Two new members were initiated into Herd Of The Ether Space on February 17th, 1990, as Julia May and Viki O’Melveny bravely joined C. Goff III and George Gibson for a workout around the Taped Rugs four track cassette recorder.

The recordings made that day are unbridled celebrations of the primitive and Dadaesque elements that so often color HOTES sonic adventures. Improvised yells, chants, giggles, and rants are layered upon percussive rhythms, wind instrumental churnings, and electronic pulses, in ways that make the three compositions which emerged from that day’s session unique in many aspects. At the time, these recordings actually gave a bit of a shock to listeners who had grown familiar with the flowing tape-looped HOTES recordings of the previous decade.

After their initiations, both May and O’Melveny came back for more adventures into the Ether Space, and O’Melveny had a particularly ubiquitous presence and influence on HOTES cassette albums throughout the remainder of the 1990’s.

Here Taped Rugs presents the three recordings from February 17th, 1990, all three of which were released by Taped Rugs on the 1990 cassette album: “Other Than Random Modulation” (see excerpts #21 and #22 from the HOTES in the 1980’s podcast series for more about this cassette album):

1 The Revolving Door Of Storms (Gibson, Goff, May, O’Melveny)
2 Illumined For An Instant In Mayonnaise Money (Gibson, Goff, May, O’Melveny)
3 The Smokers Are Re-Upping (Gibson, Goff, O’Melveny)

The photo accompanying this presentation is of Julia May and George Gibson, taken at Gibson’s studio in Oakland, California, around the time that this recording was made.

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/OtherThanRandomModulation