Edgard Varése in The Gobi Desert by Paul Elwood performed by Iowa Percussion

Edgard Varèse in the Gobi Desert was composed in 1983 and revised in 1999. Composer Paul Elwood writes, In the summer of 1982, the alwaysinventive Kansas musician Kelly Werts glued and nailed Velcro strips to the soles of a pair of twotone thriftstore shoes and began doing dance steps on indooroutdoor carpet samples. Such was the birth of Velcro tapdancing or negative tapdancing that Elwood describes as the only viable form of tap dancing in the weightlessness of outer Composed for Wert