Playlist

Preface

"Thus, in the public view as well, 'great' music remained inextricably associated with 'big' music. The prevalence of this attitude is perhaps most strikingly revealed by the Hollywood movies about musicians that proliferated in the thirties and forties, in which the great musical moments are never at recitals or during performances of late Beethoven quartets, but in those strange Hollywood concertos that, by stringing together bunches of candenza-flourish clichés without much attempt at actual coherence, were a far more devastating parody of Romantic nostalgia than the wildest flight of dada ever conceived."
Benjamin Boretz - Music - The Nation: October 26, 1963, reprinted in Being About Music, Textworks 1960-2001, Volume 1

Texts

Recorded

November 3, 2019
Sonata in D minor, K. 52 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

a gracious home
designed in a single breath

Symphony in G (#4) - Gustav Mahler - Berliner Philharmoniker, Bernard Haitink

out of doors in the air
possibly haunted
those wafts of ghosts
what are they?
perhaps the dead of many wars
perhaps the skeletal framework of the monarchical order
perhaps the near future
a wandering day
stomp your boots coming in

languid evening in the home
over pipes and tales
one of the servants has a scordatura
so picturesquely quaint

evening quiet
full satisfied
don't look behind the screen
let's not talk of that
as the not talking of that wafts through empty halls
a vacancy in our satisfaction
our strenuously prosperous society
allows this display

we read to the children
else they won't remember us
or our macabre undertones

:: I rather like Mahler's spacious way with meter, operating on several levels of time rates with refreshing and awkward ease ::

Someone Needs Me - Harvey Schmidt - Mary Martin [from I Do! I Do!]

a song of few words

Let's Groove (Instrumental) - Earth Wind & Fire [a Rescued Record]

a song of no words
brass and synthesizers
the comes-along-with instrumental-track-thing
of the eighties
residue of a club scene

Wild Wild Life (extended version) - Talking Heads [from True Stories]

as I was saying
designed for loud speakers
in a wide low ceilinged place
speakers in the four corners
maximum separation
this club has moved to the small screen scene

Carrizo Breeze - Robert Tree Cody, Will Clipman [from Heart of the Wind]

flute and sampled marimba-like machine
and frame drum in our left ear
too much reverb, but otherwise rather nice

Ask Your Question 110906 Draft F Compressed & EQ - Your Mother Should Know [September 2011]

for me who doesn't know what I am doing behind the mixing board
I enjoy it and I can get interesting results
I can see why people really get into it

all of these recordings by Neal and Karen preceded their first gig playing together, in November of 2011 if I recall correctly

Into the Night (live) - Ancient Warlocks [from Ancient Warlocks Live Volume 1]

A Character monologues to create his myth
Hero: a role and its soliloquy

In Session at the Tintinabulary

November 4, 2019
Gradus 358 - Neal Kosály-Meyer

the greater the quantity of notes
in the collection
the more conceptual
or the less concrete
is the notion that the notes are a part of a limited set
that what these notes are about
is the collective of which they are an ostensible part

November 7, 2019

Alle Menschen müssen sterben - Keith Eisenbrey

I continue my quest to record the twelve chorale settings that constitute Part 12 of my work-in-progress Études d'exécution imminent, which appears to be taking the shape, as I compose it, of a kind of multi-roomed gallery exhibit of thoughts about music, scores, composition, and performance.

St. Rage Demos - Karen Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer

I haven't listened to the tracks yet, but we recorded demo versions of three new St. Rage songs. St. Rage is the fictional rock band in Karen's novel "The Gospel According to St. Rage," and in the soon to be released sequel "Barbara and the Rage Brigade." St. Rage is impersonated by Your Mother Should Know personnel: Karen Eisenbrey and Neal Kosály-Meyer.

Don't Know How to Start Over
Punk Rock Drummer Girl
Summer Girl

Postscripts

think steinbeck hand scrawled turning up taped cash
the no checks cashed for more school bus slows and

stops frost gilded my kids the windows flash

two scrambled and an english, tea

no view now

elf ore