Sound Effects

ST. PAUL - Tom Keith - a longtime sound effects man who was the source of creaking doors, clucking chickens, and more on "A Prairie Home Companion" - has died. He was 64. Mr. Keith's death was announced yesterday by Jon McTaggart, chief executive of Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media, which distributes "A Prairie Home Companion. " Mr. Keith died suddenly after collapsing at his home Sunday. He had performed with the "Prairie Home" host, Garrison Keillor, since 1976, when Keillor hosted an early version of MPR's "The Morning Show.

EVILLDEWER RAP ISH EvillDewer isn't going to make things easy for you. Before you even get to press play on his impressive new instrumental release, "RAP ISH," you are confronted with a track list that looks like he fell asleep on the keyboard while using the Wingdings font. The beats themselves are equally challenging to decipher: glitchy samples, offbeat snare kicks, wheezing synth keys, and guitar distortion collide regularly with only the most basic of structures to tie them together.

EVILLDEWER RAP ISH EvillDewer isn't going to make things easy for you. Before you even get to press play on his impressive new instrumental release, "RAP ISH," you are confronted with a track list that looks like he fell asleep on the keyboard while using the Wingdings font. The beats themselves are equally challenging to decipher: glitchy samples, offbeat snare kicks, wheezing synth keys, and guitar distortion collide regularly with only the most basic of structures to tie them together.

WHO Clive Goodwin WHAT The resident sound designer at the American Repertory Theater since 2009, the Arlington resident and native Briton got his first Tony Award nomination this week — one of 11 nods to the musical "Once. " A stage adaptation of John Carney's Irish movie of the same name, "Once" was workshopped at the ART last season before opening in New York. Like the movie, the Broadway show has music and lyrics by the film's stars, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová.

WHO Clive Goodwin WHAT The resident sound designer at the American Repertory Theater since 2009, the Arlington resident and native Briton got his first Tony Award nomination this week — one of 11 nods to the musical "Once. " A stage adaptation of John Carney's Irish movie of the same name, "Once" was workshopped at the ART last season before opening in New York. Like the movie, the Broadway show has music and lyrics by the film's stars, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová.

Michael Jackson, "Immortal," (Epic) "The Immortal World Tour" is a new Cirque du Soleil extravaganza that pays tribute to the life of the late King of Pop through his rich catalog of hits. Word has it that the show, which will tour the country beginning in December, is a must-see production. Listening to the show's soundtrack will leave you with a "must-see" feeling about the show as well, mainly because you'll feel like you've got to see the show to put much of the re-imagined versions of Jackson's hits in context.

It's eye-opening to watch "It's a Wonderful Life" in the year of Occupy Wall Street. My wife and I introduced our kids to Frank Capra's 1946 masterpiece a few weeks ago, but it was a social studies lesson for us adults as well. The issues of class and power that were at the film's core are the very issues we are still batting back and forth 65 years later. George Bailey speaks for the 99 percent when he tells irascible banker Henry F. Potter: "This rabble you're talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community.

NEW YORK — Himan Brown, who created dramas that used sound effects like a creaking door and a steam engine to enthrall listeners during the golden age of radio, has died. He was 99. Mr. Brown died in his New York apartment, family said. The creative force behind radio classics including “Inner Sanctum Mysteries’’ and “Grand Central Station,’’ Mr. Brown grasped “how sounds would trigger the imagination,’’ said Ron Simon, curator of television and radio at the Paley Center for Media.

Tom Keith, a longtime sound effects man who was the source of creaking doors, clucking chickens and more on "A Prairie Home Companion," has died. He was 64. Keith's death was announced Monday by Jon McTaggart, chief executive of Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media, which distributes "A Prairie Home Companion. " He died suddenly of a heart attack after collapsing at his home Sunday, "Prairie Home" host Garrison Keillor said in a statement. Keillor remembered Keith as "one of radio's great clowns.

Stand-up stand-upKATHLEEN MADIGAN Cheerfully sarcastic and happily world-weary, Madigan is a comic's comic — a favorite of Ron White and Lewis Black — who spends a lot of time on the road making audiences laugh. April 20, 7:30 p.m. $20-$30. Wilbur Theatre. 866-448-7849, www.thewilburtheatre.comNICK A. ZAINO III Clubs & Dance Nights BASSNECTAR Known for pulling samples from a wide range of genres and time periods, Bassnectar's mixes also often include offbeat sound effects (think sirens)

It's eye-opening to watch "It's a Wonderful Life" in the year of Occupy Wall Street. My wife and I introduced our kids to Frank Capra's 1946 masterpiece a few weeks ago, but it was a social studies lesson for us adults as well. The issues of class and power that were at the film's core are the very issues we are still batting back and forth 65 years later. George Bailey speaks for the 99 percent when he tells irascible banker Henry F. Potter: "This rabble you're talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community.

Michael Jackson, "Immortal," (Epic) "The Immortal World Tour" is a new Cirque du Soleil extravaganza that pays tribute to the life of the late King of Pop through his rich catalog of hits. Word has it that the show, which will tour the country beginning in December, is a must-see production. Listening to the show's soundtrack will leave you with a "must-see" feeling about the show as well, mainly because you'll feel like you've got to see the show to put much of the re-imagined versions of Jackson's hits in context.

ST. PAUL - Tom Keith - a longtime sound effects man who was the source of creaking doors, clucking chickens, and more on "A Prairie Home Companion" - has died. He was 64. Mr. Keith's death was announced yesterday by Jon McTaggart, chief executive of Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media, which distributes "A Prairie Home Companion. " Mr. Keith died suddenly after collapsing at his home Sunday. He had performed with the "Prairie Home" host, Garrison Keillor, since 1976, when Keillor hosted an early version of MPR's...

Tom Keith, a longtime sound effects man who was the source of creaking doors, clucking chickens and more on "A Prairie Home Companion," has died. He was 64. Keith's death was announced Monday by Jon McTaggart, chief executive of Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media, which distributes "A Prairie Home Companion. " He died suddenly of a heart attack after collapsing at his home Sunday, "Prairie Home" host Garrison Keillor said in a statement. Keillor remembered Keith as "one of radio's great clowns.

NEW YORK — Himan Brown, who created dramas that used sound effects like a creaking door and a steam engine to enthrall listeners during the golden age of radio, has died. He was 99. Mr. Brown died in his New York apartment, family said. The creative force behind radio classics including “Inner Sanctum Mysteries’’ and “Grand Central Station,’’ Mr. Brown grasped “how sounds would trigger the imagination,’’ said Ron Simon, curator of television and radio at the Paley Center for Media.

IDENTITY FESTIVAL With Kaskade, Rusko, DJ Shadow, and others At: Comcast Center, Saturday MANSFIELD - Electronic music is clearly having another of its ascendant moments, but one area where it still lags is on the summer festival tour. Identity Festival, which landed at the Comcast Center on Saturday, aimed to correct that, and succeeded overwhelmingly, with a nearly sold-out all-ages crowd. The all-day event was a virtual primer on the diverse genre, with 25 acts, both venerable and influential, such as DJ Shadow and Crystal Method and hit-makers at the top of the crossover...

*½ BUNRAKU Written and directed by: Guy Moshe Starring: Josh Hartnett, Gackt, Woody Harrelson, Kevin McKidd, Ron Perlman, and Demi Moore At: Boston Common Running time: 118 minutes Rated: R (language, bloody violence of the comic-book variety) You can tell the makers of "Bunraku" were really excited about creating a cool, new movie world, because that's all the movie is: 118 minutes of effects, art-direction, and genres. The story unites a gunslinger (Josh Hartnett)