"Through some malign influence, now everyone
demands war's horrors -
against omens, against fate."
Vergil - "The Aeneid" (translated by Shadi Bartsch)
Texts
From Recent Arrivals
April 29, 2022
Reflections (Care Enough) - Mariah Carey [from Glitter]
piano solo intro solo
signals sincere ballad anthem
using compression on her vocal
or something
so that
her
small sounds
and her back of the stadium belts
are all at about
the same volume
Greatest Show on Earth - Michael Jackson [from Ben]
a part of the world of make believe
Recorded
Banned Telepath 11 San Diego - Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [March 24, 1987]
a mutter in the corner
an ingenious combination of natural sounds
and enough syrup
thinking or reading
to oneself
aloud
the peaceful world
begins in the kitchen
a quiet confusion
of sufficient magnitude
high voltages inside
lunchtime
longitude
latitude late snack
refer to page 5
minimizing the
volume of the amplifier
is recommended
the pursuit of happiness
the best text
of the history of philosophy
the search for
happiness
the capture and imprisonment of happiness
your Summer
sizzles
I write down the words I hear
as a habit
I hear
clarinet and trombone
Stu and Bill ?
on tape
someone sings
with guitar
there may be an additional uncredited person in the session
the chalice is in a castle
the entire kingdom is desolate
all the people of the castle vanished
he suddenly remembers
what he had forgotten
the Graal
serves Edward Bear
special today
no ice cream
no fudge sauce
no sprinkle
nuts
no cherry
no whipped cream
it's a San Diego Sundae
Super Mario Brothers
you're playing with power
in defensive
posture
April 24, 2022
The Dutch Suite - PDQ Bach [from Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion]
a lighter touch on the humor in this one
not so many broadly ribald
anachronisms
plenty of them
just not ribald
nor broad
the movements are ample and largely in character
droll under-humor
Banned Rehearsal 474 (Pete's recording) - Pete Comley, Isaac E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [November 22, 1997]
tromblatting goose honk flock
stubborn octaves
scalar ascension
whirly winds
drummy shakes
now we're on parade
the
land of sixths and cowbells
clownhorns
a chorale on the snoring
porch
the past at a distance
meanwhile
at the space port
preps are made
for a delegation of hypersentient pinnipeds
prepare the galumphing grounds !
the evening bird calls
the sax does not want to go to bed
nothing
settles
make no more sound
sound off
loudaspossible bone blats
piano stubbornly
doctrinairely placing
dyads
ladderly drums as flooring
holding the latter bells and
synths
the wind that blows
piano stubborn ascent
we are
climbing through a wilderness
we are beset by this sound
and
finally relaxed into
briefly
with little
but some
relaxation
this music is a struggle by main strength
a
battle of will
a struggle on failing ground}
Rise Up Shepherd - Mark Hayes - Prospect Choir
old folk gospel
given the Andrew Lloyd Weber treatment
Consider the Birds 37 - Keith Eisenbrey [February 3, 2003]
the shape of the pitched journey
transformed
into sequences of
location bits
film frames
projected just a little too slowly
Girl Gone Wild - Madonna [from MDNA]
ironic scorn of moral compunctions
Distracted Driver - Your Mother Should Know [recorded live at Victory Lounge, Seattle, March 27, 2017]
eating marshmallow peeps
Looking for Somewhere to Hide - Star Anna [recorded from a live stream from Fiddler's Inn, March 7, 2022]
all the pre-gig setup
conversation first, tech check
Excercise, Fvb 111 - Traditional - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
rolled homophony in square phrases
forming a larger squareness
Cantabant Sancti - Peter Philips - The Tudor Consort, Peter Walls [from Cantiones Sacrae Quinis Vocubus]
spilling imitations
spring shoots and buds
a contemplative garden
dedication to a text
garden bed
answers
to garden bed
Sonata in D Major, Kk. 178 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
pre-galant movements:
moves the ear one way street
galant movements:
moves the ear between single motions
String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 #1 - Franz Joseph Haydn - The Kodály Quartet
upon what terms
a return to the home key
is negotiated
menuet and trio format
is pre-galant
but allows musics to be
compared
within a specific crossbalancing rubric
inner movements
in related keys
tonally exploitive
Sonata in D minor, Op. 124 - Carl Czerny - Martin Jones
begin your opera
at the moment of maximal cathartic awe
fill in
the story behind it
a little at a time
the handsome hero
the
buckling swashes
and rescues perilous
the calm resolves
domestic peace
orderly
bourgeois
only as courtly as is pious
every saucer in its place
in the evening
a game of cards
chapel in the morning
so peaceful
such comfort
antique
style variations
grumbly bass figures
point forward to growing
resolve
doings
one doing
and preparations are made
so
much to get done
here's the mechanical contrivance
uh oh!
there's that cathartic thing of awe figure
what's it doing here
??
