ROGC: 17 Year Cicada

Posted on July 10th, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: *Royal Oakland Gramophone Co., collage, electronic, experimental, field recordings, live-mix, noise, spoken.

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July 10th 2005, 8-10pm
ROGC: 17 Year Cicada

After 17 years of loveless, subterranian root munching, how about inviting all your swingin single pals for the biggest ‘hook-up’ party of your seemingly eternal pupal life!

Let’s make some noise!!! Yes, I realize not all of the cicadas in this episode are of the aforementioned variety…. But with all the merry-making, I don’t think anyone minded a handful of inter-species party crashers.

I’d discovered a bunch of cassette recordings online of a woman describing the month-long coming (and going) of 17 year Cicadas (Brood X) in 2004 and 1987. While her cicadas completely overloaded her recordings, her narration was what i was most attracted to… A sentimental biologist’s tone. This show was easily inspired. Insects are generally good for that.

running time: 2 hours

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ROGC: Untitled (June 12th 2005)

Posted on June 12th, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: *Royal Oakland Gramophone Co., collage, electronic, exotic, experimental, field recordings, live-mix, music mix, spoken.

June 12th 2005, 8pm
Royal Oakland Gramophone Company – Untitled

Oooo..<*)))-{ The device sat in the study of a wealthy aristocrat, while late at night the cook would haul it downstairs and perform a midnight symphony of kitchenware. You recall the scene in star wars inside the big Jawa recycling mobile – where droids and droid parts crunched & clattered? This wasn’t much different….just moodier. Another chapter revealed the whirring and chirping of reposessed sound gathering devices – held captive – en route to the next ROGC show in the year 1905

**mp3 excerpts:

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guest performances: Dat Politics / Printed Circuit

Posted on May 29th, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: electronic, other guests, performance.

May 29th 2005, 8pm

LIVE: Printed Circuit & DAT Politics

 

on her planetary rounds from the UK, mizz Claire (aka Printed Circuit) joined us here in the Oakland catacombs with high gain French beeboopists DAT Politics and presented a LIVE back to back double whammy of relentlessly hopparoo sounds – (the CoStar game didn’t materialize – but it will one of these days – our advocate on the matter called in sick) If you did’t bounce at least twice when you heard this music, then consider the s&S recovery copter ‘on it’s way’ – to retrieve your corpse.

Don’t have the full archive of this show up yet, but here are some exerpts in the mean time…

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SAGAN: yet another live web performance!

Posted on May 8th, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: *Sagan, electronic, experimental, improvisation, performance.

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May 8th 2005, 8pm
LIVE: SAGAN

* Scholarly blazer? – CHECK!

* Turtleneck? – CHECK!

* Billions & billions of tiny, etc? – CHECK!

If you REALLY love your mum, what better way to have celebrated Mother’s Day than to have taken her on a cosmic sound tour of the outer universe with a LIVE Sagan show? – all without even leaving the trailer?! There was none.

This performance of what has apparently become the monthly Sunday SAGAN Fireside Sound-Council was simply top-notch. A LIVE studio to studio linked event!!

Unfortunately, on this round, we had some technical problems – namely an intermittently shakey audio link with the Sagan studio – often it was just great, but in segments sputtered like crazy – we’ll be ironing this stuff out during the week and making the setup ‘bulletproof’ for next time. Thanks for all the LIVE emailed input from listeners out there in the field!

Sagan = (Blevin Blectum, Lesser, and Wobbly).

running time: 2 hours

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Negativland: OverTheEdge “It’s All in Your Head”

Posted on May 1st, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: collage, electronic, exotic, experimental, found / thriftstore, improvisation, live-mix, noise, other guests, performance.

May 1st, 2005, 8pm
LIVE-ish: Negativland -> Over The Edge

(In “Concert” 3 hour delayed relay from Toronto)

we lent a respectful relaying hand to Don, Peter & the boys who were in Canada performing Over The Edge “radio shows” live in concert – read about it here. The program, “It’s All In Your Head”, was a stereophonic look at monotheism in all its forms, as hosted by the venerable Dr. Oslo Norway. This performance took place in Toronto, Ontario at the Deep Wireless festival, and kicked off a month-long Celebration of Radio Art with performances held throughout the city. The source webcast came from CKLN fm, Toronto

running time: 2 hrs

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