Ub Radio #01: Moths, Drones & Aircraft Carriers

Posted on June 5th, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: *Big City Orchestra, *Ub Radio, experimental, improvisation, noise, spoken.

June 5th 2005, 8-11pm

(…as with first-Sundays the month):

Ub Radio: Moths, Drones & Aircraft Carriers

“UB FREE FORM RADIO RETURNS!

10 years on KZSC…………….. and kicked off.
2 years on KALX ………………. and kicked off.
2 shows on KUSF ……………….and kicked off.

…..maybe shirley & Spinoza will be our friends ???

LIVE from the s&S studios (and the hallways in between)

Special Guests: hell, they were ALL special!”

**mp3 excerpts:

running time: 3 hours

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Otis Fodder: Mixed Metaphors

Posted on May 22nd, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: *Otis Fodder, collage, exotic, found / thriftstore, live-mix, music mix, spoken.

May 22nd 2005, 8pm
co-piloting LIVE with Otis Fodder: Mixed Metaphors

the Godfodder himself was here digging into his “violin case” for our **5/22/5** special – there’s *voodoo* in that number, so hope you grabbed your garlic and BEHELD the mixed metaphors!

By captain’s command we took a luxury cruise through a sea of squeaking bedsprings, dirty puppets, and swirling pious voices

**some mp3 excerpts:

running time: 2.5 hours

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ROGC: Untitled (May 15th 2005)

Posted on May 15th, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: *Royal Oakland Gramophone Co., collage, exotic, experimental, live-mix, music mix, noise, spoken.

May 15th 2005, 8pm
The Royal Oakland Gramophone Company

It was 1905 AD. The missing Gramophone recorder made it’s way back westward … passing through many hands, many lands… listening to, and remembering, every part of it’s now fractured history. Was the roaring brass flower in the cross hairs of a futuristic queen bee – great grannny-to-be of s&S?? We didn’t exactly find that out this time around, but among the long list of other revealed characters: a rabid Sumatran flute player, a mysterious man muttering on his deathbed, a crazed Englishman going on and on about hobgoblins, etc

**mp3 excerpts:

running time: 2 hours

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Some Damn Intern: enough with the Satan

Posted on April 24th, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: *Headphoner & the Nurse, *Some Damn Intern, collage, experimental, found / thriftstore, live-mix, music mix, spoken.

April 24th 2005, 8pm

LIVE: Some Damn Intern (s&S)

No….Royal Oakland Gramophone Company passed for the evening – apparently the caravan leader was poisoned while en route from 1905 to the contemporary timeslot. ROGC will re-emerge with the promised episode May 15th. Instead, SOME DAMN INTERN hand picked, played and mixed music and sounds for your enjoyment. Satan dropped in to the studio for a bit (just to mooch off our chips and extra spicy salsa), but we were ready – and neutralized his sassy, evil ass with handfuls of sonic baking soda.

….then, at 10pm

Headphoner & The Nurse: Village (repeat)

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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…

**mp3 excerpts:

running time: 1 hour

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