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In the final episode of Violence Week, we return for one final dramatic school board meeting to discover whether police will return to the high school. Along the way, we meet with community organizers and the President of the School Board to understand what stopped the fights at East Lansing High and reflect on what this story illuminates about violence prevention.

Violence Week is a Silver Podcast Network production

Producer & Host: Emily Reeves

Engineer & Mix: Cory Choy, with assistance from Christian Cuciniello

Fact Checking: Nancy Gordon

Cover Art: Cole Witter

Our theme music was composed by Regan Sprenkle. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions and Cue Shop.

Special thanks to Tony Williams, Feyisayo Aluko, Liam O’Brien, and Sierra Fitch

In the world's most heavily-armed country, can anything actually make schools safe from gun violence? Can police prevent school shootings? And why are officers stations in schools to begin with? To explore these tough questions, Emily attends a School Resource Officer training and sits down with a school safety expert.

Violence Week is a Silver Podcast Network production

Producer & Host: Emily Reeves

Engineer & Mix: Cory Choy, with assistance from Christian Cuciniello

Fact Checking: Nancy Gordon

Cover Art: Cole Witter

Our theme music was composed by Regan Sprenkle. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

Special thanks to Tony Williams, Feyisayo Aluko, Liam O’Brien, and Sierra Fitch

As her hometown wrestles with the role of police in schools, Emily is reminded of a controversial incident from her days at East Lansing High School.

In this episode, she takes us to meet her old classmate Marcus, who was tased by the school's police officer nearly thirteen years ago, to finally learn the truth about what happened.

And in the middle of this heated community debate over school safety, a shocking event unfolds—raising the stakes for East Lansing's decision.

Violence Week is a Silver Podcast Network production

Producer & Host: Emily Reeves

Engineer & Mix: Cory Choy, with assistance from Christian Cuciniello

Fact Checking: Nancy Gordon

Cover Art: Cole Witter

Our theme music was composed by Regan Sprenkle. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

Special thanks to Tony Williams, Feyisayo Aluko, Liam O’Brien, and Sierra Fitch

Producer and host Emily Reeves returns to her old high school in East Lansing, Michigan, where the discovery of a gun ignited intense fears of school shootings and a fierce debate over policing in schools.

Violence Week is a Silver Podcast Network production

Producer & Host: Emily Reeves

Engineer & Mix: Cory Choy, with assistance from Christian Cuciniello

Fact Checking: Nancy Gordon

Cover Art: Cole Witter

Our theme music was composed by Regan Sprenkle. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

Special thanks to Tony Williams, Feyisayo Aluko, Liam O’Brien, and Sierra Fitch

SERIES PREMIERES ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7th.

In East Lansing, Michigan, an outburst of violence at the local high school, and the discovery of a gun, leads to a community reckoning over school safety, racial equity, and the role of police in schools.

This four-part documentary series asks big questions about school safety, policing, racial equity, and what it’s like to be a teenager in an era of school shootings.

Follow Violence Week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.

Producer and Host: Emily Reeves

Sound Engineer: Cory Choy

Original Theme Music by Regan Sprenkle

Additional Music from Blue Dot Sessions

Cover Art by Cole Witter

SERIES PREMIERES ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7th.

In East Lansing, Michigan, an outburst of violence at the local high school, and the discovery of a gun, leads to a community reckoning over school safety, racial equity, and the role of police in schools.

This four-part documentary series asks big questions about school safety, policing, racial equity, and what it’s like to be a teenager in an era of school shootings.

Follow Violence Week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.

Producer and Host: Emily Reeves

Sound Engineer: Cory Choy

Original Theme Music by Regan Sprenkle

Additional Music from Blue Dot Sessions

Cover Art by Cole Witter

In winter 2024, Silver Sound hosted our first-ever Biannual Sonic Dash. This competition gave dozens of audio makers from all over the globe 48 hours to create compelling audio pieces completely from scratch - no preexisting audio allowed. For the inaugural competition, all submissions revolved around a secret theme: 'left turns.'

Silver Sound hosted the finalists and judges of the inaugural Sonic Dash at a special live-feedback-and-winner's-ceremony in the heart of NYC. In this episode, join us as we celebrate the craft of audio storytelling.

Today’s episode features our top three entries: 

• 3rd Place: Oil World (Amber Devereux and Ross MacFarlane), "When You Hit Anniesland Cross"
• 2nd Place: Sarah Dalgleish and Nic Neves, "The Ocean Line"
• Grand Prize: Jacki Huntington, "Azcapotzalco"

The next dash will take place in June 2024.

Credits:

Produced and engineered by Christian Cuciniello

Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves

When a technocratic society living underground employs eugenics to ensure humanity’s survival on a devastated Earth, a biologist and a software engineer have only one hope of raising a child of their own: upload their fetus to a computer simulation.

