OMNI Audio Experience – Vol. 2 [Rescue Party] 1988 Cassette (Rare) – Michael Mcdonough, Arthur C. Clarke Free Audiobook

Written by Michael Mcdonough, Arthur C. Clarke
Read by Full Cast Narration
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 192 Kbps
Unabridged

This is the second of the two Omni Audio Experience C-60 cassettes.

Track I: Arthur C. Clarke’s short story Rescue Party (full-cast dramatization)

Excellent

Sounds like the sound-track of a film: sound-effects that fits the story, soundscaping that makes sense, and a minimum of intrusive script-rustling. Very well-done job: should be mandatory listening for anyone interested in audio drama. I believe Douglas Adams somewhere said that he wanted the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio series to sound like a rock video: this piece of work takes that idea very close to its ultimate goal.

Track II: no title

Three subtracks: Average to above average

Greg Hanson: The Mists (piano & orchestra).

Quiet, moody, minor-key-ish music (6 minutes). Nice listening, though the
piano feels bit too assertive in a few places.

Innovations Consulting, Inc: Sleepscape: audio drama.

What could happen when you listen to self-improvement recordings.
Interesting, but too short (about 10 minutes), and even then
it is duller in places than it needed to be. As it takes place is a
mental world, audio effects do not ‘ground’ the performance as in
‘Rescue Party’. Ultimately disappointing, I think, but that has more
to do with the story itself, than with how it is told to the listener.

Ken Nordine: Think-a-thought (duo-monologue)

Or is it a mono-dialogue? Anyway, it’s Ken Nordine talking to his
second self on thoughts and thinking, going off into related subjects occasionally, and returning to the main topic with a new twist to it.
Very nice work — I’ll be trying to find other works by the performer.
I never heard any of his Word Jazz, but that term fits the performance:
it could be titled ‘Thoughts – theme with improvisations’ (and even some parroting without any thinking at all). Worth coming back to to discover
details and thoughts that weren’t obvious the first time — like that parrot
voice.

As a whole, well worth listening to. I keep returning to Track I, less
for the story, but just to feel the soundscape. Truly an Audio Experience.
On Track II, it’s Ken Nordine who makes the high point.