Besides July 4th, another popular day of the year for gathering together members of the Taped Rugs family is October 31st, All Hallows Eve, Halloween. During the 1980’s, Herd Of The Ether Space created recordings on Halloweens in 1987, 1988, and 1989. Back in 2006, TAPED RUGS PRESENTS posted several excerpts from spooky improvisational sessions recorded on Halloweens past. Here Taped Rugs presents a twenty-five minute piece which was not included in the 2006 Trick Or Treat series.
The piece is entitled: “Giant Bat Flies.” It contains a mixture of recordings created on Halloweens in both 1987 and 1989. The line-up for the 1987 session was: Goff, Kaswan, and Silverman. The 1987 recording was made with the Taped Rugs Frippertronic-style tape loop system, and the scary sonic action all went down at the Taped Rugs Studio on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, California.
The line up for the 1989 session was just Goff and Silverman. It took place at the home of Silverman’s friend (and future wife) Debra, in Berkeley, California, in a room where the walls were cracked and crumbled from the Loma Prieta earthquake, which had taken place less than two weeks previous (on Goff’s birthday). Trick or Treaters who came to Debra’s house that night were tricked and treated with some genuinely frightening noises. The recording was made on a stereo cassette deck; no tape loop system was used.
Goff performed the mix of the 1987 and 1989 recordings. “Giant Bat Flies” was released by Taped Rugs in 1990 on the cassette entitled: “Halloween Masks Look Almost Real!”
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:
