Shirley & Spinoza Radio Archive

ROGC: The Big Jettison (last live show on s&S)

Posted on May 14th, 2006 by s&S.
Categories: *Royal Oakland Gramophone Co., collage, electronic, exotic, experimental, found / thriftstore, Latest Additions!, live-mix, noise, spoken.

ROGC: The Big Jettison! (last show)
LIVE-mixed webcast re-hash: May 14th, 2006

This was the last live-mix webcast on s&S from the Oakistan studio. over 5 hours long – conveniently broken up into 1 hour chunks because…. well, lets just be reasonable.

PLAYLIST & INFO PAGE HERE!

This night we released the auxiliary rocket boosters and sand bags, folks.
This was the LAST live webcast show on s&S – at least for a good while. So, it seemed appropriate to needle-drop on highlights from past ROGC shows; say farewell, play some music, too many clips from The Omega Man DVD and whatever else fell into the mix.

Over the last year plus, I took to offering these regular little themed sonic rides … from low-concept to slightly above low-concept – creating the soundtracks of imaginary films on the fly! During that time, this little Sunday ROGC theater offered the improvised likes of vaudville dada-systems; semi stories, wishful documentaries; the sounds of party-favor science films and sometimes even just nice music.
With several varied but themed sources and elements routinely layered at once (via turntables, CD’s, mp3′s, loops, microphoned objects, a synth, sampler, etc…) , sonic terrains and narratives were revealed to me in the same moments as they were to those of you that tuned in for the LIVE webcasts.
Yay! live-mix!
Anyway…. if you enjoy any string of these clips & excerpts, please find and pay a listen to the entire original show, they’re all available in the archive! the latter ones have thorough playlist pages, I’ll get to the older ones as time allows.

It’s been a long time coming, but your studio host and the Oakistani catacomb studio will be permanently parting ways soon – I’ll be offing to the opposite side of the sphere to live, work and ideally re-establish a smooth phono-genic link with you all very soon by way of new downloadable, regionally inspired shows – so i hope you’ll pay an ear in time.
Snipping cables and burning receipts is gritty, dirty, time consuming business, so best to discontinue these with some weeks to spare.This is not a disappearing act entirely, as the regular day to day shirley & Spinoza stream will continue – and a new era of s&S radio is poking just around the corner. So, no worries…I hope you’ll stay tuned.

Where to?: returning to Xinjiang, P.R. China – for a good while. There’ll be more info here soon with more details about all that….but here, enjoy a little bit of the past.
-yours in sound & servitude,
-FC (s&S / ROGC/ your crotchety 99 year old intern, etc)

PLAYLIST & INFO PAGE HERE!

running time: 5 hours!

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ROGC: Let’s Go Flexican!

Posted on April 9th, 2006 by s&S.
Categories: *Royal Oakland Gramophone Co., collage, exotic, experimental, found / thriftstore, live-mix, spoken.

ROGC: Let’s Go Flexican!
LIVE-mixed webcast: April 9th, 2006

PLAYLIST & INFO PAGE HERE!

If you and I have anything in common, it’s most likely that we spend way too much time in front of this glowing box. Am I right?
I even heard your knuckles crack as you tried to close this window in a panic.
Not so fast, loyal s&S radio listener! We’re on your side and help HAS arrived!
Join the Royal Oakland Gramophone Company as we offer 2 hours of live-mixed sounds, music and coaching to really re-spring those mouse-clicking support frames.

“Leotards on by 8!
Don’t be late!
We’re going FLEXICAN!”

yours in humble servitude,
-DJ Future Fossil

PLAYLIST & INFO PAGE HERE!

running time: 2 hours

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ROGC: Radio POST!

Posted on March 19th, 2006 by s&S.
Categories: *Royal Oakland Gramophone Co., electronic, exotic, experimental, live-mix, noise.

ROGC: Radio-POST !
LIVE-mixed webcast of snail-mailed sounds:
March 19th, 2006

PLAYLIST & INFO PAGE HERE!

