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"Original sin is first self-awareness gone south.
Half ate the fruit,
half went off.
I'm judging, no escaping the fact, and granting amnesty as
fast as I can run."
George Quasha - from "Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole"
Texts
Live
July 13, 2023
Subvector Colloquy - Tom Baker, Keith Eisenbrey, Leanna Keith, Jim
Knodle
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
Wielding between them electric twang machine, select dynamically modulated crossblows, Italian battle zither, and the fearsome 3-button gargle tube, the four wizards of Subvector Colloquy return to the stage with an evening of freshly unimagined thaumaturgical delights: spells, incantations, enchantments - perhaps even a cryptid or two.
Tom Baker spends most of his time inventing modes of flight, and trying to get lift. He practices and practices, working on the length of the running start, size and texture of the wings, the speed and rate of acceleration of the flapping. He has enjoyed momentary freedom from gravity, and vows to keep trying for sustained orbit. Meanwhile, he also makes music.
Leanna Keith uses a variety of tubes and air (otherwise known as flutes) to create melodies, textures, and conjurations.
Local speculationist Keith Eisenbrey ponders and putters with the inner workings of music far more hours of the day than the majority of surveyed dentists recommend, and may still be wandering around in an oblique pitch-class dimension.
Jim Knodle continues to outrun the wrecking ball in pursuit of the golden moments of music. He currently gathers select groups of like-minded players for algo-rhythmic performances.
Recorded
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Étude in E Major, Op. 10 #3 - Frédéric Chopin - Garrick Ohlsson
pitch sensibility adheres
as a process
vanishes inaudibly
out of awareness
until it re-emerges
likewise
voice
sensibility
String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80 (#6) - Felix Mendelssohn - The Emerson Quartet
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faery sprites story time peril
2
these gremlins rely on the background image of balanced phraseology
3
we are being very soulful and chaste here and studious too
4
diligent striving layer by layer task by task through storm and
trouble
There Is A Certain Garden - Charles Ives - Mary Ann Hart, Dennis Helmrich
small town domestic
Hallmark glow
I Am Born to Preach The Gospel - Washington Phillips [from Really The Blues]
what is that instrument
a dulcimer?
it sure does sound like it has
a bunch of open strings that ring free
such a delicate sound too
thin string lightly taut
Fantasy on Frankie and Johnny - Erroll Garner [from Erroll Garner on Dial]
playfully fabulous
A Fine Spring Morning - Blossom Dearie [from Blossom Dearie]
little girls and boys
are gettin' quizzier
bulls
are getting
more bulldozier
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doing that white man music
as it should be done
from an older
notion
of what Country and Western Music was
on the ground
Don't You Pay Them No Mind - Nina Simone [from High Priestess of Soul]
another album celebrating an advertising genre
makes a firm connection
between country and western
and soul
at some time
on
their common ground
they hire the same string players
Give The Girl A Kiss - Bruce Springsteen [from Tracks]
they sound like they're having actual fun on this one
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side comment
my understanding is that his shows are
choreographed to the nth
surely his soloists don't need to be
told when their solo is coming in
but
he needs us
to know
that
he's the one
telling them
Baby Be Mine - Michael Jackson [from Thriller]
ok so this is brilliant
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My Love's Like a Red, Red Rose - Anonymous [from 100 Greatest Classics]
the spotlight
is on the quality of the voice
(a tenor)
and
the smoothly patriotic melody
Theme, Interlude and Re-Variations - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (arranged by Henderson) - The Canadian Brass [from The Essential Canadian Brass]
a Mozart tune with popped up variations
not far removed from
Schickele-an humor
gets old fast
We Had To Tear This Mothafucka Up - Ice Cube [from The Predator]
taut line
could snap
catastrophically
to get to the end the absolute end - Jarrad Powell - Jessika Kenney [from Stonehouse Songs]
poem with
and part of
illustration
so that
the poem
becomes a new object
a new writing of the text
Rose, 1956 - Waxahatchee [from American Weekend]
the world in this barricaded suburban basement
has shrunk to what she's
saying
Song 3 - Arbor Towers [recorded live at The Victory Lounge, Seattle, July 15, 2017]
drums bass guitar and vocal
dive bar vibe and décor
it may as well
have band stickers all over it
Leertretung - Eric Nathan [from Missing Words]
giant feet
on lengthy legs
swing wildly
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Struttin' With Some Barbecue - Louis Armstrong's Hot 5 [from Hot Fives and Sevens]
the titular subject matter
is treated with respect
it's only the
image of what that is
in the culture as a whole
that's
effervescent
All Set - Milton Babbitt [from Erik Carlson's Slowly Expanding Milton Babbitt Album]
not indistinguishable from a bebop or jazz sensibility
but clearly
drawing from it as well
just without any obvious stylistic markers
in the Gershwin marker mode
If You Could See Me Now - Bill Evans Trio [from Moon Beams]
but the difference is interesting
or
where that difference enters
the compositional process is
leaving aside the formalisms of commercial
jazz number construction
in this
the invention of specific
