Playlist

Preface

"Once upon a time the world was round and you could go on it around and around."

Gertrude Stein, from The World Is Round

Texts

Recorded

May 30, 2026

Sonata in C Major, Kk. 327 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

contrasting
narrow groupings
and expansive support figures

Album d'un voyageur, S. 156/R. 8, Book I, "Impressions et Poesies": IIa. Le Lac de Wallenstadt - Franz Liszt - Ashley Wass

Romantic art
sought to elevate
the relation pertaining
twixt man and nature
to one
of perfect sympathy
in all its sweetness
and violence 

it seeks to teach us
how to view the world
by example 

this
for example
is how to contemplate a lovely flower

Album für die Jugend für Klavier, Op. 68: II. Für Erwachsenere - Robert Schumann - Éric Le Sage

down on the floor with the kids
playing with tin soldiers and dress-up dolls 

fireside adventure tales
and dreams of quiet pleasures 

depictions of fantastic creatures and lands
begets a wandering mind 

ghosts and goblins
and elves of mischief

June 1, 2026

Poetic Tone-Pictures, Op. 3 - Edvard Grieg - Håkon Austbø

bunches of notes
stumbled through 

clear meter and balance
to work against 

pleasing pieces
passions kept
under careful
Northern
control

Promenade matinale - Marie Jaëll - Alexandre Sorel

lines drift free
from their original moorings 

I'm liking the drama
between the hands in this second one 

lengths are measured
by figure alternation count 

this fourth one
has weight to throw around

2 Poems, Op. 69 - Alexander Scriabin - Michael Ponti

a bouquet
such as a fine wine might provide 

faeries on skates and sparkles

Beau Koo Jack - Louis Armstrong and his Savoy Ballroom Five [from Hot Fives and Sevens]

feeling good
spread it around

Summertime - Sarah Vaughan [from Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin]

she grabs you
at every phrase
right at the start
keeps you

All Too Soon - Ella Fitzgerald [from Love Songs: The Best of the Verve Song Book]

everything aims at the title
at the end of each stanza

Julia - The Beatles [from The Beatles (White Album)]

voice doubled

Zero and Blind Terry - Bruce Springsteen [from Tracks]

such a grandiose hero fantasy
so that
any schmo might imagine themselves into it

Tears Tears Tears - T. Bone Burnett [from Truth Decay]

poem composed around the title
and similarly repeated words
as a way
to forestall the payoff
in the ensuing lines

Bring Us In Good Ale (Holst) - King's Singers [from My Spirit Sang All Day]

this one is fun
thanks Gus!

Ecstasy - PJ Harvey [from Rid of Me]

out of body doings

Disco 77 - Goodness [from Goodness 1995-1998]

vocal closely embedded into the mix
doesn't stick out
but is clearly distinguished
and reasonably intelligible
now and then

Curse of Cthulu - Scurvy Bastards [from Battle Born]

monster movie adventure
maritime
days of sail

Play Selection (Interlude)/The 1 - Janet Jackson [from Discipline]

entirely meretricious
for social dancing 

ending gambit
reduce the parts in play
then pattern the residual vamp

Of All The Limbs To Cling To - Mikey and Matty [from Harbor Island]

our day to day troubles
become a poetic world

Don't Have Time for Candy - Your Mother Should Know [recorded live at The Skylark, Seattle, March 1, 2018]

the endless tuning of guitars
stripped down version of YMSK
guitar tambourine and vocals

June 2, 2026

Tree and Stone - S. Eric Scribner [from Ussers of Sleep]

mineral tapping
vegetable rustling 

I have participated in realizations of this score
several times now
the score object
is a black and white graphic
of
(I think)
a landscape
with mountains
peppered with wooded areas
over which
is laid
an asymmetrical grid 

each segment of which
corresponds
to a span of time
more or less
chronometric 

the density of marks
within those grid segments
taken
to represent
proportions of the time
to be allotted
to sound making
or not sound making 

each player
has a differently configured grid 

there are no particular instructions
as to coordination
beyond the clock 

on this end
we hear mostly rustling
punctuated periodically
by the tapping 

the rustling
is full of internal detail
the tapping
points
to particular moments 

the spans of its events
are brief enough
to be almost without duration
we hear it
but
it is not there
by the time
we register it in consciousness 

up front
though
is the overt
made-by-humans nature
of both the rustling and the tapping

Vanessa, Act 3 - Samuel Barber - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Eleanor Steber, Nicolai Gedda, Rosalind Elias, Giorgio Tozzi, Regina Resnik

hustle and bustle
it's yet another opera stage party
half expect Don Giovanni and Leporello
to make an appearance
instead of the drunken oaf doctor 

the orchestra plays
a tone poem
of the story
concurrent with
but independent of
the stage business

You're Gonna Hear From Me - Bill Evans [from Some Other Time / The Lost Session from the Black Forest]

melodist on the light fantastic 

takes a bow

The Puppet - Echo & The Bunnymen [from Nancy's Mix]

the mix starts
at a moderated presence
then they turn up the volume
for you

Hairshirt - REM [from Green]

uniformity of sound throughout
the notes
are within the sound's
start to finish
homogeneity
top to bottom

Plateau - Nirvana [from Unplugged in New York]

stratified polis

Coyote Dance - Tingstad & Rumbel [from American Acoustic]

fipple flute duet
with guitar
lively

Nothing Fails - Madonna [from American Life]

a thread in the tropes of American pop
is the notion
that a pop woman
is faithful unconditionally 

abuse
is felt
to be
deserved 

social gaslighting 

fay-ills
(two syllables)

Cologne - Dolly Parton [from Backwoods Barbie]

as above
from a different point of view 

how a woman
was expected
to leave her mark
on her man

Hanuman - Steve Layton [from The Composer Plays Revisited]

these pianos are conversing
with intent to converse 

femme fatale
among a cohort

Which Side Won? - Brenda Ray [from Original Songs/50s Music]

backwaters of hippiedom
my immediate elders

Wakefield - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey [December 24, 2023]

these
are an awkward
but earnest
dance couple

Don't Let Your Deal Go Down - Buford Boyd [from The Art of Field Recording]

songs from the travelin' types

Those Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) - Thelonious Monk [from The Complete Columbia Studio Solo Recordings]

his touch enforces pitch

You're The One For Me - Jonathan Richman [from Jonathan Sings!]

so sweet
but does it normalize stalking?

