Preface
"From darkened rooms there are those
who peer out through glass more than
half-masked by blinds or shades and
I from a different vantage point
wonder what I wonder at."
- J. K. Randall "ADVT.: Repeat After Me" from "Being About Music Textworks 1960-2003 J. K. Randall Benjamin Boretz Volume 2: 1978-2003"
Texts
Streamed
Wayward in Limbo
- from the Wayward Music Series website at https://www.waywardmusic.org/
June 6, 2020
Noel Brass Jr. - Quarantine Dreams
gentle from the inside and throughout (floats like motes)
finds darker moments embedded in still moving comfort
keeps hold of gentle from outside and through-in
"Jazz-chordal sensibility," if I may be allowed the expression:
::
stacked thirds freely inverted
or with degrees of third-ness invertible
or thirds-degree functionality (as might be scale degree function on a scale of thirds)
with relation to its key
being at a more distant conceptual remove than in classical tendency
its a long way back to tetrachords
::
these chords slip through each other
June 7, 2020
Amy Denio
1. Improvisation #2
2. Improvisation #3
3. New York City
4. New Jersey
5. Roma Italia
6. Connecticut
7. Improvisation #8
8. Detroit
9. Improvisation #7
mouth shapes
vowel blends
cords reeds loops
syllables
melody plays breakdance diphthongs
buoyantly agile in her mouth
June 11, 2020
Bill Horist - Reverse Transcriptase – Bite the Hand that Feeds the Gift Horse in the Mouth (parts I-V)
taut wires whose vibrations
as excited by the guitarist
translated into electromagnetic signals
as input to signal modifiers
controlled by algorithms
manipulated by the algorithm manipulatist
to produce a complex electromagnetic signal
to excite mechanical devices
that produce sound based on those signals
which sound is interpreted
by us
as music
(and quite successfully too)
multiple interweaving parts like voices might imitate mouth cavern shape shifts or drums in rooms
pulse patterns bump against each other
all the parts are gathered in a room
layers of parts come and go
rooms are differently sized from each angle
a sense of templedom prevails
Recorded
June 6, 2020
Track 10 - High Class Wreckage [Live at The Funhouse July 2011]
The guys kept this one together long enough for the guitar solo and all the verses. Drum and bass are the responsible parties.
Track 10 - Pouch [Live at The Funhouse July 2011]
that so useful Batman motif
budubudubudubudu
Chronic Guilt - Vision - Yuni in Taxco [from Slow Charade]
filters out
for presentability
to match the color of the sofa
the song wanders around
he had more words to say
not that he's letting on what many of them are
or why they belong together
poetic rhetoric rubbed smooth
grooving on their own emanations
Human Connection (B Side) - Koko and the Sweetmeats [from Sacrifice]
could be re-arranged into a believable
American Folk Songs for Psychedelicized Youth
underlying blues sensibility to the guitar playing and vocal
one could even image Smokestack doing this (see below)
Wanna Go Home - Smokestack and The Foothill Fury [from America's Freedom Death March]
isometer
so the parts fit together
Photographic Memory - Curtains For You [from After Nights Without Sleep]
going for the full McCartney
with a Grofé clip clop hidden in the backstory
g'night guys campfire on the Alki beach singalong
Night Signals - Journey to the Sea (underlying electronic track) [begin] - S. Eric Scribner [from The Storm Sound Cycle]
We move into it.
We begin to hear through the thick distant frogghosts the sounds of shorebirds or barking seals. Temples mark the milestones along the pilgrim paths. The frogghost hiss is nearer as our steed snorts and snuffles. The niche temples progress. Each nearness new. Shaker frogghosts. It breathes! Or air moves through across the lip of it. A journey but not in a straight line nor a temporally sequential one.
||: here then here then back :|
Stations we pass
(the listening ear's we)
I listen in that person
to be continued . . .
June 7, 2020
Night Signals - Journey to the Sea (underlying electronic track) [finish] - S. Eric Scribner [from The Storm Sound Cycle]
. . . continued:
passage from what might be bird song and what might be sea mammal song
above and below the surface
to what might be ours
distant and low
just catching on awareness
Some sound in the right speaker is disturbing our cat, Ibb. She came right up to it to investigate. Ears nose whiskers eyes.
Sleepless Nights - Eddie Vedder [from Ukulele Songs]
chorus: questions
Goat Rodeo - Goat Rodeo [from The Goat Rodeo Sessions]
rootless
contains stylistic elements
Keys, Wallet, Phone, Gun - Full Toilet [from Full Toilet 7"]
brilliance in bursts of bullets
Magician's Best Trick - Courtney Marie Andrews [from No One's Slate Is Clean]
repentance unspooled
waltz over talk field
unilateral negotiation for
a hypothetical return
but the door shuts
Track 11 - High Class Wreckage [Live at The Funhouse July 2011]
thrill ride
rocket powered downhill surfing
a whole mini-set at the end of the set
with a big fat cadence to close
thanks guys!
