Shirley & Spinoza Radio Archive

s&S: Another Stinking Antecedent

s&S: January 19th, 2003 (highlights from past shows)

Posted on January 19th, 2003 by s&S.
Categories: *Some Damn Intern, collage, electronic, experimental, live-mix, other guests, vintage s&S.

Sunday, January 19th 2003, 8:00pm-9:30 PST
LIVE: some damn intern

mixed highlights from past live s & S webcasts 10/02-01/03

Thumbing through the index of LIVE webcasts from the preceding few months,
highlights included snippets of guest collagists and noisemakers
David Slusser, Len Peterson, Kristin Miltner, James Livingston
in addition to the usual s&S concocted fare.

s&S Show re-hash: Oct 2002-Jan 2003 [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1563)

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s&S: Another Stinking Antecedent

Posted on January 5th, 2003 by s&S.
Categories: collage, found / thriftstore, live-mix, vintage s&S.

Sunday, January 5th 2003, 8:00pm-9:20pm PST
LIVE: Shirley & Spinoza

“another stinkin antecedent”

improvised live soundtrack to an imaginary missing episode of “the Land of the Lost”.

The show starts and we still haven’t found the source of a mysterious buzz – turns out it was this little fella in cahoots with a light dimmer in the next room (aka LOTL).

mp3 excerpts:

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s&S: It’s Melting!

Posted on December 22nd, 2002 by s&S.
Categories: collage, holiday theme, live-mix, spoken, vintage s&S.

Sunday, December 22nd 2002, 8:00pm-9:30pm PST
LIVE: Shirley & Spinoza

“the Kwanzanukahmas NogAssault”
the polar ice-cap melted, the radio died and the new satellite performance setup of #2 fought back on our very special holiday episode!
(i can think of two stockings that were filled withlumps-o-coal.)

mp3 excerpts:

download the entire thing below:

OOoo..<*)))-{

s&S: It's Melting Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1925)

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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

mp3 excerpts:

part2 easy liftoff (4.3 MB)

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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.