Preface
"It seems clear that music never asks us either to make or experience it: in fact, it is helpless (indeed nonexistent) without us. We make music, because we need yet other ways to talk (to manifest more than our mere existence, as Herbert Brün would have said) and to enhance our physical and mental environments. Anything from the idea of music as political tract or personal rant to that of music as architecture or ecosystem - (cathedral, sermon tantrum, wolf-pack or rainforest) - may serve to both initiate and elucidate its complexities. . . .but"
Robert Paredes "Might Never Have Been: To and For Benjamin Boretz" Open Space Magazine issue 19/20 fall 2015/spring 2016
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LiveMay 10, 2019
Camarones Orquesta Guitarristica
Ramona
Dead Bars
at The Kraken, Seattle
This was so much fun!
Neal - Many thanks for the ride to and from!
COG is from Brazil - BRAZIL!!! - a guitar orchestra led by the electric bass and the bass player and her swinging hair
Karen thinks they may have heard The Ventures, or if they haven't they ought to
The others are local or started local back to visit to join the party to celebrate Dead Bars album release. They all put on a truly enjoyable party in the oven that is the Kraken on an unseasonably toasty May evening baking us in a multitude of carefully calibrated variations of the old Ramonesy we're a happy family punk beat.
which: is there to create a springboard floor upon which to pogo slam and slosh about in the moshing up front so then
Karen and I moved up to the front row (but at one end because we're not stupid about being old) for Dead Bars' set to let what freak flags we have fly and to enjoy being part of the mosh slosh. One might not think it from the outside, but everyone up there is looking out for everybody else, gently guarding the possibility of vulnerability.
physical but quite aware of contact's context
Recorded
May 4, 2019
Sonata in G minor, K. 4 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
local tonality clarified by its mode of suspension within the figuration patterns
and vice versa
the passage of Virginia Woolf's Orlando wherein marriage is the mania that sweeps all things Victorian portends
a response to a cultural cataclysm
there will always be a reaction
given a cataclysm
from piano plunking to full tutti scoring Broadway glitz and glam
Trinkle, Tinkle (take 2) - Thelonious Monk [from The London Collection]
this time
every keystroke
tells
White Girl - X [from Wild Gift]
plot the ratio of female vocal
to male vocal
in terms of duration allowed
the social picture of who absconds with the story
like measuring screen time in frames
counting lines and words
Janie Don't You Lose Heart - Bruce Springsteen [from 6 B-sides]
pop music as a service industry
providing comfort in convenient packages
strong unfussy songwriting though
one should studio fade a comfort song because that gives time for the comfort consumer to wish it would go on for ever
Sedimentary - AMM [from The Nameless Uncarved Block]
suspended but brought down through the echoed deep
a process of tiny things invisible adds up in the dimmest murk light
approaching the darkness of beneathness earth descends to carry earth upon its back
earth upon earth upon earth
heaven's burden is light
crabs on caffeine and all that pounds down upon us
and the relentless solar wind
Whispering Ancestors - Dean Evenson [from Native Healing]
ancestor worship
a projection of filiality into the void
they of the past in our future abode
culture question: Is there a general connection between this continent's indigenous culture's music and the function of healing, or is it a more narrowly held shamanist practice?
Liebeslied Amended - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey [recording of June 15, 2010]
From my very first sight read through of Ben's original piece I wanted it to lilt a little
why?
I suspect now that I was wrong
or: in which I demonstrate the sense in which I immediately and continuously heard this as a Tristan piece
this time the repeat is a simple surprise
and it is a luscious score for damper pedal enthusiasts
Karen and Neal are sounding pretty good there
The Great Silkie - SeaStar [from Never Go Back]
sounds like the Velvet Underground doing Fairport Convention
Canals of Venice would dig this
May 5, 2019
Sonata in D minor, K. 5 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
so graceful in its pivots
liberated from obsessive
no fuss just do it
obligatory elaboration
Eyes Of My Beloved - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey [April 1966]
motet arrangement
for groups
because that's what folks did when they got together
so arrangers were required to produce entertaining activities such as the singing of motets
Pat A Pan - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey [December 1971]
with recorder! an instrument that my Mom was to have a long and happy relation with for decades after
Halloween - Dead Kennedys [from Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust]
straight line
then divergent
independent strands provide a place to dance
different bounce in the floor boards
The Kosály-Meyers 1 - Anna K, Neal Kosály-Meyer [June 1986]
we begin the long era of separation as Neal and Anna are now in San Diego
Aaron was still in Berkeley
just Karen and I left here in Seattle
(good thing we got married or folks would have wondered)
tape epistles link the coast
one could hardly get further apart along it than S and SD
His didgerido does a buzz bee swarm effect as he circle breathes and moebially waves the du end within magnetic range of the channel poles
or indeed the recording device is doing it or this is just its failure
then the ritual I am where I am dance
Neal wanders restless the knock on soul's door
we are having an explore
it is one thing until it is another
a song by Neal
Can't Hear The Words
Shaker Suite - Canadian Brass [from Red, White & Brass]
a gift
to be
Track 6 - Seattle Chamber Music Festival [July 1991]
domestic scenes
the children used
to make up theaters
getting very close to the final version
definitely a Liebeslied influenced piece but through my chart a journey to where the blue milk's lullaby
number and pattern in action to freeze a span
Is It Serious? - Joel Gressel [from Milton Babbitt: A Composers' Memorial]
electronic
digital
more malleable
organ
glow-eyed aliens in clean room console arrays
goofing off
the simultaneous display of all the far distant instances of a communication seen from within their glowing eyes
May 7 and 9, 2019
Swarm + Stew - Neal Kosály-Meyer - Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, Ione, Neal Kosály-Meyer, Pauline Oliveros, Margaret Sunghe Paek, Greg Powers [recorded live at the Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, July 2016]
30 minutes before the show the sound check was insurrected by the performers
a plea for that silence which is the absence of inappropriateness
compositional prolongation of the decrescendo of hush that precedes the ceremony of musical expression
extended maximally
lonesome train country blues
in the back of what arises
a congregational breathing coalesces
or joins
bone to bone sinew at this sunset
a starter drug
a permittor
(language mistrusts music, fears it, co-opts attention)
dangerous dancers
Stu Dempster reunited with the infernal racket bulldozer, his old friend
In Session at the Tintinabulary
May 6, 2019
Banned Rehearsal 981 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer
we convened on the porch
Postscripts
according to harm tear in wants order
against these because others give it up
prayer works so that they abandon prayer
increment
through matrix
trace result
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