Robert Silverman and Charles Goff III first began exploring sound together in the 1970’s, during their college days at UC Berkeley. TAPED RUGS PRESENTS has documented how they performed and recorded with one another in Temporarily KY and in –ING, as well as in their 2005 “Opposite Of A Miracle” collaboration. The Ether Space, however, is where the great majority of their sonic interactions are documented.

Two Herd Of The Ether Space cassettes released by Taped Rugs in 1989 are exclusively devoted to Goff/Silverman improvisations. No other member of the Herd participated in the sessions that are documented on these tapes.

Here Taped Rugs presents: “Twentieth Century Bankhead,” recorded on March 12th, 1988, at Taped Rugs Studio on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, California. Most of this piece showcases Silverman’s electronic guitar skills, although Robert does display his digital keyboard chops near the end of the recording too. Goff, for a change, plays no guitar at all on this piece. He is heard thumping a bass, twiddling a toy piano, squeezing sounds from a modified Casio keyboard, tapping rhythms on a bunch of plastic bottles affixed to a man-sized piece of plywood, and working a phonograph needle through the grooves of a few carefully chosen record albums. One of those albums features the powerful acting talents of Tallulah Bankhead, who delivers a bit of dialog that can make a listener’s ears stand straight up.

The name of the cassette on which this piece appears is: “The Chaos Of Bobby And Chuck.” The next podcast will feature recordings from “Chaos Marches On,” which is the other Goff/Silverman exclusive cassette produced by Taped Rugs in 1989.

THE AUDIO COMPONENT OF THIS PODCAST HAS BEEN REMOVED. IT IS NOW AVAILABLE AT THE LINK BELOW:

http://www.archive.org/details/HOTESTapeLoopImprovisationsVol7