A few years back, I applied for a production position at Sirius. I don’t need to get into the details, but in the later rounds of interviewing i was given some assignments. Here is one of the two radio spots that resulted. This was for an ad for the airings of the original Twilight Zone radio episodes, of which the only stipulation was it contain the station ID and the ‘de de de de’ jingle.

Rather than doing the whole thing “inside the box” as often is done in such cases, I was forced to rethink my approach as the time line given for turn around actually coincided with a weekend trip to I had planned and ultimately a departure from my main rig. Using a borrowed M-Box and a laptop, I utilized the limited number of elements I had at my disposal. Aside from the mac-speak text fed by old transcripts i found online and the debut of my thriftstore diamond in the rough Lowrey organ, the unsung meat of the track is an old AM radio and a field recording of a live performance of a microphone-induced feedback piece created thru the sound system inside a 2008 Ford Mustang I did during my visit.

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