Angels We Have Heard On High - London Symphony Orchestra [from Joy To The World]

I earnestly hope everybody involved with this
got paid 

at least among the musicians 

who wants to play tastefully? 

gratuitous key change
so manufactured
yep
there goes the descant
and
the trumpets

Cold Mountain Songs: The Bird of Five Colors - Robert Morris Deborah Norin-Kuehn, Margaret Kampmeier [from Open Space 30]

it shimmers

Speechless - Beyoncé [from Dangerously In Love]

another trope of the culture
the total absorption of the woman
by the man
as a make out loop track

Babe You Ain't Bad - Smokestack and the Foothill Fury [from A Live Wire]

his guitar playing
is intricate
nervous
heavy and delicate

Don't You Care - The Swearengens [from Waiting On The Sunrise]

the engineered sound
has an offputting harshness to it
too much compression?

Duke of Sorrow - Strung Out [from Black Out The Sky]

similar problem here
the sound
of old tech
is difficult to reproduce
with new tech

Adapt - Tom Baker Quartet [from Begin Again]

persons of sounds
arrange a space
to suit the time
or
a time
to suit the space

Summertime - Miles Davis [from The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz]

with some swagger and some sleaze

I Like It Like That - The Kingsmen [from The Very Best of The Kingsmen]

out of town dance hall

Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music 831211 830 PM (end) - John Cage - New Performance Group, John Cage

music of the ellipsoid solids

June 3, 2026

She No Rattle My Cage - Girl Trouble [from Hit It Or Quit It]

diversity among musical cultures
reflects the same
among us
as
presumably
homogeneity among them
reflects
the same
among us
so that
we identify musics
by
their cultural origin

O Madame, pers-je mon tems (1552) - The Baltimore Consort [from La Rocque'n'Roll]

one wonders how much of this
is from a score
and how much
was cooked up for this performance

Soundscape - Kathy [from Jack Straw Cultural Center Blind Youth Audio Project 2003]

the last morning on earth
somebody may be fishing for splashing

Propitious Visions - Christian Asplund [from Viola]

as though made of double bass

Genius, Carnivore, Beauty Queen - The Hunting Club [from Holiday Beach]

adventure party types
they sing as though the words
might be worth understanding
even if buried 

the energy expended
in doing so

Let There Be Love - Christina Aguilera [from Lotus]

dance club vibe

Sarabande - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey, Jim Knodle [from Keith Eisenbrey #9: 2002-2005]

gosh but Jim blew that sweet

Sit Down Servant - Ida Craig [from The Art of Field Recording]

interesting ornaments on the ends of lines
lightly voiced
work song?

Come Back Baby/Groovin' - Aretha Franklin [from Lady Soul]

cultural icon
cultural brand
personification of a product

clever quote
of a contemporary
in the backups
Sunday Sunday

Untitled - Dan Sedia [recorded live at Bard College, March 18, 1983]

flirting
with tuning
into the piece
one is intoning
until
it bursts out 

we have been there all along
then
there are adjustments
to the space's furnishings

Atmadja Duma Strachilu - Bulgarian State Radio & TV Female Vocal Choir [from Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares Volume 2]

the history of our music
confuses itself
in perpetually hearing itself
in itself 

the voice-leadings of these arrangements
are echt Late 20th Century
as is the engineering
as is the concept

The Rag Time Dance - Scott Joplin - Itzhak Perlman [from The Art of Itzhak Perlman]

every artifact of music one comes across
is an act of volition
an idea to do
that is
then
done
whether it's Mr. Perlman and his pianist
having a blast
or Ida Craig
singing while washing dishes 

giving Joplin the full Paganini

Colors: Turquoise Paisley - Brad Hawkins, Jesse Canterbury [from Brad Hawkins, Jesse Canterbury]

all the fleshy squiggles
sparkle at the points

Space Beneath the Door - Star Anna and The Laughing Dogs [from Crooked Path]

poetics of hard drinking
bottom plumbing
as a blues

Driving In New York - Lori Goldston [from Film Scores]

the constant anxiety
even the daylight is dark and glare

Clacking at the Clicking - Bret Hart [from Double Thud]

a music that seems comfortable
with its steady
stable
ticking time 

clever as it is
within the grid
it remains a grid 

once extruded
the time remains
as a color
within the residue

Totem 30 - Sascia Pellegrini [from Totems VI]

these sounds are obscured
by a moot scrim
a medium between us
a membrane
an enclosed resonance
anything that touches the membrane
distorts
creates artifacts
in its substrate medium 

a device
is a delicate being
with parameters
for optimal fidelity 

adjustment of parameter
adjusts fidelity 

it hasn't finished
just because you think it has 

strange trolleys and trams

Pictures of Lily - The Who [from Magic Bus]

the joy of stroke mags

Double - J. K. Randall, Mathew Rosenblum, Marjorie Tichenor, Daniel Warner [from Inter/Play]

anyone comes into music
from their own self
alternate routes being unavailable 

what one is
is
what ones music is  

or
one is
as to
what ones music is
as music
is
to what oneself is
but leftward right

the old mirror trick
quoth 86 

which indelibly dyes 

all we do
in doing music
or ingesting it 

the rightness
or wrongness
of a moment
is not the moment's problem 

we'll store these tunes
in this closet
where they can be found
when their time is upon anyone 

what might be a sign
of the end
is a sign
to continue further 

we have entered a new chamber 

this music has wandered
onto an empty stage
peopled
by ghostlight
and them

Tony's Theme - Pixies [from Surfer Rosa]

comprehension presumed
if not accomplished 

Toe! Knee!

