January 5, 2015
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| Jimu Makurumbandi |
University Temple United Methodist Church, Seattle
Our friends from Zimbabwe are off for Norway and gave our church a wonderful little concert as a farewell. They perform intricate arrangements of traditional and quasi-traditional songs accompanied on kora, mbiru, djembe, and shaker. An hour and a half is too little time, but we heard some wonderful sounds from a place where music seems to still be people-sized, easily at home with folks rather than held close by an industry of experts. We will miss them much.
January 9, 2015
Seattle Composers Salon
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
Ivan Arteaga
Ensemble: 3 string basses and 4 saxophones. A solid sound from which globules emerge and swerve, splinter and glint.
Cole Bratcher
Ensemble: voice and piano. A song steeped in the excruciating intimacy of an old family letter.
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| Fungus on the Trail of Shadows, Longmire, Washington |
Plays solo saxophone. Explores the lyrical possibilities of sounds that hover between timbre and chord.
Matthew James Briggs
Frog sounds imported from a Bali rice field anchored in our space by precisely rung notes on the piano, high and low.
Recorded
January 4, 2015
Symphony in F minor (#1) - Shostakovich - L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Walter Weller
Every statement is coloristically qualified, instrumentally specific.
Sun Treader - Carl Ruggles - Buffalo Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas
All singularities brachiate in grains and veins of quartz. The question attempts to drown itself in its own reiterations.
String Quartet #4 - Zemlinksy - LaSalle Quartet
Fighting an incline of its own devising, every growth a decay.
January 6, 2015
Symphony #1 - David Diamond - Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz
Industrious agents, working in a space removed, build motor segments from narrow populations of durations. Relations flash across the surface.
Symphony #5 - Martinu - Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Vaclav Neumann
We creep back into the disconcerting day, into the glory of the new normal. Our hope is examined in the harsh light of war. We make what we can of it.
I discover that the last time I listened to this piece was also on a January 6, back in 2003. In my journal I find: "Each idea has an ubiquitous shadow."
Sonata #1 - John Verrall - Kimberly Davenport
Up- or other-rooted architecture. Feast macabre. Great effort is made to be what one always was, though nothing is left unwarped. Ravel re-inventing himself from recalcitrant scraps.
In Session at the Tintinabulary
Janaury 4, 2015
Coronet 150104
Coronet 150104 Folded
Coronet 150104 Folded Rubbed - Keith Eisenbrey
I started another cycle of instrumental improvisations and attendant digital manipulation on the bass guitar I have on long-term loan from Steve Kennedy. Folded means I cut the sound file in half and layered the second half over the first. Rubbed means I took the folded file and ran it through a digital effect to see what would come out the other end. I'm still not sure about the results, so I'll just share the folded version.
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