate

PRABIR TRIO – Brahma and Vishnu and Shiva

CANARY OH CANARY – Dreamshark

HORSEHEAD – Grains of Sand – NEW

HORSEHEAD – Quitter – NEW

WKNDR – Color of Your Love

HONEST DEBTS – Not So Sure – NEW

MISTER EARTHBOUND – Animal

BEARSTORM – Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

ANTHONY CURTIS – Saturnalia

EARTHLINK – Dark Path

ATOM EVE ECLIPSE – Majestic

Good Eye Podcast – Fear The Reaper, Not A.I. – audio

In this Good Eye BLOGcast, I muse on the advancement of A.I. and its effect on people and industries that, historically, have been the exclusive domain of humans.  As a voiceover artist, whoddathunk that computers would one day be gunning for my job.  But I’m convinced that you need to face these advancements head-on.  Lean into what makes us human.  What other choice do we have?

Fear the Reaper, not A.I.

A quote regarding AI by Strategic Coach Dan Sullivan from a recent email:

“AI won’t replace people. People will be replaced by other people who use AI.”

This quote gave me pause and helped me to look at this issue from a different angle. As a human voice actor, I believe the threat of AI encroaching on businesses, vocations and territory traditionally held by actual humans is real and must be taken seriously. But if you’re in an industry that AI’s digital eyes are watching hungrily (we can’t help but ascribe animalistic traits to non-living things, can we?) how can you take action with Sullivan’s wise words ringing in your head? Ringing in your head in the form of a human voice, hopefully.

For starters you can get with it. Understand it. Study it. Use it and get a feel for its reach. Whether it’s ChatGPT, synthetic voices, or transcription software. Realize its potential and learn how you can capture what it offers to your benefit. Burgle the gold from its lair. Even if that means a fuller understanding of what benefits AI brings as it relates to, in my case and the case of my fellow voice artists, voice and voiceover technologies. Try to find out where that lines leads and ends and the benefits of decidedly and exclusively human contribution begins. AI’s “emotions” are algorithmic, not intuitive, not emotional, not empathetic nor compassionate.

While AI can offer speed and efficiency that no human can match, it does not tote with it the need for compensation aside from a fee or subscription and will never call in sick or sue its employer for wrongful termination. The presence of AI should be a motivator. It should be a source of inspiration, a reminder to know yourself deeply and lean into the aspects of yourself and your human-ness that ONLY YOU can bring. It is those aspects that will set you apart not only from AI, but from everyone and everything else. That should be cause for celebration. If not, just ignore it, turn your back on it and hope for the best at your peril. Maybe it will just go away. But what do I know? I’m only human.

River City Limits on WRIR 3-4-23

Playlist post on WRIR website

Much of this music can be found on my Bandcamp collection

2023 0304 RCL Jay Smack Host

NEW

Ships In The Night – Sun One (Aurora mix)
(Aletha Levanthal – orig. from Cville)
New remix EP dedicated to a friend who passed away

Buck Gooter – Time Flies (pre-release track)
Ghost Brain
Released in April
Harrisonburg

WKNDR – Middle Aged Agitator Single
Released Feb 24

GIF FROM GOD – Knife Goes In, Guts Come Out
Digital Red (released yesterday March 3)

KINDA NEW

Omen Stones – Skin Self
Released in Dec

Appalling – Father Inferior Sacrilege
Nov 2022

Pyramid Mass – Wars Monolith
Jan 20

B4NK M4CHIN3 – Days Like These
Leisure, Recreaton and Stability
-members of The Seymores, Dynamic Truths, Coral, Fudge, Dark Little Rooms

The Mitras – Caroline

Benjamin Shepherd – Thirty Hour Day
Charlie Glenn – piano

Hotspit – Meltng Point

Keep – Dasani Daydream

Book of Wyrms – Sodapop Glacier Nov 2022

Byzantne – Purity Nov 2022 Charleston WV

NOT NEW

Justn Golden – Ain’t Just Luck Hard Times and A Woman

Drook – Soap

David Brookings – If I Don’t Make It Back
Cali via Richmond – was here 3-2

DUMM DUMMS – Halogen

Colin Phils – Totokon
June 2022

Cut The Architect’s Hand – Contempt As A Weapon

Hail Hornet – Disperse The Curse

Stinking Lizaveta – Witches and Pigs (Philly)
Were here recently
Name is a Dostoyevsky reference

Jim Ivins – Me And My Bones

Large Margin – Smothered and Covered

Merciful Zero – Melonite Kingdom

NO BS! Brass – Undying

V.E. – I Stared A Joke

River City Limits on WRIR 2-4-23

Playlist post on WRIR’s website

2023 0204 RCL – Jay Smack Host

NEW

Horsehead – SSOMO
Feb 3
Reggie Pace – trumpet
Sundog Dancing In The Early Light Release date: June 2023

Benjamin Shepherd – Thirty Hour Day Single
Charlie Glenn – piano

Jonathan Vassar and Duncan Adams – Momentum single
Feb 3

Keep – Dasani Daydream Happy In Here
Feb 3

Pyramid Mass – Wars Monolith
Jan 20
(formerly Doubtfire)

Crucial Rip – Violent Retribution Violent Retribution
Release March 2023

Gif from god – A Kiss For Every Hornet Digital Red
Releases March 2023

McKinley Dixon – Tyler Forever
Single
“A celebration of the life of one of my close friends” Released Jan 17 2023

DUST~ – Sheesh
Time Vol 5
Single
SLIMZOS Recordings release Released Jay 5

Buck Gooter – Ghost Brain
Single
Harrisonburg
Ghost Brain full due out April 24, 2023

The Mitras – Caroline Single
Released Jan 13, 2023

Superchunk – Everything Hurts
Single
Chapel Hill
Recorded during the “Wild Lonliness” sessions – didn’t make the album Released Feb 3r

Toward Space – Pity Party Single
Released Jan 13

The Nude Party – Ride On
single
Full release of “Rides On” comes out March 10 Forme d at App State, Boone NC

NOT NEW

BEEX – What I Am
Chrome Daddy Disco – Long Lonley Highway
Don Babylon – There Will Be Blood 2
Doll Baby – The Great Divide
Doll Baby – Alive
DJ Harrison – DJH Jazz At Montrose
Grass Panther – Your Mission Vignette
Jaguardini – Punku Chiku Skin and Bones
Strawberry Moon – You, Me and Misery
The Southern Belles – Everywhere I
Tim Barry – High On 95
Weedeater – Can Enabler Goliathan
Dorthia Cottrell – Vessel
Demons – Inauguration Day Swallow EP

 

Audiobook Narration – Jay Smack VO – The Golden Fortress

Do you like to read?  Do you like to listen to audiobooks?  Perhaps you enjoy both.  I know I do.   But I also enjoy narrating audiobooks.  It’s one fact of being a voiceover artist that I love because you learn so much about so many different subjects.  In this case, I’ve narrated this book about the 1930’s Dust Bowl migration called the Golden Fortress by Bill Lascher.  It examines the impact of that migration on many migrants fleeing the dust storms and attempting to make a new life in 1930’s California, as well as California’s response to the influx of so many people from around the country.  In the case of the migration and the response, it was not smooth.

Click the cover art image to jump to Audible.

 

 

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