Playlist

Your Mother Should Know
with Peterman, The Belmont Whips, and Charms
at The Comet Tavern 922 East Pike, Seattle
Sunday, July 29, 2012 $6 doors open at 8

Neal Meyer and Karen Eisenbrey are going to get out there and rock the night away. They're on last so prepare to be out late!

Recorded

July 22, 2012
Oh Eddie - Benny Moten [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]

In the early days of electronic recording arrangers and engineers began to discover just how much sonic variety you could pack into three minutes. This cut is a second to second technicolor delight.

Tears Inside - Art Pepper [from Smack Up]
Like a Rollin' Stone - Bob Dylan [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
You Bet We've Got Something Personal Against You - Black Flag [from The First Four Years]
Banned Sectional 5 (May 1985, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Meyer)

In the year before I moved to Barrytown I wrote a monstrous score object called Book of Windows. This session is one of several in which I dipped into that score for material. It ends with some terrific roars.

Seven Angels - Bruce Springsteen [from Tracks]
Brothers Under The Bridge ('95) - Bruce Springsteen [from Tracks]

Confessions of a Polyphonist (takes 1, 2, & 3) - Keith Eisenbrey

A text-sound piece that plays with a kind of eye music, in that part of the conceit is the confusion of homophones. Take 1 was spoken close, accompanied by tub bass. Take 2 was spoken closer, and Take 3 was spoken closest. The score can be found as a page on the side of this blog.

July 26, 2012
Meyer Golden Wedding Reception - Bill & Marilyn Meyer's Extended Family (July 2005)
BF Vocals & Gong Chorus/ & Kora Chorus/ & Organ Pipe Chorus/ & Shell Shaker Chorus - Keith Eisenbrey

In Session at The Tintinabulary

July 23, 2012
Banned Rehearsal 818 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Meyer

Upcoming

Sunday July 29, 2012
Your Mother Should Know
The Comet Tavern, Seattle, 8:00PM

Thursday August 9, 2012 Confirmed!!
Your Mother Should Know
Rat And Raven, Seattle, 8:00PM

Saturday October 20, 2012 concert begins at 8:00 PM
Keith Eisenbrey - piano recital at The Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
Preludes in Seattle Part 4: Preludes by Ken Benshoof, Keith Eisenbrey, Lockrem Johnson, and Greg Short

Playlist

Recorded

July 16, 2012
Lament for Sarah - Benjamin Boretz [from Open Space 29]

Slower than stepwise.

Having each adjusted less than a micron we find ourselves in separate worlds.

the

blue

house

settles

over

time

Algae (Hat Island, July 2012)

Back In Your Arms - Bruce Springsteen [from Tracks]

Algae (Hat Island, July 2012)

Banned Rehearsal 583 (September 2000, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Meyer)

Doesn't gel so much as drift or dance, happening to find itself where it drifted to, or danced to.

Clamshell & Algae (Hat Island July 2012)

Clamshell (Hat Island, July 2012)

Gradus 82 - Neal Meyer (July 2005)
BF Vocals & Autoharp Chorus, & Barang Chorus, & Clay Drum Chorus, & Frame Drum Chorus - Keith Eisenbrey

I mixed the track containing the choir of me in with each percussion chorus track.

Thistle (Hat Island, July 2012)

Upcoming

Sunday July 29, 2012
Your Mother Should Know
Comet, Seattle, 8:00PM

Thursday August 9, 2012 (tentative - and less likely with each passing minute)
Your Mother Should Know
Rat And Raven, Seattle, 8:00PM



Saturday October 20, 2012 concert begins at 8:00 PM
Keith Eisenbrey - piano recital at The Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
Preludes in Seattle Part 4: Preludes by Ken Benshoof, Keith Eisenbrey, Lockrem Johnson, and Greg Short

Playlist

Recorded

July 8, 2012
Somebody Loves Me - Fletcher Henderson [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
Solid Citizens (take 33) - Art Pepper [from Smack Up]
Land of 1,000 Dances - Cannibal and the Headhunters [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]

C & the HH

The sound of the back-up chorus and the crowd is a psychedelic mass from which one might imagine all sorts of beasts emerging.

