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| Seaside, Oregon |
"'Now,' said Jack Hopkins, 'just to set us going again, Bob, I don't mind singing a song.' And Hopkins, incited thereto by tumultuous applause, plunged himself at once into 'The King, God bless him,' which he sang as loud as he could, to a novel air, compounded of the 'Bay of Biscay' and 'A Frog he would.' The chorus was the essence of the song; and as each gentleman sang it to the tune he knew best, the effect was very striking indeed."
Charles Dickens - from "the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club"
Texts
Live
July 15, 2023
Finnegan's Wake, Chapter 7 - James Joyce
Neal Kosály-Meyer
Chapel
Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
two-fifths of two buttocks
when the angel of death kicks the bucket of life
all were wrong
the breeze blows the skirts of the table
he went without saying
some thousand rains ago
till he stank out
of sight
but
would anyone short of a madhouse believe it
stamping room only
the bats in his belfry
how unwhisperably so
unused mill and stumbling stones
writing the mystery of his self in
furniture
you ask in Sam Hill how
till I give you you're talking to
upon defenseless paper
snifter of carrion
premature gravedigger
to find out how his
innards work
a thousand thumbs a year
it does marvels for your gripings
do
you hear what I'm saying Hamlet
he lifts the lifewand
and the dumb speak
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| Seaside, Oregon |
July 15, 2023
Waltz in G-flat Major, Op. 70 #1 - Frédéric Chopin - Garrick Ohlsson
lightly flirty
soulful sentimental
back to lightly flirty
Tema con variazioni, Op. 81 #1 - Felix Mendelssohn - The Emerson String Quartet
tactical deployment
of offset voice leading
toward the final
of each
heightened tension
released by recourse
to a single line
to
figure us back to earth
carefully
a Mendelssohnian tic
Song 10 - Charles Ives - Kia Sams, Russ Warner
a fragment song
Got No Blues - Louis Armstrong's Hot Five [from Hot Fives and Sevens]
general parade
specialty acts
exit parade
Sloe Gin Fizz - Erroll Garner [from Erroll Garner on Dial]
registral separation
with functional differentiation
Don't You Know - Ray Charles [from Ray Charles]
text is a pleading come-on
It Might As Well Be Spring - Bill Evans Trio [from Moon Beams]
each chord is a new place to arrive at
the melody moves from pointed
harmonic pull
to floating free
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Astronomy Domine - Pink Floyd [from The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn {digital}]
there are sounds in this
that aren't in the version included in "A Nice
Pair"
which I had always thought
was just this album
and the next
as a two-disc set
but this is a different
version of the song entirely
(and sounds fab)
Heaven Belongs To You - Nina Simone [from Fodder On My Wings]
so
what is it
that
I wanted to be annoyed at this album
I got over it
praise the lord
"Soft Awakens My Heart" from Samson and Delilah - Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns [from 100 Greatest Classics]
the orchestra reminds you
of what she just sang
to mark the joints
the plot does not move along in this
nothing moves at all
our animation
has been suspended
for the time being
Real Man - Bruce Springsteen [from Human Touch]
regarding insecurity
shout it out
Afraid - David Bowie [from Heathen]
late date psychedelia
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| Seaside, Oregon |
the arrangement has a string band twang to it
nicely done guys
A Pretty Short Ride - Freddie & The Screamers [from I Aint' Crazy]
when dive bars
were a place for guys to go
to complain to guys
about their women
which complaints
became an art form
Surfin' the Web - Porn Bloopers [from Blooper Reel]
punk at its best
is clear as day
no fuss
simple
but
not
Aorta - Re:Naissance Opera [from Music from The Apocrypha Chronicles - Mycologue Imprints]
a tone mood
late stage impressionism
New Age Messianic
spiritualism
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| Seaside, Oregon |
East St. Louis Toodle-Oo - Duke Ellington [from The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz]
