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We were very impressed with the audio production on this one, especially the bleeps and bloops. Hey, sometimes those ornamentations really make a piece!

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Mark Angly is a sonic storyteller and educator who loves science-fiction, so the "TMI" prompt naturally prodded him to questions about the post-human condition.

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This is just a lovely piece about transitioning and how friendships endure and grow in the process. Always impressive when teams can find the 'right-size' idea for a sub-two-minute entry.

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Biannual Sonic Dash @silver-nyc.com · 11/09/2025

Tin Can Audio is comprised of writer/sound designer Amber Devereux writer/editor Ross McFarlane, and director/producer Ella Watts

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This team did a wonderful job of portraying what it is like to be overwhelmed by internal and environmental factors without making the piece itself overwhelming. Screaming children sound kinda good here!

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Biannual Sonic Dash @silver-nyc.com · 11/09/2025

VIvien is a Brooklyn-based German audio producer who makes fantastic work about human communication and the search for identity. Laura is a journalist with heavy podcasting experience. She is a senior producer at Radio Ambulante studios!

Vivien wearing a dark sweater, looking serious in front of a mostly white wall

Laura smiling in a colorful computer window

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Biannual Sonic Dash @silver-nyc.com · 11/09/2025

There's a lot going on in the world right now, right? Take a listen to “Overload" by Laura Rojas Aponte, Joe Tisdall, and Vivien Schütz

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Podcast Episode · Silver Sound Presents: The Sonic Dash · 08/22/2025 · 5m

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Biannual Sonic Dash @silver-nyc.com · 29/08/2025

Find more of Julie's work here: www.juliecensullo.com

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Biannual Sonic Dash @silver-nyc.com · 29/08/2025

Julie bravely put an actual Hinge date on the spot to record her Sonic Dash entry, likely ruining her chances with him but making it to the finals with us!

Julie Censullo wearing a green shirt in front of some trees.

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Biannual Sonic Dash @silver-nyc.com · 29/08/2025

A question we frequently get at the Biannual Sonic Dash: will I have time to fall in love while recording my submission? Julie Censullo tries to have it all with "Maybe This is the Day that My Life Changes"

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Summer 2025 Sonic Dash Finalist Spotlight (

Podcast Episode · Silver Sound Presents: The Sonic Dash · 08/15/2025 · 4m

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Biannual Sonic Dash @silver-nyc.com · 15/08/2025

Pay attention to the rhythmic weave between the subject's inner thoughts and field recording. These two say they don't have much experience with audio editing, but both happen to be musicians and writers. This served them well, I think!

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Biannual Sonic Dash @silver-nyc.com · 15/08/2025

Phoebe Mulder is a junior at Wesleyan, majoring in American Studies and Writing. Audrey Nelson is a freelance audio journalist based out of Seattle

Audrey Nelson smiling and sitting on a rock

Phoebe Mulder smiling and sitting at a picnic table near the woods

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Biannual Sonic Dash @silver-nyc.com · 05/08/2025

Henry (the sound designer of the three) happened to be at the beach during the dash. He contrasted what he recorded there with sounds he picked up while wandering around his house with a contact microphone… air purifier, trash compactor, sodamaker, to name a few. Neat!

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Biannual Sonic Dash @silver-nyc.com · 05/08/2025

Two-thirds of this team are actors. Can you guess which ones?

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Biannual Sonic Dash @silver-nyc.com · 29/07/2025

He settled on the tongue drum, sped up and looped, and a kalimba. Add to that a voice changer toy mic, a stylophone, car radio static, and a Kickstarter-funded synth called a CHOMPI

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CHOMPI: A Magical Tape Music Instrument

Inviting you into the magical world of self-expression through sound design.

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Biannual Sonic Dash @silver-nyc.com · 29/07/2025

Scot Maupin is an Oakland-based podcaster who found himself following a lot of tried-and-true methods for bringing his piece to life. Except the music -- Scot had to make the music from scratch for this, so he had to teach himself some things.

Scot Maupin with a fresh haircut smiling in front of a wall with some kind of blue mural painted on it

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Biannual Sonic Dash @silver-nyc.com · 29/07/2025

"How do you unmake soup? How do you remake space?" Enjoy "Breathing Space" by Scot Maupin, a stellar Sonic Dash finalist...

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Summer 2025 Sonic Dash Finalist Spotlight (

Podcast Episode · Silver Sound Presents: The Sonic Dash · 07/25/2025 · 5m

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More of Jacki’s work here: www.jjaacckkii.com"

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Fortunately, Jacki countered this with her usual artful production. Good news for her Adele film: Jacki has a great instinct for pacing and successfully landing a piece with unusual rhythms.

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Mark Blumberg, the host of the Sonic Dash, is a documentary editor by day and found this piece to be triggering and stressful.

Mark Blumberg looking stressed out, looking at a monitor

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Jacki is in production on a film about hand model Adele Uddo, and for her, “TMI” means taking us into the overwhelming work of documentary editing

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Am I going crazy? Jacki Huntington is our third alumn in as many finalists!

Jacki Huntington peers above large, purple-tinted sunglasses

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Learn more about Sarah Dalgleish’s work here...

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The piece was careful constructed to balance the hope and fear of its main subject, who wished to remain anonymous. Neves’ score, composed freehand as a series of improvised organ themes, plays to that duality of hope and fear beautifully.

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Sarah and Nic took our prompt of “TMI” and added tremendous nuance and timeliness to the idea, considering how vulnerable groups living under an authoritarian government have to control how personal information is expressed

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Audio producers Sarah Dalgleish and Nic Neves are repeat winners as well, earning second-place in our Winter 2025 Dash, where they demonstrated a wonderful ability to turn around thoughtful, well-executed audio documentary in a short amount of time.

Nic Neves with a scarf sitting cross-legged in the woods

Sarah Dalgleish standing in front of irregular blue tiles

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Kane and Feels: The Horror Noir Podcast

How were these guys so ready? Well, they work together regularly on Kane and Feels, a horror noir podcast. They also participate in Audio Drama Done Quick, a perfect training ground for the Biannual Dash. Enjoy the prizes fellas and play again!

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Podcast · big, detectives, eldritch, horror, hp, lovecraft, monster, night, noir, paul, penumbra, podcast, sleep, spooky, temple, the, vale, wires, American Gods, Pratchett, · In a city that never sl...

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The sounds were created using tea-making equipment, guggle jugs, and other stuff. The finished piece was then run through a tape player, recorded back into a PC, and overdubbed with an iPhone recording of the tape machine’s mechanical noises to achieve an authentic cassette feel. Nice!

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This terrific piece is inspired by giallo horror and Goblin scores. Our prompt, "TMI," was twisted into a trailer for a fictional horror movie called "Tea, Am I!"

Jessica Harper in Argento's Suspiria, looking frightened

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