s&S: December 8th, 2002

Posted on December 8th, 2002 by s&S.
Categories: collage, live-mix, vintage s&S.

Sunday, December 8th 2002, 8:00pm-9:30pm PST
LIVE: Bor & Organ

 

live concoction & transposition of high frequency Sunday, make-out music from our radio telescope

(Live ‘remixes’ of the pioneering electronic music & sounds of Raymond Scott, Bruce Haack & others

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guest performance: David Slusser & Len Paterson

Posted on November 23rd, 2002 by s&S.
Categories: collage, electronic, experimental, other guests, performance.

Saturday, November 23rd 2002, 9:00pm-10:30pm PST
LIVE: David Slusser & Len Paterson

 

hats off to these fellas for putting on a champion collage of sounds.
Read an Interview with David or a page dedicated to his 1997 Tzadik realease

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s&S: Semi-Bi-Quarterly-Fall 2002: Run & Cry

Posted on October 22nd, 2002 by s&S.
Categories: collage, compilations, electronic, extras!, Latest Additions!, Semi-Bi-Quarterly.


  • Listen to a Lo-Fi stream of all tracks in sequence or individually using the player above,
  • OR download the whole thing (192kbp mp3s) as one zipped file by clicking HERE (99MB)

The Semi-Bi-Quarterly series was simply intended to be a packaging scheme to compile elements of the shirley & Spinoza universe for folks less inclined to live tethered to a web-radio line. The idea was to put together volumes within no defined regular time-frame – when I had time basically…hence the name. These were mostly just to give away to friends and associates who already confessed to a short lived addiction to the stream of those days. The original covers, inside and out were all hand cut, constructed, so there just weren’t very many.

Fall 2002: “Run & Cry” / 跑和哭 featured an assortment of compositions, cutups and ‘songs’ made by one or the other of us exclusively for s&S radio during the preceding spring and summer. In many cases, they were improvised bits from within live shows that were then refined into the forms here.

*note – these guys & Half Eating: Baby Lion’s Nightmare also appeared on: Oddio Overplay’s free, downloadable 2006 Halloween album “Calling All Fiends”

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Free Radio Berkeley (1997-1998)

Posted on June 1st, 1998 by s&S.
Categories: collage, Latest Additions!, live-mix, vintage s&S.

Free Radio Berkeley was an unlicensed community micro-power FM radio station operating in Berkeley in the latter 1990′s. It was the most notorious micro station at the time as it’s unofficial head, having generated murky waters and institutional sympathy with the project, was constantly and admirably embroiled in legal stand-offs with the feds.

s&S had a show there in 1995-96 (just one of us) and 1997-98 (dynamic duo!)….sandwiched between a well done show called Slave Revolt Radio and another featuring the local bike Nazi something or other.

The revolution notwithstanding, FRB was at any given time an abysmal technical wreck (broken decks covered in duct tape glue, buzzing broken turntables that sounded like B-24 air-raids underneath all your tracks, microphones that literally smelled like alcoholic hippie kitchen puke mixed with incense…) but it was time of early ritualistic show making for s AND S that gave us an excuse to happily freak out a little in between proper sound-editing jobs. Lord knows why they gave us, these impostor sound clowns the key.

Because of the chronically trashed state of affairs at FRB, and tired of finding that we couldn’t use the source material we’d brought because the decks were all broken, we enacted two tactics: the first was the assemblage of the original s&S noise kit, a self contained second-hand hard suitcase wired and fitted with CD players, a cassette deck, effects, a mic, mixer, power, etc…All we needed was an outlet and inputs to plug into and we were good to go! As our shows became more sonically ambitious, I started pre-editing sources until we ultimately reached a point where we simply did the entire live show in one take 90 minutes before air-time at my more reliable home bedroom studio, made some sandwiches, then jumped in my pickup-truck toward the station to play the resultant DAT tape and layer a few more things on top…. Yeah, we were cheating, but hell…nothing ever worked at that joint! Plus too many FRB weirdos ;) would drop in to check out what we were doing…thus breaking the spell.
Anyway… FRB… really though – very fond memories! Thanks for putting up with us.

While the motherload of shows from s&S’s Free Radio Berkeley days are not available to me to post in the Archive currently, behold an action-packed list of clips and intros.

ALSO: a 30 minute edit of s&S moments from FRB in 1995 aka “episode 24″ can be found in the Archive HERE

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s&S: episode 24

Posted on October 21st, 1995 by s&S.
Categories: collage, found / thriftstore, improvisation, Latest Additions!, live-mix, vintage s&S.

While the title of this ‘show’ might suggest that it directly followed Episode 23, that’s not exactly the case.

“23″ was a half hour compilation of segments from the first semester of s&S during the CalArts years – compiled from and to cassette in 1993. Episode 24 was also similarly a compilation sampler of unrelated segments but mostly pulled from the shows when S of s&S had a generally solo stint assaulting the micro-power airwaves at Free Radio Berkeley the year or two following (1994-5).

After graduating, S of s&S moved up north to the San Francisco Bay Area, while s of s&S stayed at CalArts for another pair of years to throw more money into the art school well. Often I (s) would generate layered source mix tapes to send north to Dave and he would use use them in the mix of his show at FRB – which was at the time in the converted upstairs bathroom of a group hippie house in Oakland. Truth be told, “s&S north” may have embellished these clips a bit before offing them to me by post back in 1994 or ’5. But a spastic radio-audio letter from a best pal, shoot! what could be more fun to get in the mail?…
And…so…. suddenly, the Berkeley burnout callers revealed proof of the geography…no question that s&S had quite shifted to the Bay Area.

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