Preface
"Experience: the origin site of every determinate feel. Trivially. The psychic substratum - a site of relatively prearticulate determinate feels - out of which every determinate feel is ontologized. But where is determinate-feel ontology located? What is a determinate feel the determinate feel of? Not clearly experience as such: without a volitional act of determinate-feel-making doesn't experience run just as an articulated continuum hardly even experienceable as content of consciousness? Aren't determinate feels just the nascendent being of the contents of consciousness? Aren't they the primal form in which consciousness is conscient, and aren't determinate feels so concscienced? Conscienced, that is, not as experience itself nor even as a finite flowtime of passing experience but as experiences, or rather as an experience at every conscioustime moment, which is to say, as a singular created particular sense of a particular quantum of experienced experience."
- Benjamin Boretz "Jim Randall: An Autobiographical Dedication" from "inside in . . . / . . . outside out" Open Space Publications, 2020
Texts
Streaming
Wayward in Limbo
With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series now moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is curating and commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of exclusive material. Many of these will be essentially “live” performances recorded at home for this occasion. Others may create a mix of pre-recorded material that has not been previously released elsewhere.
- from the Wayward Music Series website at https://www.waywardmusic.org/.
May 15, 2021
Garrett Moore Quartet (Garrett Moore, Greg Kelley, John Seman, Jeffery Taylor)
groove in seven
lipid floats
rougher customer
plows a heavy furrow
clean finish
mood for chill
eight as an odd number
groundpull free zone
portable aphelion
later on in the gear store
a wearier chill settles in six
funkpunkdunk
wake up lunk
Ramen Trio (James DeJoie, Doug Lilla, Jay Weaver)
Resembling / The Hat Slips Under the Surface / A Priori / Absorbed / Cluster / Is Someone there? / Keep Your Eyes Peeled
shared language music
we might not speak it
but they clearly
do
a matter to start with
an axis
concerning which
we explore
from
ears to it
and each other
a game base
floating meter
Recorded
May 15, 2021
Barafostus' Dream, Fvb 18 - Thomas Tomkins - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
brief
the beginning of an elaboration
(you finish it I have other
things to do)
Symphony sacrae II "Ich werde nicht sterben, sondern lieben", Op. 10 #6 - Heinrich Schütz - Capella Augustana
statements given their proper affect and time
and repetition to be amply
considered
expression in the tenor of the time
Suite in A minor, BuxVW Deest - Dieterich Buxtehude - Simone Stella
strands look to their beginnings
and their ends
a textilian approach
the science of suspensions
and the long delay
indirectly deferred
response
Gott, durch deine Gute, BWV 724 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Michael Chapuis
the chorale tune
hides behind
what sounds like
it's going to
be
in dulci jubilo
Quatorzieme Ordre (Ré) - François Couperin - Kenneth Gilbert
fine point script
for minimum ambiguity
every turn it turns
turns it
the mordants leap
from voice to voice
like monkeys in trees
fountain of many pools
visit each one
Sonata in D Major, Kk. 119 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
the nearly motoric pulse
metrically mediated
binding agent
on harpsichord
the various registers
each have their graduated
volume of speaking
allows compositionally produced dynamics
May 16, 2021
Sonata in C Major, Wq. 62.20 - Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach - Miklos Spanyi
what was happening to operatic arias at that time?
(1747)
Were
they shifting
from single affect contemplations
of moments within
a drama
but not of it
to
occasionally
moving the story
along?
even his prosaic bits
slide off their stable footing
puts them in little boxes
ties a quick bow
what is in the next
box?
only one way to find out
you may think you've been here before
if so
how did you return?
is there a door
anywhere
to out
yes
there you are
sweetness interrupted by a bully
Fragment in C minor - Franz Joseph Haydn - Christine Schornsheim
could be a friendly pastiche of CPEB
Symphony in D Major, Op. 36 - Ludwig van Beethoven - Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
1
the slow intro
hangs above the stage
slides down onto it
just at the end
promptly getting into trouble
best start
again
2
is glorious
4
going on a nice picnic
to go see
Beethoven
rassle with D Major
it's an even fight
Sonata in A Major, Op. 2 #4 - Muzio Clementi - Howard Shelley
an amusing fellow
this Muzio
not stuffy
but tasteful
dedications patronage flattery
targeted ingratiation
sure leave him with the kids
while we go rape us some peasant girls
Sonatina in G Major, Op. 88 #2 - Friedrich Kuhlau, Loredana Brigandi
designed to teach attitude and impersonation
Etude in G-flat Major, Op. 10 #5 - Frédéric Chopin - Alfred Cortot [recorded 1942]
study in pianism surely
but also in composition
as in
both
how might a time go
and
in how might we have established a key
Parsifal, Act III - Richard Wagnerr - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, Jose Van Dam, Victor von Halem, Kurt Moll, Peter Hofmann, Siegmund Nimsgern, Dunia Veizovic, Claes H. Ahnsjah, Kurt Tydl, Marjon Lambriks, Anne Gjevang, Helner Hopfner, Georg Tichy, Barbara Hendricks Janet Perry Doris Soffel Inga Nielsen
oh now you went and woke up the winds and brass
if we're careful they'll
go back to sleep
Wagner has his own patented slimy sort of syncopation
they're just snoring
leave 'em be
yearning for that moment
blissed out to be German
May 18, 2021
Slavonic Dance in C Major, Op. 72 #7 - Antonín Dvořák - The Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi
was the extreme dynamic contrast used here
an aspect of the folk
tradition
or did he pull that in from learned practice
the fast
note virtuosity
is believable as traditional
the ensemble ain't
Russian Rhapsody - Serge Rachmaninoff - John Ogdon, Brenda Lucas
we'll have a Russiany tune
then we'll tart it up
when in doubt compose loud
Don Quixote - Richard Strauss - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, Pierre Fournier
these tune bits
those that open
come across like slurred speech
six notes can be clear
before it wanders off
cogitational mush of
madness
idée sans fixe
pictorial imitation
not tone painting
but more like
parody
of the described world
contains its own sound-effects
but relies
on these
and on RS's contrapuntal shenanigans
to hide the weakness
of narrative a structural conceit
The Strenuous Life (A Ragtime Two-Step) - Scott Joplin - William Albright
squareness and clarity of the piano writing
the plain as day harmonies
as American as Billings ever was
un-elite
democratic in the
anti-aristocratic sense
contrast with Griffes or MacDowell
for
instances
Sonata in F-sharp, Op. 53 - Alexander Scriabin - Michael Ponti
underpinnings fall away
always the key remains elusive
skittish upon approach
Daphnis et Chloe - 1st Tableau - Maurice Ravel - Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz
Pelleas without words
a meadowed glade made melody
whosoever
arrives
is allowed their time
to prance and strut
hints of Strauss too
tone sound-effects
liquid harmoniousness
harmonious with a suchness
few sounds
sound solo
descent rules
May 20, 2021
Sonata in G minor - Claude Debussy - Arthur Grumiaux, Istvan Hajdu
the thinking Frenchman's neo-classical
looking back at the 18th Century
over the heads
of the whole Nationalist Romantic mob
clearing a path for Stravinsky
St. Paul's Suite - Gustav Holst (arranged by Hogwood) - The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood
modernism for polite company
so as not to shock the British populace
dissonance kept safely at bay
even a little nod
to Scheherazade
exotic for flavor
Ash Can Stomp - Perry and his Stomp Band [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]
amazing sound
piano guitar sand-block
(one of my first instruments
- Rhythm Band at 4 or 5)
oops red light came on
shut it down
When The Saints Go Marching In - The George Peach [from Goodbye, Babylon]
strident solo
over
male chorus
calculated overblown
Suite from Merry Mount - Howard Hanson - Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz
incidental music from an opera
when in doubt add brass
then
piccolos
In Session at the Tintinabulary
May 17, 2021
Banned Rehearsal 1026 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt
We had high hopes for nice weather but the drizzle set in. Aaron came over and we sat on the porch. The cry of the Otamatone is heard again in the land.
Postscripts
::Consult the Oracle
affair included in any deduction
offer and before second breakfast
they in castorp might debt it and domestic
Reality Check::
be lost
the road is a map
facility is nothing
