Preface
"
contraponderables , parablisms , allelomorphs [:imaged:] implode ;
designanda , mined , scrunch -- & [ , transhewn ] quicken , take life .
"
- J.K. Randall "provoked your majesty" from "Being About Music Textworks 1960-2003 J. K. Randall Benjamin Boretz Volume 2: 1978-2003"
Texts
Recorded
May 10, 2020
Lost - Smokestack and the Foothill Fury [from America's Freedom Death March]
banjo solo
whittle out of a stick
Side Effects - Lunas [from Over Me]
solid core riffing song with coda in a different sound world: first fuzzed then ringy
Stiff Joints - Yuni in Taxco [from Sanpaku]
old fashioned (60s?) room feel
neo psychedelic
Your Eyes - Tyler Daniel Bean [from On Days Soon to Pass]
projecting the guitar figure into the greater arrangement
the band is a bigger guitar
modest fuzz
turn off the amps
close the door
May 11, 2020
Made Of Sand - Shelby Earl [from Burn the Boats]
a mixed message
solid, firm
utterance of nonsubstance
unmeasured space between slow curving beats
Airstrip Timber Sale - Bicycle Face [from The Wonders of Female Strength]
tree hugging message on good enough music
The Muse - Operation ID [from Legs]
then falls away by a long ellipsoidal curve
unstable orbit
worry heats up to start over
having come back around
Last Call - No Rey [from Contradictions]
attributed thoughts
the music is competent enough
in a stripped down REM sort of way
not to challenge
but to comfort with familiarity
Broken Heart - Eddie Vedder [from Ukulele Songs]
the intonation of the ukulele's sound box pulls the octaves tight
A Line - Arbor Towers [from In Transit EP]
begins like a story teller
but loses a grip on his saying of what he's saying
relies on the languishing mood to hold us
not so danceable that we don't wonder when it will be over
stops sudden
Kill the Kids - White Orange [from White Orange]
fill every molecule with sound
the moshers are bobbing in it
like ducks
this is so quack!
engineer can have 7 seconds at the end to play
no more
Our Heads Split Us Apart - India Glover [from Pup Demo]
India leaves in the do-overs
bravely done
those redone do-overs!
song structural elements
verse chorus bridge for example
as tarot to organize the circling obsession of what to say
Wooden Hands - Yuni in Taxco [from Slow Charade]
not filling the room tight
as White Orange does
always an equal distance to each of its moments
never gets closer
White Dwarf - Ancient Warlocks [from Ancient Warlocks Live]
fantasy heroic
the line can only be held aloft a few syllables at a time
instrumental gravity
surface of center mass
feel it press upon you
Echolocation Song - Triptet [from Imaginary Perspective]
invents itself from the sound of itself
life inside the bell
Loon Lake - Tyler Daniel Bean [from On Days Soon to Pass]
speak slow
for attracting girls
is the line we hear
be the strong silent romantical type
back to the journal entry epistolary poem heartfelt note plea
Henry Darger - Michael Owcharuk [from Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble Volume 1]
(helluva pit orchestra though!)
a fire escape quiet evening movie melody
3 scenes
and that playing it together live room they are in that is clearly there with you.
Here.
Brauerhaus - Three Fingers [from Go Deep]
pop punk shows its roots
a love song fantasy memoir
Gold and Silver - Star Anna and The Laughing Dogs [from Alone in This Together]
cleaning up
emptying after
a house
vacant of its curator
Luaidh Mo Chèile - SeaStar [from Never Go Back]
purposeful mis-accentuation to imitate a translation
or a tune inflicted: find the first tune, find the last
Track 5 - High Class Wreckage [Live at The Funhouse, July 2011]
I was recording these on a DAT, re-using media (it was getting hard to find and expensive) - never convinced that the recording wouldn't be totally overdriven and a waste. Looking back it is quite a nice little time capsule.
