What is the sound of a color? Is it the same as the color of a sound? If so, it must be both bright and dark, rich and dry. It must sing its hue to the world, and paint its pitch across the sky.
Featuring bass clarinet.
Breaks expose facets – facets offer perspectives. Such variety is less transparent, but it rewards amply. Yet it also carries risk – the danger of a a breach too far, and an edge too sharp.
Featuring piano.
Being well-used does not necessarily entail being used up. Many items require a period of breaking in – resulting in a resilient litheness that allows for optimal performance.
Featuring clarinet.
So-Called Solutions To The Human Predicament
by Charles Rice Goff III
1 Alex In Wonderland
2 Degeneration Blues
3 The Shriek The Shape The Stare
4 Pay The Subscription
5 Trapped Again By The Weather Merchants
6 Holy Psychedelics
7 So-Called Solutions To The Human Predicament
8 A Permanent Coffee Break
9 I Am Your Analgesic
Goff created the recordings for “So-Called Solutions To The Human Predicament” during the first half of 2026 at the Taped Rugs Studio in Kansas City, Kansas, USA. This collection explores some edges of composition that can be achieved with outdated technologies and an attitude unconcerned with established genres of music. No artificial intelligence ( AI ) was employed in sculpting the recordings presented here.
INSTRUMENTATION :
Voice
Korg R3 Vocoder/Synthesizer
Yamaha VSS-30 Sampler/Synthesizer
Artiphon Orba
Casio AP-24 Electric Piano
Micromoog Analog Synthesizer (original, 1977)
Sounds Sampled From Various Pre-Recorded Cassettes
Hello Kitty Squire Strat Electronic Guitar
Stylophone
Boss RC 20X Loop Station Loop Duplicator
Panasonic Portable Cassette Tape Recorder
Canon Digital Camera Recorder
Diane The Mannequin Hand
SOFTWARE :
Amazing MIDI Wave-To-MIDI Converter
Polysoft MIDI to Mp3 Converter
Musescore MIDI Scorewriter (Version 0.9.6-0.7, 2011)
Roxio 2011 Sound Recorder
Cool Edit Pro II Multitrack Recorder
Audacity Multitrack Recorder (Version 2.1.2, 2015)
Several Plug-In Audio Sound Effects
Microsoft Talk It (1997)
NOTES:
1 Alex Butler helped inspire Track 1: “Alex In Wonderland.” Goff produced a video to accompany this recording in February, 2026. This video and its background story are posted at the link below:
https://archive.org/details/AlexInWonderland
2 Special thanks to original –Ing percussionist: Dennis Briggs, who unknowingly helped create Track 6: “Holy Psychedelics,” by providing Goff with a guitar strap that allowed Goff to limit neck and shoulder pain while picking and strumming.
This colleciton is available on CDR and cassette.
Performance/Engineering/Production
by Charles Rice Goff III
Copyright 2026 by Taped Rugs Productions
www.tapedrugs.com
“Stay well, stay kind to each other, do unto them as you would have them do unto you, be a good person, and enjoy music. This is the story of life. Enjoy music, and be a good person – be a good person to other people, and enjoy music. Then you’ve got it all.” – Sonny Rollins
Featuring jazz trio of organ, drum kit, and clarinet.
In the embrace of the unreal real, we are often overwhelmed. We chase loose notions, seeking candor but finding confusion. It is only through directness that we can discover our intention – act simply, and simply act.
Featuring tenor saxophone.
How does lightning reach the ground?
Inexorably and without repetition, it follows a critical path. Where resistance is least, it descends – and consumes.
Featuring orchestral strings and brass, percussion, detuned piano, electric guitar, drum kit, organ, alto flute, boys’ choir, synth, and effects.
Entwined, betwixt and twisted – beneath a silken sheet. A before and an after, with a coupling on the beat.
Fertility is but assured, as opposites will meet. This is a fecund evening, where creation is complete.
Featuring alto saxophone.
This album reflects on the feeling of a world devolving into chaos and the associated anxiety, while grasping desperately for some kind of sense of normalcy throughout. It’s also about the retreat into apathy or aimlessness.
Secondly, this is an exercise in making musical choices that can stand out in in a world where music can be prompted into existence; or the resentment of even having to think about that in the first place.
Breaking in isn’t always about burglary – it can also refer to the process of getting a new thing settled. Fresh, crisp – but not yet pliable. It takes use and time for many materials to reach their optimal point.
Featuring clarinet.
It’s easy to unfocus – it only takes a moment. That moment can stretch and blur and become something else. Yet there’s more to all this than just being along for the ride. The capacity to experience is an unparalleled wealth.
Featuring piano.
It asks a little of us here – it asks of us a certain height.
We must choose.
Featuring Eb clarinet.
Study, practice, preparation, meditation – lofty ideals and worthy goals. Yet in the moment, all we really want is to scream through a tube.
Featuring didgeridoo, flute, clarinet, and tenor saxophone.
Precious things are often hidden. We choose to protect what we treasure by shielding it from prying eyes, and more. To a point, this is rational – but to a broader point, it’s inevitably best to share what we have.
Featuring alto saxophone.
Smell, like sound, permeates a space. But smell is physically inculcated onto and into the substances it reaches, where sound simply bounces off. Imagine experiencing music as a smell, allowing the sound to stay with you.
