The Overnightscape Underground

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1:00:17 – The (day before) St. Patrick’s Day Parade in downtown Normal, Illinois, on a chilly afternoon. Recorded 3/16/13. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

Attribution: by Shambles Constant – more info at onsug.com

Released March 2013 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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5:27 – Overheard conversation at Olive Garden. Recorded 1/16/12. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

Attribution: by Shambles Constant – more info at onsug.com

Released March 2013 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

Check out a preview of Pocket Overnightscape

For the 10th anniversary of the show, I wanted to create a new collection of the complete archive of The Overnightscape Underground. Currently with nearly six month of audio and 5,000 tracks, organized into 97 Lots, and totaling over 200 GB, the main archive on Archive.org is an awesome permanent record, but a bit difficult to navigate.

So, I set out to create a new, compact version of the archive, containing the exact same set of audio. The result is Pocket Overnightscape. And while I still need to work on the guide and the introductory audio, you can preview the main part of Pocket Overnightscape at the above link. The page is a simple file browser with very basic audio playing abilities – so really only appropriate for a preview.

Pocket Overnightscape uses a new “patch” format, which is 12 to 24 hours of audio in a single file, with 20 hours being the target length. It uses the lo-fi MP3 audio format, so each patch is around 200 MB.

The set is organized into 8 channels, each channel containing between 21 and 41 patches, for a total of 225 patches.

So, a listener need only choose a channel, and then choose a patch from that channel to listen to. Patches are similar in length to a longer audiobook. Each track has a computer voice intro and outro, to orient the listener by sound alone.

Most audio players support a function of keeping track of where you last left off listening, to make it easier to listen to a patch over time.

Pocket Overnightscape is 42.4 GB, and can easily fit on a 64 GB flash drive, which currently sell at retail for around $30.

Like a book or a movie, Pocket Overnightscape is a static work. Any audio additions will be done as supplements or a completely new edition. It was a huge personal effort, taking a massive amount of time and energy, but in the end, I think it was worth it.

I will be releasing it to Archive.org in the next few weeks. And I am hoping to produce a limited series of flash drives containing Pocket Overnightscape.

If you want to download some patches, the file browser does have that functionality, or you can browse directly here:
pocket.overnightscape.com/Pocket_Overnightscape/

Note: The name “Pocket Overnightscape” was previously used for the Lo-fi Archive – but now it is exclusively being used for this release. The code name for this project during development was “Overnightscape Tavern”.

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34:21 – Delicious Entertanium, carefully prepared for your mind enhancement!  Scatterbrained PQ Ribber presents Public Domain Russian Chiptune Music, The Fun Party, Ernie Kovacs, More Battle of the Network Stars Digression, and other such!

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37:12 – PQ Ribber presents episode 194 of the Signal Oil Program from 2/11/1946 and embellishes with hosting and digressive talk!

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Attribution by PQ Ribber

Released March 2013 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts presenting unusual and thought-provoking transmissions for now, and all time!

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36:30 – Overnightscape 10th Anniversary!!  A New Pope!!  Battle of the Network Stars Ponderings!!  The Success Machine by Henry Schlesser!!  Robot Combat League!!  The daily stopping point for the culturally quirky!

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

Attribution by PQ Ribber

Released March 2013 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts presenting unusual and thought-provoking transmissions for now, and all time!

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Now with shiny new theme song! I’ll always love the original theme song by Henry Homesweet, but after 84 episodes it’s time for a change, and you know what the Brady Bunch said about it being time to change and having to rearrange.

1:06:00 – The only people at the park, early morning recording?, digital recorder did not pick up sound of the church bell, watching snow melt, hyper Jackie, Archive.org, a reading family, Daylight Saving Time, new Pope, tenth anniversary of the Overnightscape – congratulations Frank!, trying to save money, haven’t been working out, shoes looped over the telephone line, Norm Macdonald, what I see as I’m driving, still off caffeine, trouble with numbers, In His Own Write by John Lennon, falling asleep while reading, William Trevor, sixteen minutes of sounds at the library, the clock was five minutes slow, upcoming event: An Evening With Groucho, the best Marx Brothers movies, Harpo Marx as a physical comedian, Harpo’s screen character, MGM’s sappy romantic subplots, north, The Jackie Show 3000, coupon for free ice cream, the moon AKA Moony, musical instruments, I like our house. Recorded 3/13/13. Theme song: You Ain’t Gonna Get It (Jaycob’s Ladder, Public Domain).

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Attribution: by Shambles Constant – more info at onsug.com

Released March 2013 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

I have a stepladder. It’s a very nice stepladder but it’s sad that I never knew my real ladder.
–Craig Charles

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1:28:00 – East Street Market Cheapjack (London Sound Survey, Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0), Ting Pimple Cream Commercial (Public Domain), Walk Through Walls (Friends or Whatever, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0), MULTI-summary-20070304120707 (Hamtramck Police and Fire, Public Domain), Sally Ties Cecil’s Tie (Cecil & Sally, 1928), Shannon And April With Friends – Holiday Recordings (Party Fun With Recorders Volume 1, Public Domain), 7 Oclock (PQ Ribber – Shocking Baby Secrets, Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0), Chester’s Mistake (Gunsmoke, 4-12-59, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs, restored by Old Time Radio Researchers Group), MULTI-summary-20070303041920 (Hamtramck Police and Fire, Public Domain), Dave Mumplips, Night Watchman (Jerry Allen – One Bubble Off Plumb One, Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0), Owl Jones Podcast One – 6-20-11 (Owl Jones, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0), MULTI-summary-20070307170010 (Hamtramck Police and Fire, Public Domain), Live Better Electrically (audio portion of 1950s TV commercial), Get It Back, Walter (Baneemy, Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States), The Last Few Minutes of an Old VHS Tape (audio of a VHS tape recorded off-air by Shambles Constant’s mother). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

Attribution: by Shambles Constant – more info at onsug.com

Released March 2013 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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31:40 – Some Vic and Sade, some more Old News Stuff, and PQ Ribber, too!

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Attribution by PQ Ribber

Released March 2013 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts presenting  an array of talk-driven programs that are dedicated to the Magic of the Human Voice!

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3:48:45 – On the 10th anniversary of the dawn of The Overnightscape… Frank on the streets of NYC, plus the Other Side…

(((Description coming))) and the Other Side (at 2:32:37)… The CBS Late Movie – “Nightmare In Badham County” (Opening, 1983) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WLS Channel 7 – Eyewitness News – “The Rise Of 60” (1984) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WFLD Channel 32 – Lunchtime Fun (Promo, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WBBM Channel 2 – Newsbreak with John Drummond (1978) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WLS Channel 7 – Late Night Movie – “Flareup” (Partial Commercial Break, 1977) [FuzzyMemories.TV], The Bradford Exchange – “Norman Rockwell Plates” (Commercial Offer, 1984) [FuzzyMemories.TV], T.A. (Live) by Camelot [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Flesh Gordon Uncut Movie Trailer (1974) [YouTube], The Ballad of Stephen and Eunice by Captain Zig [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Hombre Amarillo by butumbaba [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 2.5], Woman Spirit by Buckle [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Of Soldiers And Altars [FedFlix, public domain], Look Here And There by Manegi [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Sign Of The Malls by Fuzzy Daupner [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], MUSHROOM FIELDS OF THE NORTH STAR by Xaviant Haze [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Repo Man TV Version – John Wayne [collection], Sardines by Lo Faber [Archive.org, BY-NC 3.0], The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976) (excerpt) [YouTube].

F1909

Listen to The Overnightscape – Beta #1 (3/13/03) from 10 years ago.

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