VANCOUVER, Wash. – A cinematic radio story set in another world, in another dimension, is the October feature for Re-Imagined Radio. The episode, airing Oct. 21 at 1 p.m., is the first of a two-part series, “Night of the Eclipsoid Man,” by Portland-based writers Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose. The story is a production of Ensérné Media, known for “tales from the multiverse” combining science fiction and fantasy.
Part 2 will premiere on Nov. 18 at 1 p.m. The story is “so sweeping it must be told in two parts,” said John Barber, producer and host of Re-Imagined Radio and faculty member of WSU Vancouver’s Creative Media and Digital Culture program.
Re-Imagined Radio premieres episodes on the third Monday of the month on community radio stations on KXRW-FM (99.9), Vancouver, and KXRY-FM (91.1 and 107.1), Portland. Each episode is streamed globally and is then available as a podcast. Information and listening opportunities are available at reimaginedradio.fm.
“Night of the Eclipsoid Man” is the story of Spencer Knightbridge, a man who gains telekinetic powers of destruction, which he puts to use to avenge wrongs done to him. In Part 2 he discovers that the ghosts of his past have robbed him of love. First broadcast in 1980, the story has been rewritten as “a far more complex and soul-searching journey, as the hero finds that dealing with demons is anything but cut and dried,” Barber said.
Community Partners
Re-Imagined Radio draws on community voice actors, Foley artists, musicians, sound artists and engineers. Partners include KXRW-FM, KXRY-FM, Fuse Audio Design, the Electronic Literature Lab at WSU Vancouver, Marc Rose and Holly Slocum Design, with Sidney Nguyen.
About Re-Imagined Radio
Re-Imagined Radio was begun by Barber in 2013 to celebrate radio storytelling. ”We select, produce and perform classic and contemporary stories across a spectrum of radio genres, from dramas to comedies, from oral to aural histories, from documentaries to fictions, from soundscapes to sonic journeys, from radio to sound art,” Barber said.
About WSU Vancouver
As one of six campuses of the WSU system, WSU Vancouver offers big-school resources in a small-school environment. The university provides affordable, high-quality baccalaureate- and graduate-level education to benefit the people and communities it serves. As the only four-year research university in Southwest Washington, WSU Vancouver helps drive economic growth through relationships with local businesses and industries, schools and nonprofit organizations.
WSU Vancouver is located on the homelands of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and Peoples of the Lower Columbia Valley. We acknowledge their presence here. WSU Vancouver expresses its respect towards these original and current caretakers of the region. We pledge that these relationships will be built on mutual trust and respect.
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Brenda Alling, Office of Marketing and Communication, 360-546-9601, brenda_alling@wsu.edu