June 4, 2026

I Got Shoes - Robert Shaw Festival Singers [from Amazing Grace]

the nice part of the lyric
as the title
rather than
the
ever'body talkin' 'bout heav'n ain't agoin' there
part

She'll Drive The Big Car - David Bowie [from Reality]

first we check the controls
lights
signals
go
stop
steer
strap in
and go out
into city traffic

They Are One - Solvents [from Manresa Castle]

roots rock
as a pop genre
has one foot in string band
one in blues
one in suburbia

Chubin - No Man's String Band [from Let The Truth Be Told]

right on cue
with accordion of some kind

Clairvoyant Dance Remix - The Science of Deduction [from Alternative Works]

a dance music
might be a sequence of prompts to movement 

open prompt:
it is a prompt
if a dancer takes it to be so
and
is a prompt then
to do that movement
that the dancer
so moved to do 
was so moved to do 

open until enacted

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night - Keith Eisenbrey - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey [from Keith Eisenbrey #9: 2002-2005]

strophic structure
needs stanzas of like size and shape
the payoff
is
that they are fun
or otherwise engaging
to be inside of
for as many stanzas
as there are to sing

Shout (Parts 1 and 2) - ? and The Mysterians [from The Best of ? and The Mysterians]

holding it back until the end
and continues to accelerate
or to seem to
driving forward eagerly

An Innocent Man - Billy Joel [from The Essential Billy Joel]

not far removed
from a Frankie Avalon schtick
or Sinatra for that matter

Positivity - Prince [from Lovesexy]

a dance song might be a soundscape
upon which to move
a prompt
to the feet and hips and shoulders
from below
a bed bounce

this one wanders around
is it lost?

Sign of the Times (Outtake) - Nina Simone [from A Single Woman]

a serious talk

Twilight Time - Glenn Tate [from Days of Wine and Roses]

triple whammy vowel sequence

Ode to Billie Joe - Rachel Harrington [from City of Refuge]

bad news across the supper table

White Eyes - The Botherations [from The Botherations]

an edge to the intonation of everything
the imparted residue of amplification
nothing ever quite matches
though
it seems
it must be matching

Depression and Cigarettes - Choke The Pope [from Who Cares]

failure
self defeatist
loop script

What Is Your Middle Name - Anna La Berge, Tom Baker [from Sand]

Edward
after my Uncle Ed
my dad's brother

Lonesome Suzie - The Band [from Music for Big Pink]

making characters
in stories
out of folks
at back tables

Looking For You (I Was) - Patti Smith [from Dream of Life]

text arranged syllabically
on a solid frame
with only certain tolerances
for give and take

Maryland, My Maryland [from New Orleans Traditional Jazz Legends Vol. 3]

all stand
and sing praises
of their motherland 

sounds more like Oh Tannenbaum to me

Inside #1 - Doug Haire [from The Crawford Opera]

a found footage soundscape 

Beautiful, Dirty, Rich - Lady Gaga [from The Fame]

top of some idea of style
fantasy wear

Track 5 - Pouch [recorded live at Victory Lounge, Seattle, July 6, 2013]

the first song we ever learned
a keepsake 

a boss fight with stages

Bends - Bad Luck [from Four]

I see race car footage
in slo mo
its smooth careening
dissected
over an industrial Bo Diddley generator 

running out of juice
or broadening
into more tortured planes 

we are the track
heard from below
it howls and shrieks
four-wheeled banshees
in their frenzy
smothered
in bells and tinkles

Psalm 133 - Keith Eisenbrey - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey [from Keith Eisenbrey #9: 2002-2005]

this setting
makes each syllable an event
I set the text
and let it explain itself

In Session at The Tintinabulary

May 31, 2026

Revelation - Keith Eisenbrey

Keith Eisenbrey · 152 Revelation 260531 [260531]

June 1, 2026

Banned Rehearsal 1152 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 1152 260601

Postscripts

Drops

Keith Eisenbrey 32: Sabbatical Improvisations (part 3) 2014

In 2013 I had reached an inflection point in my big project, Études d'exécution imminent, and took a sabbatical (indifferently observed) from composing written-down music. I filled the time with various forms of improvisation, both "in-the-moment" composing, and sometimes puttering about with multi-tracking and other digitally applied effects. Here is the third bunch of them.

recordings of my compositions (and more!) can be found at keitheisenbrey.bandcamp.com - free to download or stream

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Preface

"Oh! lawk; oh! dear; oh! crimeny me; what a downright sin and a shame,
To try to put down old Bartlemy Fair! I don't know who's to blame:
Whether it's the west-end nobs, or the city folks -- confound 'em! I could cry with vexation
But this I will say, if it's the latter, they ain't fit for their city-wation.
What is to become of all us poor showmen, as has embarked every penny we've got,
In learned pigs, and crocodiles, and sheep with two heads, and wax Thurtells, and what not?
It's werry unfair to make us an exception to the general rule of the nation;
You orts to consider our wested rights, as free-born Britons, and allow us 'a compensation.'
When you stopp'd the rich West Indy merchants from dealing in poor African ______,
You allowed them twenty millions of money; and surely, showing a few hinnocent wax figgers
Aint worse than stealing one's black feller creturs, and carrying 'em off, and treating 'em worse than swine;
And, let me tell you, a lamb with two tails is much more preferabler than a cat with nine."

from The Comic Almanack, 1st Series 1835-1843

{There will be no blog post next week, May 9, but I intend to be back the week after that, on May 16 -kee}

Texts

Recorded

April 25, 2026

Soundform 1 - S. Eric Scribner [from Soundforms/Multiples]

a stillness passes through

Sunnyside Ave - Peterman [from Red Vinyl]

holding a constant rhetorical pressure

Samos - Steve Layton [from Virtual Composition]

passage through an imaginary garden

Totem 28 - Sascia Pellegrini [from Totem VI]

a lone hollow whistles in the void

Sonata in A Major, Kk. 323 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

cheerful at the work bench

Novelletten, Op. 21: #6 in A Major - Robert Schumann - Florian Uhlig

we twist easily through
separate into staggered entrances
to regroup
at a later measure

Buch der Lieder I, S. 531: V. Der du von dem Himmel bist - Franz Liszt - Leslie Howard

where Schumann pulls us closer
Liszt spreads out before us 

our spirits are enraptured at the prospect

Sonata in C, Op. 70 (#10) - Alexander Scriabin - John Ogdon

the tonality of a passage
is a motion in discrete increments

April 26, 2026

Shine On Me - Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers [from Anthology of American Folk Music]

sharing community vowels

Summertime - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong [from Porgy and Bess]

ironic lullaby

Money (That's What I Want) - The Beatles [from The Beatles Anthology]

the economic engine hindwards of it all

Never Let Me Go (Alternate) - Bill Evans [from Alone]

accentuated lines
as though they swerve close by us
or trace the path
of the distance
between two dancing bodies

