Street Cries & the Wandering Song was a live-mixed remote performance streamed from my Wellington, New Zealand studio to a live audience at the Oscillation festival in Brussels, Belgium on 1 May 2022. 

Street Cries & the Wandering Song

In  this piece, I attempted to create a lyrical sonic collage using the recorded texture and sounds of life that traversed the little cobblestone street beneath my studio window in Dali, China. The melodic cries of local street peddlers, recyclers and spontaneous scenes were captured between 2010 and 2020, primarily with a stereo microphone I’d suspended above the street or with binaural mics in other locations of town.

I then isolated sounds and prepared the recordings for this performance, which I mixed live, ‘on the air’ for the festival whose theme was Public Address.  I chose to focus on the once ubiquitous, but disappearing signature calls of street vendors and recyclers as they made their way through the neighbourhood, calling out, advertising themselves and threaded scenes of daily life with the consistent re-appearance of these cries.

Here are a few excerpts from the 40 minute performance.  Lots of immersive, environmental location sounds, so a good pair of headphones is highly recommended!

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So, who is this guy?

Fausto Cáceres is an American sound creator/collector and radio artist currently based in Wellington, Aotearoa. 

Born and raised on U.S. military bases in Germany during the 70s and 80s by Honduran immigrant parents, he moved to California as a teen where he discovered a culturally affirmed relationship to the arts and creativity. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts [CalArts] in both Film and Animation where he was also introduced to the joys of sound wrangling, experimental radio and has been making and recording noises in different corners of the planet since.

Prior to the relocation to his new home at the bottom of the world, he was based for 15 years in the peripheries of mainland China in cultural crossroad regions of both Xinjiang and Yunnan.  Among many projects during his years there, he extensively documented traditional folk music of various minority cultures and regions as well as the ever-changing sonic landscape of the modern PRC through comprehensive, regional field recording projects, conducted both as commissions and independently.

Fausto is also known to a modest, but devoted following as the mild mannered ‘Remote Operator’, host and operator of the decades-long running Shirley & Spinoza Radio, described as an “ongoing, eclectic 24/7 audio stream of far-flung obscurities and concoctions from all earthly times and places… terrestrially bound…and otherwise.”

Radio-wise, in the realm of disembodied sound and live radio collage, he continuously creates and collects audio nuggets from the mundane to the fantastical with which he transforms and transmits live from a home studio, improvised, layered 1-3 hour mixes. These live-mixed soundscapes traverse ionospheric radio turbulence, touching down into intimate, terrestrial field-recorded scenes, bound together with movements of rhythm, melody or walls of noise. Bits of plundered dialogue & sound often thread scenes creating an evolving blend of whimsical, semi-narrative, ‘theater of the mind’ sound adventures.

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So, who is this guy?

Fausto Cáceres is an American sound creator/collector and radio artist based in Wellington, Aotearoa. 

Born and raised on US military bases in Germany during the 70s and 80s by Honduran immigrant parents, he moved to California as a teen where he discovered a culturally affirmed relationship to the arts and creativity. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts [CalArts] in both Film and Animation where he was also introduced to the joys of sound wrangling, experimental radio and has been making and recording noises in different corners of the planet since.

Prior to the relocation to his new home at the bottom of the world, he lived for 15 years in the peripheries of mainland China in cultural crossroad regions of both Xinjiang and Yunnan.  Among many projects during his years there, he extensively documented traditional folk music of various minority cultures and regions as well as the ever-changing sonic landscape of the modern PRC through comprehensive, regional field recording projects, conducted both as commissions and independently.

Fausto is also known to a modest, but devoted following as the mild mannered ‘Remote Operator’, host and operator of the decades-long running Shirley & Spinoza Radio, described as an “ongoing, eclectic 24/7 audio stream of far-flung obscurities and concoctions from all earthly times and places… terrestrially bound…and otherwise.”

Radio-wise, in the realm of disembodied sound and live radio collage, he continuously creates and collects audio nuggets from the mundane to the fantastical with which he transforms and transmits live from a home studio, improvised, layered 1-3 hour mixes. These live-mixed soundscapes traverse ionospheric radio turbulence, touching down into intimate, terrestrial field-recorded scenes, bound together with movements of rhythm, melody or walls of noise. Bits of plundered dialogue & sound often thread scenes creating an evolving blend of whimsical, semi-narrative, ‘theater of the mind’ sound adventures.