Last updated: July 8 2023
It's an informational website dedicated to telling stories with sound. And that's SOUND, not necessarily sound effects. This includes audio theatre/radio drama, audio books, sound effects, collages, audio illusions, psychoacoustics and aural literacy. It covers writing, direction, engineering, music scoring, distribution, etc. Anything you can hear that can help tell a story.
"Ruya" is Arabic for "dream" or "vision" and sonic pertains to that which we hear. So RuyaSonic is concerned with dreaming via sound. The sounds create a vision in your head--suggests a world. Sound is poetry to the visual's prose.
He's a Los Angeles-based audio artist/educator who's worked extensively in the field of radio drama. Here's a link to more on Tony "Sparx" Palermo. There are lots of links to his name all over the website, not due to ego, but because exposure is how Tony gets hired for a variety of gigs, from performance, to support, fabrication, consulting and teaching. With 300-400 visitors a day, the website generates lots of leads. Tony works freelance, so the RuyaSonic Website is both an educational service and advertisement for his skills.
SPARX is a character Tony "Sparx" Palermo plays when conducting assemblies about dynamic literacy through sound. Also, "Sparks" was often the nickname for the radio operator onboard a ship. Sparx is Tony's main money making gig. Please hire him. He travels cross country and has even taught overseas.
Yes, and more. Tony operated the now-defunct Radio Drama Resources website since 1996, but the amount of traffic that site generated (110,000 visitors in 2004) exceeded his internet service provider's allowance for a personal website. It was TOO popular. So, Tony bought his own domain--www.RuyaSonic.com--and moved the old site here, but broke it up into more pages. The old site was retired in March 2005.
Finally, there's room for many more articles, audio clips, photos, videos and even some e-commerce, to sell downloadable scripts, music cues, sound effects clips and also specialized microphones, audio gear and hand-built sound effects devices. There will even be free audiobooks created by Tony.
Go to the RuyaSonic.com Depot to browse the selections. More will be coming available. We use PayPal www.paypal.com to accept credit cards and other forms of payment.
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