Revenge - Black Flag [from The First Four Years]

Anger put-on as a brand, much as one might a t-shirt.

Banned Couple 5 (1985)


July 10, 2012

Banned Rehearsal 582 (August 2000, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Meyer)

Doesn't gel easily, though full of plausible sounds. Parts that temporarily coalesce are beset by gnatty swarms just annoying enough to interrupt. Anti-catalytic.

July 11, 2012
Banned Rehearsal 686 (June 2005, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Meyer)

Disparate nervous energies spar (ElGuit One : ElGuit Two : Xyl)

Midway a sudden opening unexpectedly weightless

in slo mo aware of own

slo mo

as tho

com po

fadeout

re orch

'cept

Xyl

Protag-o-Nistes: Xyl

Regroup

BF Vocals (four versions) - Keith Eisenbrey

Four versions of the Choir of Me singing There is a Fountain Filled With Blood [Western Tune].

July 12, 2012
Mood Indigo - Duke Ellington [from Ken Burns Jazz]
Solid Citizens (take 37) - Art Pepper [from Smack Up]

Sounds like parallel play but it ain't. Helluva nice drum sound.

Lies - The Knickerbockers [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]

The Knickerbockers

What the Beatles might have sounded like if they'd stayed punk.

Banned Couple 6 (1985)


The couples are two-tape mashups made before we knew what a mashup was. In this case the tapes going in were Banned Rehearsals 11 and 12. Among its participants, Banned Rehearsal 12 is notoriously awful. It was recorded in a nearly empty apartment overlooking Brooklyn Avenue in the U-District, using a trashy portable blaster. Within about 5 minutes the session had degenerated into an embarrassing display of egregiously clever witticisms. But the overlay of #11 does a wonderful thing. The verbal content of our conversation is largely obscured, but the crazy quilt of recording-qualities inflicted by the cheap blaster are thrown into spectacular relief. The result is a fabulously varied sonic world, like something Pete Comley might have concocted on some late night radio shift back in the days before digital.

In Session at the Tintinabulary

July 9, 2012
Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake - John Cage - Neal Meyer, voice

Part rehearsal for the big gig on 8/11, part demo. This is shaping up to be quite the thing.

Upcoming

Sunday July 29, 2012
Your Mother Should Know
Comet, Seattle, 8:00PM

Thursday August 9, 2012 (tentative)
Your Mother Should Know
Rat And Raven, Seattle, 8:00PM

Saturday October 20, 2012 concert begins at 8:00 PM
Keith Eisenbrey - piano recital at The Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
Preludes in Seattle Part 4: Preludes by Ken Benshoof, Keith Eisenbrey, Lockrem Johnson, and Greg Short

Playlist

Recorded

July 1, 2012
Leavin' Train - Bruce Springsteen [from Tracks]
Banned Rehearsal 581 (August 2000, Isaac Eisenbrey, John Eisenbrey, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Holden Kosály-Meyer, Neal Meyer)

A dynamite mid-adventure opening untwists, dis-ravels, reduces, and distills itself over a long hovering time stretch to the point where it has become little but a highly particularized thump. It does what one always hopes an improvisation session will do: discover a sound unimaginable and unobtainable by any other means.

July 4, 2012
Songs, Psalms, Sarabande (rough draft) - Keith Eisenbrey

A song with instrumental accompaniment is a duet in at least two different senses. First, it is a duet between the sound of a voice, with all the psycho-linquistic freight that carries, and the sound of an instrument, to which some of that freight is or can be imputed. Second, it is a duet between the world of language utterance and sound utterance, between literature and thunder. Songs, Psalms, Sarabande is an album of duets I compiled, consisting mostly of my Gathered Songs as they existed in 2005, sung by Karen Eisenbrey, accompanied on piano by me, and recorded at Jack Straw by Doug Haire. It also includes two trumpet & piano duets, the first of which, Sarabande, was composed as a score, and the second of which was an improvisation. The trumpet part in both cases was played by Jim Knodle and the piano by me. The last selection is an electro-acoustic realization of my Psalm 23 (meditation, responses) a duet between spoken voice and clavichord, using as sources old tapes of Neal Meyer reading the Psalm and of me playing clavichord.
 
