The Silt Verses - Chapter 2
Added 2021-01-18 09:18:44 +0000 UTCThank you so much for listening so far, folks, and for your amazing support - Chapter 2 is now here! As ever, if there's anything we can do to make your listening experience easier or you have any thoughts or suggestions, please don't hesitate to let us know.
Cast and crew credits
In order of their appearance:
B. Narr as Faulkner
Calder Dougherty as Stanton
Méabh de Brún as Carpenter
Jamie Stewart as Mason
Jonah Knight as Peterson
David S Dear as Sid Wright
Audio production by Espii Studios
Written by Jon Ware and produced by Muna Hussen
You can find more details about our amazing cast and crew, as well as links to their social media and online profiles, on the Silt Verses website. (Please do give them a follow and let them know if you enjoyed their work!)
Content warnings
Every episode of the Silt Verses will likely contain references to body horror and violence, so please be aware. We'll always offer specific warnings for episodes which go harder than the norm, or which tackle particularly challenging issues.
Warning: This episode contains scenes of drowning and child death.
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The episode transcript can be found here.
Comments
Thanks! (And sorry, everyone, the app isn’t letting me reply to a reply)
D S
2021-02-01 15:55:32 +0000 UTCNo problem at all! I'll put out an extra Patreon post that hosts the audio file directly, and we can keep that process in place going forward. Thank you for letting us know!
The Silt Verses
2021-02-01 15:53:36 +0000 UTCHey, if that’s possible and not a pain, I’d love that; my podcast app does not play nice with my smart speaker, so this is what I’m using for patreon stuff. If it is a pain, I can always use Spotify
D S
2021-02-01 15:41:56 +0000 UTCHey! This is the post (the link above should take you to the audio). We were going back and forth on whether people were interested in having the episodes sit separately on Patreon, as there aren't any ads right now, but very happy to share the direct audio here if that's your listening preference?
The Silt Verses
2021-02-01 15:37:48 +0000 UTCHey, sorry if I’ve missed it or my app is acting up, but has the episode been posted on Patreon? Episode 1 and 3 are showing up, but I can’t find the audio for 2 in the app.
D S
2021-02-01 14:51:17 +0000 UTCoh, i absolutely adored this episode!
K Starling
2021-01-21 10:35:22 +0000 UTCThe metric by which I measure the merit of a piece of audio drama is fairly simple; if I find myself at the end sat completely still with my knitting abandoned to the wayside, then it was a *damn* good thing I've just listened to. This? Well, the knitting is nowhere to be found, my friend. If this is the caliber writing I can expect with every new episode... well I'm not sure how to finish that sentence because I'm already making everyone I know listen and channeling my post-listening adoration into essay comments, but I'll find some other means of singing praises, because goddamn! I'll be honest, Faulkner hadn't appealed to me much last episode, and exactly for the reasons he details were a farce! I thought he was just a bit of a goose smitten with something so much bigger than he'd ever be able to properly appreciate, and then we just get this… fucking incredible backstory and bemusedly insidious characterization. It’s so, so grim and beautiful all at once; the image of the water tank in the birch forest is etched into my brain forever. And that last line? Oh my god I was reeling. The way this is written and acted feels quite passive sometimes, like I’m being read a story that’s already complete rather than hearing the story unfold for the first time (within the canon, at least) but then we’re hit with lines like that, and I’m thrown back into the reality outside of these gorgeous soliloquies, and it’s so chilling and intense and beautiful. Also, aside from the general brilliance of the main going’s on, the snippets of the industrial religions, especially the Saint Electric – I really, really hope we hear more of them (and Sid!) because I am enamored with the concept. Making pylons into angels is such an insanely genius idea, I mean who hasn’t envisioned those things loping across the landscape? And now they’re harbingers of industry made into a faith that crushes the smaller, poverty stricken believers beneath their indifferent bulk (cough cough, capitalism metaphors, yes please and thank you.) God I feel like I could waffle for ages, but I’ll save my other thoughts for the next episode. In summation: amazing, incredible, I continue to be in awe of your creativity and everyone’s hard work that goes into this! (Okay, one last thing, I’m not sure if Abel is a nod to Eskew 7. Edibility, but if so ;) nice. I mean, gross, horrifying and utterly twisted, sure. But like. Nice. Ito would be well impressed, I think.)
Marcus Bolton
2021-01-19 02:28:01 +0000 UTCWe can most definitely look into that and make some adjustments, and thank you very much for letting us know! (Really glad to hear you're enjoying the podcast otherwise - we don't have an active Instagram account yet, but any spreading of the word would be hugely appreciated!)
The Silt Verses
2021-01-18 14:30:13 +0000 UTCI was moved by the imagery of transmission towers breaking out of their moorings and whipping their wires about as they walked across the land. I grew up near some of these massive, very human-shaped monstrosities and often imagined this very thing. I am smitten by this new project, as I was with Eskew. I would like to humbly recommend you revisit your audio post-processing. Even with headphones in, I need to max out my phone's volume to hear character voices. Conversely, the Foley work is ear-shatteringly loud. Have you an instagram account? I would very much like to share links to the Silt Verses to my small social circle.
Intillectrician
2021-01-18 14:14:33 +0000 UTC
