ROGC: Church of the Lustful Frog

Posted on October 16th, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: *Royal Oakland Gramophone Co., collage, experimental, field recordings, live-mix, spoken.

LIVE-mixed webcast: October 16th, 2005
ROGC: Church of the Lustful Frog

And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs…and thy radio studios
Exodus 8:3

This was probably among my personal favorite shows. Mainly because its fun to think that sneaky double agent priests had always been chanting scientific latin frog names all along (Saints of Amphibia)….back when I was a good, church going tadpole…I mean ‘lad’.

running time: 1 hour 38 min

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ROGC: Rattling Box of Keepsakes

Posted on September 11th, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: *Royal Oakland Gramophone Co., collage, exotic, field recordings, live-mix.


September 11th 2005 8-10pm
The Royal Oakland Gramophone Company: li’l Rattling Box of Keepsakes

This evening we kicked our loafers off, packed cherry tobacco pipes and selected from the master archive discs & cylinders:
highlights and sound expedition discoveries made during the R.O.G.C. live mixed shows over the last several months.
…plus a few new little detours as inspired! ..enjoy, or hope you did!

no posted file of this show yet….hope to remedy that soon!!

running time: 2 hours

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ROGC: Intelligent SWARMY

Posted on July 17th, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: *Royal Oakland Gramophone Co., collage, exotic, field recordings, found / thriftstore, live-mix, noise, spoken.

ROGC - Inteligent SWARMY

July 17th 2005 8-10pm

ROGC: Intelligent SWARMY

as a followup to the 17 Year Cicada show:
flying insects, swarms, bagpipes, boots, militaries, worldly war and battle music, sounds, spoken word, other stuff.

perfect listening when kicking around fields & streets of expired locusts

running time: 2 hours

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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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