A Live Radio Broadcast

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A Live Radio Broadcast

KHSC-FM Fall 1972 program guide

Performers

N. Senada, Philip C. Lithman

Date

October 30th 1971

Location

KHSC-FM studio, Arcata, California

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"A Live Radio Broadcast" is the title ascribed to a live radio performance by N. Senada and Philip C. Lithman, broadcast from KHSC-FM studios in Arcata, California on October 30th 1971.^{^[1]^[2]}

Residents, Uninc. used two short excerpts from the broadcast in "The Fourth Crucifixion" on their 1971 demo tape B.S.. The Residents later released a longer excerpt of the broadcast on their Daydream B-Liver compilation album in 1991 (where it is partially overdubbed with a much later instrumental piece known as "Amazon").

To date, these heavily augmented excerpts are all that have been publicly released of the performance;^{^[2]} its full length has not been recorded publicly.

Set list

Transcript

Note: The below transcript was compiled by The Mysterious Spanish Ladies from the two publicly available edits of the broadcast (each of which features unique content) and is almost certainly an incomplete representation of the recording as it exists in The Cryptic Corporation archive. The Ladies have included their sources for each line in references following the text.

Woman: Hello, this is KHSC-FM in Arcata, 90.5 on your FM dial.^{^[3]^[4]}

Interviewer: Yeah, okay, hello, 1-2, um...^{^[4]}

Philip: Are we on the air?^{^[3]^[4]}

Interviewer: Yeah, we certainly are! [laughs]^{^[3]^[4]}

Philip: Ha.^{^[3]^[4]}

Interviewer: So, can we open with, uh... a... a sensible conversation, like...^{^[3]}

Philip: Certainly. Well, first of all, let me say how pleased and genuinely proud I am to be in your wonderful, wonderful country, and N. Senada is also pleased and proud to be in your wonderful country. We're having a wonderful time.^{^[3]}

Interviewer: N. Senada is here, Ryan, can he get on the other mic?^{^[3]}

Philip: Yeah, N. Senada?^{^[3]}

N. Senada: [gibberish]^{^[3]}

Interviewer: N. Senada has a peculiar language pattern that not everyone can un--^{^[3]}

Philip: Be... be... be... before we start anything, uh... I'd like to say a few words about N. Senada, who is, uh... a wonderful, truly wonderful man who I met in the woods of Bavaria whilst I was on an expedition in... for Britain, my country. Um, he worked... he worked with strange instruments that genuinely fascinated me...^{^[3]^[4]}

Senada: Bedaboda.^{^[3]^[4]}

Philip: And, uh... he... he... he's asking me to explain about his instruments. He works with, uh, phonetic wood instruments, which he, um... made himself, and... we translated his music into, um... phonetics, and now we play music together with our... with our group... in San Francisco.^{^[3]^[4]}

Interviewer: Well, what are you doing up--^{^[3]}

N. Senada: [gibberish]^{^[3]}

Interviewer: Okay, are you going to play the music?^{^[4]}

Philip: Yeah, we're going to play a piece that, uh, N. Senada wrote back in the Bavarian, uh, forest. This is called... "Cantat... Cantaten und Symphonen mit Eine Poem". We're going to play this number now for you.^{^[4]}

Interviewer: The most amazing thing about you, Philip, is that all of this is absolutely serious too.^{^[4]}

Philip: It's totally serious. Yeah, we're very serious about the whole thing.^{^[4]}

Senada: GADA!^{^[4]}

Philip: And, uh... this piece is one of his more... um, intricate and, uh... important pieces, and we're going to play it for you now. ^{^[4]}

Woman: [in background, unclear]^{^[4]}

Philip: Ladies and gentlemen, N. Senada and P.C. Lithman give you "Cantaten und Symphonen for der Saxophonen und Violinen".^{^[4]}

Woman: [laughs]^{^[4]}

[Song: "Cantaten und Symphonen for der Saxophonen und Violinen"]^{^[4]}

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