the heavy mass casts a pall
when visible
Body and Soul - Sarah Vaughan [from Swingin' Easy]
big old yawn to bring in the up-tempo with a small ensemble she draws us into every twist she puts the tune to
I'm Alright - Bob Dylan [from A Tree with Roots]
partial
Twine - Elaine Barkin, Benjamin Boretz [from Inter/Play]
noir confab
in a staircase
a tree
through a basement window
when not occluded
by traffic
dream state
fractured horizontally
train whistle
through the partials
comic
continental siren
start over noir
slowly this time
the tree
remains
portal
to bliss state
the impossible experience
of suspended animation
falls
through the jazz registers
modulating
all the way
al
niente
joint solo
reconnoitering
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| Seaside, Oregon |
has been discovered
serious siren
down here
means
business
hiding
engines
down there
in the low tones
big chorale tune
in block chords
extending
past the horizon
back
to bliss state
bitter
sweet
back
up through the jazz chord registers
down
the slope on the other side
to the carnival
The Dante Quartet - Stan Brakhage
hand painted frames
6 years in the making
rhythms of rhythms
Little Seed - Woody Guthrie and Family [from Woody's 20 Grow Big Songs]
gardening lesson
Clown - Mariah Carey [from Charmbracelet]
lots of
I shoulda never
the vicissitudes of fame
a
composition of overlain voices
in bad taste
but who's caring?
July 18, 2023
Banned Rehearsal 727 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [October 22, 2007]
a plod
but forthright
intent on the steady going
persistence
may be less a virtue
than a defeat or abdication of imagination
regimented image of time's passing
suppresses the possibility of
eruption
fitting for industrialized humans
each in our perpetually
renewed cage
an opacity
the moment it ceases
the sky opens
and fresh breezes cleanse
any event able now to create its own
unindexed time
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| Seaside, Oregon |
we are close to the machinery
keep your fingers close to your body
do not cross the yellow line while machinery is powered up
wear
protective gear at all times
Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge 170916 B - Keith Eisenbrey [September 16, 2017]
early in the morning and chilly
we took a walk hoping for bird sounds
we get our footsteps and an occasional bxzxzz
presumably
originating in the recording device
some distant tweeters
a duck
was quacking
and there were a few chirps and calls
an airplane
passes over
Fruits Of My Labor - Denise Glover [from Dreams Of The Butterfly]
garden love song memory
Gene Norman and Miles Davis (live) - Miles Davis, Gene Norman [from 'Round About Midnight]
just the introduction
Gene has a practiced broadcast voice
Miles
has his
Save Me - Aretha Franklin [from I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You]
mixed with the band right up front
gives it a quasi-live vibe
more
like a demo than a finished or polished product
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| Seaside, Oregon |
so whose is she?
Michael's?
Paul's?
her own?
Move The Crowd - Eric B. & Rakim [from Paid in Full]
post-song dance track
Old Lady Gone - Mike, Peggy, and Penny Seeger [from Animal Folk Songs For Children]
one of Ruth's piano arrangements
enjoying saying
goose goose goose
goose goose goose goose
You Light Up My Life - Whitney Houston [from Just Whitney]
she likes to ornament the last syllable's note with fancy trills and turns
break into the blue sky for feel good pay-off
modified last high
vowel
you light up my löööööf
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| Seaside, Oregon |
Gradus 128 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [October 29, 2007]
again with the Lids film inclusion
I had forgotten that we tried it more
than once
the pauses dawn upon the earmind
only after a certain time
what's
happening in the silence
prior to earmind's realization of the
pause?
playing an instrument
is a neurological action
motor
sensory
cognitive
mnemonic
linguistic
conceptual
willful
imaginative
each of which
can be quasi-subject
to
discipline of suppression or stimulation
(independently?)