Stride - Robber's Roost [from Live in Minneapolis]
keep appearances up
he talks even faster than he sings or strums
Track 5 - Pouch [Live at The Funhouse, July 2011]
mathematics of what fits in four and how,
emphatic
it lets us in briefly,
so that we are the cadenza
The Motherfucking Bus (Part II) - Chaotic Noise Marching Corps [from Zero to Lizard Man]
and its qualities
how it sounds
as it goes
and where
Empires Ending (Side A) - Koko and the Sweetmeats [from Sacrifice]
what is it that, socially, holds a sound, like this, together? Are all of them, really, personally, into it? Or is this just, sadly, resignedly, close enough?
bang the tambourine desultory
I'm Perverted - Choke The Pope [from Emotional Material]
takes more than that
May 12, 2020
Cold Wind - Curtains For You [from After Nights Without Sleep]
this beat bounces
nothing is so massive
as can't be maneuvered
or respun
while up in air
No Jobs - Robber's Roost [from Swallow Your Fears]
|:|fear|:|
safer there than here
Soundform I (underlying electronic track) - S. Eric Scribner [from The Storm Sound Cycle]
presence with minimal activity
steady slow flow
and our ears in their respective location to it
Relief - Lunas [from Over Me]
compressed right up to the speaker cone
somebody's singshouting something back there somewhere
it even sounds like it might be an interesting vocal, so why is it buried? is it too particular?
slow down quiet coda
no vocal
13xxooxoxxoxoox - Paul Rubenstein [from Solo Trios]
playing with an invented tuning
invented being my theory for what this project uses to find places within it that will articulate
attractive trio
mbira of some kind
a monochord?
and a sound I don't recognize, but has a bit of a celeste or toy piano sound to it, lower pitched though, almost sustained
If It'd Rain - SeaStar [from Never Go Back]
a chord figure is a way for hands to behave so as to support the voice, like audible hand talking, enfolding voice in a bodily embrace of suggestion or precision
Franz and the Eagle - Goat Rodeo [from The Goat Rodeo Sessions]
all the burrs filed off and polished so it won't hurt easy listening very tasteful
Wildflowers - Bicycle Face [from The Wonders of Female Strength]
single location mic recording is enough information to construct a believable space in which the musicians are
i can almost tell how mussed the bed is she is sitting on
May 13, 2020
The Short Answer - Full Toilet [from Full Toilet 7"]
meta raw
nothing left but what abrades
Cemetery Girls - Chaotic Noise Marching Corps [from Zero to Lizard Man]
blast filled
{the kind of energy that, quite frankly, made me quit band back in HS}
Sex Dreams - Courtney Marie Andrews [from No One's Slate Is Clean]
perpetual parting words
music box sounds sound like memory (a trope)
Exes R Us - No Rey [from Contradictions]
heartfelt?? not really
comfort after severance? hm
the clever title gives it away
In Place of Time - Whitney Ballen [from White Feathers, White Linens]
noisy motor sounds in the left channel
reverbed up for mood lighting
Love In the Way We Wanted - India Glover [from Pup Demo]
all sorts of b'bye songs this afternoon
Attitude Adjustment Stations - Yuni in Taxco [from Sanpaku]
backing vocals hiding in the metallic reverb
it is hard to hear
so shiny!
Terrible Touch - Ancient Warlocks [from Ancient Warlocks Live]
instrumentalists in touch with their slow slow tempo
they know exactly where it is
and the value of a strong vocal delivery
though buried in this live recording
Distant Rooms - Shelby Earl [from Burn the Boats]
she is not an alto profundo
nor a mezzo soprano
her voice is someplace that is all of each of those
or
it inhabits each place clearly and wholly
a difficult voice to forget
Seattle, CA - Choke The Pope [from Emotional Material]
adenoidal lesser Seattle novelty song
good for a lame laugh
Where Are You? - Operation ID [from Legs]
meter patchwork hip hop quick change pulsethread sensibility
On Days Soon To Pass - Tyler Daniel Bean [from On Days Soon to Pass]
There is a brief (single bar?) drum tempo intro to the whole which otherwise has nothing to do with the rest of it - though I could hear it as an index point for section-to-section affect relation, i.e. the feel of that intro to what ensues
in relation to the relation between what then ensued and what next ensued.
a key to allow a certain nothingness or transparence to stand alone
Satellite - Eddie Vedder [from Ukulele Songs]
uke holds its own against a well carved lyric baritone
what is the difference between songwritering and tunesmithering?
Head - Three Fingers [from Go Deep]
1st measure (the standard)
2nd measure (the incremental instability)
--
repeat (hold the standard)
repeat (as new increment or as increment of increment)
Under The Surface of Saturn - Triptet [from Imaginary Perspective]
right there where your face is
Galway Bay - SeaStar [from Never Go Back]
the grass grows greener
back there
Wolves In Disguise - Star Anna and The Laughing Dogs [from Alone in This Together]
we've all heard the song of the siren blues
beware
Families - Bicycle Face [from The Wonders of Female Strength]
recognizably sized people singing
May 14, 2020
Track 6 - Pouch [Live at The Funhouse, July 2011]
full body rock breaking hammer drive
cut short ? string breaking hammer drive ?
Sharlet's Rag - Robber's Roost [from Swallow Your Fears]
song for the little dog who leaps for tossed toys
Track 6 - High Class Wreckage [Live at The Funhouse, July 2011]
holds steady rushing forward
trips over its feet
To Find Sense In Freedom - Lunas [from Over Me]
another fast part slow part song
in play: bass as line, as rhythm
as rhythm drum as pulse as polymeter
polymeter yes, even though in lock step
rhythm guitar as chord as fuzz
as polymetric glue
lead guitar as voice:
voice elaboration avatar
rides atop or within
Sunspots - White Orange [from White Orange]
markers have been removed or obscured
you are in the song but the terrain barely changes
an engineering feat to make any of it audible above any of it
Giant - SeaStar [from Never Go Back]
old prophetical tales
Idlers - Yuni in Taxco [from Slow Charade]
vocal, languidly, finds spots within the changes to arrive at so that the whole might circle with working hard at it
slow bit faster bit song
Lucretia, We Need Ya! - Bicycle Face [from The Wonders of Female Strength]
heroes of old battles
history for the sistery
just voices and clapping
Will We Ever Make It To the Ocean (B-side) - Koko and the Sweetmeats [from Sacrifice]
tambourine ring
choral harmonic phrases
Threads - No Rey [from Contradictions]
professionally done
brand applied
Milky Shakes - Samantha Boshnack [from Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble Volume 1]
slow intro
like Haydn
movement doesn't build complexity energy
more of a heat up energy to boil over
send in the drummer to cool things off
or bring out a new dancer
back into the night air with bass and flugel
suite-like
Dying Stoned And Alone - Choke The Pope [from Emotional Material]
fast bit slow bit for the moral of the story
play it some more with cymbal spray
back to fast bit to repeat it out
slow moral again
Innocent Love - Smokestack and the Foothill Fury [from America's Freedom Death March]
the cussedly independent being
whose sole song
is their cussed independence
is a clown type
When I Think Too Much - Tyler Daniel Bean [from On Days Soon to Pass]
you can just taste the swimmy light show
is it about
or is it like
depression?
(probably) not performed from a depressed place
but finding the heaviness of it
its comfort
Eduardo Kac's Dream Song - Yuni in Taxco [from Sanpaku]
I am frustrated in my desire to hear them singing. What seems to be happening behind the engineered scrim gauze is more interesting than any effect that the scrim gauze could ever have.
Ghost Town - Three Fingers [from Go Deep]
you got scared
and left me here
guess I'll have
another beer
[two syllable beer: bee'-ə]
who is the ghost,
the absent one
or the fright that scared the absent one away?
Eggs Over Toast - Curtains For You [from After Nights Without Sleep]
bacon grease
cooking life
in every way whimsified
First of Seven - The Sun Giants [from 7" Split with Deadrones]
I remember in hearing them live how fine the bass player is
a band is a thing people are in
Assembled in Quarantine at the Tintinabulary and Outposts
Since the middle of March Banned Rehearsal has been making recordings from our holed-up locations and sharing those sounds among us. I have assembled here each bi-week's individual files by layering them together. This is the same practice I have followed for the Banned Telepaths, of which the first were made in our first year. It isn't a new practice for us, just a special name for solidarity.
March 22-24, 2020
Banned Quarantiniad 200322 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt
April 6, 2020
Banned Quarantiniad 200406 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
April 20, 2020
Banned Quarantiniad 200420 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
May 4, 2020
Banned Quarantiniad 200504 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
Postscripts
twig hairs ruffled up and with open eyes
and few words unhoped-for but when she
invited me to take the place next to
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iris ask'd
solstice into
open olive lakes
