"Hopeful Monsters" Bonus Track Released

There's an all-new original creation science song, "Hopeful Monsters," available at goldspikeaudio.com/creation! Enter your promo code (found inside the jacket of your copy of Creation vs. Evolution: The West of the Story) to download.

Beware the Ides of May..."Julius Caesar" just $7.99

To celebrate the launch of our new website, we're making our homeschool cult classic Julius Caesar Remixed available for the ridiculously low, limited-time price of $7.99. Don't miss this chance to grab a copy of what Cindy West of Old Schoolhouse Magazine called "a humorous jaunt through the high points of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar[, f]ull of sound effects, musical scores, original music, and witty story lines!"

And...The Wait Is (Basically) Over

We recorded a session during a thunderstorm in a dead power blackout, running on bus power and batteries and lighting the studio with kerosene lamps.

We recorded percussion on the campuses of two different music schools 700 miles apart.

We created a wildly original soundscape featuring yodeling chipmunks, whinnying trumpets and what may be the world's first harmonized gargling. (At least, a cursory Google search turned up nothing comparable.)

We survived setbacks, delays, failures, collapsing baffles, and a five-month holding pattern while we waited to get the disc professionally mastered.

Now, as this post is typed, the very first copies of Creation vs Evolution: The West of the Story are rolling off our New York distributor's production lines.

Unexpected computer problems (read: a smashed laptop) have temporarily delayed the new website, but that should be up in the next few days as well.

In the meantime, we'd like to extend a special thanks to the twenty-odd people who lent their voices to the cast and their instruments to the orchestra. Don't buy a CD, you guys. There's something coming to your mailboxes very soon.

We apologize for all the delays. We think the finished product is worth the wait!

Edit: It is, perhaps, apropos that this announcement comes on May 10th, the 142nd anniversary of a certain golden spike driven at Promontory Point, Utah. (No, that's really a total accident.)

Update

If you noticed something a little weird going on with the GoldSpike website over the weekend...you were more observant than we were. Somebody apparently hacked the GoldSpike server directory on Wednesday or Thursday of last week, adding a folder full of malware pages. Hopefully nobody tried clicking on those. They were bad medicine. Anyway, we finally discovered the situation and everything should be back to normal with the site.

In other news...there is finally other news. The blog has been very quiet recently, but rest assured that Creation/Evolution is not abandoned. Look for a name change, a new website and a release coming soon!

Update 8/9/10

No, we haven't updated the blog in a while, but that doesn't mean nothing's happening - far from it.
CREATION/EVOLUTION REMIXED is speeding towards completion. All the story sequences are recorded and assembled; Forrest is about sixty percent of the way through the rather arduous process of sweetening the sound and adding sound effects. If all goes well, that phase could be completed by the end of this week. Most of the songs are also finished or well on their way to completion.
We're still looking for an actor to play the narrator of our story - a Western serial-type announcer with a radio voice. If you know of anyone who fits the bill, by all means drop a line to goldspikeaudio@comcast.net. We'd love to hear from you.

Recording Begins On "Creation/Evolution Remixed"

Well, recording is officially underway on Creation/Evolution Remixed! It's very exciting to hear the capabilities of our upgraded hardware and software stable making a difference in the sound. Here's a screenshot of a portion of the score for the song The Missing Links:

New Review of Julius Caesar Remixed

New review of Julius Caesar from The Cracked Pot, the e-zine of online school The Potter's School!

With a running time of nearly an hour, this production presents a clean, professional-sounding drama full of inventive voices, creative sound effects, catchy songs, and subtle Shakespeare jokes.

The entertainment factor is definitely present. The voices, song lyrics, and dialogues are witty and farcical, at times echoing the Bard's own penchant for ludicrous word play. One of the things I most appreciated was the writers' willingness to let some of their jokes slip by quietly. I noticed this when a crack about Francis Bacon in the opening scene unexpectedly left me chortling: the line makes sense to those familiar with the Shakespeare authorship question but passes too quickly to confuse most listeners. Such moments lend a dimension of subtlety to the drama.

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