Preface
"Then when they'd fastened the cables
on the black ship,
they broke
out the kraters
brimming with wine
and made libations
to
th'immortal gods
that keep on becoming forever,
in particular to the
gray-green-eyed maiden,
daughter of Zeus.
All night and on through the dawn
she plied her
way."
Homer - The Odyssey, translated by Charles Stein
Texts
Live
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| stage set for Kin of the Gong |
Kin of the Moon & Stephanie Wood: Kin of the Gong
Heather
Bentley, Kaley Lane Eaton, Leanna Keith, Stephanie Wood
Chapel
Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
I see no laptops on the stage
Beneficials - Heather Bentley - Kin of the Moon
size of us to them
with murderous jaws
down in the grass
in
their time
process
out of our timeflow
bug show bites back
melody lights on leaves and stems
discomfort with the word
so
accent it
turn corner on it
patience
delicate balance - Kaley Lane Eaton - Kin of the Moon
yarn
winding loose
when slack
winding close
when taut
synthetic breath and bow
controlled path
Free-style dip into Ganzfeld - Kin of the Moon and Stephanie Wood
gong enters from the rear
and night
ghostly
awash in flood
the gongs call
and helpers gather
regroup
cauldron
innardly cooking
immerse
inundulating
fields and
rangeland
billow
sky
drum
throbbing lights
the
wave subsides
another supersedes
steady state pitch engine
Recorded
Gradus 314 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [June 26, 2017]
a rhetoric is proposed
two figures
or figure types
or three
alternate
their foliating realms
a garden
growing into
the air
and into the dirt
at a sleeping snail's pace
a new
seed
just like the old seed
new dirt
new air
we are
calm
the strictures of Cage are heavy
a spider's silken scrawl
writing
to beguile the unwary
Trio - Nat Evans [from My Old Friend Death]
magnetic force
response
throbs
the feel of object nearness
resistance
touch
Fors seullement l'actente - Johannes Ockeghem - Blue Heron, Scott Metcalfe
repetition fixes pitch briefly across a gap
the voices address each
other
we overhear
witness
join in
by impersonating the
voices
in their mutual addressing
we become the voices
in
order to hear their self-making
to hear their selves
in the
self-making
Almand, Fvb 213 - William Tisdale - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
suspensions
appoggiaturas
plays with embellishments in a very
baroque way
fine gradations
of recitative rhythm
and weight aria
recitative is talking out loud
aria is thoughts closely held
poetic thought balloons
<(I speak)
recitative
ₒₒₒ(I
think)
aria
{<, ₒₒₒ}
signifying pictographically
or
poetically-musically
the distinction
between < and ₒₒₒ
opera parses drama literately
it is a theory of drama
January 15, 2023
Sonata in E Major, Kk. 216 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
minimal difference for maximal effect
a note going up
rather than
down
can define a period
within
an otherwise direct repeat
significant temporal intervals
fall out
multiply
taut
riding on a swift horse
that will not be staid
the terrain drags around us
time pulls away
we are left alone in a room
the crossing place
into tragedy
(a live recording
someone was hissed for clapping
but
that
was an awesome moment
they needed to applaud there)
stray thought about costuming opera
since
the character of the
opera
is centered in the voice
the singer
only need have
enough differentiation of costume
to signify
that their body
represents
or is the role
of that character
that is
I
am producing the voice
that is the character of Medea
but
I
am not Medea
my voice is
holding the office of Medea
a chorus of male voices
as might monks would be
if this were not
ancient Greece
the voice of rationality
and spiritual authority
the societal voice
the choral we
Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 31 #3 - Ludwig van Beethoven - Paul Badura-Skoda
register color
emotional/affectual range color
he uses the whole
stage
lost in repeating space
exit not locatable
our heroes
are in trouble
beset on all sides
what a jolly scamp!
Polonaise in G minor, KKIIA/1 - Frédéric Chopin - Garrick Ohlsson
charming and witty
innocent
pampered
Guilty Low Blues - Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven [from Hot Fives and Sevens]
sudden slowing
instant character change
one wonders
if such
quick affectual shifts
did not signify
but sprang from
a
social necessity
such as
putting on a show of earnestness
as
a form of gaslighting
Good Morning Blues - Jimmy Rushing, Count Basie [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
direct address to one's troubles
telling them what's what
I Wish I Had You (take 1) - Billie Holiday [from Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia]
excellent brush work on the drums
nobody overplays or overperforms
getting it just right works wonders
Barbados - Charlie Parker [form The Complete Savoy and Dial Master Takes]
travelogue
post-war passenger flights
began to cosmopolitanize
America
Miss Ann - Little Richard [from Here's Little Richard]
blues of lust
controlled but reckless vocal accents
Little Queenie - The Beatles [from First Live Recordings Volume 1]
the vocal amplification
was not up to compete with their guitar's amps
the Beatles were an echo of our own music
to remind us what our
music was
Baby, Baby, Baby - Aretha Franklin [from I Never Loved a Man The Way I Love You]
text and subtext
solo and backups
like Billie Holiday
not
oversung
not overplayed
nailed exactly
I Know - Bonnie Rait [from Give It Up]
kiss off blues
great crew she's got
they think like one instrument
Warszawa - David Bowie [from Low]
a singable melody emerges
and spreads across an expanse
a cloud
shadow
bring in voices from below
where the melody had spread
a blanket to warm our woes
Orange Coloured Sky - Screamin' Jay Hawkins [from Frenzy]
a song in two tempos
played for laughs
a showman
Kalimankau Denkau - Bulgarian State Radio & TV Female Vocal Choir, Philip Koutev [from Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, Volume 1]
closely composed arrangement
rehearsed to the nth
the vocal
production is strident and straight
the solo voice on top embellishes
stylishly
a bit like the Mauchault realizations of Marcel Pérès and
Ensemble Organum
Faultless - The Young Fresh Fellows [from It's Low Beat Time]
a doubtful affirmation
runs aground and stops twice
Gradus 27 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [September 17, 2002]
simultaneous translation into another register
discussions in hushed
tones
a note
as it speaks
a spatial volume
3-dimensional
within pitch space
subsequent notes can speak
within them
separately
or both
or admixed
permeable spaces
we can hear the partials blossoming
however
we don't need to hear them
as acoustic partials
they can
simply be tone flowers
after all
they don't emerge out of their
fundamentals
but are born with it
the moment they register as
entities
is the moment they cease to function
as part of timbre
they each have their own timbre
I Was Afraid of That - The Tripwires [from Makes You Look Around]
pastiche of a White Album era McCartneyesque Beatles sound
I Just Cried - Your Mother Should Know [recorded live at The Blue Moon, Seattle, October 4, 2012]
accents on the emphasis
crowded lines
Snowjob - 5-Track [from Trio]
suave
competently moneyed
lyrics sound like lines in a movie
paranoid dystopic imagery
Banned Telepath 92 Tintinabulary - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [September 12, 2022]
the stereo image is sensitive to where I'm sitting
quiet sounds
on
a quiet evening
in anarchadia
ukulele thread
any single
thread
might be traced
but never needs to assert a continuous
rhetoric
we become the passage of time
we abide
each iteration steps through the chromatic passage
as though it were a
portal
I Mean to Live for Jesus - Blind Alfred Reed [from Goodbye, Babylon]
the moral finger points
at picture shows
and many other things
Stay Out of the South - Light Crust Doughboys [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]
radio ready
piano player is having a good time
Jockey Blues - Joe Turner, P. Johnson [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
practically rock and roll
we presume Jerry Lee was listening
The Meaning of the Blues - Miles Davis [from Miles Ahead]
the wind writing is top notch
Looking Outward - Sun Ra [from The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra]
pulse is there
but nearly veers elsewhere
and then does
Quinn the E----- (The Mighty Quinn) - Bob Dylan [from Biograph]
some words to say
while the band vamps
time filled
Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) - Janis Joplin [from In Concert]
get on the ride
and let it move you along
Commando - Ramones [from Leave Home]
the same song as many others
but with different words
if the words
matter
as much as the recognizable sound
Sex Bomb - Flipper [from Generic]
fill the room with noise
choke it
make the folks vibrate
wear them out
thrashing fun
with synthesizers
Banned Telepath 13 Seattle - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [September 26, 1987]
miles of strip malls and stop lights
desultory weather
dull day
driving
we whistle to improve the time
rattle things up
pipe
shrill
like it matters
no one can replace Morton Feldman
any
attempt
will be prosecuted
to the full extent of the law
the obo roi
objects strenuously
much nicer
now that we're back
listening for exercise
a discipline
no matter what might be thrown
our way
not that we ought
to clear our ears
of critical
thought
it is far from true
that all our sessions make gracious listening
pile on the sound
Brian Bosworth can replace Morton Fledman
scrub
it all out
calisthenic headwind
banged up in octaves
Thief of Hearts - Madonna [from Erotica]
the length of the track
is for its dance life
not for its
song-ness
which is pretty thin
The Nothing Man - Bruce Springsteen [from The Rising]
Hallmark Movie meaningful
Banned Rehearsal 718 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [April 16, 2007]
is a constant impervious to transformation?
