# Eleven Days Underwater / broadcast score

An original fictional broadcast set in 2075. All voices are stock Kokoro v1.0 synthesis. All music, water and interference are original procedural synthesis. No real field recordings, listener submissions, archival voices or voice clones are used.

## 00:00 / Carrier Returns

The submerged relay returns. The microphone works before the lights.

*Music: Ceramic Memory / carrier / 240 seconds*

**12.0s OPERATOR:** Is this the microphone, or the kettle?

**19.5s MOTH:** The kettle is receiving.

**27.0s OPERATOR:** Then somebody put a cup under it. Hello, coast. This is Tidepool.

**36.1s MOTH:** Service interruption: approximately no time.

**43.6s OPERATOR:** Eleven days, Moth. You were underwater for eleven days.

**51.1s MOTH:** Local time was damp.

**58.6s OPERATOR:** The lights are still out. The microphone seems fine. If you can hear this, we are taking that as a good sign.

**72.9s MOTH:** Would you like to restore the previous state?

**80.4s OPERATOR:** The previous state was underwater. Leave that box unticked.

**132.0s OPERATOR:** Relay Six, Salish Sea. Third of October, twenty seventy-five. There is a clean towel over the power supply. Please do not move it.

**146.9s MOTH:** One ceramic connector missing. Uplink unstable.

**154.4s OPERATOR:** Three teeth, blue edge, small enough to lose in a pocket. We will trade for a dry one.

**166.6s MOTH:** The channel has accumulated seven hundred and four requests for silence.

**175.2s OPERATOR:** We can do some of those.

**212.0s IDENT:** Tidepool. The shore is still here.

**219.5s OPERATOR:** Low Power, High Tide. Picking up roughly where the furniture floated away.

## 04:00 / Low Power / High Tide

Three original instrumentals: buoyant salvage dub, irregular ceramic percussion, then luminous slow music.

*Music: Wet Circuit / Dry Socks / dub / 280 seconds*

*Music: Three Teeth, Blue Edge / ceramic / 280 seconds*

*Music: A Place for the Current / drift / 280 seconds*

**9.0s OPERATOR:** First up: Wet Circuit, Dry Socks. A piece for three leaking containers and a drum machine that has made its peace with them.

**273.0s IDENT:** Low power. High tide. No account required.

**547.0s OPERATOR:** That was Three Teeth, Blue Edge. If the rhythm reminds you of a loose connector, that is because it is one. We are accepting replacements.

**807.0s OPERATOR:** A Place for the Current. Leave the last note alone. Mara is opening the repair bench after this.

## 18:00 / Salt Repair

Mara takes a call about tomorrow, disputes a warranty, and finds a useful part.

*Music: Bench Test / workshop / 480 seconds*

**8.0s SALES:** Salt Repair. We fix things that no longer believe in their manufacturers. Bring all the pieces. Especially the piece you think is unrelated.

**22.9s MARA:** Good evening. Salt Repair. If the object is smoking, put it down before describing it.

**33.5s OPERATOR:** Our relay spent eleven days underwater. The shell said coastal rated.

**42.1s MARA:** That means it can see the coast.

**49.6s OPERATOR:** It saw quite a lot of it.

**57.1s MARA:** You need a blue-edge connector. Three teeth. I heard the notice.

**65.6s MOTH:** The warranty remains active.

**73.1s MARA:** Wonderful. Ask the warranty to hold these two wires together.

**133.0s CALLER:** Hello. Mine is picking up tomorrow.

**140.5s MARA:** What makes you think that?

**148.0s CALLER:** A woman keeps saying I left my yellow cup on the bench. I have still got it.

**159.7s MARA:** Is there a small curved arrow on the side?

**167.2s CALLER:** Under the salt, yes.

**174.7s MARA:** That is the delay memory. It is playing an old message.

**183.2s CALLER:** I have never left this cup anywhere.

**190.7s MARA:** Keep listening. Tomorrow is a long time to be right.

**198.7s OPERATOR:** If the future gives you the tide times, write them down. We are comparing methods.

**278.0s TRAILER:** Tomorrow on The Air Between Us. A sailmaker. A broken fan. Three very different opinions about wind. Forecast: disagreement.

