Preface
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"Text #5 'utility, quality'
'masterwork art, definitive formulation, validated method are among the crotchety gluttons at the feast of brotherhood; not its hosts'"
J. K. Randall - "Fontainebleau" News of Music May 1985
Texts
Live
October 5, 2019
Orchestra Seattle
Seattle Chamber Singers
William White, conductor
First Free Methodist Church, Seattle
Vast Array - Carlos Garcia
Changer Story - Roger Fernandes, storyteller
La Création du monde - Darius Milhaud
The Earthmakers - Carol Sams
Roger Fernandes told us a story about how Beaver made the world.
Carlos Garcia's piece seemed, to me, underdone, full of color and full of color, but dearthed of payoff.
I believe this is my first go at the Milhaud.
Carol Sams pulled out all the stops and then some. A huge piece for masses of folks. I might be able to get a better bead on it if I were to hear it alone. That is, I'm having more and more trouble these days with masses of folks performing for masses of folks. Much of this problem is simply personal to me: I am less and less comfortable being one among a large audience. It stresses.
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| Prom Queen |
Prom Queen's 5th Anniversary 'Midnight Veil'
and
Gala w/ Von Wildenhaus
The Triple Door, Seattle
For our 33rd anniversary Karen and I went out on the town to hear two extremely sexy singers in pretty dresses, each backed by bunches of dudes with pretty guitars and other gears. There was also a film made of music videos from Prom Queen's album Midnight Veil. We had a grand time.
Recorded
October 6, 2019
The Purposes and Politics of Engaging Strangers - Benjamin Boretz - Benjamin Boretz, John Peel, Penelope Hyde, The Barrytown Orchestra, The Goleta Anarchist Music Ensemble
Jim (Randall) says
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that's where quality was thrown (into consciousness) like trash in a can
oy
impervious to analysis or discourse
the very purpose of structure is an alienation of expression
how might one describe a word
the difficulty in producing masterwork art, is that it, as a thing, was never there in experience to experience
to refer to any particular creative expression as a masterwork necessitates the activity of pretending the existence of the class
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the utterances of the knights of most worship
ontological angst
expressive coexplorer
context can not be a method
stubbornly nonverbal facts
should problem people
logically be ostracized altogether
Humoresques - Antonín Dvořák [from Naxos The Very Best of Dvorak]
silent movie music
a story teller's music
its enchantment
Banned Rehearsal 797 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
speaks in communal percussion tongues
the sound is delicate
and directionality is surreally specific
transgressory tom tom
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hear this message from your local bodhrán
Neal ponders the train 16 coaches long
there are characters representing a rhythm section
and chord changes and song lounging not on stage
Helluva Mountain King - Chaotic Noise Marching Corps [from Zero to Lizardman]
pretty darned fun neighbors! punkassgrieg.
October 7, 2019
Sonata in D K. 45 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
full of hesitancies
catches
like clock cogs
Messiah Part 2 - George Frideric Handel - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Chorus, Robert Shaw, Kaaren Erickson, Sylvia McNair, Alfreda Hodgson, Jon Hmphrey, Richard Stilwell, Layton James
to his credit he is clearly concerned with being certain that the words are understood, in every syllable of them
but why do we like sheep?
glorification of the kinginess of Christ
expedient in a monarchy
Lift Up Your Hearts - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey, director [April 1966]
Outside The Rain - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]
another one drifts off
none listen to the end anyway
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Kosály-Meyer 3 - Anna K, Neal Kosály-Meyer [October 1986]
five thousand seven hundred and forty seven
flies on the wall
a quiet dripping measures the conversation
a guitar is plucked
two strings alternating irregularly, open, framing a sung tone
later a conversation in fowl or wee critter talk
names of the actors
Romeo
Juliet
October 10, 2019
Nightingale Whistle - Aaron Keyt [from November Choses]
I was going to listen to the whole set of choses this night
but realized after a few seconds that it was too intense far for that sort of nonsense
bales and whirds
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us
languid and shrill jungles joined at the solvent
Bake Eyes - Yuni in Taxco [from Sanpaku]
the jangle of it, bright, overwhelms
a tiny careful tingly shape
Loser - St. Rage [at the Common Good Cafe, August 2016]
a determined loser
powers attitude through to level two
Postscripts
begins to sing in the second longings
1 of the first stanza concerning this
dark night and its happy traits about which
everything cold
is colder
the blankness of my walls
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