Shirley & Spinoza Radio Archive

The Brain: 65 & 66

s&S: Chuck Malarky Black Box

Posted on October 19th, 2002 by s&S.
Categories: vintage s&S.

Saturday, October 19th 2002, 8pm-10:30pm PST
LIVE: Shirley & Spinoza

“chuck malarky black box” – w/ special live sound maker (omega7)

All hell continued to break loose with number 1 and number 2 in the studio on this night as we were tried to determine the whereabouts of the missing black box – while “staying dry”. Gag umbrella is delivered to # 2 from #1.

mp3 excerpt:

Umbrella blood gag (4:32)

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s&S: October 12th, 2002 (aka ‘fuck the damn iMic’)

Posted on October 12th, 2002 by s&S.
Categories: vintage s&S.

Saturday, October 12th 2002, 8pm-10:30pm PST
LIVE: Shirley & Spinoza

“fuck the stupid iMic” …ironic since #2 did all the talking

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nice or spooky segment of voices & sounds
“Forest Cops” (4:44)

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Nebulous Rex – radio theater

Posted on December 20th, 2001 by s&S.
Categories: extras!, spoken.

Several years ago, s&S thought it might be fun to try our hand at something along the lines of conventional radio theater…hmmm.
Well, the fact that we didn’t make it past the first episode I think speaks more of the realization that hand-making and editing every line and every sound was a bit time consuming…shoot, we even foleyed the subtle movement of character clothing and light foot movements in separate takes! ..and in many cases, we weren’t even in the same city when recordings lines and emailing them back and forth – though, in the end I’d say it was all fairly convincing.
I realize there are no Oscar winning performances here and that the plot is a bit thin (fneh!), but still – there are many enjoyable, ridiculous scenes in these 30 minutes….and if jLesser really liked it, then it can’t be all that bad… i think.
most all voices by FC & DC, minus the appearance of 2 lady pals. Click on the image above get to more info.

from the original Nebulous Rex pressmill:
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EPISODE 1 SUMMARY – After an extended drift, the interstellar floater – Euphonius Drive- finally has the legendary Aegax Oliasis asteroid in it’s midst when a confounding transmission comes through, apparently from it’s surface.
Under mysterious circumstance, things on board begin to take on a new order.
Talking computers, Polynesian snifters, falling chandeliers, prize shirts, and personnel tracking machines are all cosmic bedfellows in the year of our astrolord 1771………..the start of a segmented introduction to ‘Nebulous REX’
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“behind the scenes” gallery is HERE

you can hear all nine parts separately below or stream / download the whole thing at the bottom of this entry:
total running time: 30 mins

Part 1: the troubling transmission from the Aegax Oliasis
Part 2: …in the ship’s lounge. Eviva always wants to dance.
Part 3: waiting for Van Murak; the fiasco in Engineering
Part 4: Didodo’s lab; Engineering
Part 5: ..in the lounge again; Blordox arrives & gets his crappy gift.
Part 6: Marti dealing with the meltdown in Engineering; back in the lounge..
Part 7: Van Murak arrives; trackers raid the lounge; rabbit hole
Part 8: the secret shuttle; LIMN data transfer; star crispers
Part 9: off to colony Z…
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…and a bonus scene from “1951″:

Nebulous Rex: episode 1 Hi-Fi Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1483)

Nebulous Rex: episode 1 Lo-Fi Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1421)

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s&S: The “These are the People in your Neighborhood Street Festival”

Posted on April 21st, 2001 by s&S.
Categories: vintage s&S.

April 28th 2001
LIVE: Shirley & Spinoza on location

These Are the People in Your Neighborhood – street festival

This was a show done during an actual neighborhood street festival here outside of the compound in Oakland….without any real line to the street, we’d go out, record some things, bring it inside and simply just make things up, scenes and events – a la ‘Rose Parade’ banter. The show was being transmitted via a small pirate transmitter to the hood, though I doubt any crowds were actually drawn over because of this real time, albeit completely fake play-by-play.

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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.