As promised in Excerpt Nine of this podcast series, Taped Rugs here presents more Goff/Silverman Herd Of The Ether Space improvisations. These two pieces: “Synesthesia” and “Discontinuum,” were both recorded on March 26th, 1989, and were released to the public later that year by Taped Rugs on a cassette entitled: “Chaos Marches On.”

Silverman’s keyboard serves up some dramatic moods in both of these pieces, establishing appropriately ethereal accompaniments to Goff’s mind-stretching experiments. In “Synesthesia,” Goff is heard playing around with several record albums originally intended to be used as the soundtracks to filmstrips. The filmstrips were originally intended to teach school children the dangers of drug abuse.

In “Discontinuum,” Goff employs some different records, playing them at various speeds off-center as he bends the strings of his electronic guitar to fit within some warped Casio rhythms. At the end of the piece, Silverman fingers his own electronic guitar as Goff tinkles the keys of a toy piano.

Both of these pieces were recorded through the Taped Rugs Frippertronics-style tape loop system, and there are several points in these recordings where the tape itself becomes the lead instrument. The brand of chaos that Silverman and Goff cook up here is very much prescription strength.

THE AUDIO COMPONENT OF THIS PODCAST HAS BEEN REMOVED TO ALLOW MORE EPISODES IN THIS SERIES TO BE POSTED. IT IS NOW AVAILABLE AT THE LINK BELOW:

http://www.archive.org/details/HOTESTapeLoopImprovisationsVol17