**290.8s MARA:** Wait. There is a connector in that old receiver. The one behind the memory wafer.

**301.4s CALLER:** It is blue. Three teeth. Looks like a very small disappointed fork.

**310.5s MARA:** That is the one. Do you need the long-distance output?

**318.5s CALLER:** Mostly I need it to stop telling me about my cup.

**327.0s MARA:** Bring it to the bench. We can give the coast back its voice and fit you a local bridge.

**395.0s MOTH:** Part located. Delivery status: hypothetical.

**402.5s OPERATOR:** Somebody is walking it over. That counts as a system.

**410.5s MARA:** Salt Repair closes when the work is done, or when the soup gets here. Whichever argument I lose first.

**423.3s OPERATOR:** We are opening the shore microphone for ten minutes. Let the small things finish.

## 26:00 / Open Water

Ten uninterrupted minutes of original synthetic coastal water. No speech, pitched music, station ident, or advertisement.

## 36:00 / The Night Relay

Warm broken-beat music and an unfamiliar response from the next inlet.

*Music: Window Left Lit / night / 360 seconds*

*Music: The Long Way Home / lantern / 360 seconds*

**9.0s OPERATOR:** There you are. Thank you for staying. That was the channel doing exactly what it was built for.

**21.2s MOTH:** Unclassified sound. Ten minutes. Retained.

**28.7s OPERATOR:** The Night Relay. Window Left Lit, followed by The Long Way Home.

**224.0s DISTANT:** Six. This is ... Can you ... blue ...

**231.5s MOTH:** Message incomplete. Estimated usefulness: low.

**239.0s OPERATOR:** Keep it. Put it with the others.

**246.5s MOTH:** There are no others.

**254.0s OPERATOR:** There will be.

**391.0s SALES:** Quiet Plus. Your quiet, on your terms. Basic silence includes occasional advertisements. Upgrade for uninterrupted absence.

**402.2s SALES:** Quiet Plus. Now with premium birds.

**409.7s OPERATOR:** That arrived in the old sponsor buffer. I have pulled out the payment wafer. The birds are on their own.

**575.0s DISTANT:** Relay Six. Leave ... window ...

**582.5s OPERATOR:** We hear part of you. We are getting a connector. Stay where the signal finds you.

**593.7s MOTH:** Probability of successful contact has increased.

**601.2s OPERATOR:** By how much?

**608.7s MOTH:** Enough to leave the light on.

## 48:00 / The Almost Full Battery Exchange

Local notices, a battery sponsor, and a connector with a second life.

*Music: Two Lemons and a Charge / battery / 270 seconds*

*Music: Local Bridge / warm / 210 seconds*

**8.0s SALES:** The Almost Full Battery Exchange. Bring one that holds a charge. Take one that holds a grudge.

**19.7s MOTH:** Correction requested. Charge.

**27.2s SALES:** All batteries tested by somebody who was standing nearby. Open until the light goes out. We are beside the old light.

**41.0s OPERATOR:** They have lent us two batteries and asked us to mention both of them. Thank you to the blue one. Thank you to the other blue one.

**129.0s OPERATOR:** Local notices. A folding chair came ashore below the steps. It is more folded than usual, but optimistic.

**141.2s CALLER:** If anyone has seen a yellow cup, I left it on Mara's bench.

**150.8s MARA:** I have it. Your receiver was not predicting the future. You have done this before.

**161.5s CALLER:** I do not like how specific technology has become.

**169.0s OPERATOR:** There is also a basket of lemons here for the connector. Six promised. Five remaining. An investigation is under way.

**265.0s MARA:** Part coming through the door. Keep the power low while I seat it.

**274.6s MOTH:** This component has not been approved for coastal deployment.

**282.1s MARA:** Neither have I. Hold the light.

**289.6s OPERATOR:** The long-distance line is going quiet for a moment. Local listeners, you can stay.

**365.0s MOTH:** Connection established. Original manufacturing date: unavailable.

**372.5s MARA:** Good. It can stop worrying about its age.

**380.0s OPERATOR:** One receiver loses its echo. One inlet gets a voice. Mara, take the lemons.

**390.1s MARA:** I count four.

**397.6s OPERATOR:** The investigation is widening.

## 56:00 / Someone Answers

A distant operator answers. The carrier remains open as the hour turns.

*Music: Keep a Little Room / home / 240 seconds*

**12.0s DISTANT:** Relay Six. This is the window at the north landing. Are you there?

**21.6s OPERATOR:** We are here. Sorry about the eleven days.

**29.1s DISTANT:** We heard the rain before we heard you.

**36.6s OPERATOR:** It has had more practice.

**44.1s DISTANT:** There is someone here who used to sleep with your station on. Could you leave the water up for a bit?

**57.9s OPERATOR:** Of course.

**113.0s MOTH:** Should I request a listener count?

**120.5s OPERATOR:** We have someone. That is a count.

**128.0s DISTANT:** Thank you. The room sounds right again.

**172.0s OPERATOR:** Tidepool. A free channel in a metered world. Leave a little room for whoever comes next.

**183.2s MOTH:** Carrier remains open.