Plunderphonic tape collage laced with shortwave static.
Shirley & Spinoza began in the early 1990s in the radio closet at CalArts, where a few film students layered collages out of the thrift-store audio they hauled in each week. The habit moved to the Bay Area and a stretch as FM pirates, with homemade gear and an antenna on an Oakland warehouse roof, then went online around the clock in 2001 to promote an event at the space and never switched off. Fausto Cáceres has kept it going since, from the far edges of China after 2006 and now from a home studio in Wellington.
Most hours belong to the Computron, the house super-computer, digging through a library where plunderphonic cut-ups sit beside old radio jingles and early musique concrète. Field recordings from China and Aotearoa drift through, with scraps of the pirate-era shows and the odd listener voicemail. Every few hours Cáceres's Quieter Time of Night mixtapes come round, then an hour of longform.
Dada radio for the sleepless.
