Silver Sound Presents: The Sonic Dash

On this special season finale of the Sonic Dash Podcast , host Cory Choy (founder of the Dash, Emmy Award-winning sound mixer, and owner of Silver Sound Studios) sits down with Oliver Morris, who, along with his creative partner Jude Hodgson Hann, took home back-to-back Grand Prizes at the 2025 Sonic Dashes. Oliver shares the techniques behind their team's unmistakable sound and unique storyte...

The Sonic Dash Podcast continues its behind-the-scenes look into the standout pieces from the latest Sonic Dash, themed "Go For Broke." In this episode, host Cory Choy (founder of the Dash, Emmy-winning sound mixer, and owner of Silver Sound Studios) talks with finalist Colin Colfer about his piece. A filmmaker and self-described DIY advocate, Colin breaks down how he built a vivid sonic j...

The Sonic Dash Podcast continues its behind-the-scenes look into the standout pieces from the latest Sonic Dash, themed "Go For Broke." In this episode, host Cory Choy (founder of the Dash, Emmy-winning sound mixer, and owner of Silver Sound Studios) talks with finalist Jeff Van Dreason about his submission, "Dishwasher." Jeff shares how a frustrating encounter with an automated in...

The Sonic Dash Podcast continues its behind-the-scenes look into the standout pieces from the latest Sonic Dash, themed "Go For Broke." In this episode, host Cory Choy (founder of the Dash, Emmy-winning sound mixer, and owner of Silver Sound Studios) sits down with finalists Alex Strong and Arun Chhetri to dissect their piece, "When I Wake Up." Alex and Arun, two student producers...

In this episode, host Cory Choy (founder of the Dash, Emmy-winning sound mixer, and owner of Silver Sound Studios) sits down with Sonic Dash finalist Lynn Ermann, the reporter and producer behind "There Used to Be a Statue." Lynn shares how, through assembling the right "ingredients" (a source she was familiar with and an intriguing location), she was able to find a story on-site a...

The Sonic Dash Podcast continues its behind-the-scenes look into the standout pieces from the latest Sonic Dash, themed "Go For Broke." In this episode, host Cory Choy (founder of the Dash, Emmy-winning sound mixer, and owner of Silver Sound Studios) sits down with finalists Nathan Burke and Audrey Hill, two freelance journalists who brought their reporting instincts to the Dash for the fi...

The Sonic Dash Podcast continues its behind-the-scenes look into the standout pieces from the latest Sonic Dash, themed "Go For Broke." In this episode, host Cory Choy (founder of the Dash, Emmy-winning sound mixer, and owner of Silver Sound Studios) sits down with finalist Tessa Flannery to dissect "Space Junk," the Dash entry she created with Allie Kroeper. A four-time Dasher and...

The Sonic Dash Podcast continues its behind-the-scenes look at the winning pieces from the latest Sonic Dash, themed "Go For Broke." In this episode, host Cory Choy (founder of the Dash, Emmy-winning sound mixer, and owner of Silver Sound Studios) sits down with Glasgow-based audio creator Bronwen Livingstone, who took home third place with her piece "Shooting My Shot." Bronwen wal...

The Sonic Dash Podcast continues its behind-the-scenes look at the winning pieces from the latest Sonic Dash, themed "Go For Broke." In this episode, host Cory Choy (founder of the Dash, Emmy-winning sound mixer and owner at Silver Sound Studios) sits down with actor and director Michael Satow to discuss his piece "Free Piano," which took home the second-place prize at this summer&...

Twice a year, contestants from around the world compete in the Biannual Sonic Dash, where they have only 48-hours to build a two-minute piece completely from scratch: meaning no pre-existing music, no archival audio, and no generative AI is allowed. So how do they do it? This season on the Sonic Dash Podcast, we're taking you behind the scenes of our finalists' processes. You'll hear t...

Welcome to the Biannual Sonic Dash Podcast presented by the New York City Podcast Awards. The Sonic Dash is a 48-hour storytelling competition and we receive submissions from all over the world. The surprise prompt for this 2026 Summer Dash was “Go For Broke.”  This episode, we’ll be listening to our Grand Prize Winning piece "Go For Broke or Gopher Broke?" created by Long Island-based cra...

Welcome to the Biannual Sonic Dash Podcast presented by the New York City Podcast Awards. The Sonic Dash is a 48-hour storytelling competition and we receive submissions from all over the world. The surprise prompt for this 2026 Summer Dash was “Go For Broke.”  This episode, we’ll be listening to our second-place winning piece “Free Piano” by Michael Satow. Produced by Cory Choy, Emily Reeves, and...

Welcome to the Biannual Sonic Dash Podcast presented by the New York City Podcast Awards. The Sonic Dash is a 48-hour storytelling competition and we receive submissions from all over the world. The surprise prompt for this 2026 Summer Dash was “Go For Broke.”  This episode, we’ll be listening to our third-place winning piece “Shooting My Shot” by Bronwen Livingstone from Scotland.  Produced by Co...

We're back with another finalist spotlight for the Winter 2026 Sonic Dash. Today we will be highlighting a piece entitled "Meddling Kids of NYC" by Amanda Kari McHugh and Kyle Studstill. Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Cory Choy Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves

We're back with another finalist spotlight for the Winter 2026 Sonic Dash. Today we will be highlighting a piece entitled "Bo Ricky Banjo's Spiral to Hell" by Richard Kušan, Evan Sidio, and Ronnie Brown. Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Cory Choy Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves

We're back with another finalist spotlight for the Winter 2026 Sonic Dash. Today we will be highlighting a piece entitled "Like hot sauce, it burns" by Paloma Moreno Jiménez, Sara Schleede, Luci Jones, and Vanessa Handy. Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Cory Choy Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves

We're back with another finalist spotlight for the Winter 2026 Sonic Dash. Today we will be highlighting a piece entitled "Roll Play" by Tessa Zitter and Itai Rekem. Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Cory Choy Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves

We're back with another finalist spotlight for the Winter 2026 Sonic Dash. Today we will be highlighting a piece entitled "Those Meddling Aunties" by Tanita Rahmani. Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Cory Choy Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves

We're back with another finalist spotlight for the Winter 2026 Sonic Dash. Today we will be highlighting a piece entitled "Those Metal-ing Kids" by H Conley and Taylor Early. Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Cory Choy Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves

We're back with another finalist spotlight for the Winter 2026 Sonic Dash. Today we will be highlighting previous dash winners Oliver Morris, Jude Hodgson Hann, and Jack Fitzpatrick, along with their piece: "Botcho The Clown" Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Cory Choy Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves

We're back with another finalist spotlight for the Winter 2026 Sonic Dash. Today we will be highlighting our 3rd place winning piece by Nat Hardy and Will Hardy , titled "Mother May I March" Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Cory Choy Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves

We're back with another finalist spotlight for the Winter 2026 Sonic Dash. Today we will be highlighting our 2nd place winning piece by Jacki Huntington, titled "Because They Can" Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Cory Choy Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves

Silver Sound has just finished its Winter 2026 Sonic Dash contest! There were so many great entries that will be featured in future episodes of this podcast, but for now, we present to you our grand prize winning piece by Eric Yang, Charlie Gillette, and Henry Butler titled, "Scooby Who?" Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Cory Choy Festival Directors: Mark B...

This podcast features one of our top ten entries for the Summer 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled “Judgement” by Mark Angly. Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Juston Cummings Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves

This podcast features one of our top ten entries for the Summer 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled “Hugging Like a girl” by Tin Can Audio (Amber Devereux, Ella Watts, Ross McFarlane). Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Juston Cummings Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves