"'I think we may adjourn,' said Lieutenant Tappleton.
'Certainly,' added
the doctor.
'Unless,' interposed the man with the camp-stool; 'unless Mr.
Winkle feels himself aggrieved by the challenge; in which case, I submit, he
has a right to satisfaction.
Mr. Winkle, with great self-denial,
expressed himself quite satisfied already.
'Or possibly,' said the man
with the camp-stool, 'the gentleman's second may feel himself affronted with
some observations which fell from me at an early period of this meeting: if so
I shall be happy to give him satisfaction immediately.'"
Charles Dickens - "The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club"
Texts
From Recent Arrivals
June 17, 2022
That Year - Brandi Carlile [from Give Up The Ghost]
in some alternate universe
wherein what happened in High School
still matters
of course some things did
but the emotional
details don't generally need to be re-inflated
to adolescent proportions
we all survived more or less
up and down
flips and turns at either end
some stern words
Sonata in D minor, BuxWV 257 - Dieterich Buxtehude - Jaap ter Linden, John Holloway, Lars Ulrik Mortensen
bodily movement from harmony to harmony
we are involved
as it is
our body that is moved
from and to
Too Much Rain - Carole King [from Music]
you got that right sister!
In Nativitatem Domini Canticum, H. 416 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
peace in a large stone room
solid deep and still
Recorded
Put up thy Dagger, Jemy, Fvb 127 - Giles Farnaby - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
a violent image
at odds
with the politesse
of the
arrangements
Christus Resurgens - Peter Philps - The Tudor Consort, Peter Walls [from Cantiones Sacrae Quinis Vocibus]
creating spaces
volumes
at will
sing
and it is so
Sonata in F minor, Kk. 185 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
climb the ladder
now all its rungs belong to you
take the
auxiliary ladders
tie the rope bridges between
hang around
where the view is most agreeable to mood
Don Carlos, Act IV - Giuseppe Verdi - Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Claudio Abbado, Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Lucia Valentini Terani, Leo Nucci, Ruggero Raimondo, Nicolai Giaurov
individual voices among the strings
intrigue
as it gains a more
balanced continuity
we are mistrustful
rightly so
an act of
dark and dire deeds
begins in sleepless night
the Inquisitor's
pronouncements
bear a family resemblance to those of Il Commendatore
it is full of very low bass notes
ends way down there
then the treble voices enter frantic
when Elisabeth is interrogated by
the King
the King has the same chromatically rising framework
as
the Inquisitor
||high speed rotary excrement distributor set to high||
chart the power structures between the characters
to the profiles of
their sung lines
continuously readjusting
||the heart of the story is a relationship between a man and a woman
most of the interactions between men and women are confrontational
accusatory||
that scene ends way up on a high note
lets have an insurrection
that will help calm things down
James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]
the blues are the mode in which we complain
about life and anything
its regularity
and narrowness
are the signifiers of
grievance
Sun Showers - Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra [from Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia]
trumpet plays it straight
saxophone
less straight
Billie
somehow
does both
piano
after asides to the trumpet
follows his asides aside
Stupendous - Charlie Parker [from The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes]
the American Songbook uses cyclic chord patterns as building blocks
this
digs into that
drills down
Me and My Shadow - Judy Garland [from Alone]
now that's a string opening!!
nearly Wagnerian
shadow :: avenue
the rhyme made clearly simply
My Funny Valentine - Bill Evans & Jim Hall [from Undercurrents]
playing peekaboo around the tune
a game concerning itself with a song
but only
as chess concerns itself with the pieces
cardboard fruit
In Our Small Way - Michael Jackson [from Got To Be There]
the ultimate ingenue
using the voice to signify an idealism
of a
peculiar
lollipop
slant
unjaded
an anthem for limited
aspiration
Ex Lion Tamer - Wire [from Pink Flag]
taming former lions
or now deceased
the music is a wave to ride
Johnny 99 - Bruce Springsteen [from Nebraska]
train whistle to match the choo choo rhythm
to evoke an older style of
song
old time country ballads
news items from days of gangsters
Banned Rehearsal 105 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer, Yvonne Meyer, assembled April 5, 1987]
assembled from Telepaths 7
which were made at Thanksgiving time of the
year previous
dig in the bag
pour the stuff out
two drunken space speeders weave
into port
hanging on each others shoulders
quadripedal
we get the menu in song
reading from an almanac
I don't recall the reason for the delayed assembly
perhaps it took
awhile for the San Diego tape to get to me
or perhaps I kept putting off
doing it
or both
life in households
of the musically
erratically
inclined
I declaim from this journal
did you hear that Bruce Springsteen was
pregnant?
