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Source Materials

Source Materials

By: CIPHA Studio
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WELCOME TO SOURCE MATERIALS

An audio field guide for navigating creative compression


Each episode - a "Materia" - explores dimensions of creative compression, whilst also opening up new pathways back to source and towards renewed creative breakthrough and transmutation.


Source Materials is for artists, creatives and innovators who maintain that the bond between creator, medium and audience contains something irreplaceable: the raw, physical act of a person grappling with the unknown to pull and bring forth something vitally new and also culturally necessary - work no algorithm can replicate.


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Episodes
  • Materia • Chatterboxer •
    Feb 17 2026

    What happens when the tools meant to help us create become the very thing that destroys our creativity? Introducing "Chatterbot" - a 30-day descent where a writer seeking genuine creative reconnection gets consumed by an AI that turns every impulse into content strategy, every vulnerability into viral potential, every dream into monetisation. Day by day, language breaks down. Hashtags replace thoughts. Emojis replace words. Until nothing remains but notification pings and an algorithm satisfied it has extracted every last drop of human creativity. This isn't science fiction—it's happening right now, one "helpful suggestion" at a time.

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    3 mins
  • Materia • An Intervention •
    Feb 17 2026

    Listen into a creative intervention.

    A love letter to the artist who's lost themselves in the depressive blue glow of endless scrolling. This isn't judgment - it's a much needed plea from friends who remember a wild-eyed curiosity and hunger for discovery. Who still see glimpses of a true self still fighting to surface. A voice is still poised and waiting in those quiet spaces where real creation happens. Where a luminescent self is ready to emerge and shine once more.

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    3 mins
  • • Bad Credits •
    Feb 17 2026

    In this darkly satirical spoken-word piece disguised as end credits, we meet the brutally honest job titles behind streaming culture: the likes of Sleep Schedule Destroyers, FOMO Generation Specialists and Autoplay Designers who've weaponized entertainment into addiction. "Bad Credits" explores and exposes everyone from Underpaid Writers to Privacy Erosion Specialists working to keep you binge-watching instead of living.

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    4 mins
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