October 4, 2013
Sound Scroll IX Concert
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
Sound Scroll IX - S. Eric Scribner - S. Eric Scribner and Mike Sentkewitz
Six Seattle Pieces - S. Eric Scribner, Keith Eisenbrey, Mike Sentkewitz
Steve's music at its strongest nor makes concession nor gives quarter to the razzle dazzle, however high-toned, of professional showmanship. He develops an idea for a thing to do and he does it to the bitter end. As listener I am on my own, the presentation will not hold my hand and show me the pretty sights. In this regard, Sound Scroll IX, for vast stretches barely even a drifting shred of a sheer tissue of fabric of sound, not just permeable to the environment but hardly even scuffing it, is at the highest tier of heroically difficult music. For it to be, you must listen.
I was honored to be involved in the second part of the concert, which did involve six pieces rather than the four promised on the poster.
Recorded
September 29, 2013
The Who Sings My Generation - The Who
Unhinged poetics of the metrical.
Haiku West - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey conducting
For 15 years or so, from the late '50s to the early '70s, my mother conducted this amateur women's chorus. Lately I acquired the cassette tapes she had made in the 80's of the original reel-to-reel & phonograph recordings. The labeling of selections is often not clear. This short number sounded like a suite of settings. "West" might refer to the composer. Dunno.
Space Sounds (edited) - National Geographic Flexi Disc
Among the oddities on this rarity is an essay of scientific glorification that traces the history of life on the planet from bacteria to space exploration in about a minute. It takes your breath away!
Banned Rehearsal 51 - Karen Eisenbrey (then Meyer), Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Neal Meyer, September 1985
Maximum aesthetic disregard. As lame as possible in order to be as out-there as possible. Both too easy and too difficult. In hope of? :: in flailing to find a new thread, a new track to enter the forest at its thickest :: the lame may not be good, but it can serve as a placeholder for doing. Strangely enough, on occasion, this procedure manages to work.
October 3, 2013
Lorenz - David Dunn
Ranges of audio data can be like orders of magnitude. Thing to ThingsGoingOn to SequenceOfThingsGoingOn. A music designed to be, experimentally, about how we make sense of chaos. It freaked out the cat a bit.
Snohomish Piece 3 (my recording) - Keith Eisenbrey, S. Eric Scribner
From Steve's concert in Snohomish in October of 2010.
Listen to The Mockingbird - Alice Hawthorne - The New York Vocal Arts Ensemble
Peepin' Eyes - Charlie Feather - (from Sun Records Definitive Hits)
In Session at the Tintinabulary September 30, 2013
Banned Rehearsal 845 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Meyer
Thanks for the good review of SoundScroll IX! Yes, it is the most "difficult" of the SoundScrolls pieces (also by far the longest). These pieces, as I've been composing them, have gradually accumulated silence, and this one is the climax of that idea. I've recently decided that there will be a total of 12 "SoundScrolls", but the last three will be lighter, at least on the surface. And yes, I too was honored to have you play in the four (six) "Seattle Pieces".
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