There was no gathering of Herd Of The Ether Space on July Fourth, 1988. Goff was in Rochester, New York, and other members of the Herd did not get together.

On July Fourth, 1989, however, a couple of sonic explorers made their first and only forays into the Herd and created some fresh audio textures for the summer holiday. Charles Goff III was joined by Jeff Easter, Will Flanagan (now Will Marston), and Matt Lauten. At that time, Flanagan and Lauten were co-workers with Goff at a grassroots nonprofit group called: “Citizens For A Better Environment.” Easter is the brother of another of Goff’s co-workers from that time period, Chris Easter. Other co-workers of Goff, Flanagan, and Lauten attended the session as observers. Lauten and Goff were sharing the living space at the Taped Rugs studio during that time as well.

Electronic guitar, electric bass, sound effects, and digital keyboards of various qualities (including one which had had its guts altered by Goff and which would now be referred to as “circuit bent”) all fed into the Taped Rugs Frippertronics-style tape loop system that day. A couple of record players infused prerecorded sounds into the mix as well, including Ronald Reagan’s readings from a history of the American Revolution entitled: “Freedom’s Finest Hour.” Ninety minutes of recordings from the session were released to the public in late 1989 by Taped Rugs on a cassette entitled: “Activism.”

Here Taped Rugs presents three pieces from “Activism:”

1) Revolution 4

2) (4 X 4) + Hiss

3) Before And After Pollution

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/HOTESTapeLoopImprovisationsVol19