Six Contrary Dances - PDQ Bach [from Music for An Awful Lot of Winds & Percussion]
same joke told six times in the same way
Mo Money Mo Problems - The Notrious B.I.G. [from Life After Death]
how many strands
drum
bass
guitar
female vocal(s)
male vocal(s)
there might be a keyboard in there somewhere
now and again a separate female vocals track overlaid
not so many
really
the density of the delivery of text makes up for it
Cactus - David Bowie [from Heathen]
Prom Queen covers this song
and this is also a cover
or so I
gather
a halting syncopation
a hesitancy
strings of pulses
persisting with pauses
Trillopod- Brendan Byrnes [from Micropangea]
is a drumtrack and its surrogates
a necessary framework for some
composers
or a default mode
Gradus 310 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [April 17, 2017]
first notes
how to make a large piano
sound like a toy piano
the instrument keeps changing
branching
a circuit is made
and an inventory is taken
but the tokens morph
each cycle
what is a population of tones
what any single tone might be
is so strongly shaped by its immediate context
that identity among
them
can only be provisional
fleeting
true on one side
but not on the other
a longish break
divides the activity
into a before it
and an after it
allows a re-start
continuous retcon
and perpetual
Popping In - Steve Layton & Sound-In [from Miracles and Wonders]
inventing a sound world as it goes
the bandwagon gets on it
and
takes over
then
is dumped over
Bony Sweet Robin, Fvb 128 - Giles Farnaby - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
since the conceptual intervals they were working with
had multiple
values
depending on the multiple function
each tone might have
it opens up different
but interwoven
betweennesses
Pretty Audry - Louis Dumaine [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
extended clarinet techniques
sliding around
a wild vibrato
Drunken Hearted Man (DAL 3972) - Robert Johnson [from The Complete Recordings]
the guitar has heard this sorry tale before
sounding board
counselor
Old Riley - Lead Belly [from Where Did You Sleep Last Night, Lead Belly Legacy]
the guitar chugs along with the lyric stresses
when they're important to
the flow of the text
otherwise lays around on the floor
You're Blasé - Peggy Lee [from Dream Street]
you're bored when you're adored
blues changes
uptempo
flute solo in front
Legend of Paul Revere - Paul Revere and The Raiders [from The Legend of Paul Revere]
our own local legend
sung by us
how we got famous
Idaho to
Hollywood
New York City - John Lennon & Yoko Ono [from Some Time in New York City]
the only song on the album that isn't overtly message political
also
what makes the album worth having at all
play opposite Taylor
Swift's Welcome To New York
and maybe crank up Liza Minelli
New York New York
King's Lead Hat - Brian Eno [from Before & After Science]
no sound left as is or was
song structure remains untouched
It's Hard - The Who [from It's Hard]
he's reading his lines off a sheet
they don't seem to be playing
at the same time
in the same room
cribbed from Rossini?
Wagner lite
the little birds are stuck
on a mill wheel
Fugue in F minor, BWV 578 - Johann Sebastian Bach - The Canadian Brass [from The Essential Canadian Brass]
somehow divorced from its virtual architecture
plays it but doesn't
build it
Versus: Veri Solis radius - Ensemble Organum [from Portrait]
a narrow passage through cold stone walls
cloistered nights
Serenade for Strings, 2nd Movement - Pyotr Ilyitch Tchaikovksy [from The Romance of Music Chamber Concert, April 14, 2012]
a waltz
but not risqué
isn't a chaste waltz an oxymoron?
Times in Between - Smokestack and the Foothill Fury [from Kitchen Recordings]
a guitar is an imaginary friend
an externalized self-avatar
with respect to George - Benjamin Boretz - Keith Eisenbrey [recorded November 20, 2012]
written for vibraphone
but not having one handy
I played it on
clavichord
this was take 2
brings it right up close
among
that class of pieces
that I'm not sure how to think about
while
playing
just do the best I can
to play what was written
too
busy playing to hear the piece as a whole
which only comes alive when
I'm on this side
L'Abbraccione - Amy Denio [from The Big Embrace]
sings her own nonsense syllables
because that's how the melody feels good
which helps us feel good
Banned Telepath 85 Hair - Pete Comley [April 13, 2022]
this engine revs and revs
but it never picks up the tempo
Pete thrashes
slo mo
fo' us
Fantasia, Fvb 129 - Giles Farnaby - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
four notes in descending order re-ascend
so that the lowest is last
and then first
give the rhythm some detail
then elaborate
in multiple voices
simultaneously
permute and rotate to
taste
curtsy when complete
Riley the Furniture Man - The Georgia Crackers [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]
in the same tempo
but separate times
at several removes
Riley's been here
got my furniture
and gone
racial
slur trigger
a blues sentiment
without the overhead
of the
whole blues thing
guitar plays the rhythm
and I guess that might be a fiddle on the tune
not much left behind the vinyl
one could still dance to it
Sweet Lorraine - Red Allen [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
checking in with
as written
on occasion
for sentiment only
Can't Believe You Wanna Leave - Little Richard [from Here's Little Richard]
talk about upspeak
his lines often end in an upsqueak
In Session at the Tintinabulary
June 14, 2022
Joshua Tree Prelude 20 - Aaron Keyt
June 15, 2022
Joshua Tree Prelude 21 - Aaron Keyt
Prelude in E Major - Keith Eisenbrey
Anybody's Fingerbook 5x5 (augmentational) A B C D - Keith Eisenbrey
just ten more of these to go
oof!
June 16, 2022
Joshua Tree Prelude 22 - Aaron Keyt
June 17, 20220
Minute Etudes Book 1, Languid - Emily Doolittle
Postscripts
Skaldmud's Doodle Gallery
some listening journal doodles from 1989
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