Saturday, November 23, 2019

Playlist

Preface

"We, in other words, presume to decide and create what reality is to be, while you presume that what you decide and create is what reality is and must be. Ladies and gentlemen - metacolleagues - I submit that we are both at the very least insufferable, and share a common stake in concealing from the innocent world our social unsavoriness. That, in fact, is why we both need humanists and journalists to misrepresent us publicly as if we had permissible manners and redeeming social value. Lord help us all if they ever turned on us the sharp critical tools of our own methodologies, in place of the nice soft soap they have been accustomed to use. Until that fearful juncture, at any rate, we can share at least the tranquil joys of that impunity which comes uniquely of being thoroughly misunderstood, even by one another."
Benjamin Boretz "Musical Cosmology For the Physics Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, 2/19/76"
- reprinted in "Being About Music Textworks 1960-2003 J. K. Randall Benjamin Boretz Volume 1: 1960-1978"

Texts

Recorded

November 17, 2019
Selections from The Sound of Music - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey, director; JoAnne Deacon, piano [April 1966]

with interludes
to take us one song to another
JoAnne in fine fettle

Hey! That's my own Mom singing Lonely Goatherd and Edelweiss !!

The Highwayman (Remastered) - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]

the likes of those
country watershed, denizen of

gaudete, gaudete - The Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]

a concertante (quasi)

Across Lapland - J. K. Randall [from Open Space 39]

fitting for variations of the theme and kind
composer in the works

Ask Your Question Mix K - Your Mother Should Know [September 2011, remixed January 2013]

2 3 four
quite fine in many ways

Circles - Ease [from Roots]

Gothic Buzzcocks go ro co co
sci fi action adventure
very guy

November 19, 2019
Sonata in G Major, K 55 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

How do these disparate tonalities seem to go together
with each other?
How is this a piece?

image of an intricate mechanism

Symphony No. 3 - Aaron Copland - New Philharmonia Orchestra, Aaron Copland

a panoply with motor pulse stand in for tour guide
all gung ho muscular Americana
with a pudgy sentimental filling
orchestrated to sound fine in the cinema
bright and brassy

Copland tries on Shostakovich's glasses

Hey hokey folks! Let's tip cows!

activity above all
motor it!

Also sprach Captain America

for all the bombast, fails to deliver

November 21, 2019
Arkansas Traveler - Louis Riendeau and Larry Reindeau [from The Art of Field Recording Volume 1]

what language is that? Swedish Cajun patois?
music interloped with crazy talk story talk
tight knots of pitch work
learned that in Canada

Moral Majority - Dead Kennedys [from Plastic Surgery Disasters / In God We Trust]

true colors for the preacher man
pablum for the disaffected 13 year-old

Assembly Rechoired 9 - Alison B, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Nan H



homely and meta
subdued stereo spread
rattles ease it open

each of us
does the best
we can
to transcend
all of us together
and still be each of us
each of us gathered

holy bone
a relic
from a

Holy Cow!

In Session at the Tintinabulary

November 17, 2019
My soul doth magnify the Lord - Karen Eisenbrey, soprano; Keith Eisenbrey, composer/piano



I have been working for many months, in fits and starts and putterings, on a setting of the passage in Luke known as The Magnificat. Karen and I will be presenting it at the 10:30 Service of University Temple United Methodist Church, Seattle, a week from this Sunday, on December 1, 2019. The modifications to the King James version of the text are mine.

November 18, 2019
Gradus 359 - Neal Kosály-Meyer, composer/piano

single time of attack
of instantiation
start point

temporal order doesn't interfere with registral order or dynamic order (though d.o. here tends to also
be flat (unordered) or believably so.

register determinate
material
segments bundled

can stick in a register
or wander
or reach out from
or pulse
or slosh

figuration matrix:

| single pitch || single start |
| duple pitch || duple start |
| single pitch || duple start |
| duple pitch || single start |

November 21, 2019
O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig - Keith Eisenbrey, composer/piano



Postscripts

it begins to sing in the second verse
fired with love's urgent longings 1 of the
first stanza concerning this dark night and it

stones
time
blunders ahead

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