The Overnightscape Underground

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1:28:14 – Nightstation is back as an audio show, with host Frank Edward Nora. Topics include: 1993 in a nearby alternate reality at the Weasel Village Mall, a new attraction called Nightstation, The Wolfmellow Express, evolution of the dark ride, construction noises, a new paradigm, the highly strange history of Nightstation, counterweight theory, interdimensional infection, transformation, ramp fiction, The Three Weasels, shopping malls, Anything But Monday, strip mall version, virtual reality metaverses, obscure fairy tales, weirder versions of Weasel Village Mall, night radio, Jean Shepherd, nightstation.com, Nightstation Patches, the word on the wall, Nightstation VR, Nomadi, Obliviana Super Occult Amusement, the last odd day, Bluffcosm.com, Oculus, metaverse railroad idea, Second Life, game streaming, The Overnightscape Underground, this is the final form of Nightstation, Audioworlders, Hull New Media, K-pop, the radio station inside the book, Universal Night Audio Unit, new containers,

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

Back in 2014 I made a VR demo called “Nightstation Ride One” which I presented at the SVVR conference in Mountain View, California.

It was the next year, I think, that I thought to make a non-VR version of it – and I recently found it!

It runs great on my laptop. It’s Windows only. Download:

http://www.theovernightscape.com/shows/Nightstation_Ride_One_PC_win32.zip

Instructions: Move mouse to look around. Hit ALT-F4 to quit.

As this is an old demo, I don’t know how well it will work on any other computer, so use with caution.

Here’s an old video of the VR version. The non-VR version does not have the “split screen” effect:

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7:00:17 - Another amazing and not-to-be-missed, vast, awesome collection of shows from the ONSUG archives, hand-picked and introduced by PQ Ribber!! Chad Bowers!! Frank Edward Nora!! Shambles Constant!! Jean Shepherd!! An Entertainium Bonanza!!

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

Attribution by PQ Ribber.

Released October 2018 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.

Welcome to Nightstation – my new VR project.

As you may remember, Nightstation was originally a brief Internet radio experiment (from Nov. 2011 to Feb. 2012).

In the Spring of 2012, I spent a huge amount of time and energy to obtain the domain name Nightstation.com.

And then… nothing… Nightstation was completely inert… until now!

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1:49:31 -  These are two recordings that stand out in my mind, where I ventured out to malls in Queens and made special recordings. The first one was for the Nightstation patch Coaxial, and the second one was for “Basic Overnightscape”. I’ve collected them here so that they are easier to listen to.

On both recordings I talk about new ideas – Nightstation in the first one and Ramplers in the second one. Both ideas are related, and I’ve had to go back to the drawing board on both of them. I’m still working on these kind of ideas, and I’m hopeful that some variant will be useful when the time is right… but in any case, it’s therapeutic for me to revisit these recordings…

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

Released December 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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1:32:26 – I’ve been listening to old Nightstation segments and I came across this one from the Gasohol patch, and I really enjoyed it. I figured I would release it here for everyone to check out. This is the first time it’s been released in “hifi” audio. Topics include De La Soul, Stereolab, The Word, Katie Puckrik, Perfect Gambler, and The Jim Henson Hour Pitch Tape.

I’m still thinking about Nightstation. It had a number of aspects that worked, both also a lot that didn’t work. I still may bring it back someday in a new form.

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

Released December 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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The Nightstation experiment is over for now.

You can listen to the old patches here:
Part 1
Part 2

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