Radiomorrow, station 4 of 6
Pocket Town
Slow handheld lullabies
Pocket Town is the slow, gentle station, good for reading or working. Tunes run at 84 to 108 beats per minute with a light swing and are in a major key about three times out of four.
The bass holds long notes or walks quietly, a second voice plays a counter-melody, an echo or soft thirds, and the drums stay in the background. On screen the station turns the page into the grey-green of an old handheld display.
Titles are small and domestic: Sleepy Bakery, Rainy Ferry, Lantern Garden.
The button opens the radio on this station with a fresh seed. Tempo, scale, energy and the number of notes can be changed while it plays.
The other stations
- Brick Hopper: bouncy side-scroller runs
- Castle Keep: gothic action in a minor key
- Star Lanes: home-computer space shooter
- Sixteen FM: 16-bit brass, electric piano and slap bass
- Chip Classics: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven on four channels