Preface
"Is rationality a description of the real or a resistance to it? Does
rationality make claims about the real, or claims against it? Is rationality
in compliance with the real, or in revolt against it? Is rationality
explication or is it denial? Is it justification or condemnation? Is the real
world that which is rational, or is the rational the attempt to create the
real world? Is real equivalent to rational or incompatible with it?"
-
Benjamin Boretz "Fragment from "The Purposes & Politics of Engaging
Strangers: (a sociomusical occasion)"" from "Being About Music Textworks
1960-2003 J. K. Randall Benjamin Boretz Volume 2: 1978-2003"
Texts
Streamed
Wayward in Limbo
With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series now moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is curating and commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of exclusive material. Many of these will be essentially “live” performances recorded at home for this occasion. Others may create a mix of pre-recorded material that has not been previously released elsewhere.
- from the Wayward Music Series website at https://www.waywardmusic.org/.
October 3, 2020
reedy multi-pitch-classed sustained sonority
breathing in chord
breathing out
chord
(constants)
presence emerges
and further fluctuations are discerned
beneath
the husk
densely wound
huge
temple grounds
water feature
rushing calm
tiny
articulations where the turning bands are tied together
deeper within
or further without
out deeper
with
in further
breathing in
with out
with in
the
husk
the heart
whelming
engulfing
Recorded
October 3, 2020
Quartet in F-sharp minor - Arnold Schoenberg - Ramor Quartet, Maria Theresia Escribano
regressing to look behind
moments of voices together at such granularity one
can't ignore the details nor let it slide
you'll be hopelessly lost
in the
blink of an eye
if a segment has a direction then something can follow it
rather than just come after it
closely bound voice clusters composed so as to hear
each interval within
the counterpoint pulls apart the voices
intensity of strenuous intention
October 6, 2020
Scott Joplin's New Rag - Scott Joplin - William Albright
variety is in:
which harmony/figuration follows
chords treated as objects
irreducible
a harmony is, it doesn't become
4 Lieder, op. 4 - Anton Webern - Heather Harper, Charles Rosen
voice and piano respond to each other in kind
expression without word painting
voice and piano each responding to the text
as rhythm and statement
statements have structure
as to how words build things to say.
the songs are tied strictly to their original language
Teasin' the Frets - Nick Lucas [from Allen Lowe's Really The Blues]
ragtime? to keep the dancers unconfused
set piece modulations
ready made
in
their pockets
interchangeable parts
Sadie Lee Blues - Peg Leg Howell [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]
I don't think he was properly done with that song when the 78 master ran out of space
Concert for Chamber Orchestra - George Anthiel - Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Spalding
friendly modernism
chamber music
in that each player
can hear the part they play in
the whole
and enjoy it
following the whole is not a problem
for us
nor for anyone
neo-classical:
the music parts are music parts
I was mostly through it before I noted the absence of stringed instruments
October 8, 2020
Nice Work If You Can Get It - Fred Astaire [from Allen Lowe's That Devlin' Tune]
the song as a dance
sings with his feet
dances with his voice
Music for Movies - Aaron Copland - New Philharmonia Orchestra, Aaron Copland
formal challenges:
must be capable of comprehension
on possibly substandard
sound systems
even when no one realizes it's there
:: nothing fancy enough to
draw attention to its inner workings
:: a frame around or within the
experience
he goes for bright and clear
static harmonic areas
immovable bass
tones
never modulate
as such
stay put
My Little Brown Book - Al Hibler [from Allen Lowe's That Devlin' Tune]
forced quantitative verse?
the syllables he sits on
and those he cuts short
partition the meter
and where they sit
in how the key refolds itself
Concertino for 12 Instruments - Igor Stravinsky - Columbia Chamber Ensemble, Igor Stravinsky
this is Stravinsky's ear thinking, pay mind here kids
Please Say You Want Me - The Schoolboys [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
echo set to POP! on AM radio
piercing
pay off:
the pitch
the poise
the swing
the shattering air
and off it sails
out of the park
into the yodelsphere
in Session at the Tintinabulary
October 5, 2020
Banned Telepath 63 Tintinabulary - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, and Anna K and Neal Kosály-Meyer (phoning from Outpost Lake City)
October 6, 2020
Banned Telepath 63 Toad Hall - Aaron Keyt
Banned Rehearsal 1011 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, and Neal Kosály-Meyer
we gather sound together for you.
Postscripts
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