Featuring bass clarinet.
Coming from opposing directions, seemingly in disagreement – the triads belie tribalism. Within their cozy group the harmony is clear, but when considered in broader context it becomes uncertain. Yet this conflict is illusory – though they duel, the outcome of their combination is in fact a larger and more beautiful harmony than before.
Featuring electric keyboard.
An attempt to adapt Juicy J’s mixtape Blue Dream and Lean – particularly his knack for transforming hedonistic excess and everyday encounters with violence into mind melting mantras – into an apocalyptic mode that pushes the cultural exchange of sampling to an extreme where noise and pop merge.
Reversed Bear Trap (Krista Bloom) – samples, modular synthesizer, Teenage Engineering Medieval Sampler, pedal rack, production
K7 Leetha – “weird little pulse” (1)
Muratore Family – album art
Special thanks to my friends and colleagues at both the university and the movie theater as well as pan y rosas discos, my family, my partner and my dog; this album is in part a tribute to your support and kindness as I try to make art while also finishing a dissertation.
Empathy isn’t always what it seems – it might simply be sympathy for the plight of another. Superficially, such efforts are still noble – but a deeper understanding requires genuine connection. Supposed empathy, sometimes ominously, fails to meet this bar.
Featuring piano.
Once upon a time there were two mice. Despite their size, they imagined a world where they could do whatever they wished – where all other forces submitted to their designs. They had this dream quite frequently – essentially, every night.
Featuring metronome and saxophone quartet – baritone, alto, tenor, and soprano.
Commencing Tomorrow
by Charles Rice Goff III & Michael LaGrega
1 Uniphonic Dawn
2 Fresh As Copperfield
3 The Way You Wish Them To Live
4 Ever Ever Ever
INSTRUMENTATION:
Goff:
Korg R3 Vocoder/Synthesizer
Yamaha VSS-30 Sampler/Synthesizer
Voice
Stylophone
Artiphon Orba
Boss RC 20X Loop Station Loop Duplicator
JVC TD-W303 Stereo Cassette Recorder
Sound Samples From Random Cassette Tapes
Tascam 424MKIII 4-Track Cassette Recorder
LaGrega:
Moog Matriarch
Oberheim Xpander
E-MU PX7 Command Station
LR Baggs Venue DI Pre-Amp
Fourness Electric Violin
Eventide Space
Mackie VLZ 12-channel Mixer
SOFTWARE:
Cool Edit Pro II Multitrack Recorder
Audacity Multitrack Recorder
Several Plug-In Audio Sound Effects
Amazing MIDI Wave-To-MIDI Converter
Musescore MIDI Scorewriter
Roxio 2011 Sound Recorder
PROCESS:
Goff and LaGrega recorded ninety-nine minutes of unrehearsed improvisations on January 2, 2026, at the Taped Rugs Studio in Kansas City, Kansas, USA. The duo produced four individual recordings during the session, each following its own unique trail of interactive atmospheres and moods. Goff edited these recordings into their current forms between January and February, 2026, cutting the total playing time by roughly half of its original length.
The elements of “Uniphonic Dawn” were recorded first, as a single, digital, monophonic track. Originally intended as a test of the wiring set-up, this piece ended up displaying some considerable interactive artistry between the improvisers. Goff retained its monophonic attributes in his edit.
The other three improvisations were each recorded digitally as well as on cassette tape, through a Tascam 4–Track cassette deck. The cassette recordings broke the instrumentation into tracks that could be edited individually. Staying as true as possible to the ebbs and flows of the original improvisations, Goff removed some of the less compelling materials, moved some other elements forward and backward in time, and sparsely added effects to various bits. No materials from any of the four original recordings were transferred to any of the other original recordings. No new elements were added to any of the original recordings. No artificial intelligence (AI) was employed in the editing of this collection.
THEME (?)
As Goff painstakingly worked to refine these recordings, he became more and more conscious of how they acted together to subtly reveal the rudiments of a metaphorical jumping-off point for a journey into a new beginning. (Of course, this metaphor was conjured entirely by Goff’s imagination, which has often been known to stray from traditional human behaviors.) Goff’s whole “new beginning” idea was reinforced by the fact that this collection of recordings was literally birthed at the beginning of a new year.
This album was recorded between November of 2024 and November of 2025.
The songs were then mixed between November 2025 and January 2026.
The words were written throughout 2024 and 2025 and assembled into song lyric form in the fall of 2025.
All words and music written and performed by Keith Helt. Except for Stutter which is a song by Elastica.
Full album available for free download here: www.panyrosasdiscos.org
Any proceeds from this album will be donated to Assata’s Daughters. www.assatasdaughters.org
credits
released February 18, 2026
Cat cohabitators know – with great cuteness, comes great expectations. Routines are established, and deviations are not tolerated. Habits are enforced by meow and claw, as once an order of events is set into motion, it must be brought to fruition.
Featuring concert and world percussion, including taiko, vibraslap, cuica, cow bell, triangle, udu, talking drum, timpani, snare, xylophone, marimba, fish bell chimes, and lion’s roar.
What’s in a name? That which we call a channel, by any other name would be as off-topic.
Featuring improvised electric keyboard.
