Arms and Sleepers is a project started in the back of an ambulance. That night the destination was Hampton Road in the South Side. In an alley way a man was bleeding with a cassette player in hand. The play button was still on. What sounded like recordings of a gospel choir blared from the tin speaker. Down the street, a jazz band could be heard. The man was dying. He dropped the cassette player on the cement and closed his eyes, the sound carrying through the air into his ears for one last time. Though this moment in time died with him, his cassette lived on—and Arms and Sleepers were born.