September 23, 2017
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| Sahba Sizdahkhani |
Sahba Sizdahkhani
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
Strings and Pulleys - Ivan Arteaga with Allison Burke
parsing the holding into vacant space
touch weight sax fuss distance
scooted
decision tongue and seamless finger flutter
A thoughtful and intriguing tweezing out of aspects of playing saxophone in public, it was already well underway when Allison, incapable it seems of walking without aesthetic deliberation, adjusted the furniture on the stage.
Sahba Sizdahkhani
his amp says Oahu on it slant
with an eighth-note flag on the "a"
how is repetition accomplished, exactly?
Luscious layered builds, on 104-string santour and percussion played in sequence but kept alive with long loops.
Recorded
September 24, 2017
The Battell - William Byrd - Elizabeth Farr
Figures on tapestry
music portrays other music
how lifelike!
Die Kunst Der Fuge, Contrapunctus XVI (Rectus) - J. S. Bach - Lionel Rogg
It ties the ear into knots keeping track of it all, but in such a whistle-y carefree way.
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| Tommy Dorsey |
And it starts with a whistle. Ultra-musicianship being pushed into lightweight shoes. Something has got to give.
After You've Gone - Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, Sy Oliver and The Sentimentalists
The arrangement is as hierarchical as movie credits. Leader, Soloists, Rhythm, Choirs.
Oregon Trail - Woody Guthrie [from The Columbia River Collection]
A list of complaints, Whitmanesque, celebratory. How bad they was doin' was why they came.
September Song - Sarah Vaughan [from Interlude - Early Recordings 1944-1947]
She inhabits ever millimeter of those long notes. At the coda phrases are handed down through the ranks, Byrd-ish.
With A Song - Sonny Rollins [from Alan Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
Horn playing, here, is an expression of the shaping of the mouth's cavity, where sound is rounded.
Der Song from Witwe Begbicks Trinksalon - Paul Dessau - uncertain about performers due to poor indexing on the CD
Ein Bierhallsingspielslied.
Sing Ye A Joyful Song - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey [from concert of April 11, 1961]
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| My mom, as a teen |
Rescued from my mom's tape.
Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa (Sad Song)- Otis Redding [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
Fifth item in a row with "Song" in it, not planned. OR carves his vocal into the mix with a deepgrooved chisel. Barely a narration beyond the song structure itself.
Track 1 - Tillicum Jr. High School Band [from concert of March 3, 1971]
Another rescue from one of my mom's tapes. I believe this is a band arrangement of a von Weber concert piece for solo clarinet, played by my brother Paul, who would have been 14.
Cock In My Pocket - The Stooges [from Metallic 'KO]
Aestheticizing sophomoric crudity.
Track 2 - University of Washington Contemporary Group Improv Ensemble [from Neal's Recital Tape, May 22, 1981]
Otherwise known as Undifferentiated Functions. Neal starts center stage, playing the Bickleton Fight Song. I'm in the closet with another piano. When I eventually make my appearance it may have been the first time Karen ever saw me. We were not introduced at that time.
Pink Cadillac - Bruce Springsteen
A riff on original sin, and how the lengths of lines falling into line roll around to find the rhythm of the hook.
September 26, 2017
Banned Rehearsal 253 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [April 1991]
Our first born, a few week old, makes his taped debut. A distant radio signal finds itself somewhere in the wiring. Frogs and dogs. We pick up an activity and carry it with us to unknown parts, the thread of thought. Wastelands? Burned bare. Dischord wouldn't fit, much like life.
September 28, 2017
Sonic Brilliance 19 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Holden K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer, Kia M [July 1996]
Jumps into the thick of it. You're supposed to be a dragon. Lizard of Oz. Sounds flow right in, undirected. Why do we have all these buttons? A crowded aviary compressed into the space of sound smaller than the studio. Ringing and rattling.
Assembly Rechoired 46 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey [September 2001]
Trumpet, piano, percussion. Buzzy.
Come Out And Play - Dead Vampires [from The Funhouse Comp Thing]
Close packed mass physicality. The subject matter is the mosh pit.
Banned Rehearsal 786 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [February 2011]
Shaker crickets
bell traffic
mist snake glides
occupy kalimba
finding the lower limit of audibility
ritual of not disorder not entropy
the chosen moment unyieldingly placid
Along The Path (Dreams of Emptiness) - Denise Glover [from Pathways]
Tuning in time and timing in pitch
The vocal entrance kills
Every time
In Session at the Tintinabulary
September 25, 2017
Banned Rehearsal 943 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
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