Playlist

Live

September 21, 2019

vectorscores
graphic scores by John Teske
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

Any Ensemble:
Greg Campbell, percussion
Luke Fitzpatrick, violin
Haley Freedlund, trombone
Nel Kennon, viola
John Teske, double bass
Neil Welch, saxophone

swell

ad:sr

prelude

trashfire

intonations:

threadshift

by the fucking neck

bone flute

mauler

libera me

brain slap

klaxon wail

papercut butterflies

blood on the hearth

death rattle

to imagine how fine any ensemble might sound
imagine them tuning

it never isn't tuning
pitch match activity

attention drifting through a space not designed to be attended by that particular attention

alien

(-)

d'y'wan'a tune again?
sure

all together
now a tuning
might be a polyvalent trajectory interwoven

ceremonial

dance -cession :: (pro-) (re-) (ob-)

September 22, 2019
Bill at 93: Clarinet Works of William O. Smith
Gallery 1412, Seattle

Variants for clarinet alone (1967) - Eric Mandat, clarinet

1412 (structured improvisation, 2019) - William O. Smith, clarinet; Greg Campbell, percussion

Epigrams for clarinet (2009) - Robert Spring, clarinet

Evening Ritual (2019) - Rachel Yoder, clarinet

Jazz Fantasy (2019) - Jeffrey Cohan, flute; Tate Cohan, oboe

Five (Six) for clarinet ensemble and clarinet soloist - William O. Smith, clarinet; with Deanna Brizgys, Jesse Canterbury, James Falzone, Beverly Setzer, Rachel Yoder, and Jenny Ziefel; Paul Gillespie, conductor

Largely possibly due to the long residence here in Seattle of William O. Smith, we have an

embarrassment of riches in the clarinet department. On this night that cup ranneth over.

September 26, 2019
Canções Profundas (Deep Songs)
by Steve Peters
Greg Campbell, percussion; Jesse Canterbury, clarinets; Lesli Dalaba, trumpet; Amy Denio, clarinet, saxophone, voice; Steve Peters, saxophone; Christian Pincock, trombone; Joshua Parmenter, additional electronic processing; Rafael Carvalho, viola da terra

an
island

is land

defined

by its shore

is an 

experiment in

isolation

a sweep upward

a most 

particular

land

even from afar

from which
how strange this other
shore must be

and vast

Recorded

September 24, 2019
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing - Robert W. Thygerson - University Temple Chancel Choir, Chris Vincent, conductor

with a light touch airborne dance

O Magnum Mysterium - Morton Lauridsen - Polyphony, Stephen Layton

gooey
really really gooey
lives to linger

Gradus 107 - Neal Kosály-Meyer (October 2006)

the first 6 A-naturals one more time

The silences could be where it is going on elsewhere
prone to wander, Lord I feel it

high tones suddenly close, poke lights

hey!
you awake?

In Session at the Tintinabulary

September 23, 2019

Gradus 356 - Neal Kosály-Meyer

Obvious Observation:
When there is only one note in play, that aspect of musical curiosity that might be called the "which note(s) next?" anxiety is set aside.

leaving: when? how loud? how pedaled? how prolonged? how terminated?

When there are two, anxiety returns

a book

on each page a word

and an aperture

through which aperture

can be read all or some part of

the word on the next page down

or not

in both directions

Postscripts

any more than what is works are fixed what
know how to live without spiritual
or temporal things as substance passive

a crow in the distance

to tell them through the middle

to see how far reaching