Thundercrack - Bruce Springsteen [from Tracks]

a little country song to relax to
the arrangement is attractive
and more transparent than some of his more orchestral work
does rather go on and on though

Think of Me - Madonna [from Madonna]

while we dance
the singer spins a conversation
such as dancers might need to have
a communication aid song
as social commodity
packaging all the way down

You Could Look It Up - T. Bone Burnett [from The Talking Animals]

accusatory stance

April 27, 2026

On a Plane - Nirvana [from Unplugged in New York]

heavy word accent
2-count
in pairs

Romeo and Juliet - Brave Combo [from Box of Ghosts]

to words serviceable and easily forgotten

Sister Twin - Goodness [from Goodness 1995-1998]

the whole sound
is pitched forward in the head

Royal Blooded Dingle - Christian Asplund [from Viola]

speed talking

Boundary - Your Mother Should Know [recorded live at Victory Lounge, July 6, 2013]

fiddling with the set up
then Karen sings it
folks are reasonably polite at the bar
a bit of an oddball song for a dive bar
more loungey

Hollow by Footsteps - Tim Root [from Constance and The Waiting]

thoughtful memory scene
big drama on the screen
the music says so
with Rachmaninoff fists

Ent'racte - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey [from Keith Eisenbrey #7, 1995-2001]

an amusement
a bit
of a quodlibet

Ideas - Monk Hazel [from That Devilin' Tune]

quick footed

Walt Singing - Norman Monath [from Songs of The Pogo]

plink plinky plink plinky

Super Nova - Wayne Shorter [from The Classic Blue Note Recordings]

going in hot

Laughing - REM [from Murmur]

narrow ambitus
wider ambitus
to differentiate parts of the melody
as parts of the poem

Into Thy Hands, O Lord - Cambridge Singers [from Brother Sun, Sister Moon]

goes by above our heads

Cold Mountain Songs: No One There - Robert Morris - Deborah Norin-Kuehn, Margaret Kampmeier [from Open Space 30]

hesitant empty

Danza Mora - Tingstad & Rumbel [from American Acoustic]

a dance is a social network
worked from above

Assembled Introductory Fibs - Chamber Music Camp Participants [from Eisenbrey 2003]

Mom talks about a Pennsylvanian
who went to Egypt
there must have been props

Survival - Courtney Marie Andrews [from Urban Myths]

distinctive use of small vocal ornaments
and brief melismas

Song 3 - Old Man Williamson [recorded live at Victory Lounge, July 6, 2013]

a tendency to overdo introductions
to turn every outing
into a stadium sized triumph

April 28, 2026

Impermanence - Joey Largent [from Earth Drones]

sound as of cars along highway
or waves upon shore
a low gong signifies portent
or time passing
this music comes across
like the somber opening
of a spectacle
such as a beheading
or crucifixion
or the recession
in aftermath
mood sign
exit through the darkness
to the fore

Throw Down in Whispertown - The No-Ones [from My Best Evil Friend]

aging surf rock

I Used to Call Her Baby - Dallas String Band [from That Devilin' Tune]

the string bass
is played with a bow
to insinuate the pitch
the way the singer does 

somewhat louchely

Do It Again - Sarah Vaughan [from Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin]

lifting clever devices into grandeur

Everything Happens To Me - Thelonious Monk [from The Complete Columbia Studio Solo Recordings: 1962-1968]

some songs present themselves on stage
with lights and choreography

Smash It Up Parts 1 and 2 - The Damned [from Nancy's Mix]

my guess is that the original Nancy's Mix
skipped part 1 of this
as the compilator
was much more into the smashing
than the soulful 

music can be a signifier
of shared attitudes
its signification is its meaning
coolness is all

To a Lady Seen from the Train - King's Singers [from My Spirit Sang All Day]

glee club bon bon

Prelude - Baltimore Consort [from La Rocque'N'Roll]

a tonality discovered in scraps

Wishlist - Pearl Jam [from Rearview Mirror]

constricted thoughts
easier to ship in bulk

Don't Think Twice It's All Right - Karen Blaine [from Dirty Money]

everything in its place
chords
rhymes
and breaths

Anthem - The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet [from Laws of Motion]

the opening repeated segment
is in square time
with a fetching hesitation
in its final breaths
a melody
with a warm human heart

Song 4 - Peterman [recorded live at Victory Lounge, July 6, 2013]

about a town in New Jersey
which spends its life staring across the river
at success
brutal and unlovely

Thumpy - Bret Hart [from Dubble Thud]

it is a happy thing
that there is a place in this world
where such things as this
can be
even with the inhuman grid of clock time
quietly harvesting us

Psalm 22:9-10 - Keith Eisenbrey - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey [from Keith Eisenbrey #7, 1995-2001]

there are times
when I have needed to be doing self proving
many of my songs are demonstrations of skill

Good Old Turnip Greens - Bo Chatman [from Really The Blues]

cuisineology
as social satire
regarding racial issues

Leave My Woman Alone - Ray Charles [from Yes Indeed!]

back off friend
Ray is the master
of the use of back up singers
to turn his words into dialogs

Long Green - The Kingsmen [from The Very Best of The Kingsmen]

drink along
swig dance
more fun than Louis Louis

Those Conga Drums - Jonathan Richman [from Jonathan Sings!]

for Jonathan this counts as a big production
but its heart seems to be mostly in the right place

The First Noel - London Symphony Orchestra [from Joy To The World]

the back up singers did say
on a throwaway figure 

the singer overdoes the word painting
by enunciation

negotiating those vowels in Soprano
is a technical challenge
and this singer is up to it
but why?

