audio dramas that can be listened to in a day or so, for a quick and tasty podcast treat, or help getting back into the listening habit !:)
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Paddleboat should be in this section too but i dont have a card for it yet.watch this space xoxo
Generation Crossing
(1 album, 2024)
SCI-FI
EXPERIMENTAL(?)
(quick description)
Generation Crossing is a concept album from the creators of Archive 81.
It's about an 800 year journey to a distant planet, and the society that forms during that voyage.
[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]
(for a glimpse of a world into which you were not invited and are maybe not supposed to fully understand)
A role playing game hums within a global network of power lines, fiber optic cables and obsolete satellites.
Players who gain access to this mysterious phenomenon create a projection and are guided by the Dictator to realms not yet known to the conscious mind.
The Goblet Wire is about 2 hours of essentially eavesdropping, hearing small sections of different people's personal campaigns in this cool, surreal world of a mysterious & solitary role-playing game played by phone.
Each little vignette gives you more incredible details and bizarre experiences, leaving you full of questions but also strangely satisfied. Incredible sound design/synthscaping all throughout.
It has a very specific aesthetic goal that I think it hits perfectly. Really really tasty stuff.
At the centre of the city lies The Tower, an abandoned relic of a forgotten age, built by a proud king who wanted to rule the sky as well as the land.
It stretches up into the sky, through the smog.
One night, Kiri decides to leave behind her suffocating, isolated life in the city and climb the Tower, not quite understanding why.
As she climbs, she finds payphones, and she calls those who she has left behind.
However, the Tower holds many secrets and unsolved mysteries that haven't been disturbed for a long time.
The things that I love about The Tower are mostly things that are very difficult to describe.
There are simply not the words in any language to describe the feelings I experience hearing Kiri make her long and uncertain journey, swept along by a genuinely awe-inspiring score - but the overall impression is absolutely incredible.
It's beautiful and strange and somehow so, so real despite its fantastical premise.
And now that it's complete, each season only an hour or two, you could listen to the whole thing in a single day, with plenty of extra time set aside for crying! (which I have done)
(really REALLY good mythological[ish] fantasy, stunningly beautiful music & sound design, really well-built characters)
Camlann is a post-apocalyptic fantasy by Ella Watts from Tin Can Audio. It's a serialised fiction podcast inspired by folklore and Arthurian legends.
Alternatively - it's about three idiots and a dog in Wales, fighting for their lives.
This series was funded by Creative Scotland and the Inevitable Foundation.
[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]
(more excellent audio fiction. +was instrumental for me personally actually getting into audio drama as a medium)
A very normal podcast about data restoration, wireless neural interfacing, and why you really shouldn't bring your tapes anywhere near the Hole. SINKHOLE is a short-form audio fiction podcast presented as a collection of audio posts from a member of a community of data restoration hobbyists in a sometimes-unfamiliar future. Season three in production.
SINKHOLE is probably one of the shows I've relistened to the most & also one of the shows I most often recommend to ppl in conversation, because 1) it is pretty short, 2) the transcripts are excellent & easy to follow, and 3) it is Weird! Both in format/framing and in the subject & world of the story itself. It's an example of how great the medium of audio drama can be for telling stories that might not work as well elsewhere.
+ there's a big scary hole in the ground and it makes cool noises:)
(idk how best to describe the genre here .but it is really lovely . literaure as one maybe ?)
The CryptoNaturalist is a scripted fiction podcast all about real love for imaginary nature.
It’s about cryptids and other weird and wild topics. Featuring poetry and field reports to make our world a richer, stranger place.
[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]
