"The magic is that you can believe in your experience, that you have experienced it, what you experienced, without entailing other extra-experiential belief: that is not only optional but diversionary, reductive and dilutive of the experience which you, and only you, can know that you are having, have had, are internally resonated by, have touched transcendence within. You can argue about intersubjectivity, but it hardly matters."
Benjamin Boretz - "Unconnecting the Dots" from "inside in . . . / . . . outside out" Open Space Publications, 2020
Texts
From Recent Arrivals
March 4, 2022
Infrathin Condition 14 - Doug Haire [from Infrathin Conditions]
an industrial roar
might be traffic
or a dynamo hidden away
sounds approach us
stay with us
go from us
perhaps wary
perhaps ignoring
beneath their awareness
birds or faux birds
trucks or faux trucks
An Index of Painfuls - The Paintronic Project [from Paintronics Vol 1]
this is Pete Comley,
an occasional member of Banned Rehearsal
no surprise
some
reminiscences of Frippertronics
apparent loops
throbby enveloped electronica
neighbor sounds
rev their engines quietly
gulls keen off
lifted
in wind wheels
model airplanes
on wires
stand in the middle
and hang on
thanks
I'll watch
the loops are submerging
coalesce
into common throbs
Jesse James - Tom Swafford [from 7th Avenue]
a spirited fiddlish tune
pretty fancy bow work
Water Lilies I - Kurt Rohde - Stephanie Lamprea [from Quaking Aspen]
singing into electronic filterings/effects
a malleable megaphone
and a
malleable room
Recorded
Someday Sweetheart (take 2) - Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers [from Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers, Chicago Days]
enough in common
in what each musician is doing
to elicit an image
of
something
that stays the same throughout
without
that something
ever being
there
as such
Gone With the Wind - Art Tatum [from Classic Early Solos]
dead aim
poking those high notes
at the ends of speed runs
Moose the Mooche - Charlie Parker [from The Complete Savoy and Dial Master Tracks]
8 bars
in light 4
syncopations
regularly irregularized
in a cycle
that could
be the rhythms
of scratches
and
pop on vinyl
Tutti Frutti - Little Richard [from Here's Little Richard]
it's almost
at moments
as though
he steps back
from his own performance
and
looks on
in some amazement
the guitar in this
is fabulous
in both sound
and performance
Dumb Blonde - Dolly Parton [from Hello, I'm Dolly]
clever songwriting
both melodically and textually
no slack at all
Ain't No Sunshine - Michael Jackson [from Got to Be There]
this is downright creepy
especially since it is clear from his voice
how young
he is
She's Always a Woman - Billy Joel [from The Essential Billy Joel]
sounds like a paragraph of Balzac
describing one of his super-pious angel
women
but with a different ideal of womanhood
it's still some dude's projection
this is in Moe's tempo
it
the tempo
only exists in Moe
echoing Dolly's
sentiment
ain't nobody's fool trope
above
U Got The Look (Long Look) - Prince [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
the moving part
of the accompaniment
tracks
the ostensible interest
is almost
hidden
whisper track
among the movable cast of singers
dance is in charge
February 27, 2022
Banned Rehearsal 312 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [November 20, 1992]
an unrecorded event with cello
trying hard
to get something started
we howl at it
roar at it
blat at it
and poke at it
it does not move
John wanted to hit
but was told no
 |
| my journal entry of June 6, 1996 |
such an effort
balcony seat four
knee seat
a baby
on a knee seat
look out fan
here comes the dot dot dot
it's a
small world
but I would not want to paint it
storm is coming
Superman died on
Thursday
of heroism
hark the harried angel sings
angels play trombones
and
harps devils play violins
trombone plays hymn tunes
we gave up getting it to
move
so we're covering it in graffiti
and dressing it up in funny clothes
better than the average bear
now sated
sing us a sea shanty lad
peek a boo
do
knees sneeze
John says Arrr
where toads become Greek
inert
remain
Madeleines - Mary Lee Roberts [from Open Space 9]
throbbingtones come and go
parts
of speech
parts
of phonemes
parts
of the
sounds of speech
not
of the words of speech
but their attractiveness
is not what they're doing
near and far
The Owl and the Pussy Cat - Igor Stravinsky - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey [recorded live at University Temple United Methodist Church, Seattle, February 23, 2002]
the piano writing in this song is amazing
Auf - An Auf [from An Auf]
causes and bloated effects
Boundary - Your Mother Should Know [demo recorded on May 8, 2012]
if the past were a muse
red medicine
you'll need all the names
Three Words - Gaytheist [from Let's Jam Again Soon]
pretty fast
and pretty loud
and pretty distorted
all around clenched
Cowen Park Whipper Snappers - Keith Eisenbrey
even tiny sonic booms
carry a certain authority
February 28, 2022
Fantasia, Fvb 89 - Nicholas Strogers - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
the opening figure
has an almost Bach-like flavor to it
voices and
elaborations
are added
just as one imagines
balance
might appear
drapery
lifted by the body beneath
as the body moves
Goldberg Variations - Johann Sebastian Bach - Wilhelm Kempff
not plausible
as an 18th Century performance
but not without sensitivity
to
that
Kempffs' touch is impeccable
especially on piano
these became a creative
way
to analyze and clarify
what was found in the score
highlighting threads
the connection to the theme
wanders in and out
of the counterpoint
and
figuration games
