ABOUT & CONTACT
SLIPGATE NINE ENTERTAINMENT is a not-for-profit production endeavor dedicated to the release of free speculative fiction media under Creative Commons Licenses through The Internet Archive. This endeavor focuses on the audio drama form, making heavy use of musical layering and sound effects to create a full stereo soundscape of professional technical quality. It incorporates the tracks of voice actors, sound artists, musicians, and other artists, either as direct contributors in its productions or passive contributors through permissions, creative licenses, clear availability of musical multi-tracks for public remix, or the public domain. Rights to voices, sounds, music, stories, characters, settings, and other components of the productions remain with their creators under their individual terms or licenses. The releases themselves–which in some Creative Commons contexts may be considered “remixes” of all its source material–are free products that you can download and distribute/display/air under the terms of their Creative Commons licenses.
Slipgate Nine Entertainment was founded in 2010 by Jack Kincaid. It was born from the now-dissolved “Deadsville Nine” endeavor which concentrated on an experimental hybrid of the audio drama and narrated audio book. Much of S-9′s technical capability was cultivated in the D-9 days, as well as the working relationships which led to S-9′s creation by Jack Kincaid, James Keller, and Jane Eastman. The S-9 are not paid staff, but volunteers with an appreciation for the wonders of creation.
Please note that Slipgate Nine Entertainment does not accept donations. If you approve of our endeavors here and wish to support us, the best thing you can do is help spread the word about our shows however you can: link us, review us, blog about us, tweet about us, do what you can to expand awareness. This would be a great help. We are so busy during our free time with the actual producing that we don’t have a lot of that free time left to promote and schmooze, not without sacrificing our lives completely. Remember: what we offer is one-hundred percent free. Slipgate Nine will never charge for its productions. That coupled with our dedication to quality, we hope, will be a win situation for everyone. Audience is the greatest reward. The more we have, the more encouraged we will be to continue our productions well into the future and even grow new ones. Thanks for supporting us.
Also note: at this time, all projects undertaken by Slipgate Nine come from in-house or (to speculate about future possibilities) unexpected gravitations through back channels. We are not a market for your writing projects and we do not accept story submissions of any sort. We may entertain guest writers at some point in the future for episodes to various projects, but this too will likely be an internal process. You are free to e-mail us with whatever you like, but understand that the chance of us taking on your creative project–no matter how wonderful it is–is remote at best.
If you are a voice actor interested in contributing to a show, feel free to e-mail us, including your experience with acting, voices, acting, podcasting, whatever you feel may be relevant. Slipgate Nine Entertainment is always interested in expanding its pool of talent from which to draw from.
If you think you can otherwise contribute to our productions in some way, as a member of the staff or as a technical person, we’re all ears.
If you are a creative artist of another kind, such as a musician who has material that you would grant permission to use or which you have released under a Creative Commons license, and would like us to check it out and consider incorporating it into one of our productions for the sake of exposure or just plain fun, you are welcome to contact us and let us know the details. The discovery of new material is an exciting thing and there’s not enough hours in the day to find a lot of it ourselves in the bottomless internet abyss. If there’s a place for it and it’s right, good things can happen. However, if we don’t end up using it, please don’t take it as a commentary on the material itself. There is a wealth of awesome music already available to us which may never find a place in a show!
If you want to contact someone specific in the S-9 productions, you should be able to find links to their sites from our site or from the site of the relevant show. Regardless, you’re welcome to send an email to our main address and we’ll give you contact information, if we can, or pass a message along to them.
You can contact us at our gmail.com e-mail account.
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