Yellan and Pollack - My Yiddishe Momma - Itzhak Perlman [from The Art of Itzhak Perlman]

a sad melody played beautifully
how sad 

my melancholy
is more melancholier
than your melancholiest melancholiations

Track 12 - Eckstein Middle School Students [from Mach 6]

nightclub cosplay club

I Woke Up - The True Bugs [from 25 Songs]

going for a Dylanish rhythm to his lines

The Seer - Shelby Earl [from Swift Arrows]

film in strophic scenes
a ballad

Agnes Gray (Echo Wanderer's Wild Violet Mix) - The Science of Deduction [from Alternate Works]

we are lifted
by alien space beam
into the land of eternal artifice
wash yourself clean in dance

Juice - Tom Baker, Anna La Berge [from Sand]

careful notations are made
of each sample in turn
further tests
beyond each further test
maximal universal scanning device
all objects
known
by knowing each 

data securely stored
severely stoned

'Mid the Pyramids - Clarence Jones [from That Devilin' Tune]

loose jointed mule cart
16 frames per second

Ballade of a Teenage Queen - Johnny Cash [from Sun Records Definitive Hits]

she loved the boy next door
who worked at the candy store
oops
jilted him for movie stardom
but came back
how sweet

Good To Me As I Am To You - Aretha Franklin [from Lady Soul]

the blues are a chamber music
of commiseration celebration

April 29, 2026

Gastrophone - Ross Rabin, J. K. Randall, Daniel Warner [from Inter/Play]

the mechanism moves jerkily
regroups fallen parts
between each heavy footfall

personifying music
by imagining a body
whose motions are this music 

a man of loose parts
and doohickeys
its giant joints
squeal and scrape 

we perch upon our pile of wreckage
and bellow like a bear

Steppin' Out - Girl Trouble [from Hit It Or Quit It]

more threats to keep women under thumb

Dere's No Hidin' Place - Robert Shaw Festival Singers [from Amazing Grace]

very low bass at the cadence

Blood Hound (feat. Young Buck) - 50 Cent [from Get Rich Or Die Tryin']

at the ends
he rhythmates his rhymes

Beadie and Bob - Empty Cage Quartet [from Stratostrophic]

lounging at the corner
checking out the scene

Coronach - Princess [from Selling Sulphur]

music here
is a flavor of din
a sonic density
and little else

Fuck Me - Choke The Pope [from Who Cares]

full powered failure celebration

5 Duets - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey [from Keith Eisenbrey #7, 1995-2001]

originally for two clarinets
they become fingering studies on piano
how two agents collude
to share material
only occasionally colliding
leaves off
at its most focused point

I Would If I Could - Al Miller [from Turn Me Loose White Man]

we amuse ourselves
with stories from our common life
populated by clown types

Jailhouse Rock - Jerry Lee Lewis [from Sun Records Definitive Hits]

hammer hand piano pounder

Song To A Seagull - Joni Mitchell [from Song To A Seagull]

a voice to which a gender might attach
is a voice first
idiosyncrasies of vocal anatomy
among a population
the stereo goose
on the last strum
was unnecessary

R. P. Williams Blues - Dan Sedia [recorded live at Bard College, March 18, 1983]

doing what he does into orbit

Dragana I Slavei - Bulgarian State Radio & TV Female Vocal Choir [from Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares Volume 2]

sophisticated vocal arrangements
with vocal style
that signifies folksiness

No Woman, No Cry - Nina Simone [from A Single Woman]

Nina shows off her brand of vocal technique

Moment of Clarity - Jay-Z [from The Black Album]

a tense scene
in stasis
for the duration of the poem

You're Not Sorry - Taylor Swift [from Fearless]

voice is a performance of self 

to listen with self identification
is transference

Roach - Chaotic Noise Marching Corps [from Smashed at Smash Putt]

street fair clown band
tattoo drumming 

gots their them there rudiments down
by thunder
sticking by Stone

Capitol - Bad Luck [from Four]

nasty weather
officious liaison
punctiliarly punctual
I hope I'm not intended to follow these instructions 

it spit sputters

• lickety split
• bullet lists 

once a certain velocity is achieved
rules will be difficult

Track 9 - Star Anna [from Love Shades, streamed February 14, 2023]

we value a voice
for the specificity of self it performs 

selves are valued
as we value each other 

Crazeology - Bud Freeman [from That Devilin' Tune]

long hanging stylish suits
flash pants hats and dos 

dance with hips low

College Man - Bill Justis [from Sun Records Definitive Hits]

frat rat twist party strut

I'm Running Out of Love - Dolly Parton [from Just Because I'm a Woman]

daytime television plot land

In Bluer Skies - Echo & The Bunnymen [from Porcupine]

to sing
to give a poem a voice
and self
in the voice

Make It Funky - Audio Two [from What More Can I Say]

we describe our dance
and provide examples 

ends with a width of cycles
for a clever party
to layer a new cut
atop

Down In Honky Tonk Town [from New Orleans Traditional Jazz Legends Vol. 3]

old timey jazz
for the visitors to marvel at
glitzy entertainment
all the prescribed raunch
(family friendly)

All For Me Grog - Scurvy Bastards [from Battle Born]

beer hall guzzler

Truth Or Dare/Greatest X - Janet Jackson [from Discipline]

what happens to a song
when we gender the voice that sings it
especially when the musician
seems intent
on signaling one

how much
is costume

Healthy Punk - Chastity Belt [from No Regerts]

bands run a risk
of becoming an attitude brand

Track 4 [from Unlabelled Christmas Album] 

this music is wrapped in silks and incense

How Firm a Foundation - Keith Eisenbrey -  Keith Eisenbrey [from Keith Eisenbrey #7, 1995-2001]

demonstrating to myself
that I can write music skillfully
but not fussily

April 30, 2025

Since I Laid My Burden Down - Elders McIntosh & Edwards [from Goodbye, Babylon]

tent meeting rouser
lifts the whole canvas

Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller - Chuck Berry [from The Best of Chuck Berry]

about a daughter?

Someone's Coming - The Who [from Magic Bus]

the brass players sound bored
I hope they got paid

Stand Back - Stevie Nicks [from Timespace]

the backing groove functions like a fancy metronome
the greater timekeeper for dancing fools

Where Is My Mind? - Pixies [from Surfer Rosa]

much of the industrial sheen
left out on the sidewalk in a heap 

once again
back to basics 

small stage
small audience
intimacy

France - Jean  Lilensen [from The World Sings Good Night]

very short

Yes - Beyoncé [from Dangerously In Love]

establishing boundaries

Special Agent - Goat [from Special Agent]

if a figure appears
in a pairing
with a like figure
that implies a trajectory
from one to the other
but also a duality of types
the one type
and the other type 

do subsequent figures
sort themselves into like pairings
interlocked along the rhythm webs
or
do they only need to seem to
or
be likely to
in order
to provide
the experience
of cohering

