The HOTES rehearsal session of January 28th, 1990 (featured in the previous podcast), produced some recordings which were not directly related to the KPFA performances on January 30th, nor which were showcased in the President Nixon Fights The Dope Scourge cassette album. These bits were instead incorporated into a unique HOTES cassette album entitled: “Kumquat Over Again.”
To create Kumquat Over Again, Charles Goff III used a four track cassette recorder to juxtapose two recorded segments from the January 28th session onto a single tape, one running in the opposite direction of the other. This process used about a third of a blank 90 minute tape. Goff filled the remainder of this 90 minute tape with two similarly juxtaposed segments from another HOTES studio recording, made on March 18th, 1990. The March session featured the talents of Killr “Mark” Kaswan, George Gibson, and Goff himself.
Goff then played the first “side” of the 90 minute tape on the four track recorder to mix the forwards and backwards parts together onto a regular stereo cassette deck. He individually varied the input levels of the four tracks and individually panned the tracks live “on the fly.” He then turned the tape over and performed the same mixing technique on the second “side” of the cassette. Thus, side one of Kumquat Over Again is, in theory, the opposite of side two. However, because the two sides were mixed individually, they are not exact opposites.
Here Taped Rugs presents the two “opposite” mixes from January 28th, 1990:
1 Caused By A Germ Transmission
and
2 Germinated From A Transmitted Cause
The instrumentation showcased on theses pieces is similar to that used by Goff, Kaswan, and Silverman on the other recordings from the same January 28th, 1990 session. The recordings from the March 18th session will be featured in a future podcast.
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/KumquatOverAgain
