Saturday, October 5, 2019

Playlist

Recorded

September 29, 2019
The Memory of All That (pre-release version) - Benjamin Boretz - Megan Berti, mezzo-soprano, Zuzanna Szewczyk Kwon, piano



the setting
if such it is
attends the rhythm and structure of the argument
as much if not far far more than the meaning of the words
or of the whole, of its sentiment

the rhythmic structure of the argument being
as much if not far far more what it means
as what the words end up saying

Huge Guy In The Mosh Pit - St. Rage [live at the Common Good Cafe, Seattle, August 2016]

the words
mosh pit
sung or shouted
as a single word
moshpit
equal accents or nearly so

Sonata in G minor, K. 43 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

the rhythm of its formal discourse
patterning its procedures

formality concerned with formality

El Salón México - Aaron Copland - New Philharmonia Orchestra, Aaron Copland

our own unearned exotic
Northern European derived culture in a clash with Iberian derived culture
mixed with our collective unspoken sins toward our native cultures
North and South translated to the New World
which is as old as ours was

the tell: the folk elements treated as primitivistic color

When the Kids Get Married - Harvey Schmidt - Mary Martin, Robert Preston [from I Do! I Do!]

sax and violin
the oldest team in Vaudeville
(nothing else holds fashion)

Donnerstag aus Licht Act 2 - Karlheinz Stockhausen - Michael Angel, Paul Sperry, Markus
Stockhausen, Annette Meriweather, Suzanne Stephens, Elizabeth Clarke, Matthias Holle, Mark Tezak, Alain Louafi, Majella Stockhausen, Michel Arrignon, Hugo Read, Simon Stockhausen, Chor des Westdeutschen Rundfunks Kolne

waiting with stagy impatience
for something

occupying itself
thumb twiddling
left to its own devices
a(n) [insert collective noun here] of practice rooms

din?
dreariness?
sanatorium?

everybody is in their own individually packaged muffle room

bordello?
grindhouse?

penance?
cloister?
nunnery?

woodshed?
cord?

Just a Touch - REM [from Life's Rich Pageant]

perfect example of what the 80s sound could be
I wrote the word "ouffit" and then "ooffit"
I might have meant "outfit"
not certain
nor what I might have meant by it

String Quartet 2 (Quasi una Fantasia) op. 64 - Henryk Gorecki - Kronos Quartet

incremental disbetterment
something is always still, always hard, scarred
repetition disrupts

who can pen the most dire quartet?
big accordion chords wheeze in the warm strings
all those little wooden boxes set a quivering

always heavy
a weary ever so weary load

those noisy obfuscations are really noisy
its narrative is a jumble
and then he practically plays Silent Night for us

Hallelujah - George Frideric Handel [from Robert Shaw Master of the First Art Vol. 1]

repetitions in stepwise increments
a bit of Scarlatti's formalism as formalism game

"Strummy Song" - Bob Dylan [Key Arena October 2006]

tangled up in blue?
a rhythm section is only as valuable as the freedom it allows

October 1, 2019
Gradus 196 Part 2 [at Chapel Performance Space, August 2011] - Neal Kosály-Meyer - Neal Kosály-Meyer

some foreign agent is making clanky sounds
perhaps they were outside the Chapel
knocking pipes about

learning to press the keys one mechanism at a time
in all the combos of key mechanisms there are
the nearly infinite machine
first rung (of these two): two notes - low and mid
second rung (of these two): one high A

laughter in another more distant sounding space leaks in to this one

throughout of course the fluctuating hish of people-moving machines, their engines, their tires on pavements

the goal is to learn to play piano
by playing this piece which is a piece for learning to play the piano
but only in the sense that this piece and the piano are the same
playing anything else isn't playing the piano in the sense one is learning to play by playing this piece

Siberian Delirium - Crystal Beth and the Boom Boom Band [from Yugen 3]

a hard tight wad in the high back nasal space of the mask
as though robotic

October 3, 2019
Sonata in F Major, K. 44 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

Scarlatti is that fellow you always knew or suspected was worth chatting up
and really was

listening is a life hack
reckless with trajectories

Les Eolides - César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck - New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur

about the downbeat
before it
after it
just above it

buoyant beat
no beat without an essential qualification (not a beat until qualified) (only a beat in that it is qualified)
predicates an invisible bass line
surreptitious line logic

the itness of it is deeply concerned with the preceding and succeeding its of its itnesshood (Daseinsheit?)

Batman - The Who [from A Quick One]

popronicity badge achieved
television and rock and roll
reverse engineered for flavor

Moon Over Main - Dead Kennedys [from Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust]

close interval yodel echoed by guitar
benefits heavily by being indecipherable

gamer music
each segment a play level
playing with what would be fire in firmer hands

That Was Your Mother - Paul Simon [from Graceland]

bar talk story
and the science of the groove-like groove

In Session at the Tintinabulary

September 30, 2019
Banned Rehearsal 990 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer


As we were playing I noticed that the tiles on one edge of the drop ceiling my Dad and I put up 25 years go were sagging alarmingly next to where some had fallen several years ago. Now I need to decide what to do about it. In the meantime we rattled around the room.

Postscripts

morning and the sun was mounting willingly
and the time arrives which laechelnd winkt und
19 sinnend kind betrueben fleht hat

but the troll said (and hungrily
too) I'm going to eat you
the sound

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