Independent audio fiction · Worlds heard in the dark
Creative Directive creates sound novels: intimate, voice-led narratives where performance, music, and environmental sound carry listeners into carefully built science-fantasy worlds.
Current production: Template #2, a 74-minute opening chapter set beneath a failing artificial moon.
The form
A sound novel is a complete narrative designed for listening, combining the intimacy of an audiobook with the spatial detail of audio drama and the deliberate pacing of literary fiction.
Each release can be experienced on its own. The public lore archive rewards curious listeners with histories, terminology, and character records—without being required reading.
“In the Meridian, every oath leaves an echo—and every echo remembers who spoke first.”Archivist’s proverb, origin uncertain
Featured universe
A ceremonial empire survives around a silent star, preserving its machines as relics and its memories as legal testimony.
Cycle I · The Unlit Court
The people of Lethra inherit no written law. Instead, trained Witnesses preserve judgments in living memory, repeating them at each eclipse before the doors of the Unlit Court.
When a forbidden voice appears in the archive, a novice Witness must decide whether it is evidence of a buried crime—or a message from the star the empire declared dead.
From the public archive
Short records provide context for listeners while preserving the mysteries at the heart of each release.
Organization · The Ashen Meridian
Custodians of spoken law, funeral memory, and the empire’s most dangerous unverified testimonies.
Members surrender their family names on initiation and carry a recording seal cut from black mineral glass. The order is respected in public and feared in private: a Witness may challenge even a sovereign if an older voice contradicts the throne.
Listen now and soon
Begin with a free field recording, then continue into the studio’s first full-length sound novel.
Free field recording
A 12-minute atmospheric vignette recorded inside an abandoned signal shrine.
View free releaseFull sound novel
A novice Witness follows an impossible testimony through the capital’s final eclipse procession.
View paid releaseIn development
The second Meridian story turns toward the machine monasteries below the white coast.
View upcoming releaseVoice editing is complete. The next update will share accessibility notes and the release window.