must be time for heroics again
return to the opening of the first
movement
new Romantic
big finish
Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 64 #3 - Frédéric Chopin - Alfred Cortot (1943)
weightless on the dance floor
that fellow looks clumsy at first
but an old fashioned grace comes through
no chord sees past its change
no change sees past its cycle
music
within a room
Where Is the Sun - Billie Holiday [from Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia]
tunes follow the rhyme
and rhyme follows the tune
her phrasing is
done
so that
neither the rhyme
nor the tune
clunk
This Is Always - Charlie Parker [from The Complete Savoy and Dial Master Takes]
thinking about the art of arranging a song
so that it sings itself and
never flags
it floats all the way out to the end
Partitions - Milton Babbitt - Robert Taub
what is its size
small enough to pick up and carry
though some
parts
may swing around and pinch
so be careful
if you try
keep the conceit simple
repeat
sell
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
blues from the gut
where the beat hits with psychedelic mosquitos
Country Wine - Paul Revere and the Raiders [from The Legend of Paul Revere]
trying for Creedence Clearwater?
rock & roll tries for country music
irony free good times
but with a big band sound
Three Girl Rhumba - Wire [from Pink Flag ]
hangs in there just exactly long enough
to make its image completely clear
then stops
a composition made of song parts
but neither a song nor a dance
really
its own thing
A la memoire d'un ami - Ira Mowitz
modeled on choral music
so an architecture is illuminated
voice by voice
some
of this space is huge
some is small
even the huge spaces
aren't stable in
their locations
the residue here is tiny
fit for a hand to hold
The River Between (excerpt) - Benjamin Boretz, Richard Teitelbaum [from Open Space 33]
wrestling it to the ground
so it can be discussed
or passed through
moves
or
has moved
to a gravity free area
on the other side of the brush pile
a solid
surface emerges
rolling slowly
hugely
passing by
fading off
April 27, 2022
Canzone Prima a 5 - Giovani Gabrieli - The Canadian Brass [from The Essential Canadian Brass]
a composition exercise
presented as such
or
an internally derived
(demonstrably)
coherence generator
Winter Cranes - Mary Lee Roberts [from Open Space 9]
vertical immensity
frozen throughout
and lift
and chatter
two lowest As
enclosure of tone within tone
negotiated
by means of register
dynamic
sequence
proximity
dampers
some parts of tones
can be disenclosed
or
that and also
joined back
within
at that time
our conversation
post session
tended toward
strictly pianistic technical matters
hand position
wrist tension
etc.
consequently
there is a certain amount of straight up practicing involved
in these early sessions
soon to be replaced
by more intentional
improvisation/composition
Late Morning Lullaby - Brandi Carlile [from The Story]
accent and attitude
interesting yodel catch in her lines
now and then
the song
projects
a range of distance
as to her
like a zoom lens
attaching a name to an object
attaching a name to a response to an
object
attaching a name to the experience of a response to an object
attaching a name to a person experiencing the experience of a response
to an object
attaching an object to a name
attaching an object to a response to a
name
attaching an object to the experience of a response to a name
attaching
an object to a person experiencing the experience of a name
attaching an experience to an object
attaching an experience to a
response to an object
attaching an experience to a person
experiencing
a response to an object attached to a name
attaching
object
response
experience
person
to a name
Tarantula Man - Mud on My Bra [from Demo #2 (Manger Studio Mixes)]
controlled acceleration
heavy sigh
Banned Telepath 83 Magnuson Park - Jennifer Chung [ca. March 14, 2022]
many frogs croaking
many croaks
in the distance
sport
traffic
engines
and apes
also some birds
jets devour the sky
frogs croak
dense cold soup
imitations of melody
overspill
our immediate memory of melody
as it overspills
its imitations
music
as memory
thinking
in its own time
Red Onion Drag - Louis Domaine's Jazzola 8 [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]
two melody instruments
clarinet and trumpet
over a rhythmic continuo
drums
piano and sax
they get their turn
to be the show
Outlaw John Dillinger - Frank Luther Trio [from Evans 78s]
a short history
of Public Enemy Numero Uno
as a foolish outlaw
stay on
the straight and narrow
and stay away from sin
they'd take it slow and easy
shine non me
a history of song
from days of
enslavement forward
nowr I see
Baptists
Methodists
Holy Ghosts
the acceleration
of hymnody
True, Fine Mama - Little Richard [from Here's Little Richard]
high lick in the tinkly keys to open
was the sax recorded on the same
microphone as his vocal?
I'd believe it
early fade out ending
Novara - Earle Brown - Harro Ruijsenaars, Harry Sparnaay, Earle Brown, Govert Jurriaanse, Ton Hartsuiker, Emile Elsen, John Floore, Gerrit Oldeman, Jaring Walta, Roelof van Driesten
episodes of contrived cooperation
exactly
expression
exactly
here
a lovely
recording
affect liberation
with an expressionist palette
could it be done more lightly?
In Session at the Tintinabulary
April 25, 2022
Banned Telepath 86 Tintinabulary - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey
Banned Telepath 86 Pan - Steve Kennedy
April 27, 2022
Banned Telepath 86 Toad Hall and Irvine - Jennifer Chung, Aaron Keyt
Banned Rehearsal 1050 - Jennifer Chung, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt
as has often been the case in Banned Rehearsals past, sounds of the present moment intrude via radio
Postscripts
Skaldmud's Doodle Gallery
more listening journal doodles from 1988
