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June 27, 2014

Banned Rehearsal Celebrates 30 Years of Noise

Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

Banned Rehearsal at 30
LtoR: Neal, Steve, Keith, Karen, Aaron

 

Before the performance began, we had clocked 34 days, 10 hours, 36 minutes, and 49 seconds of recorded sound, including 861 numbered sessions, peripherals, and proto-sessions. We continue to occupy proudly the distant sloughy backwaters of Seattle's improvisation scene. Banned Rehearsal is: Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, and Neal Kosály-Meyer.

 

Recorded

 

June 24, 2014

The Gladiator March - Sousa - Philip Jones Ensemble, Elgar Howarth

 

up and down the square (the vid game score)

 

In Nature's Realm - Dvorak - Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Vaclav Neumann

 

Fairytale Nature: spooky, but civilized spooky. Staged.

 

24 Preludes op. 11 - Scriabin - Michael Ponti

 

fracturing collisions

beneath the shards of which

further fracturing collisions

are intimated

among which

tonality is occasionally glanced at

 

June 25, 2014

Quartet in G minor (#1) - Max Reger - Reger Quartet

 

figures jammed together tight

(all the counterpoint that can be crammed)

 

Belshazzar's Feast Suite - Sibelius - Robert Kajanus

 

we are here and we are getting here

but

we did not arrive from

 

In Session at the Tintinabulary

 

June 22, 2014

Samick 140622 - Keith Eisenbrey

 

I had so much fun doing this that I brought this miniature electric guitar along to the Banned Rehearsal gig last night.

 

June 23, 2014

Gradus 245 - Neal Kosály-Meyer

 

Attention is on the precise proportion of Just Then to Is Now. An exploration of the border area between Now and Memory.

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Upcoming This Week

 

Banned Rehearsal

Friday, June 27, 2014 8pm

Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

 

On June 24, 1984, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, and Neal Meyer gathered together to make a tape, improvising on instruments we didn't know how to play. Thinking we might do this 3 or 4 times and because it seemed right to think of our project as a band - and because none of us could resist the pun - we called ourselves and the project Banned Rehearsal. Our personnel has changed somewhat over time, surviving several lengthy geographic separations, but the project has continued and as of this writing we have recorded 861 numbered sessions. For our eighth public event, we invite you to celebrate with us 30 years of noise, 30 years of exploration, 30 years of trying to figure out what we're doing, 30 years of argument in creative musical expression.

Banned Rehearsal is: Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, and Neal Kosály-Meyer.

 

Recorded

 

June 15, 2014

3 Nocturnes op. 9 - Chopin - Claudio Arrau

 

Beginning again higher to descend yet further

Affectual modulation, by affectual common tone

holding moment until moment is all that is

passion in all its awkward splendor

 

Scherzo and Presto Passionata op. posth. - Schumann - Peter Frankl

 

Music emerging from figuration or figuration sparking from music?

 

Overture from Der Fliegender Hollander - Wagner - Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz

 

coin flip: Passion!

coin flip: Purity!

coin flip: Sea!

coin flip: Land!

coin flip: Solitude!

coin flip: Society!

coin flip: Alienation!

coin flip: Acceptance!

 

Sonetto del Petrarco No. 104 - Liszt - Charles Rosen

 

see Chopin above: H M U M I A T I

 

Le Corsair Overture - Berlioz - L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet

 

Claus Bantzer

June 18, 2014

Drei Gesänge op. 42 - Brahms - Harvestehude Chamber Choir - Claus Bantzer

 

communal intimacy, to which an accompaniment would be a chill, like a chaperone. I love how the staggered cadence at the end of #3 echoes the staggered entrance of #1.

 

Slavonic March - Tchaikovsky - Concertgebouworkest, Amsterdam, Bernard Haitink

 

such nice uniforms! a cartoon triumphalism.

 

Messe in D minor  - Bruckner - Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Eugen Jochum, Marga Schiml, Wieslaw Ochman, Karl Ridderbusch, Josef Schmidhuber, Elmar Schloter

 

Brucknerian structural articulation: ecstatic non sequiturs, or perfectly logical sequences that read like non sequiturs. As in: "Wait, what?"

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Recorded

 

June 11, 2014

Symphony in F K75(75) - Mozart - Academy of Ancient Music, Jaap Schroder, Christopher Hogwood

Schnabel

Sonata in C-sharp minor Op. 27 #2 - Beethoven - Arthur Schnabel

 

Measuring extreme distance and temporal offsets - bass / treble - stillness / frenzy

 

Trio in B-flat Major D. 471 - Schubert - Vienna Philharmonic Quartet

Symphony in E-flat Major (String Symphony #6) - Mendelssohn - English Bach Festival Orchestra, William Boughton

 

The many manners of how things come to the surface.