Dear Spinozers,

In this age of instant media beaming & data pushing, there still have been many listener/music-makers out there who took the time to package up some of their home-brew sounds, lick a block of stamps and set a little parcel off to seeks it’s fortune en route to s&S. So for this show, join the Royal Oakland Gramophone Company for a live-mix of listener music – all hand-delivered over the last several months by the real-live postman himself!
Not a focused enough theme, you say? – perhaps not – but here’s to a few “non-virtual journeys” all the same!
a little audio glue here and there provided live by your studio host

love, s&S

PLAYLIST & INFO PAGE HERE!

running time: 2 hours

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ROGC: Under a Dim Crescent Moon – vol. 2

Posted on January 22nd, 2006 by s&S.
Categories: *Royal Oakland Gramophone Co., field recordings, live-mix, Xinjiang.

ROGC: “Under a Dim Crescent Moon” – part 2
live-mixed webcast of field recordings: January 22nd, 2006

PLAYLIST & INFO PAGE HERE!

this is # 2 of a 2-show series (part 1 is located HERE)

For most of 2003, I lived in the northwestern-most region of China…
officially known as:Xinjiang : Uyghur Autonomous Region
and sometimes referred to by some as China’s “other, lesser known Tibet” for situational parallels.
I’d recieved a generous grant to document the folk music (as opposed to the classical muqam music) of the Turkic muslim cultures traditionally native to the region… focusing mainly on the largest group: the Uyghurs , but also including examples of Kazakh and Kyrgyz songs.

For this show, I live-mixed many of those field recordings, which while mostly consist of music, also include ambiences, pop & traditional music on cassettes & cd’s I picked up…and recordings of shortwave radio.
The field recorded music you hear was, with only a few exceptions, strictly performed by common folk (farmers, carpenters, (incl. mystics and beggars)) demonstrating something that’s very much a cultural part of everyday life. With east China’s ever accellerating blitzkrieg development of it’s west though, these cultural traditions are going up in smoke fast.

The recordings were done with head-worn binaural microphones – in yurts, homes, under grape trellises, in mud brick courtyards, orchards and in the streets of oasis towns in areas surrounding the expansive Taklamakan desert

Several of these recordings – in purer, more carefully curated form – will be released later this year on the fantastic Sublime Frequencies label. (!!!)
**photos of these recordings and more can be found HERE. / ** more info on Uyghur music can be found HERE.

-Fausto Caceres (s of s&S)

PLAYLIST & INFO PAGE HERE!

running time: 2 hours

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ROGC: Under a Dim Crescent Moon – vol. 1

Posted on January 15th, 2006 by s&S.
Categories: *Royal Oakland Gramophone Co., field recordings, Xinjiang.

ROGC: “Under a Dim Crescent Moon” – part 1
live-mixed webcast of field recordings: January 15th, 2006

PLAYLIST & INFO PAGE HERE!

this is # 1 of a 2-show series (part 2 is located HERE)

For most of 2003, I lived in the northwestern-most region of China…
officially known as:Xinjiang : Uyghur Autonomous Region
and sometimes referred to by some as China’s “other, lesser known Tibet” for situational parallels.
I’d recieved a generous grant to document the folk music (as opposed to the classical muqam music) of the Turkic muslim cultures traditionally native to the region… focusing mainly on the largest group: the Uyghurs , but also including examples of Kazakh and Kyrgyz songs.

For this show, I live-mixed many of those field recordings, which while mostly consist of music, also include ambiences, pop & traditional music on cassettes & cd’s I picked up…and recordings of shortwave radio.
The field recorded music you hear was, with only a few exceptions, strictly performed by common folk (farmers, carpenters, (incl. mystics and beggars)) demonstrating something that’s very much a cultural part of everyday life. With east China’s ever accellerating blitzkrieg development of it’s west though, these cultural traditions are going up in smoke fast.

The recordings were done with head-worn binaural microphones – in yurts, homes, under grape trellises, in mud brick courtyards, orchards and in the streets of oasis towns in areas surrounding the expansive Taklamakan desert

Several of these recordings – in purer, more carefully curated form – will be released later this year on the fantastic Sublime Frequencies label. (!!!)
**photos of these recordings and more can be found HERE. / ** more info on Uyghur music can be found HERE.

-Fausto Caceres (s of s&S)

PLAYLIST & INFO PAGE HERE!

running time: 2 hours

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