Preface
"My intention is to tell of bodies changed
To different forms; the gods, who made the changes,
Will help me - or I hope so - with a poem
That runs from the world's beginning to our own days."
- Ovid "Metamorphoses" (translated by Rolfe Humphries)
Texts
Recorded
December 28, 2019
In The City - The Who [from A Quick One]
municipal siren's song
immemorial
Rawhide - Dead Kennedys [from Plastic Surgery Disasters / In God We Trust]
spirited!
quasi-cover
re-imagined song
as much as he mocks it
he is enjoying himself
doing this
Assembly Rechoired 11 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey [December 1986]
weightless harmonic breaths
slowly reading lines in German
Klopstock?
thumb piano and the free reed blow harps
perturbations in the persistence of doing a single thing
hoot mug
holey
hoot mug
 |
| that tree |
(we have the ornament, with the birds, yes, in a cage)
I'm sure I have a picture of that tree
tuning the fretted lap strummer
[what is a piano? battle zither?]
cow bells again
feel no pain
fist whistle
wood branch horn
Karen plays hymn tune on the fretted lap strummer while I play hymn tune on the sasquatch horn. Something fell over.
bangclunketbangetybang
thump
Untitled (Slow Waltz) 2nd Version - Gavin Borchert - Keith Eisenbrey
dyads in the LH |chick chick| part of the |boom chick chick| figure
each functional bit of the figuration follows a distinct path
achingly lovely weird modulation series
pull out of it by appearing as if it hadn't just landed you there out of complete elsewhere man
continuing by momentum right out of one's mortal coil
those last two dyads
from the |chick chick| bit
Banned Rehearsal 711 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [November 2006]
xylophone whistle horn (cornet? alto?)
go for the bangclank equipment
softly
a gong
goes bong
QUACK!
DUCK!
take it from the big hooting the very big hooting
rootntootn
moving a round sound around
playful (at its essence)
play pretend
pretend play
redundant: play and pretend
Neal and I play the lets tune game on big buzz pipes
a softer mallet is used when striking right to the ring of it
December 29, 2019
autumn sonar - Triptet [from imaginary perspective]
drums are in a rolling barrel time zone motor
guitar and horn search the fog and murky water
At the beginning I am establishing articulation points
sonographic nodes
posts
map pins
taking time to do it right
careful
taut not learned
scary dense polyphony elucidated in pitch unison sequence
Sonata in A Major, K.65 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
just possibly the most lucid composer of the 18th Century
Finnegans Wake Chapter 6 (continuation two) - James Joyce - Neal Kosály-Meyer [December 2019]
. . . Five
note how unique each rhythm of phrase or line or sentence is!
full of repetition and reference
answer: poor old Joe
six: answer (Kitchen with Dinah] tik.
seven: who are this list
answer: eight
and how are your maggies?
answer: descending melody of repeated stressables
nine: panaroma eye of a noodle shake again oh how starling
answer: a collide or scape
10 (ten): answer.
read and spoken
speculating the voices that speak
the thrall of our lies
I hope they threw away the mold
lists of name with cough obbligato
not even to the charmer maid . . .
January 1, 2020
Happy Jack (acoustic version) - The Who [from A Quick One]
ironic novelty song
attitude is all it has
Seconds - The Human League [a Rescued Record]
we do love our synthesizers
stands for meaningful if topical
meaningful if you know what it is about
if you don't, not
can't be until it reverberates itself
Resistance at Brechemin (second set) - Chris Cochrane, Doug Henderson [March 1986]
Ideally, figurational stability should become invisible
and provide a framework that illuminates otherwise inaudible aspects of an iteration
love their synthesizers too
but treat the knobs as a thing to twiddle, rather than as a thing to set
not to get a sound
but to follow them in the air
two levels of instrumental sound:
the performed
and the peripheral
their economy of coexistence.
this sound is song
and this isn't
songsound
and notsongsound
this sound is the jamming of the songsound
the jamming part of it
Untitled (Slow Waltz) 3rd Version - Gavin Borchert - Keith Eisenbrey
the piece
consequently
ends numerous times in sequence
each more endingly that the last prior ending
The Hunters Return - Robert Tree Cody, Will Clipman [from Heart of the Wind]
gestures signal the ending
the players signal each other
The Day That You Deleted Me - Your Mother Should Know [October 2011]
with the mass horn section! (I had recorded several takes of Mike Gervais on saxophone and Neal Kosály-Meyer on cornet, then used them all)
Hanging On The Telephone - The Tim Version
wordy
the purpose of the hook: structural anchor (dead weight)
Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 66 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
pay mind to the ends of anything
Finnegans Wake Chapter 6 (continuation three) - James Joyce - Neal Kosály-Meyer [December 2019]
. . . not even the charmer maid
eleven
as the gates may be
temporarily wrapped in obscenity
little brattons
let
me be
Los Angeles
the mooks and gripes
I was operating the blue light at the time
Karen the white.
a woman of no appearance
an invisible [house?]
no applause please . . .
January 2, 2020
Man With The Money - The Who [from A Quick One]
hints at a story behind the song
like a song from a musical
trying to deal with punk but trapped in a blues heart
Reading: Luke 1:18-22 - The Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]
pronounced like might have been olden time like
Untitled (Slow Waltz) 4th Version - Gavin Borchert - Keith Eisenbrey
it gets to the edge
and peers over
into it
with steady purpose
(shorter each time around)
Slavonic Dance #2 in E minor - Antonín Leopold Dvořák [from Naxos The Very Best of Dvorak]
all in the surface
nowhere to gain purchase
more resumé then music
In Session at the Tintinabulary
December 30, 2019
Banned Rehearsal 996 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
last of the decade
Postscripts
the job was going to be one pass the
boy the elder one's naughty lebziatnikov
a bird flutters through the sun
the dragon
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