Klangfarb

Late winter, 1977 finds Bob Tiefenwerth and Paul Rieger huddled over the console at the 16-track studio. They are mixing their Klangfarb track, Charnel Ochre, later included on the original Best of Baltimore’s Buried album. The engineer has just slashed his ballpoint pen through Paul’s carefully plotted chart of tracks and fade-ins. The chart was on a piece of a shelf paper, several feet long.
It’s later in 1977, a snowstorm, and Paul is in the basement “studio” editing the closest thing to a “klangfarbenmelodie” that Klangfarb would ever do. Bob’s Funky Tune was a series of four keyboard blends playing the melody of the song, but pieced together by splices.