Taped Rugs 06 06 Tour Of The Southeast USA

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Album Info

Release Date: 2006

Label: Taped Rugs Productions

DVD Notes
Take the tour as Taped Rugs Productions producer Charles Rice Goff III travels through North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Tennesee to record some very unusual rhythms, noises, and sonic atmospheres with seasoned recording artists Bret Hart, Dave Fuglewicz, Hal McGee, Chris Phinney, and others. All visuals and noises presented on this disk were recorded in the short period between June 13th and June 25th, 2006. Goff III took about 1200 photos during the tour. Make sure to check out the seven audio disks and the booklet that document the tour too.

Booklet Notes
Throughout the Taped Rugs 06 06 Tour, the sonics created were captured on a wide variety of recording devices and engineered by several different individuals. Devices used for recording included an 8 track direct-to-zip disk recorder, a portable microcassette recorder, a portable standard cassette recorder, a few computers, a direct-to-disk CD recorder, a 4 track cassette recorder, and a digital camera recorder. In a few cases, original recordings were remixed on computers. On "North Carolina, Disk One," the quality of some of the original material was distorted in such a manner that the authors felt it would benefit from having another participant dub drum tracks over it in a recording studio. The result of incorporating all of these variations in recording into a single presentation is a production in which each individual recording has its own unique sonic signature, hopefully providing listeners with a sense of the unbridled adventure experienced during the Taped Rugs 06 06 Tour.

At each destination throughout the Taped Rugs 06 06 Tour, recordings were made at various locations. Among these were a bedroom, two living rooms, a studio/storage room, an abandoned cotton mill, a restaurant on the grounds of an art museum, a 1960s thrift store converted into a collective for artists' installations, the interiors of a couple of automobiles, an abandoned calcium carbide factory, the surroundings of a lodging for hundreds of bats, the interiors of several airplanes and airports, and a recording studio famous for turning out hundreds of hit country and western songs.

Among the tools employed to create the sonics recorded on the Taped Rugs 06 06 Tour were an ARP synthesizer, a circuit bent Casio SK-1 synthesizer, a Moog Voyager synthesizer, a Moog Ring Modulator, a shortwave radio, an electric piano, a toy fan-driven electric organ, a Moog Prodigy synthesizer, a Moog Rogue synthesizer, an AM/FM radio, a prepared electric guitar, three severely damaged acoustic guitars, a Casio SA-5 synthesizer, a Mahalo ukulele, a Barbie violin, two prepared kalimbas, a set of tuned quartz bowls, a tenor and a bass banjo, a Coral electric sitar, a toy drum set, a dismantled piano, various pieces of resonant metal and wood, a standard drum set, an Octave Cat synthesizer, a kora, a balalaika, an electric saz, a wooden flute, a modified deer call, a variety of portable cassette recorders, and lots of voices.

NC CDs recorded in Eden/Greensboro, NC on June 14-15. Percussion on tracks NC-CD1-7 to 10 recorded July 19, 2006.
GA CDs recorded in Roswell/Atlanta, GA on June 16-17, 2006.
FL CD recorded in Gainesville, FL on June 19, 2006.
TN CDs recorded in Memphis, TN on June 23-25, 2006.