BF Organ Pipe Chorus, Shell Shaker Chorus, Tongue Drum Chorus, Tub Drum Chorus, Twang Chorus, and Wood Drum Chorus - Keith Eisenbrey

Notes for Blood and Fire Hallelujah

These are part of what eventually became the canned bit for Blood and Fire Hallelujah. At this point in the process I was planning on putting together an arrangement of the shape-note hymn There is a Fountain Filled With Blood with me in chorus with myself singing all the parts and accompanied by a layered percussion orchestra. I was going to use that arrangement as a seed for an electro-acoustic track against which I would then pit myself improvising on the piano. The six tracks under consideration, and six others, were part of what was to become that percussion orchestra. Each consists of a 7 minute single-instrument track of various somewhat regular rhythms layered several times, if I remember correctly, with offset start points. Although I did finally complete the arrangement as planned, there was something about the resultant rhythms of these instrumental choruses that intrigued me - the accumulation by scatter-effect of ever-more complex kaleidophonic shiftings between seeming regularity and seeming funky and seeming randomness - to the point where I decided to use the simpler tracks as seed instead and make my pattern of arrangement more ferociously thorny. The final result is a track that exhibits a progressively more seething and finely chopped turbulence between order and chaos.

More of Same

In Session at The Tintinabulary

July 2, 2012
Banned Rehearsal 817 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Meyer

In which we decide that using cellular phones as an instrument is fun for a bit, but becomes tiresome quickly, especially when some of us new users are still having trouble figuring out how they work.

Upcoming

Sunday July 29, 2012
Your Mother Should Know
Comet, Seattle, 8:00PM

Thursday August 9, 2012 (tentative)
Your Mother Should Know
Rat And Raven, Seattle, 8:00PM

Saturday October 20, 2012 concert begins at 8:00 PM
Keith Eisenbrey - piano recital at The Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
Preludes in Seattle Part 4: Preludes by Ken Benshoof, Keith Eisenbrey, Lockrem Johnson, and Greg Short

Playlist

This last week was full of visiting family and preparations for Marilyn Meyer's memorial service. No focused listening took place. But yesterday was accomplished a landmark of sorts in the digitizing of my music collection. All of Banned Rehearsal is now on the hard drive. This allows some stats to be discovered.

Total Hours of recorded sound: 802:08:49

Origins of Banned Rehearsal - Fungal Version - 1984

Hours in the main sequence of numbered sessions from 1984 to 1989 (numbers 1 - 199*):
165:25:58
 *Banned Rehearsal #200 never happened

From 1990 to 1999 (numbers 201 to 555):
285:30:15

From 2000 - 2009 (numbers 556 to 769)
127:48:57

From 2010 to date (numbers 770 to 816)
25:31:21

Peripheral Sessions and Sounds:
79:45:44

Proto-Banned Rehearsal Sessions and Sounds:
8:37:48

Sectionals:
31:41:48

Assemblies Rechoired:
39:12:19

Telepaths:
38:34:39

Upcoming


Sunday July 29, 2012
Your Mother Should Know
Comet, Seattle, 8:00PM


Thursday August 9, 2012
Your Mother Should Know
Rat And Raven, Seattle, 8:00PM



Saturday October 20, 2012 concert begins at 8:00 PM
Keith Eisenbrey - piano recital at The Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
Preludes in Seattle Part 4: Preludes by Ken Benshoof, Keith Eisenbrey, Lockrem Johnson, and Greg Short