I'm Not Gonna Worry (Cinnamons Cover) - Acapulco Lips [from Acapulco Lips]

dancing in the light
of a suburban young love fantasy

Drive This Thing - Lost In Space [from Live at The Player's Lounge]

work it low inside

Silent Crowds - Movement [from Dirt Cult Records: You Don't Have To Be Cool]

elemental guy thing

He's Coming Soon - Laura Henton [from Goodbye, Babylon]

tent meetings were traveling circuses
music was among its many attractions

Something Inside Me - Ray Charles [a Rescued Record]

Ray owns his vocal in this

Slim Slow Slider - Van Morrison [from Astral Weeks]

evanescent images
addressed to their object

Leave a Tender Moment Alone - Billy Joel [from The Essential Billy Joel]

mansplaining man's many moods
its the same ride the second time around

When 2 R In Love - Prince [from Lovesexy]

clarity in the mix
was carefully crafted
all the parts fit together

Save Room For Me - Fastbacks [from Zucker]

teen bedroom
pajama party
bop

The Loneliest Guy - David Bowie [from Reality]

swimming slowly
dim lit depths

Another Crazy Song-Zander - Sacajawea Elementary Students [from Digital Dreams]

convention floor showcase

Harsh Mistress - Antique Scream [from Two Bad Dudes]

a social music
can serve as a pattern of acceptable behavior
for that social group
how to be
this
or that
type
of gender
for
each other

Mountain - Whitney Ballen [from You're a Shooting Star - I'm a Sinking Ship]

gendered larynxes

Jeremiah 17:5-6 - Keith Eisenbrey - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey [from Keith Eisenbrey #7, 1995-2001]

better and better every time around

Nightmare - Alfonso Trent [from That Devilin' Tune]

not from the tent meeting circuit
this is from a different demimonde
or its afterparty

Get a Job - The Silhouettes [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]

live the small town
change in your pocket
teen dream

Can't Get Enough of You Baby - ? and The Mysterians [from The Very Best of ? and The Mysterians]

want your arms to wrap around me twice

Walk With Me - Brady "Doc" Barnes, Lucy Barnes [from The Art of Field Recording]

daily work song prayer

Where Duty Calls - Patti Smith [from Dream of Life]

duty is suprasocial oppression

Me-Jane - Pj Harvey [from Rid of Me]

guitar heavy

Stormy Weather - Glenn Tate [from Days of Wine and Roses]

conjuring a whole scene from memory cues

Love Story - Mariah Carey [from E=MC2]

credits roll on sappy romance

Go To Orange - B'Shnorkestra [from Go To Orange]

finding a comfortable berth
within the prevailing culture

Seven Months - Red Ribbon [from Dark Party]

this version of the song
is more static
than some of her earlier performances
more subdued and constant

Got to Make a Comeback - Eddie Floyd [from Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos]

quite the throb on the guitar
it has an effect
on the sense of the meter

In Session at The Tintinabulary

April 26, 2026

Welford - Keith Eisenbrey

Keith Eisenbrey · 147 Welford 260426 [260426]

April 27, 2026

Gradus 432 - Neal Kosály-Meyer

after the new note is runged
a blast from decades past
a lone A-natural
as companion
a grizzled veteran note 

this one
is becoming many 

repeatedly 

thresholds of audibility
among the envelopes of partials
as they decay

the new old pitch enters
and the cosmos shrinks
to the gap between them

their interval relaxes
into a more generous value

April 30, 2026

7 Preludes for Guitar - Lockrem Johnson

these little pieces came up in my listening recently
in Douglas Rice's fine performance
and I wondered what they might be like
as pieces for clavichord
so I recorded them to find out

Postscripts

Drops

Music of Gavin Borchert (part 2)

This volume collects 30 additional two-part inventions by Seattle composer Gavin Borchert, performed on clavichord. The recordings were made at my home in 2023.

recordings of my compositions (and more!) can be found at keitheisenbrey.bandcamp.com - free to download or stream

Playlist

Golden Gardens Park, Seattle

Preface

"Like noiseless nautilus shells, their light prows sped through the sea; but only slowly they neared the foe. As they neared him, the ocean grew still more smooth; seemed drawing a carpet over its waves; seemed a moon-meadow, so serenely it spread. At length the breathless hunter came so nigh his seemingly unsuspecting prey, that his entire dazzling hump was distinctly visible, sliding along the sea as if an isolated thing, and continually set in a revolving ring of finest, fleecy, greenish foam. He saw the vast, involved wrinkles of this slightly projecting head beyond. Before it, far out on the soft Turkish-rugged waters, went the glistening white shadow from his broad, milky forehead, a musical rippling playfully accompanying the shade; and behind, the blue waters interchangeably flowed over into the moving valley of his steady wake; and on either hand bright bubbles arose and danced by his side. But these were broken again by the light toes of hundreds of gay fowl softly feathering the sea, alternate with their fitful flight; and like to some flag-staff rising from the painted hull of an argosy, the tall but shattered pole of a recent lance projected from the white whale's back; and at intervals one of the cloud of soft-toed fowls hovering, and to and fro skimming like a canopy over the fish, silently perched and rocked on this pole, the long tail feathers streaming like pennons."

Herman Melville, from Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale.

Texts

Live

Golden Gardens Park, Seattle

April 8, 2026

Seattle Modern Orchestra: Entangled Sounds
with Donna Shin (flute) and Aaron Wonson (piano)
Julia Tai, Conductor
Meany Hall, University of Washington, Seattle

tearing down a forest to build a dog bar - Oliver Schoonover

slow slither
stealth music 

not an illustration of the texts that are read
but
its environments
their enveloping atmosphere

Musica fict(iv)a, for wind quintet - Joël-François Durand

announcing bursts
squeezing through tight tonal crevices

the new normal - William Dougherty

through massive interference
the spheres still turn 

redaction scratches

La Liorana, for flute and ensemble - Huck Hodge

splash
then
filling in
filling up
tidal
out
as in

Piano Concerto - György Ligeti

the piano can
on its own
imitate an orchestra
quite effectively 

but

when confronted
with an actual ensemble
that power
vanishes 

not 

because it is inadequate

but 

because of the scale of detail involved 

an atmosphere
can dissipate
or drift off
or be swept away

Recorded

Golden Gardens Park, Seattle

April 6, 2026

Paragon Rag - Scott Joplin - E. Power Biggs

Mr. Biggs plays these on a pedal harpsichord
which
as instruments go
is quite the contraption 

it has the capability
of a variety of sounds
and volumes
depending on how many strings
are plucked
per note
which capability
he uses
to play repetitions off each other 

and
since rags are structured
as a series of repeating figures/phrases
that technique
is quite effective

Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen [from Live at The Roxy]

dream of escape from Loserville 

pleasantly subdued for a change

Baby Fall Down - T Bone Burnett [from Proof Through The Night]

four syllables
repeated at various pitch planes
three accented
one un

Get Off The Bandwagon - EPMD [from Strictly Business]

territorial assertion

Tsahay Hailu - Ethiopia [from The World Sings Goodnight]

each line
ends on a rising pitch
except the last of a group
to articulate
completion of statement

Jewels in the Crown - Tingstad & Rumbel [from American Acoustic]

with such procedures
music articulates its parts
in imitation of rhyme schemes
and metrical regularity 

sophistication
becomes a game
of adding layers
of interlocking patternings

Darkness of Estrangement - Christian Asplund [from Brainstun]

but
is it those patternings
of sounds
that distinguish music
from the general run of human expression? 

sandwich structure
ABA

He'll Come Back For You - The True Bugs

encouraging
in the face
of subjunctive disasters

Steady - Crosstalk  [from Here Now]

Ken Benshoof imaged returning articulations
as a signal
of going back to the start
to do it again
or to do it again
but different
so that
segments can be compared
vertically
as it were
across sequential time spans
creates columns of times
in ordered rows of times

Golden Gardens Park, Seattle

April 7, 2026

Spider Man - S. Eric Scribner, and others [from Free Improv Quartets Project]

in cases such as this
in which it might be fuzzy
to distinguish a performed sound
and an accidental sound
but
in which
intention
is firmly imputed
might the music
leak out
from accident
only waiting for us
to attend it
our intent
draws music out
from accident
it's the spider man session

The Umbrella Escapes - Steve Layton & Sound-In [from The Many Voices In Our Heads]

and strums dreamily down the street 

can the activity
by which this sound arrives in my living room
be conceived
as a music making activity 

this umbrella has thrill issues

Sonata in A Major, Kk. 320 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

this music is lively dinner party banter 

the segments
are dizzyingly
dissimilarly
sized

La Muette de Portici, Act 3 - Daniel-François-Esprit Auber - Dessau Anhalt Theater Chorus, Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau, Antony Hermus, Diego Torre, Oscar De La Torre, Angelina Ruzzafante, Wiard Witholt

the act
in which
the match of revolt
is lit 

a story told in song and sound
in which
a major character
has no voice 

the chorus is revolting!
(tee hee) 

actually 

this hymn they sing
is lovely
worth the price of admission
all on its own

Novelletten, Op. 21: No. 3 in D Major - Robert Schumann - Florian Uhlig

spiders play games in the crawlspace
telling us spooky stories
through the floorboards

Golden Gardens Park, Seattle

Buch der Lieder I, S. 531: II. Am Rhein, im schönen Strome - Franz Liszt, Leslie Howard

we drift on the magic river
the old god of the land
peaceful and beneficent
happy sparkle dust o'er all

Sonata in F, Op. 68 (#9) - Alexander Scriabin - John Ogdon

the four note figure that opens
never goes away
though it may hide
or transform
it permeates

If The Light Has Gone Out In Your Soul - Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers [from Really The Blues]

solid eight bar stanzas

Wun'erful Wun'erful (side-uh-two) - Stan Freberg [from The Very Best of Stan Freberg]

stop the show
to pop the cheek 

so many bubbles

I Let a Song Get Out of My Heart - Ella Fitzgerald [from Love Songs: The Best of The Verve Song Book]

this recording
is lovingly engineered 

a violin appears out of nowhere

These Foolish Things - Bill Evans [from Some Other Time / The Lost Session from the Black Forest]

each measure is a unique dance

The Hexamshire Lass - Fairport Convention [from Meet On The Ledge]

a toast to his favorite
a boast of his favorite

Holiday - Madonna [from Madonna]

party
flashing lights

a commercial
to dance to

Word to The Mother (Land) - Big Daddy Kane [from Long Live The Kane]

altar call

They Don't Care - Fastbacks [from Zucker]

drummed in
pounded out

The Woman - Aretha Franklin [from A Rose Is Still A Rose]

the engineering is fabulous
the production is over the top
but that's just to keep up with Aretha 

end of set spectacular

Peel Me A Grape - Karin Blaine [from Dirty Money]

an album
is a memento
of what was happening
at a time
and or
a demonstration
of mood creation skills

Through the Doorways of Escape Come the Footsteps of Capture - Empty Cage Quartet [from Stratostrophic]

film cue type title
we sneak through the thousand windings
confidence gains within us
the further into escape
the more possible
success may be 

hunker down
to cross the open galleries
tarry not
getting rather cocky here
careful of that last gate
guarded by the giant kalimba
and bowed bass

River Rats and Pipelines - Smokestack and The Foothill Fury [from High Roads and Hard Shoulders]

an opinion is imparted
less as a fact
than as an attitude
or as a summation

Gold Star For Robot Boy (Guided by Voices) - Dead Bars [from Red Car Burns split with Dead Bars]

brevity soul of wit

And Let This Feeble Body Fail - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey [recorded January 2, 2024]

Keith Eisenbrey · And Let This Feeble Body Fail 231116 [240102]

my cleverness:
two stanzas the same
third slightly elevated
fourth back to the beginning
plus
the music
is almost entirely in the Dominant
until the last cadence

Golden Gardens Park, Seattle

April 8, 2026

Hard Hustling Blues - Bernice Edwards [from Really The Blues]

heavy
load
on
every
beat

Pretty Paper - Roy Orbison [from For The Lonely]

Christmas
is the time for moralisms

I'll Get You (live 10/16/1963) - The Beatles [from The Beatles Anthology]

a collective need
among a certain population
to shriek
in large numbers

Sweet and Lovely - Thelonious Monk [form The Complete Columbia Studio Solo Recordings]

recomposing
to freshen up
a familiar face

Golden Gardens Park, Seattle

Gardening at Night - REM [from Nancy's Mix]

