ROGC: Roaring Brass Flower

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

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April 10th 2005, 8pm
Royal Oakland Gramophone Company: Roaring Brass Flower

The original inspiration for the ROGC were the stories and recordings of the early expeditions during the first decade of the 20th century, namely the recordings by the Gramophone Co. of London of the Caucasus in 1908-1909
The thought of a lost recorder perhaps being passed along and traded by merchants and locals, each contributing a small imprint to the hand cranked anthropological sound collage had a nice narrative appeal. Then there was the floral shape of the bell itself, which of course attraced the futuristic mechanical insects that were sent from the far, far distant future to all points in time to invisibly relay the sounds of civilization. Something like that.
This show was actually a composite of the March 20th / and March 27th 2005 shows. I cut them together into an hour show for air on Otoscope, Nantes France…

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running time: 1 hour

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ROGC: (untitled) March 27th, 2005

Posted on March 27th, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: *Royal Oakland Gramophone Co., collage, exotic, experimental, live-mix, spoken.

Sunday, March 27th 2005, 8pm

LIVE: The Royal Oakland Gramophone Company
(Czirluye un Czpenocza)

…with another exciting ROGC adventure. Directly beamed from the year 1905, the sound expedition continued. We heard allusions to the fate of the pack, messages for the Kaiser, curses, hexes, benedictions and recorded proof that wolves could once fly.

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ROGC: (untitled) March 20th, 2005

Posted on March 20th, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: *Royal Oakland Gramophone Co., collage, exotic, experimental, found / thriftstore, live-mix.

Sunday, March 20th 2005, 8pm
Royal Oakland Gramophone Company (Xerlei e Xpynoucza)

The Royal Oakland Gramophone Company took us on another expedition through exotic aural topographies. Including: Insect Infested Territories; epic yodeling mouth games; foreign devils on the slick road; intermittent parallel transmissions from the year 1905

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s&S: March 6th, 2005

Posted on March 6th, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: *Royal Oakland Gramophone Co., collage, live-mix.

Sunday, March 6th, 2005 – 8pm

LIVEmix: Shirley & Spinoza

 

Sunday drive through another sound maze.
Here we discover Spidey just wants to play the blues and S&S operates a sound safari service to make ends meet

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