that is
is it a
carapace?
a separate corner
an independent project
a bifurcation or
severance
a guide:
don't commit to persistence for the sake of persistence
only for the sake of listening
the known can be counterproductive
to creative endeavor
Daughter - Byron Au Yong [from Yiju]
drum and metal and wire
crescendo accelerando to climax
then
release
Banned Telepath 57 Anchorage - Aaron Keyt [July 3, 2017]
fipple flute of some kind
each breath a new shape
straight tones
hang in space like tea kettles
In The Dark - Star Anna [streaming from Fiddler's Inn, Seattle, March 7, 2022]
a script for self encouragement
Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Fvb 215 - John Bull - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
the art of making the plain fancy
or of using the plain to anchor the
fancy
or of using the fancy to transform the plain
the plainer the
plain
the better the magic
See That My Grave is Kept Clean - Bela Lam & The Greene County Singers [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]
a window onto a sound world of the past
its language accents dialects
obsessions
the continuing fallout from the Great Awakening
Hellhound on My Trail - Robert Johnson [from Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz]
vocal pierces when it aims
mutters back into the body to release
Garbage Can Blues - Kay Starr [collected from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
some ribald fun
All of Me - Sarah Vaughan [from Swingin' Easy]
sudden scat
where that last me would be
clear pronoun trouble
Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen - The Staple Singers [from Hammer and Nails]
patient ceremonial lightening
Back Door Man - The Doors [from The Doors]
sex brag strut
Duncan - Paul Simon [from The Essential Paul Simon]
autobiographical fiction tells its story straight
starlit sounds
Jail Guitar Doors - The Clash [from The Clash]
in the verses the accent count is proportional to syllable count
in each
half of the line
in the chorus
there is a differential
that
is
in the verse
two accents to more than two syllables
in
each half
in the chorus
two accents to two syllables
in the
first half
to more syllables
in the second half
Traditional Shaker Hymn: Simple Gifts - Christopher Parkening [from Simple Gifts]
back to all the ways to make the plain fancy
but being certain the plain
remains plain
Wine From My Table - Bonnie Guitar [from Dark Moon and Other Country Favorites]
see Madonna's Thief of Hearts
Nabucco: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves - Guiseppi Verdi [from World's Greatest Choruses]
unison line full of Italian sunshine
contrast to block harmonies
then some of the sunshine is obscured
back to the unison line
something the crowd can hum in the lobby
Banned Rehearsal 643 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [September 20, 2002]
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harmony lines up with the lyric's lines
arty
string band
greeting card with elaborate production
Rocks and Glass - Your Mother Should Know [recorded live at the Blue Moon, Seattle, October 4, 2012]
Daisy makes their appearance
Dreams Tonite - Alvvays [from Antisocialites]
live your life on a Merry Go Round
rom com montage soundtrack
awash
Banned Telepath 92 Rhymes With Food - Steve Kennedy [September 1, 2022]
drop tuning in action
acoustic guitar with personally open strings
an irreproducible drum that strums
the suchness of the
sound/gesture
counts more than the cleverness of the sequence
as
it might be heard from on high
we can hear the thinking happening
rather than glean the thought that was thought
In Session at the Tintinabulary
January 16, 2023
Banned Rehearsal 1068 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt
January 19, 2023
Prelude in G-sharp minor - Keith Eisenbrey
finally got it!
Postscripts
Skaldmud's Doodle Gallery
some listening journal doodles from 1992
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