that he is playing
hiding
then emerging
there is a misalliance
between his chosen meters
and the figurations he composes with
they don't
quite fit in the same times
which generates elaboration
the figures float
on
the meter
and the meter
often
disappears or liquifies
sometimes they fight
Symphony in F Major, Op. 93 (#8) - Ludwig van Beethoven - Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan
even if
die Urlinien and all the zwischen layers
are ascriptions
this music
is such that
an image of background processes
is
as it were
front
and center
else
the slow builds
evaporate
into repetition
without plausible
reason
but phrase balance
and imbalance
is clearly as much a part
of that
image
as post-Fuxian pitch logic
in other words
it isn't just
what the pitches
are
but also
their exact functional durations
within the presented
metrical
phraseological
framework
Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 64 #1 - Frédéric Chopin - Peter Katin
for instance
the exact number of measures
of the intro
groupable in 4s
continues over
into the subsequent phrases
and the rubato-added time
at some
of their ends
bends
our time sense
befuddles our count
such a relief to get back to the firm and countable
here the count
floats on his fingers
there might be symmetry
but it isn't in
your face
Walkin' Blues - Robert Johnson [from The Complete Recordings]
he presents
a limited number of phraseologies
in most of these tracks
but he's
telling stories
and each story is new
common frame and licks nothwithstanding
Big Fat Woman - Lead Belly [from Where Did You Sleep Last Night, Lead Belly Legacy Volume 1]
not a song-written song
a fragment
with a scat verse
'Round Midnight - Miles Davis [from 'Round About Midnight]
circles around
with odd-tempo-ed breaks
(tempoid?)
sax solo
in a new time
after the tick tock break
Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
it's about the bass line
and
that girl
rhymes with it
Bye, Bye Baby - Big Brother and the Holding Company [from Big Brother & the Holding Company]
Janis seems to be on a tight leash
Sisters, O Sisters - Yoko Ono & John Lennon [from Sometime in New York City]
message and slogan
doth not a music make
I suppose it was the times
complete with violins
Please Mr. Gravedigger - David Bowie [from Starting Point]
literally in character
a quick little horror story
Lady, Lady, Lay - Bob Dylan [from Before the Flood]
keeping close
to his big accent
last syllable
I think that I have never SEEN!!
a poem as lovely as a TREE!!
the day the cats tried to drown the alligator
tonight
in the toilet
boofheads
of cats
Amnehitabel says meow
long after our usual bed time
cataloging in
order
a new little ocarina
at a party
to see an old friend
at my folks' house
the day before
we saw Morris the Cat
Karen is supine
the cats are wrasslin'
the new bells
and the kalimba
when new
we're weary
guitar and kitchen sink
running water
the plumbing
as it knocks
sometimes we wonder
why we leave the
house
poultry picnic
tuna for cats
this pen is about done
got a new one
yer
are kitties
yer are
go out every day
to wear them boofhead clothes
then we
get to feed our cats
wear a cummerbund and spats
the national anthem
oh hum de
dum
talented sister
takes bow in pink sweats
it is Spring
the sun scootched up
read the boospook story
in the dark
competitive
synchronized
groaning and
moaning
I had a moose in my hair
and an alligator in the toilet
and a piano in
the house
the cats drag necklaces around
they are jewel thieves
Anarchy is
purring
stupid with tiredness
the orange glow in the back
we put out street
lights
a synchronicity event
Wurlitzer sounds foreign
we still have balloons
on our ceiling
the balloon massacre
from Karen's shower
March 2, 2022
Down Came a Lady - Seeger Family [from Animal Folk Songs for Children]
a song as a fragment
a rhyme twice (same one)
swapped out Mrss in blue
(as
there were two who came down)
Banned Rehearsal 465 (side B) - Isaac E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [September 11, 1997]
immediate focus
time at a specific atmosphere
new notes don't alter where we
are
they further specify
nouns to learn
Isaac has a fuss
but brief
the Mighty
Wurlitzer has a moment
toy piano
takes us to the outer rings
where the other
toys live
their passive lives
we have relaxed
but remain specific
and thus
the
analog years
are ended
relaxed social music
sophisticated backgrounds
suitable for forgetting
troubles
Consider the Birds 22 - Keith Eisenbrey [February 3, 2007]
longer bursts
we can follow their paths
through an obscuring framework
we
ascribe intention
to the sounds
as bursts
Maybe It's Not Permanent - Swamp Meat [from Tomorrow]
I love the sloppydrunk
recorded in a gymnasium
feel
Ghosting Doubles (third sighting) - Keith Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey [recorded live at University Temple United Methodist Church, March 24, 2018]
demonstrating composition
explaining
what I am about
in so many notes
the
phrase shape
of Amy's Ghosting
remains
as an aural after-image
Eisenbahnscheinbewegung - Eric Nathan [from Missing Words]
uncertain footing
or place within place
Alman, Fvb 90 - Martin Peerson - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
at what point
did cantus firmus with variations
as a format
give way
to binary
form thinking
whence
did it arise
Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet, BWV 212 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Forster, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Lisa Otto, Josef Traxel
we survey the grounds
imagine an opera Buffa
by Mr. Sacred Music himself
keep
the lines relatively blockish
and square
flute strings & continuo
two?