relations
among the notes played
are invented
to some
significant extent
on the spot
whereas
in All Set
they are invented prior to the event
they share intimate invention
just at different kinds of moments
in the putting together of
their respective wholes
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portrait song
trying to invent characters as The Beatles or Bob Dylan
did
but flat footed about it
already thinking about theater music
but describing a character doesn't automatically bring them to life on
stage nor in song
On One - Benjamin Boretz, Ingrid Pendli, painting [from Inter/Play]
electric bass (or guitar)
heavy on the echo
when playing an
unfamiliar instrument
one option is to make it talk
bass I think
that is a pretty darned low open string
playing the amplifier
with the pickups on the bass
Word From Our Sponsor - Boogie Down Productions [from Criminal Minded]
commercial music
as a commercial music music commercial
My Dolly - Woody Guthtrie and Family [from Woody's 20 Grow Big Songs]
never overstepping the 3 or 4 year old mind set
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feel good moment
comfort
relax
you're safe in this warm
blanket
Old Bangum - Keith Eisenbrey - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey [recorded live at University Temple United Methodist Church, Seattle, October 13, 2007]
an old melody permeates
and bends
an obstreperously crystalized solid
Heraklean task
the keyboard writing has a lot of
Griffes in it
Step Into The Fight - Black Plastic Clouds [from Electroplate]
heroic morale boosting
pump up the courage
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Rudra - Steve Layton [from Ending to Begin]
sound traveling by tube
code tapped upon the pipeworks
compositional traffic control
July 12, 2023
The Crowing Rooster - Walter Rhodes [from Turn Me Loose White Man]
mule cart tempo
the accompaniment cycle
and the verses
and
the crowing rooster
don't seem to line up the same way
each time
around
I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You) - Miles Davis [from Miles Ahead]
bright and shiny
cheeks all scrubbed
Lovely Rita - The Beatles [from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band]
character sketch per Paul
puts himself in the song
to stand for
the listener
hoping to
at least
score a waiver
of
course
most of us can't rely on star power bedazzlement
besides
the song actually has a shape and some color
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soteriological event analysis
a history lesson and a confession
at
least that's what might be being discussed
back there in the reverb
The Gray Goose - Mike, Peggy, and Penny Seeger [from Animal Folk Songs for Children]
work song
leaves room for the axe whop
legendary goose
not
even the hogs could eat him
Partita #3, Preludio - Johann Sebastian Bach - Nathan Milstein [from Masters of the Bow]
motor
full of distractions
that tie it together
somewhere
other than the immediate surface
relies on memory
and
leaving memory behind
The Ballad of Gavril Ivolgin - Peter Fedovsky [from The City of Good Neighbors]
inert
Hrdlika -Stanislav Surin [from 10 Songs]
four chords descending per line
Breaking a Picture Frame - Anxious Arms [from Never Was]
voiced so that chords
as they change
mark a change only
not
from something
to something
just
the prepositions
your place can't be lost
if it is no place
Bathing - Lucy Corin - William Bond [from Quaking Aspen]
per the script actually
as to the plagues
of John's Apocalypse
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social music
for good time having
loosen up dancing
let her
rip
I Forgot To Remember To Forget - Jerry Lee Lewis [from Rare & Rockin']
sung with the notes he wants to sing
no matter what
Poor Dog (Who Can't Wag His Own Tail) - Little Richard [from The Explosive Little Richard]
big fat pedal tones in the brass back there
in this case
the ()s
enclose the words of the hook-stanza that don't repeat
id est
poor
dog poor dog poor dog who can't wag his own tail
Didn't We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston [from Whitney]
anthemic slow dance
probably not a good song for a wedding
how
many transplantations up a step will she go?
Wouldn't It Be Loverly - Glenn Tate [from Some of My Favorite Love Songs]
spirited old time fun
July 13, 2023
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the second event sets off a siren on the highway outdoors
events
placidly proceed
within a social configuration
of events
proceeding
here
placidly
a fan is blowing white noise
about
Chapter 3 - Nancy Cole Silverman - Adam Verner [from A Much Married Woman]
all about Virginia City in 1885
get re-acquainted with the plot so far
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hoping for birds
but mostly hiss and distant traffic
though
this may have the little ground squirrel's bitty bark
a bug goes
by
and there may be a frog in the far off
affirmative on the
ground squirrel
Part 004 - Claire Lodge [from Seconds]
this sounds like a Jarmusch movie
electric guitar through a tortured amp
In Session at The Tintinabulary
July 10, 2023
Old Hundred - Keith Eisenbrey
a new project
quickie arrangements of the tunes found in an 1846
Shape-Note hymnal "The Christian Minstrel"
this is the first of who
knows how many eventually
July 11, 2023
Sinfonia 3 (clavichord) - Keith Eisenbrey
Invention in C minor - Gavin Borchert
July 13, 2023
Sinfonia 7 (midi) - Keith Eisenbrey
the newest
there may be revisions
after I've had a chance to get
my hands on it
July 14, 2023
Invention in C Major - Gavin Borchert
Postscripts
Skaldmud's Doodle Gallery
listening journal doodles from 1999
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