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Sunday, January 4, 2015

Onsug Explorer #1 (1/3/15)

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:

Overnightscape Central – Stories About Food (12/10/12) – 13/16
The Rampler #82 (10/7/08) – 7/8
Basic Overnightscape (2012) – 060/226
Quaquaversal Satellite – 4 (6/4/14) – 13/18
Nightstation – Policewoman – 05/80
Quaquaversal Satellite – Almanac 1944 (9/17/13) – 03/10
Morning Commute (with Bob) #3 (9/29/09) 20.23 – 10/10
Nightstation – Exponential – 32/79
The Rampler #27 (8/28/08) – 08/10
Wedding at Woolman Hill (7/29/06) 8.36 – 08/23
New Midnight Cassette 31 – UrbanMix (2012) – 10/19
Quaquaversal Satellite – Lots (7/9/14) – 12/16
The Overnightscape 1104: Primal Crash (8/27/14) – 27/27
The Brian Jude Show Ep. 53: Over the Influence – 6/8
The Rampler #221 (2/27/09) 9.41 – 14/17
Overnightscape Central – Hanna Barbera – (3/19/12) – 17/22
Pop Culture qd – Kaiser Frasier (3/19/13) – 1/9
BUG OUT – Burst (5/29/12) – 02/10
The Midnight Citizen 44 — “My Regular Saturday Night Thing” – 06/12
The Paunch Stevenson Show – Episode 200 (8/9/12) – 20/32
Morning Commute (with Bob) #111 – Ramp Down (10/25/11) – 6/6
Acid (FN 3/2/10) 26.4 – 09/11
Frank Nora Show 1561 – The Mystery Mattress (9/7/10) – 12/18
The Overnightscape 927: Calypso Souvenir (11/11/12) – 06/19
The Overnightscape #774 (3/1/09) 10.1 – 19/31
Pop Culture qd – Melville Returns (6/8/13) – 01/14
posted by Frank at 8:46 am filed in Frank,Jan15  

2 Comments »

  1. I’m liking this experiment. More please. 🙂

    Comment by Shambles — January 5, 2015 @ 10:35 am

  2. Yes, Me too. Liking it a lot.

    Comment by Nate in Wisconsin — January 5, 2015 @ 11:50 am

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