(but
memory operates without our input
(we have some degree of control over
it
but it happens regardless))
much of practice as such
is a
process of disciplining the motoric
to be in the control of the other
faculties
to varying degrees
Army of Me - Christina Aguilera [from Lotus]
power anthem
power up
Sticky Note - Mud on My Bra [from Demo #2 (Manger Studio Mixes)]
personal
honest
not clever or coy
a perfect hit
Infrathin Condition 14 - Doug Haire [from Infrathin Conditions]
we are at an uncertain remove
from the source of the signal
propagated through a membrane
horizontally
as it stretches
across a broad landscape
we
however
are deep
underground
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| Seaside, Oregon |
Shipoopi - Meredith Wilson [from The Music Man]
comic dance number
On The South Side of Chicago - Morgana King [from Gemini Changes]
the place where action first got its start
show-off high note to nail
the end
Faith Medley - Total Experience Gospel Choir [from Bits and Pieces]
call and response
gospel singing
is in the model of participatory
preaching
that is
one has not been preached to
unless one
responds
a tradition
in which preaching
isn't discourse as
such
but conversation
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| Seaside, Oregon |
going for that Beach Boys
sun-washed
salt-sprayed
sound
in a got dumped bummer mood
Crow and Snail - Vi Hilbert [from When The Humans Thought They Were People]
statements made twice and three times
slightly different ways
slug
became smashed
{NB
The late Vi Hilbert was a valuable resource - the last fully fluent
heritage speaker for the Lushootseed language, the language in which she tells
much of this story and the language that was spoken here where I sit before
Europeans arrived. It is what language sounded like here in the before times.}
Something For Audrey - The Hope [from In The Deep]
for dancing in the living room
Two Knives - Byron Au Yong [from Yiju]
in a whispered echo chamber
Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge 170916 A - Keith Eisenbrey [September 16, 2017]
little chirps like juncos gleaning
an avian Geiger counter rhythm
a work song
a duck quacks
from right near distance
to
left nearer nearness
Divagating - Amy Denio [from Chapel Sessions]
playing idly
with great care and attention
dig deep and discover
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| Seaside, Oregon |
Toccata in C Major, Op. 7 - Robert Schumann - Eric Le Sage
plentiful stock of second winds
long sprint
Variations de Concert pour le Pianoforte, Op. 8 - Clara Schumann - Susanne Grützmann
dramatic gesture before the theme proper
which appears with comments in
the margins
spacious
entering through the same knothole
but
into different spaces
Moonlight In Vermont - Billie Holiday [from Songs for Distingué Lovers]
her side instrumentalists
fill out the song's corners
and
breathing places
In Session at The Tintinabulary
July 16, 2023
Old Hundred - Keith Eisenbrey
Upon closer inspection of the 19th Century shape-note notation from which I transcribed this version of the tune I realized that it uses a non-standard key signature. Instead of having the lines and spaces representing letter-name notes (EGBDF: Every Good Boy Does Fine or Every Generalization Begets Damnable Falsehoods) they represent un-registered solfeggio (where "C" would be is "Do" regardless of the key). The key, or transposition, is indicated on the lowest space of the staff with words, exempli gratia: "Key of A". My first arrangement missed this trick and I wrote it in C. Once I realized my error I transposed it down a third into A.
Brewer - Keith Eisenbrey
This week's shape-note tune arrangement. I could find no solid citation of where the tune arose. A later book says "English" and has a somewhat more elaborate version of the tune. It does not appear in any hymn-book in my collection that was printed later than the late 19th Century (at least that I was able to find).
July 17, 2023
Banned Rehearsal 1080 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Neal Kosály-Meyer
July 18, 2023
2-Part Invention in C Major - Gavin Borchert
July 19, 2023
2-Part Invention in C Major - Gavin Borchert
July 20, 2023
2-Part Invention in C Major - Gavin Borchert
July 21, 2023
2-Part Invention in C Major - Gavin Borchert
There are quite a few C Major inventions in this collection and each of the above is a unique piece. There may even be one or two more.
Postscripts
Skaldmud's Doodle Gallery
listening journal doodles from 2000
