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Exercises in Sound

Exercises in Sound

Exercises in Sound is an experiment in audio storytelling. One short scene, re-imagined over and again, exploring how narrative is affected by changes big and small to details of design, editing, performance, music, and all the tools of narrative audio.

Recent Episodes

June 26, 2025

Narrated B

Written and sound designed by Alexander Danner and directed by James Oliva. Performed by Jordan Higgs and Jordan Stillman, with Julia Morizawa as The Narrator. Theme music by Katherine Seaton. Tile art by Sam Twardy. Exercise...
June 26, 2025

Narrated A

Written and sound designed by Alexander Danner and directed by James Oliva. Performed by Jordan Higgs and Jordan Stillman, with Richard Penner as The Narrator. Theme music by Katherine Seaton. Tile art by Sam Twardy. Exercise...
June 19, 2025

Bad.......Dialogue........Editing......

Written and sound designed by Alexander Danner and directed by James Oliva. Performed by Jordan Higgs and Jordan Stillman. Theme music by Katherine Seaton. Tile art by Sam Twardy. Exercises in Sound is inspired by Raymond Que...
June 12, 2025

Baddialogueediting

Written and sound designed by Alexander Danner and directed by James Oliva. Performed by Jordan Higgs and Jordan Stillman. Theme music by Katherine Seaton. Tile art by Sam Twardy. Exercises in Sound is inspired by Raymond Que...
June 5, 2025

Voice De-Clicker--Clicks Only

Written and sound designed by Alexander Danner and directed by James Oliva. Performed by Jordan Higgs and Jordan Stillman. Theme music by Katherine Seaton. Tile art by Sam Twardy. Exercises in Sound is inspired by Raymond Que...
May 20, 2025

Long Hallway, Tiny Kitchen

Written and sound designed by Alexander Danner and directed by James Oliva. Performed by Jordan Higgs and Jordan Stillman. Theme music by Katherine Seaton. Tile art by Sam Twardy. Exercises in Sound is inspired by Raymond Que...

About the Hosts

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Alexander Danner

Creator / Writer / Sound Designer

Alexander Danner (he/him) is a writer working in various media, including prose fiction, comics, and audio drama. He is co-creator of the serial audio drama Greater Boston. He is a script writer on the  audio adaptation of the classic indie comic series ElfQuest, by Wendy and Richard Pini.

He is currently a sound designer on The Amelia Project. He was lead sound designer on What's the Frequency? and a frequent designer on Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery.

He teaches creative writing at Emerson College.

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James Oliva

Director

James Oliva (he/him) is a writer, podcast creator and voice actor, and the writer, director and creator of the experimental psychedelic noir podcast What's The Frequency?. His voice has appeared in many audio fiction podcasts over the past five years, most notably Greater Boston, Tides, The Pilgrimage Saga and Minefire. In addition, James is highly regarded as a maverick artist, director who is known as an "actor whisperer" and a once in a lifetime voice of a generation capable of voicing multiple generations at a time.

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Jordan Higgs

Actor

Jordan Higgs (he/him) has been doing voices since he started DMing his first Dungeons & Dragons game at age twelve. He now dabbles as a voice actor, overjoyed that he can make coming up with the story someone else's problem. You may have heard him on Greater Boston, What's The Frequency?, Tides, or Hit the Bricks. He lives in Roxbury with his partner and two cats.

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Jordan Stillman

Actor

Jordan Stillman (she/her) is a Boston-based writer, editor, producer, and actor. She’s a producer of The Ordinary Epic and The Wanderer podcasts, production manager for The Land Whale Murders, and a writer for Greater Boston. You may have heard her on the Land Whale Murders, Space Ranger 421, and Take the Mass Pike. She is a former organizer of The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE).

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Katharine Seaton

Composer

Katherine Seaton has been a musician all her life.

After being invited to compose and direct the music for a new play in 2015, she moved into creative sound and music, focusing in particular on audio productions. She works with audio drama production companies such as Rusty Quill, Wireless Theatre Co, Dayton Writers Movement, Observer Pictures, Good Story Guild and more. Her BBC Radio 4 debut was on Easter Day 2023, as composer for the radio adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel Enduring Love produced by Flare Path Productions.

Seaton is a proud member of Inscape Animations, a group of three women who use drawn animation with immersive sound and music to address global issues such as war, migration and climate change. They aim to explore complex ideas and challenge xenophobic narratives.

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Sam Twardy

Logo Artist

Sam Twardy is an illustrator and designer based in New York. She loves mint-flavored-anything, going on (easy) hikes, and her two cats Cricket & Crumpet. She is currently open for collabs with nice humans.

Represented by Closer&Closer in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand

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Julia Morizawa

Narrator

Julia Morizawa is an actor with 20+ years experience in film, television, theatre, and web series, including 8+ years experience in voice-over and narrative podcasts. Career highlights include the feature film Judas Kiss, TV appearances on Scandal and SEAL Team, the title role in East West Players' production of Masha No Home, series regular roles on the web series Star Trek: Odyssey and Galactic Galaxy, and the lead role in the fiction podcast The Bright Sessions. She is a graduate of The Second City Hollywood and has trained at The BGB Studio, Actors Comedy Studio, and The Sanford Meisner Center.

Julia is also a writer/producer who has created award-winning independent projects in various genres and mediums. Currently, she is in financing/packaging for the feature film Something About the Tide, a coming-of-age dramedy for those of us over 30 which was a Top 5 Finalist in the 2024 Tribeca/AT&T's Untold Stories. Her most recent project, Dragonfly, is an animated short film about the Tokyo firebombing of March 9-10, 1945, and is currently on the festival circuit.

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Richard Penner

The Narrator

Richard Penner is the creator of The Infinite Now, and has appeared on numerous audio dramas, including in the roles of Thomas Thomas on Greater Boston and Doug "The Devil" Kowalski on What's the Frequency?.