The Overnightscape Underground

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1:02:05 – Frank in The Overnightscape Studio, plus the Other Side… Topics include: The new year, Bayonne, shampoo incident, iPads, Brazen Gestures, listener postcard, Onsug Explorer #1, movie reviews (The Lego Movie (2014), This Is The End (2013)), beverage review (Live Kombucha Soda – Revive Rootbeer), and more… plus the Other Side (at 32:28)… Void Traveler by The Scimitar [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Classic Hostess Commercial with Twinkie the Kid and Happy Ho Ho [YouTube], Some Ancient HBO Graphics and Previews – from 1977!!! [YouTube], Laserium – London laser show – radio ad 1979? [YouTube], Inimaginable by Invid Mind [Ektoplazm, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0], ALIEN radio adverts, London release, September 1979 [YouTube], Triangle Beams At Funny Angles by Someone Else [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Helium Buffalo MH Episode 3 (excerpt) [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], reeny oh reeny by Gino Pertot [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at TheOvernightscape.com

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2:00:00 – Take a deep dive into The Overnightscape Underground (Onsug) Archive…

Onsug is a massive collection of audio – currently over 6,200 tracks, totaling over 251 days of audio. But what’s in the archive? What does it sound like?

I chopped each audio track into 5-minutes segments, with the last segment of each being what’s left, and so less than 5 minutes. Once completed, I had over 75,000 of these segments. By playing them in random order, we can deeply explore what’s inside the archive, to get an idea of what it contains.

In this first Onsug Explorer, we hear two hours of segments, with one cross-fading into the next. I really had no idea what to expect, but I really enjoyed listening – and more importantly, it really starts to give a sense of what’s inside the Onsug Archive.

For now, this is an experimental show… but hopefully it will lead to new ways of getting people into Onsug, and new ways of exploring it. Let me know what you think.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Onsug Hosts – more info at TheOvernightscape.com

Here’s the list of all the segments played:

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