Nancy's Mix
was where
mostly
I learned
what my immediate peers
outside of music school
were listening to 

their attractive baubles

Margarita - Traveling Wilburys [from Traveling Wilburys]

this bauble
has a machined surface
for guitars to slide on 

spat lines
extended lines 

handwriting distinctions

Looking For Lester - David Bowie [from Black Tie White Noise]

a beat bed
is spread 

trumpet shows us around
guitar takes a turn
then sax 

big band dance floor

I Bow Out - Whitney Houston [from My Love Is Your Love]

condition described
in verse
determination of that condition
made
in the chorus

Golden Gardens Park, Seattle

April 9, 2026

Close as I'll Get to Heaven - Bettye LaVette [from A Woman Like Me]

song creates a character
the persona of the singer
which might be identified
as the person
of the poem's voice
but might not
or
might be
in the region
between that song-persona
and that poem-voice 

a Blues singer
such as Ms. LaVette
certainly lends itself
to a full identification
as an aesthetic image
which is a separate category
entirely
from any sort of thing
as a biographical fact might be

Tell Me Why - Taylor Swift [from Fearless]

for a singer such as Ms. Swift
there is the added factor
of the person
of her public image
the dance acts
the photo shoots
the reportage in general
generated by the pop-star production industry
her marketable portion

Golden Gardens Park, Seattle

Complex - Bad Cop, Bad Cop [from Wings of Techno]

this music
is a widget
assembled from widgets 

twiddles dials
to a machinery pulse 

directing
as much as playing 

the person has been disappeared 

one pulsed thing after another

Hell Is Real - Black Dresses [from Hell Is Real]

at the pitch of outrage
the voice is a costume
of outrage 

identification incomplete
or
not quite believable

Totem 27 - Sascia Pellegrini [from Totem VI]

a music that isn't a song
as such
might create a character
of its perpetrator
as well as
a separate character
which is
its musical image
its definitive feel

On My Way to Heaven - Blind Roger Hays [from Goodbye, Babylon]

this poem
being a question and answer
has the voice of the question
and the voice of the answer
to answer for

A Foggy Day - Sarah Vaughan [from Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin]

a singer such as Ms. Vaughan
performs the role of the singer of the song
they are an actor
and create a stage around them

Death of an Angel - The Kingsmen [from The Very Best of The Kingsmen]

titillation of the macabre

This Kind of Music - Jonathan Richman [from Jonathan Sings!]

celebration
of a local scene

Prelude and Fugue on the name BACH - The Canadian Brass [from More Greatest Hits]

it sure is

Man Size - PJ Harvey [from Rid of Me]

the different parts of a song
have differing sets of persons created
that's how they are parts
and not impersonally selected partitions

Golden Gardens Park, Seattle

Queen Gasoline - Goodness [from Goodness 1995-1998]

size of sound
vehemence of warning
I presume
it's a drug
she's warning about

Track 10 - Eckstein Middle School Students [from Mach 6]

grand and stately
a right and proper celebration

Words (Interlude)/Never Letchu Go - Janet Jackson [from Discipline]

the industry has a voice of its own
with which all the others contend

Artifacts2 - Andrew Young [from Inkplaces]

a collection of ambient sounds
and a thin feedback tone
and honks

Signal Residue - Triptet [from Slowly, Away]

sudden burbles
break into
our space walk awareness

Cabot - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey [recorded November 19, 2023]

sharing parts of motion
among the voices

Poor Boy Blues - Ramblin' Thomas [from Anthology of American Folk Music]

these earliest recordings
pick up the residue of past musics
this is what we sounded like

I Had a Dream - Ray Charles [from Yes, Indeed!]

suspicion of jealousy provoking behavior
not a good look

The Pirate of Penance - Joni Mitchell [from Song to a Seagull]

in shanty lighting key
sea or hovel 

dialog poem
acted out
in overdub

Ripeness - Echo and The Bunnymen [from Porcupine]

on the witness stand
the voices in ones head
thrashdance
driving pulse
barely decidable
between one and two

Golden Gardens Park, Seattle

In Pace - The Cambridge Singers [from Brother Sun, Sister Moon]

the harmonies
of careful rules
flatter
our sense
of understanding
of the cosmos

Carnival Grotesque - Black Cat Orchestra [from Dante's Inferno Live Score]

funhouse exhibit
Weimar Dada

Strong, Strong Wind - Heart [from Greatest Hits]

reaffirmation of a faith
anthemizing the force required
to break it

Heat - 50 Cent [from Get Rich or Die Tryin']

gun and power boast

Only Dreamin' - Dolly Parton [from Backwoods Barbie]

penny whistle!
with old-country chords
the suspect sonorities
of the Scotch-Irish diaspora
as airbrushed
to industry standards

Nero - Peter Fedofsky [from False Ties and Nice Hoods]

if a song's text
describes a second person
it presumes a first

Hiding - Anxious Arms [from Feeler]

we can fill your bar with sound
to pull some in
and push some out 

any draw
can be a push 

do we have the correct charge
to properly populate
your beer bar?

Golden Gardens Park, Seattle

The Night at the Filmore - The No Ones [from My Best Evil Friend]

Whitmanesque population list
all the people you'll see
tour guide

Sister Maude Mule - Mississippi Shieks [from That Devilin' Tune]

legendary stubbornness
colonel pronounced
almost
as koan-ell

Can't - Norman Monath [from Songs of The Pogo]

Orville and Wilbur
and the Egg
that says
can't
called Canterbury
that's who
a lefthanded song

Steal Away - Etta James [from Tell Mama]

imperative lust
plea
forbidden fruit

In Session at The Tintinabulary

April 5, 2026

Douglass - Keith Eisenbrey

Keith Eisenbrey · 144 Douglass 260405 [260405]

April 6, 2026

Banned Rehearsal 1148 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 1148 260406

Postscripts

Drops

Keith Eisenbrey 31: Sabbatical Improvisations (part 2) 2014

In 2013 I had reached an inflection point in my big project, Études d'exécution imminent, and took a sabbatical (indifferently observed) from composing written-down music. I filled the time with various forms of improvisation, both "in-the-moment" composing, and sometimes puttering about with multi-tracking and other digitally applied effects. Here is the second bunch of them.

recordings of my compositions (and more!) can be found at keitheisenbrey.bandcamp.com - free to download or stream