Behind The Waveform: The Making of Stellar Firma
Stellar Firma
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5.0 • 878 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Behind the Waveform: The Making of Stellar Firma
Rhys Tirado, reporter for the Quarterly Frequency Botherers Digest, has been given unrestricted access to the creative minds behind the phenomenon that is Stellar Firma, and finds out what makes them go "tick tock, tick tock, ring ring, genius time".
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Content warnings:
- Unreality
- Innuendo & sexual references
Discussions of: food, conspiracy thinking, comedic violence
Mentions of: razors & blades, death & murder, guns
SFX: background chatter, mechanical clanking, static
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Created by Tim Meredith and Ben Meredith
Produced by Katie Seaton
Executive Producer: Alexander J Newall
Performances:
Rhys Tirado as The Interviewer
Helen Gould as Helen Gould
Imogen Harris as Imogen Harris
Jenny Haufek as Jennifer Haufek
Ben Meredith as award-winning artist Ben Meredith
Tim Meredith as award-adjacent artist Tim Meredith
Maddy Searle as Maddy Searle
Katie Seaton as Katie Seaton
Editing: Maddy Searle
Music: Samuel DF Jones
Artwork: Anika Khan
Mastering: Jeffrey Nils Gardner
Featured SFX by mikemoons, btherad2000, Geenburg, AbdrTar, inchadney, Fringer_Cat, BeeProductive and previously credited artists via freesound.org.
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Interstellar Mood by Nico Staf (YouTube Audio Library)
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Canon In D arranged for two harps by Kevin MacLeod
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| 0:16.1 | Comedy, science fiction, improvisation. Once considered three incompatible elements, they now stand at the core of the most remarkable series ever committed to digital audio storage. Incidentally, a medium far |
| 0:22.2 | superior in every way to cassette tape. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Riesterado, reported for the Quarterly Frequency Botherers Digest. |
| 0:29.0 | In this special behind-the-scenes episode, |
| 0:32.0 | I have been given unrestricted access to the creative minds behind the phenomenon that is stellar firma |
| 0:37.2 | And I will be trying to figure out what makes them go tic-talk tic-toc,Tic-Toc, Ring-ring, Genius Time. |
| 0:43.8 | Join me as we go behind the way form. I was able to sit down with the show's co-creators, award-winning actor Ben Meredith and award adjacent actor, writer and showrunner Tim Meredith at their |
| 1:05.6 | acclaimed Brighton Fruit Squisaria, the Brothers Mirror Juice. |
| 1:10.1 | How did Stellar Ferma initially come into being? |
| 1:12.8 | Oh gosh, we... |
| 1:14.8 | Well, Ben tells it better, but I'll start. |
| 1:17.2 | We... |
| 1:18.2 | Hmm? |
| 1:19.2 | Sorry? We're talking about how it came into being, Ben. |
| 1:21.2 | So I was just cailing up some broccoli for the latest |
| 1:23.3 | smoothie inventions. What are we talking about? We're talking about how |
| 1:27.4 | still a firmer. Stell a firmer. It was it was a winter's day so we were inside because we've got very thin skin |
| 1:36.4 | and we were hoping to find a way to enrich the world. That sounds big. Well I mean was it the world? That sounds big. Well, I mean, was it the world? I think I like to think of it more in in solar terms. |
| 1:48.0 | You know, for example, they're looking into Mars and there might be some bacteria there or frozen and what I'd really |
| 1:54.3 | love is for them to just unthaw the little bastards and just play them some stellar firmer. |
| 1:58.9 | Yeah, is that too much to ask? We said no. And so the show is born. |
| 2:04.0 | Often described as the audio comedy slash sci-fi slash improv Mavericks of your generation. |
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