Preface
"When music is applied to warlike ends, we tend to believe that it has been turned against its innocent nature.To quote the standard platitudes, it has charms to soothe a savage breast; it is the food of love; it brings us together and sets us free. We resist evidence suggesting that music can cloud reason, stir rage, cause pain, even kill. Footnoted treatises on the dark side of music are unlikely to sell as well as the cheery pop-science books that tout music's ability to make us smarter, happier, and more productive. Yet they probably bring us closer to the true function of music in the evolution of human civilization." Alex Ross - "The Sound of Hate", The New Yorker, July 4, 2016.
Texts
Live
July 8, 2016
Seattle Composers' Salon
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
Jeremiah Lawson
Studies in Harmonics 7 - 12 for Solo Guitar
What remains after all music else has been leached away.
S. Eric Scribner
Phase Canon #1
Eco Slab Gong / Sound Scroll #1 for Inside Piano
Evocation, in the old sense of calling forth, like a nonbullshit seance.
Jay Hamilton
Grief: for Houdini, who did not believe but wanted to (solo cello)
Brazenly unprettified, brutally clear, desperately heartfelt.
Susan Maughlin Wood
Spectratta
A film (mechanisms, locomotions, bees, blossoms, garden snails) set against three movements for piano and violin. Like books leaning against each other not commenting but sharing ideas.
July 9, 2016
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, Ione, Neal Kosály-Meyer, Pauline Oliveros, Margaret Sunghe Paek, Greg Powers
Swarm + Stew - Neal Kosály-Meyer
Beginning before it began some stayed and gathered in the space humming and buzzing some buzzed to the garden to hum. Pete Comley sat next to me with his gear and discovered some minutes into the humbuzz that a bee (sluggish) had come to join us. Sitting quietly humming finding my humming tone occasionally separating from how I was making it. Opening my eyes as the garden buzzhummers regathered in the space 30 minutes or so later I was delighted to discover how many there were to join us. Stories told, sounds shared. What gathered in the peaceful summer night that night erupted in ecstatic glee. Shoes were removed. Rooms skipped around. Whoops whooped dancer back lifting Stu to whoop whoops.
A high water mark in my Seattle music memory.
Recorded
July 2, 2016
Lullaby of the Leaves - The Ventures [from Walk Don't Run: The Best of The Ventures]
Every strum exactly
in place no
surprises exactly
counted-out-to
four nothing slops
from phrase into next
phrase these boys
have practiced
Sooner or Later (One of Us Must Know) - Bob Dylan [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
Bobvoice bounds in arcing leaps sometimes with effort, like pumping a swing, sometimes riding like a volleyball on the bounce of his band.
7 Pieces - Paul Simon, J.S. Bach - Keith Eisenbrey ca. 1971
My mom kept this little tape of me playing the piano when I was 11 or 12 or thereabouts - possibly earlier. I certainly was given to anthemic grandiosity - and to a flagrant disregard of steady beats. Molto rubato swing is probably not a good idea.
Coro - Berio - Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester
eases slowly from art song into an accumulating fugue
but the sphere turns or
the sphere is
numerating
transparent onionlayers
spheres spinning locking
independent glinting blades of sound
sets
poses
each layer passing in and out independently
all of the above
As an 'ART PIECE'
(in the sense that: if Les Noces were an armchair
this would be the overstuffed archie bunker version
presented 'as an ART PIECE')
Transcription of dialtwisting
The dissonances are hinged low in the mix.
July 5, 2016
Matte Kudasai - King Crimson [from Discipline]
Between gullkeen song and guitarwail
wheeling over the beach in the rainy-soon afternoon
Very arty. Collected from a soggy gutter where hiphopsample and 60spsychedelia are studiolaraly indistinguished.
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana [from Nevermind]
A stuttery spread precursing beat three.
My Spaceman - Motorhome [from Rescued Records]
When in stride a sempiternal drift. Turn left to go right toujour et toujour.
July 7, 2016
Banned Rehearsal 602 [March 2001, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Isabel K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Meyer]
Our history extruded in a thick paste. We used to have years of boredom, clockwise currents of sound. carrier waves, messages, translations, comments, surface of paper, stuff of ink, atmospherics, foils: a bestiary of what we used to got.
Wot U Got - Armitage Shanks [from The Funhouse Comp Thing]
Aggressive articulation of male sexual entitlement (reveals terror).
Waiting - Shaprece
Dressed to the nines.
Ivan Arteaga at Seattle Composers' Salon January 8, 2016
Jump cuts from coast to coast and time to time accomplished by the shift of a single finger or the slightest adjustment of either tongue.
In Session at the Tintinabulary
July 4, 2016
Banned Rehearsal 913 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt
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