Empire's Ending (B Side) - Koko and the Sweetmeats [from Sacrifice]
distant
behind screens of strums and reverbs
Maybe - Smokestack and The Foothill Fury [from America's Freedom Death March]
vocal line traces an articulated mark without lifting its finger from paper. (Harold and the Purple Crayon)
Soundform III (underlying electronic track) - S. Eric Scribner [from The Storm Sound Cycle]
forcing open old doors
Once In a While - Eddie Vedder [from Ukulele Songs]
a knack for threading the needle
sailing the exact course
through Scylla and Charybdis
Ten Dead - Full Toilet [from Full Toilet 7"]
packed in a narrow crate
Dust and Dirt (bonus) - Smokestack and The Foothill Fury [from America's Freedom Death March]
rooted in personal concerns
one to one social
immediately understandable concerns
June 8, 2020
Through a Glass Darkly (underlying electronic track) - S. Eric Scribner [from The Storm Sound Cycle]
It is raining in the sound on the recording.
It starts as naturalistic, a sound field recording with cracks and chinks through which poke glimpses of music. The thunder made the cat run off. As it gets going the set of music bits has similarities to some aspects of Group Variations - its particular flavor of synthesizer sound and rhythm.
Waving Palms - Eddie Vedder [from Ukulele Songs]
a figure study
He's Dead - Full Toilet [from Full Toilet 7"]
slow in comparison to the other cuts, and longer - a whole 1'13"
held by tongs
at a distant
don't let go of it
drop it in the bucket
Music is a Weapon Worth Using - Smokestack and The Foothill Fury [from America's Freedom Death March]
a figure study with doubles
Song from Deep Silence (underlying electronic track) - S. Eric Scribner [from The Storm Sound Cycle]
grouped figures by types of offset and vectors of tuning
post-prepared piano
inside the piano the old-fashioned way
inside like inside its head
messing with it
Tonight You Belong To Me - Eddie Vedder [from Ukulele Songs]
fireside song for share a song sing along
here's one I know
shall we do?
Frogscape (underlying electronic track) - S. Eric Scribner [from The Storm Sound Cycle]
guiro scrape guitar in several directions
attempts to stand upright
Dream a Little Dream - Eddie Vedder [from Ukulele Songs]
a cover I presume
g'nighty night lullaby
Blinding Light (demo) - Stephanie
recorded from the drum throne?
mostly the cymbal of which there is plenty
appealing though, I wish I could hear better what they're singing
June 9, 2020
Day Signals - Sonic Nebula (underlying electronic track) - S. Eric Scribner [from The Storm Sound Cycle]
Its cloudness is more than just the fuzzy fade in fade out (-ness)
more than the textural staticality, more than the uncertainty
(of what is that?)
we are in a tank or culvert
more than all the elements comprising, more than their ionic potentials swarming
more than all it occludes
more than all it pursues
more than all it reveals
than its aimless rage
its flame
this cloud talks
its unvoiced syllables
occupy tongued caverns
more than all it engulfs
Twist 'Til Death - The Downstrokes
twist party cardio workout song
Soundform IV (underlying electronic track) - S. Eric Scribner [from The Storm Sound Cycle]
view from a distance above
Nobody - Pouch
strictly carved
Consort of Voices (underlying electronic track) - S. Eric Scribner [from The Storm Sound Cycle]
I remember, as to The Storm Sound Cycle, something about a chord derived from some sound that was part of the basis for much of it. One of the pieces came closest to simply being that chord, composed out in a more blatant way, and this last may be that piece. Even so there is care taken not to push it to the foreground. Its elucidation as itself insists on subterfugal means. It is underneath where it can't be heard. Its loftiest partials being barely audible at our lowest range.
scan of a still land
alien earth
bells and birds and rumbling
June 10, 2020
Sound Scrolls 7 Four Places on Planet Earth - S. Eric Scribner
frogs birds body bumping hum fire or water hoot wood cracking thunder like an epilogue
Can we be four places at once?
If
one is of two minds
each place at once
need only be
in two for
the two
to be
in four.
frogs in channels
fade out on the squawk bird
June 11, 2020
Pental - Bruce Hamilton
Trace the scent of look elsewhere.
cartoon fish swimming through a bleep bloop level
how did we end up at a Pink Floyd type recorded party-sound party?
Quixingshan - String Quartet 2 (midi version) - Benjamin Boretz
start here
split here
from here
start here
again
step back
start here
split here back
start
St. Andrews Night Recovered - Benjamin Boretz, Dorota Czerner
spooling and spool
no part of this is part of this
spool
there is no piece
perpetual dissolution
dis-spooling
step
by
step
A Special Note from Your Blogger
Being a systematic fellow I started listening through the collection chronologically - in groups of years. At first I was incrementing by 50 years, i.e., I might be listing to all the recorded music I have from the years 1750, 1800, 1850, etc. For a decade or more now, I have been using a 5 year increment. Since February of 2014 I have been listening through that portion of the collection indexed to years that end in "1" or "6."
This last Thursday, the 11th, that set of years was exhausted. Next week it is on to the years ending in "2" and "7." Careful readers will notice a sudden influx of older music. I peeked ahead. There is great stuff out there. I look forward to enjoying it with you.
In Session at the Tintinabulary and Outposts
June 1-2, 2020
Banned Quarantiniad 200601-02 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
I assembled the recordings we made on the first and second. I piled them high.
Postscripts
any was hooked fingers through the mesh big
mcmurphy he with his lady bell's he
said the least black let girl onto behind
circle voice
more than one
monologue in the world
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