 

In Session at the Tintinabulary

 

June 9, 2014

Gradus 244 - Neal Kosály-Meyer

 

Among many other things, the Gradus project allows a particular and detailed mapping of the relations between tonal resources and the availability of higher-order compositional tools. In this session the number of available notes and the ratio of A-naturals to E-naturals is at the threshold of a critical mass. Suddenly interval inversion has become a major force of compositional design. It is as though the sun had just risen.

 

Upcoming

 

poster by Darick Chamberlin

Friday, June 27, 2014 - 8 PM

Banned Rehearsal Celebrates 30 Years of Noise

Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

 

On June 24, 1984, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, and Neal Meyer gathered together to make a tape, improvising on instruments we didn't know how to play. Thinking we might do this 3 or 4 times and because it seemed right to think of our project as a band - and because none of us could resist the pun - we called ourselves and the project Banned Rehearsal. Our personnel has changed somewhat over time, surviving several lengthy geographic separations, but the project has continued and as of this writing we have recorded 860 numbered sessions. For our eighth public event, we invite you to celebrate with us 30 years of noise, 30 years of exploration, 30 years of trying to figure out what we're doing, 30 years of argument in creative musical expression.

Banned Rehearsal is: Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, and Neal Kosály-Meyer.

 

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Live

 

May 31, 2014

Ian Grunfeld

back steps up which roadies haul drums and gear

Your Mother Should Know

On The Ground

Tom Price Desert Classic

Ancient Warlocks

High Dive, Seattle

 

A decade and more ago Ian Grunfeld sang in the Humidiflyers, the first local band Karen and I followed at Neal's instigation, and the first going concern in that arena whose members we got to know a little. Even then we were among the older folks in the room, but being related to Neal, who knew them from his work at EMP, we were greeted with friendly respect. They produced several fine recordings, but young people often find themselves with other things they need to do so they eventually broke up. With a guitar on a strap and joined by a mandolin player Ian sang labor songs to kick off the evening, which was a benefit for the Seattle Wobblies. It was great to hear that voice again.

 

Your Mother Should Know

YMSK (Karen Eisenbrey and Neal Kosály-Meyer), having been hard at work recording an album, haven't played out much recently. But after all that practice working up songs, actually performing some of them comes as a relief. I remember the first time they played the High Dive I was still in the proud daddy mode of constantly worrying they'd fall apart. But they never have so I've gotten over it.

 

On The Ground was the only band of the evening I hadn't heard before. They play fast and loud, all the instrumentals tightly bound rhythmically. The vocals, a drill sergeant ear shout or an over the emotional edge parental nag, but at a clip, slices into the instrumental rhythm as though dropped from a height.

 

Seattle stalwart Tom Price stakes a claim somewhere between Iggy Pop and Bob Dylan, with a band full of musician's musicians to match. Ancient Warlocks rely on clearly articulated slow changes to allow their huge sound to sink in. The walls begin to glow.

 

Recorded

 

June 3, 2014

Occhi del mia cor vita - Gesualdo - Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley

 

Each syllable in each voice is a major event, we focus absolutely on each local event. The outside does not exist.

 

Konzert in F BWV 1046 - Bach - Festival Strings Lucerne, Rudolf Baumgartner

 

How we repeat each other. How we fit. How we glorify each other. How grace flows from above.

 

Sonata in F Wq. 48 - C.P.E. Bach - Bob van Asperen

 

Evening games. A dinner party. So nice to see you all.

 

Grande Jeu with Thunder - Michel Corrette - David Di Fiore

 

Here thunder is an effect, bald and blatant. No great attempt is made to integrate it into the fabric of whatever the music was doing on the side, or even to make it strange or other to that music. A ready-made curiosity.

 

Symphony in B flat (#16) - Haydn - The Hanover Band, Roy Goodman

 

There was a time when symphonies did not need to be grand. This one concerns itself with the sizes of things as lensed by how they fit in the meter that they are creating.

 

In Session at the Tintinabulary

 

June 2, 2014

Banned Rehearsal 860 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Meyer

 

June 5, 2014

Hey Hey Hey - Keith Eisenbrey

 

First go at a new project, by revisiting an old one.

 

Upcoming

 

June 27, 2014 - 8 PM

Banned Rehearsal Celebrates 30 Years of Noise

Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle