I was softly clanging around on the MIDI keyboard the other night and came up with a couple of melodies. I couldn’t really find any words to go with them so I decided to look up what was in the public domain.

Old time spoken word radio has always plucked my heart strings and I came across Lights Out, an old 1930s program. The Sub-Basement episode caught my ear so I chopped up the couple's underground struggle and mixed their real story in with my keyboard melodies.

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From the wikipedia:

Oboler met the demand by adopting an unusual scripting procedure: He would lie in bed at night, smoke cigarettes, and improvise into a Dictaphone, acting out every line of the play. In this way, he was able to complete a script quickly, sometimes in as little as 30 minutes, though he might take as long as three or four hours. In the morning, a stenographer would type up the recording for Oboler's revisions.

I tell ya, dictation is the way to go for capturing one’s thoughts.

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interesting and abstract I like it

Thanks man! I like musical abstraction 😊

When they say “you can’t get out here’…

The guy that wrote/performed the show was Arch Oboler. Laying in bed, smoking cigs, and writing Lights Out radio in his head. I can relate 😊

What were you drinking?

Brown liguid in clear cup.

No, serious, it didn’t look like coffee and I wondered if you drank cherry cokes or something.

Oh… I thought you were talking about something in the audio. It’s just iced tea with sugar and spoon.

coolio

Incredible! I love stuff like this. Perhaps we shall record something together someday.✌🏻❤️

Send me some audio files (mp3s, wavs) and I’ll mix something up. It’ll be a covid quarantine collaboration! 🎼

Nice!

Thanks!

What?

Exactly

What is this

I would say it’s solid gold but I don’t think that’d be fair 😊

I’m not hating I’m just confused good job tho

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