Silver Sound Presents: The Sonic Dash

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

This podcast features one of our top ten entries for the Summer 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled "Overload" by Laura Rojas Aponte, Joe Tisdall, and Vivian Schütz. 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 "Maybe This is the Day that My Life Changes" (Julie Censullo). 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 "Close to the Wall" by Free Chickens (Audrey Nelson & Phoebe Mulder). 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 "A Technicality" by Eric Yang, Charlie Gillette, Henry Butler. 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 "Breathing Space" by Scot Maupin. Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves

This podcast features our Third Place Winner for the Summer 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled "A Muchness of a Muchness” by Jacki Huntington Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves

This podcast features our Second Place Winner for the Summer 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled "BLÅHAJ v. HB77” and was created by Sarah Dalgleish and Nic Neves. Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves

This podcast features our Grand Prize Winner for the Summer 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled "Tea, Am I" and was created by Skadi's Symphony (Oliver Morris, Jude Hodgson Hann) Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves

Out of all the creators who participated in our Winter 2025 Sonic Dash, we were only able to feature the top three winners so far. Now, we would love to showcase some of the incredible work from the rest of our talented contestants. In this episode, we will be listening to and discussing a piece by Anne Lanier and Dominic Rippel / Shelter Studio entitled "You Can Breathe". Credits: Produce...