Shirley & Spinoza has been a labor-of-love radio stream project that I’ve operated for over two decades. 

Pay a listen below to the  24/7 audio feed. Stick with it for a bit as you’re sure to traverse a wide, unpredictable range of sonic terrain in a relatively short amount of time. You might also just catch me live, making noises for you in real time.

Shirley & Spinoza Radio

broken, bouncing, mixed-up radio waves ...from your planet

shirley & Spinoza Radio is an ongoing, eclectic audio stream of far-flung obscurities and concoctions from all earthly times and places… terrestrially bound…and otherwise.

A brief history:

Shirley & Spinoza was born as a joyful extracurricular side project while as film students at CalArts in the early 90s in the institute’s radio closet where we would layer and collage using the boxes of thrift store audio we’d amass each week.

We then carried our gleeful radio experimenting shenanigans to the SF Bay Area in later years with a period as FM pirates broadcasting into the neighbourhood with rough DIY transmitting gear and an antenna on the roof of the Oakland warehouse I lived in. Eventually, we moved to a round-the-clock online streaming existence in 2001, initially as promotion for a themed event at the space (when such things were still quite novel) and just kept it going… and going… and going!

The several years in Oakland were particularly fertile creatively with many influential collaborations born during that era, flashbacks of which you still hear on the stream. 

After ultimately leaving the U.S. and moving to the far edges of the China in 2006, I still managed to run the station (despite the regular Great Firewall frustrations) for the entirety of my many years there, adopting layer on layer of influences from those environments into our content.

I now continue to operate this latest chapter from a home studio in Aotearoa at the bottom of the world, a mix of archived show clips, live broadcasts and constant eclectic musical curating. 

Bouncing, bubbling concoctions and late night whimsical potions made of sound were key to the original recipe of s&S… and though we’ve added a good many flavours to the evolving content over the years, the buoyant spirit and sincerity remains.

This radio has never been intended for the masses, but for the playful, solitary, late-night lab rat; the studio-bound, socially eccentric, obsessive art maker… or even the “buttoned up in a cubicle by day / fanatical audio-archeologist by night” type. We’ve certainly made a bunch of radio friends all over the world over the years who’d loosely fit those descriptions and then some… and have somehow managed to consistently maintain an audio palette that cannot be found elsewhere!

the latest played on the 24/7 stream:

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There is a new station website coming soon, with schedules, a new archive etc. 

Fausto Cáceres III

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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.