Scoring Magic

The long-awaited responses to your Q&A! This is an ABRIDGED version of a full conversation between Anne and Wil—if you want the full extended discussion, make sure you check out Hug House on Patreon. Monthly support of $10+/month gets access to all of our bonus content, plus early episode releases and more!

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This episode was written, recorded, and sound designed by Wil Williams. It was produced and transcribed by Anne Baird.

With VALENCE coming to a close, we're bringing you the final episode of Scoring Magic... for now. Keep following us in the usual places, and hopefully you'll hear more soon.

But first we've got at least one more VALENCE-focused episode to do: a Q&A! Send us your questions to our email, our Twitter, our Tumblr, our Patreon or Patron Discord... anywhere you can find us, we'll take your questions! The due date for sending us those questions is April 28th, 2023.

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In this episode of Scoring Magic, Wil goes into their sound design process step by step and shares how they learned this finicky, complicated, detailed aspect of making an audio drama.

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This week, Hug House brings you an update on everything we've been working on. And then... another update on everything we've been working on. And then...

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We're neck-deep into production for season 2, and we've learned, ummmm, a lot about how to make an audio drama since season 1. Anne walks us through all of the changes we've made since season 1, and answers some of your questions.

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As Hug House gears up for VALENCE's second season, we kick off Scoring Magic by talking about what a weird time it's been creating on 2020.

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Last year, we left off having just barely debuted Season 1 of VALENCE. Since then, we've been hard at work on Season 2 . . . or, at least, as hard at work as 2020 has let us be. What has it been like creating in 2020? How have we adjusted? How have we failed and triumphed--and what does that all mean for Hug House, VALENCE, and other creative works up our sleeves?

We'll talk about all of this and more in Season 2 of Scoring Magic, coming January 2nd, 2021.

Season 1 of VALENCE is DONE! We DID IT! But just like when we release the first episode of VALENCE, we feel . . . weird. In this episode of Scoring Magic, we talk wrapping the season, we look back on early episodes of Scoring Magic, and we answer some of your questions!

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It's a very NSFW one, pals! And also, it's got VALENCE S1E11 spoilers, so make sure you listen to that first! In this episode, I talk to Josh Rubino (Liam) and John Westover (Nico) about conveying "fuck energy." But also, we talk about modern art, control issues, and how people convey their trauma.

Check out Cornelia Parker's "Mass (Colder Darker Matter)," the art piece discussed in this episode, here:

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These last few episodes of VALENCE have been rough, so we decided to share one of the best things about making VALENCE: our goofy actors. Enjoy this look into our bloopers vault.

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