Saturday, February 22, 2020

Playlist

Recorded


I-90 Floating Bridge, Seattle
February 15, 2020
Sonata in A Major K. 83 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

wherein
it might
elsewhere // have been at

before what counts
as balance

If You Were My Love (unreleased version) - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]

voice
person
music
costumery
song
movement

(She likes appoggiaturas as much as Mozart did)

What an experience of a person might be
presented to allow just so much of naked self

what clothes to wear?
hair to do?
face to paint?

other armor

Joseph, lieber Joseph mein - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]

a carol for a pageant
having survived obliteration through all the time passed

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

loop echoes accumulate, dissipate
otherwise they are inactive to the flow: dis-agented, neutralized, abandoned

echo: the past filtered by distance and memory
instant nostalgia

Gradus 200 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [October 2011]

notes and lentils
tendrils drill air
lentils's tendrils

guest
quest

game of frames

roots drill earth
little lintel lentils
and other beans

game of beans

alien beans
go-like
pine cone stones

beans in frames

lintels of lentil tendrils

pine cones
conifer cones

O I been working on the bean frame
been bean framing

(". . . simple words like if and it . . .")

frame farm
farm frame
frim fram

Bad Service and Boredom - Robber's Roost [from Live in Minneapolis]




punkfolk
with Full Toilet tempos

February 16, 2020
Sonata in F Major K. 82 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

If ascending the chord is by a different figure than descending back down then the option opens to switch them up. One could sing these lines, but they truly seem to have been born as finger figures

Damaged I - Black Flag [from The First Four Years]

putting anger on for size
guitar presses down sharp and heavy,
pounds down and presses
squishes

dam'udge

squeaky squeal between the pounds

Feel It - Sun Sect [a Rescued Record]

funk bass
front half back half
of each measure

sits on the balls of its feet
then on the heels of its feet
back forth pelvis shift
of each measure

The Persistence of Memory, for Giselle - J. K. Randall [from Open Space 39]



Understandable at and through every moment and event, this music is helpful to its own self-understanding. This music tells you itself.

Sea, Sea, Sea - Whitney Ballen [from White Feathers, White Linen]



A fully formed song: more like JKR than like Sun Sect.

Corollaries (Down's Up) 160924 - Keith Eisenbrey

so that each note fades to nothing

more like a wood block print than like a drawing
more like an impressed trace than like an inscribed trace

i.e.
not through-composed but rather strophic
testing tensile strength

||

Within the last year or so I went back to these pieces and changed some of the notes. I did this in order to adjust the process of moving across the register limit from high back down around again to the bottom, and vice versa. This was less to benefit these pieces exactly (but I think it did) than to make them easier for me to think about - especially as a part of the larger project to which these belong, because I needed essentially the same flip to happen in a later piece and being consistent seemed to be more clear than not. But I resist remaking all these recordings with the corrected notes. I'm moving on.

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Portal to the Pacific, Seattle
these very long big low tones make the is it over now anxiety a palpable part of the experience of the piece

exploring the crevices that Neal might miss on the steps

Sonata in C Major, K. 84 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

His direct repetitions serve to hold an event still. Otherwise they would forever be running in all directions at the same speed. The kinds of motion are in balance as kinds, among themselves.

The Dealer (unreleased version) - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]

ah,
it's about cards

a photo of a ballad

Independence Day - Bruce Springsteen  [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]

same relation but different angle of shoulder shrug

anthem
hook
dance
ballad
ritual
sermon

Summer - Whiting Tennis [from Three Leaf Clover]



hook based lyric not a ballad
just not hook heavy

Banned Rehearsal 802 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
[November 2011]



in full battle, though it seems so friendly

Bike Tunnel, Sam Smith Park, Seattle
oystrygotts and vestrygoons

not to worry
it's not a real duck

lands deep after launch into composition land, throwing curves at each other by bend of bay, a battle of giants and a spat of sprites

Fickle Sun (II) The Hour Is Thin - Brian Eno [from The Ship]

message from:
message to:

February 17, 2020
Sonata in F Major, K. 85 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

wiggling fingers for pleasure

I've Heard It Before - Black Flag [from The First Four Years]

meta put-on
self parody

Fun Time - Bruce Willis [a Rescued Record]

local boy hangs with his musician neighbors
motown:: about: competence, collective, specialized function, how it's done.

Slavonic Dances op. 72 (#10 in E minor) - Antonín Leopold Dvořák [from Naxos The Very Best of Dvorak]

forgets which key it was headed at
end of 2nd phrase
or is that a sly glance?

Usefully marketable music for social occasions, available for solo, duet, orchestra, infinitely arrangeable

allow time for the old folks to be charmed

Death March - Smokestack and the Foothill Fury [from America's Freedom Death March]



formidable
full body soul voice dance engagement
cinched tight

Corollaries (Up's Down) 161021 - Keith Eisenbrey

Sam Smith Park, Seattle
sharpened
honed
machined
as precisely unambiguous as can be
music as data stream
study question: why might this be useful and to whom?

Sonata in C Major, K. 86 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

Presuming the opening figure to be written as {graphic}
what a marvelously packed toolbox of durations and duration relations.
Always delightful, often astonishing

Blue Lamp (from Heavy Metal) - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]

stage show
album
"greatest hits" is a concept, therefore Bella Donna is a concept album

It may not be the best way to approach someone, but it does provide a sample of sorts. We put up with the notion that being a hit was what the song was about because it is commercial music after all.

Magnificat quinti toni - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]

obsessed with consonant blend
like Partch was

back in its day
serious money
paid for this music

Three Leaf Clover - Whiting Tennis [from Three Leaf Clover]



laid back comfort empathy

Badlands - Your Mother Should Know [live at Skychurch, November 2011]

make an entrance
come out swinging
invoke the muse

Ocean Ambience Rocky Coastline Volume 2 - Pete Comley

Jimi Hendrix Park, Seattle
What are the perturbations of those who perturb the imperturbable?

cavern voice

One would think an entire indexed collection of ocean sounds, impeccably recorded, would be soothing. It is not. It is terrifying.

Isolation of sound
nameable characteristics,
nothing mysterious, extraneous, unnamed
wanders in

hears all
highly classified

February 20, 2020
Sonata in B minor, K. 87 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

What sort of society allowed this to flourish? So tightly bound

harpsichord v piano

harpsichord: note's incipits overwhelm - rational/digital
piano: the harp overwhelms - irrational/analog

rationality overwhelms itself as does ir-
alike unstable

Louie Louie - Black Flag [from The First Four Years]

"it just shows I'm not very smart"

a musician's re-rendition, rethinking the rhythmic premise, playing the Sonics' game.

Hearts and Bones - Paul Simon [from The Essential Paul Simon]

hollow spaces after downbeat or strongbeat
a muttered hook
strong hook
allows wandering away

In Session at the Tintinabulary


Jimi Hendrix Park, Seattle
February 17, 2020
Gradus 364 - Neal Kosály-Meyer

one and two
pulsing bean
might just be
the dryer making that thumping

acting out schematics
software controlled

liberating or confining?
It depends.

Postscripts

delay her but the old rag-topped nag
covered the 600 miles of dark nearly
like swung off at I hadn't since I

don't count
roll a clam shell down a level plane
redwing blackbird on a bare tree top

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