soloists
low budget
there's at least one horn back there too
big spender
word
painting
is more blatant than usual for JSB
la-ha-ha-ha-ha ha-ha-ha-ha-chen
drives it into the ground
{from my journal entry of December 22, 1994:
being rather simple of surface texture - a-purpose.
he ends up sounding a
little like CPE.
[NB: hm]}
Sonata in C minor, Op. 111 - Ludwig van Beethoven - Rudolf Serkin
an attempt is made
to give it a through line
without
quite
breaking the piano
revolutionary fervor
a work in progress
as each variation progresses
bits fall
off
go in their own directions
end up
as trill flotsam
Valse in C-sharp minor, Op. 64 #2 - Frédéric Chopin - Alfred Cortot (1925)
narrative
each portion
is a dancer's story
dives in
whirls out
{from my journal entry of August 16, 2004:
Some kind of extreme example of what one camp would call flexibility and another might call an outrage on the noted rhythms. A brave rubato, boldly spoken.}
Her Name Was Hula Lou - Carolina Tar Heels [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]
we sure do a lot of accusing each other
with not being true
shake a seaweed something
fun harmonica playing
Indiana - Original Dixie Land Jass Band [from Evans 78s]
this transfer
has a toothsome overlay
of vinyl noise
the rhythm of which
does
not aid
but certainly abets
the comprehension
of the band's
slithery rhythms
cuts off before the music's ostensible end
proto pink panther
same tempo
or nearly
the same
peekaboo play to open
Henry
Mancini
no doubt had
it in mind
ultra suave hip jive
'Deed I Do! - Blossom Dearie [from Blossom Dearie]
Gershwin/Porter type lyric play
(Walter Hirsch)
keeps the center of the song
on light cleverness
for smart set patrons
Symphony - Irving Fine - Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Joel Spiegelman
1
walking down the street
minding my own
when I see
and when I comprehend
what
I see
it is done
and I land here
far from all
and now it is night
2
awake!
still dark!
urgent preps
what to take
what to leave
must depart
pronto
3
are
we
still?
where?
far from
take care
they approach
filled-out questionnaire with comments
Duncan - Paul Simon [from Paul Simon]
first person
barstool character study
Paul struts his songwriting stuff
Remote Control - The Clash [from The Clash]
vocal wanders from side to side
with the line breaks
I can
eventually
pick up
the words
but only those he repeats multiply
In Session at the Tintinabulary
February 28, 2022
Banned Telepath 82 South - Steve Kennedy
Banned Telepath 82 Tintinabulary - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer
Banned Rehearsal 1046 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer
The two Telepaths 82 combined.
We started doing "Telepaths" during the first
year of Banned Rehearsal, in 1984.
We had been making tapes more-or-less
regularly for a few weeks,
but one week Neal was going to be out of town.
We felt that we were on a roll
and didn't want to skip
so Aaron and I made a tape in Seattle
and Neal made a tape in Bickleton
on the same day.
When we were able to get the two tapes together
(they were cassette tapes back then)
we mixed them,
without regard to lining anything up,
to make the finished Banned
Rehearsal session.
We continued this practice during our various episodes of
geographic dispersal,
and now, during the pandemic,
it has served us
well.
March 2, 2022
Anybody's Fingerbook 3x3 (augmentational) C D A - Keith Eisenbrey
March 3, 2022
Anybody's Fingerbook 3x3 (augmentational) D A B - Keith Eisenbrey
I recorded this in the morning. I have one more 3x3 to record then it's on to the 5x5s and the 7x7s. Whew!
Rungs for Neal (page 3) - Keith Eisenbrey
Rungs for Neal (page 4) - Keith Eisenbrey
I recorded these in the evening.
These finish up this set of recordings
of the
last score
within my Études d'exécution imminent.
I am quite enamored of these
and I encourage you to give them a listen
if you have a few minutes of quiet.
March 4, 2022
Joshua Tree Prelude 5 - Aaron Keyt
I finally got this one to go
twists of 16th-notes
moving along at a fair
clip
Postscripts
Skaldmud's Doodle Gallery
the last three doodles from 1987
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