Series Description: The Ark is a 10-part scripted audio series about a family formed in the wake of a global calamity, and how their only hope of sticking together lies in a total reconception of their world (figuratively, and literally). It’s a dark, viscerous hard-scifi about grief, hope, parenthood, and survival, and balances theological undertones and solarpunk discourse within the tragic, funny, loving, and brutal moments of family drama.

Nora and Rafael live in a Shelter, one of many underground refugee cities formed in the wake of a global cataclysm that rendered the Earth’s surface uninhabitable, and obliterated all natural life upon it. This scientist duo have tasked themselves with preserving the memory of that nature through an elaborate computer wildlife simulation. They are also expectant parents, and have just received a dire prognosis: the Shelter’s authorities have denied them the right to bring their pregnancy to term, or to ever have another child again.

With their marriage tearing at the seams, they must choose whether to comply and abort the pregnancy to protect their simulation, or risk everything to have their child in secret, that is until an outlandish compromise sets them on a path towards parenthood neither of them are ready for.

Over the course of the season, we follow the couple as they navigate raising a digital child from toddler to teenhood. Nora will struggle to reconcile between her grief, identity as a mother, and idea of what makes a human. Her reluctance to parent her child, named “Han”, leaves Rafael to play single-father while navigating a prickly reacquaintance with his sister Alison, who’s genius skill with computers made Han’s transfer from physical body to digital bytes a reality. Alison has obliged Rafael to return her favor by licensing their simulation to her military employers, a Faustian bargain, but the only way to ensure the processing power to keep his child alive.

We’ll follow Han (they/them) at different stages of childhood and adolescence, navigating latchkey detachment from their parents’ chronic absences, curiosity and danger when Rafael forbids them from exploring ecosystems throughout the sim, and their own ontology as the sole “digital person” in existence. Their world is thrown open when, in the sim, they find a backdoor to the internet, and learn the truth of what happened to the Earth outside. And when Nora admits she cannot accept Han as a real person, Han will find a surrogate mother in Gale Fellows, a kooky, middle-aged web personality who turns out to be the leader of a dangerous doomsday cult preaching the “ascension” of all humanity into the metaverse.

Credits:

Created & Directed by M. Louis Gordon

Written by M. Louis Gordon & Adriana Campoy

Produced by Cory Choy, Harry Bainbridge

Starring Amalia Mark, Sean Edward Evans

Recording Engineer: Tom Fama

Sound Design: M. Louis Gordon, Luke Allen

Music: OGRE Sound

Art Director: Zach Shukan

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Sophie is the best dang babysitter in Hatfield, New York. Tonight seems like it's going to be a breeze. But there's something different about little Leo Brown…

Series Description: Little kids have been disappearing all over the country. The only thing linking the cases to each other is that all of the kids were watching a popular cartoon show called Dimo Duck when they disappeared.

We’ll meet journalism student Lori Lane, who is trying to prove herself at an internship with an online news outlet -- and who seems to be the only one who has connected the dots. Her bosses have shot down her Dimo Duck investigation (“QUACK QUACK QUACK”), calling it a crazy conspiracy theory. And then, one of her little sister’s babysitting charges goes missing while watching the show.

When Lori goes to talk to her sister, Sophie, something is clearly wrong -- she seems like she’s hiding something. Dimo has said to Sophie: Your sister’s coming, lie to her, and if you don’t, I’ll take another one of your kids. Sophie tells Lori to check teacher Anne Pumphrey.

Anne has been on the case longer than Lori, and she shares some valuable information: kids Sophie’s age have started receiving blackmail App messages from someone claiming to be Dimo Duck himself -- a very warped, terrifying version of Dimo. Anne suspects that her students are at risk as well.

Lori rushes to warn her sister -- but she’s too late. Sophie has disappeared.

Over the first season, we’ll follow Lori as she tries to rescue her sister and build toward a terrifying finale -- Lori’s showdown with... TWIST... Dimo Duck himself. Instead of a human, Dimo is a supernatural being, spawned by the internet, collecting children to his “flock.” Lori sees her sister, but can’t save her -- and watches her follow Dimo into the abyss.

Ultimately, Dimo will lose, but not without a body count. And we will learn something about ourselves, society, and the internet.

Credits:

Producer: Cory Choy

Project Creator/Director: Cory Choy

Associate Producer: Gareth Hobbs

Music: Nico Soffiato, Charlotte Littlehales

Cast: Bailee Bonick, Cole Bonick, Aubrey Scruggs, Joseph Almgren, Vanessa Johansson, Emilio Acosta

Art Director: Zach Shukan

Silver Podcast Network

www.silver-nyc.com/silverpodcastnetwork