Preface
"So when I ask myself a question about thinking about music it devolves naturally into questions about the relationship between understanding and experiencing: not questions, for me, of either/or, but of hierarchy, of the direction of implication, and, to put it crassly, the most basic questions of personal goals and values. Are the ontologies of understanding-structures intercompatible with the ontologies of experiencing-episodes? Are they contingent upon one another, mutually, or in either direction? In another register, I may ask: is aesthetic perception distinct from extra-aesthetic perception, that is, from what I might call analytic perception?" Benjamin Boretz "fourth and long in Baltimore" Open Space Magazine Issue 12/13 fall 2010/winter 2011
Texts
Live
May 5, 2017
Seattle Composers' Salon
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
John Kammerer and Rebeka Ko
New Music for marimba + electronics
They partly construct and partly conjure a wall-less but circumambulatable space. Oh so many crannies, meadows, brooks, and glens to explore!
Patrick O'Keefe
Morning Stroll - Emerald City Saxophone Quartet: Barbara Hubers-Drake, soprano; Molly Pond, alto; Harold Rosenkrans, tenor; Jim Glass, baritone
Patrick tells that this piece is about distractions from a stroll. Personally I think that's backwards. For me this was about scattershot distractions surprising themselves in discovering that it is a strolly sort of thing they are doing.
Patrick tells that this piece is about distractions from a stroll. Personally I think that's backwards. For me this was about scattershot distractions surprising themselves in discovering that it is a strolly sort of thing they are doing.
Jeremiah Lawson
Guitar Sonata in A major
A tender memory of a ragtime intimacy.
(On piano the energy of playing notes is vertical to the string - at an arced near-right angle.The face of the sound comes to us reflected off the lid, we hear it as though in a mirror. But here the energy of playing notes is horizontal to the string - across them at a near-horizontal. The sound comes to us directly from the soundboard. We hear its face directly.)
John TeskeGuitar Sonata in A major
A tender memory of a ragtime intimacy.
(On piano the energy of playing notes is vertical to the string - at an arced near-right angle.The face of the sound comes to us reflected off the lid, we hear it as though in a mirror. But here the energy of playing notes is horizontal to the string - across them at a near-horizontal. The sound comes to us directly from the soundboard. We hear its face directly.)
ad;sr (vectorscores) - Neil Welch, Evan Woodle, William Hayes
(a short segment of a long space)
read-
ing
a-
long
read-
ing
a
long
road
read
a
long-
ing
read
a
long-
ing
road
Recorded
May 1, 2017
Die Kunst der Fuge Contrapunctus 8 - J. S. Bach - Zoltán Kocsis
A triple fugue attempts escape velocity through stretto alone.
String Quartet in B-flat Major, opus 76 #4 - Haydn - Amadeus-Quartet
We are addressed as colleagues and familiars.
May 2, 2017
String Quartet in C-sharp minor, op 131 - Beethoven - Quartetto Italiano
This recording was ripped from 1970's vinyl. (The past and its thwipdips.)
wafting smoke falling silk
the camera pans up to fade
the memory of a quartet
broken linear dreamlogic
the past is the price paid for this moment
it earns its odd threads
by sacrificing so many other paths
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