3 Minute Island is a collection of short, 90 second vignettes for s&S Radio meant to conjure scenes in films that don’t exist. I would simply start putting sound effects together with no plan until a short semi-narrative scene emerged. Once something came into focus, I’d add more details to create a scene and in one case added my voice, which I think I’ll stay away from in the future as it’s a bit more fun to let the listener fill in the blanks.
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.
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.
