Playlist

Recorded

October 8, 2017
Banned Rehearsal 617 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Isabel K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [September 2001]

toy boats bobbing in the bay

steady state

low organ throb
indicator measures and creates hidden pulse

(great spring sound!)
intersocial anacrusis

agogic peoples
rhythm is a social event

what shifts in the ear when pitches change
the soil the wind the orbit

bell and drum ritual
lightly touched

October 9, 2017
Banned Rehearsal 697 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [February 2006]

several species of guitar
bucket brigade messages
a triangular circle

or tuning to each other in a fluid sense
lovely how it refrains from shredding
even when louder

protracted

(long long protracted)

end
fade

wanders into the casing

October 12, 2017
The Chronicles of Dirty Dick Part 1 - Antique Scream [from The Chronicles of Dirty Dick]

Pink Floyd fade
up to wide
vibrato capable vocal
seriously uptight brings
the forces together
doesn't
let go
but slowly piece
by piece relax
to allow full
weight to be
thrown around stops
to start again
Preening Bad Boy.

We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder (Autoheterophony) - Keith Eisenbrey
Like a chorus o' angles! (Karen's comment).

The Barelye Breake - William Byrd - Elizabeth Farr

Finely tuned adjustments over the phrase, section, and movement breaks. Far more category shifts than simple butt joints would intimate. Early sense of variations, or changes: the theme is not a structure but a thread within possibilities.

Die Kunst der Fuge Contrapunctus XVI Inversus  - J. S. Bach - Lionel Rogg

The fugue is an analytical tool for composers, it is used to pry tunes apart. Surgeon: "Stretto! Inversion! Diminution! Sponge! Suction!"

Sweet Little Papa - Louis Armstrong's Hot Five [from Hot Fives and Sevens]

lipwork ornamentation
big music shaped by minute attitudes of the mouth

On The Sunny Side - Don Albert [from Alan Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]

Don Albert

Lovely glow in his voice as it tails off at phrase ends. Pretty mean trumpet player too.

New Found Land - Woody Guthrie [from The Columbia River Collection]

Living in the light of the morning. One of his better poems.

Don't Be Cruel - Elvis Presley [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]

A ploy or a plea?
from a genre of personal fictions.

The 95th Psalm - Powell Weaver - The Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey, Joanne Deacon [from Lake Washington Singers, April 11, 1961]

This features my mom's long-time accompanist and friend, Joanne Deacon, and a fine solo by soprano Kathleen Richards.

Good Lovin' - The Little Rascals [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]

A rhythmic schema
arising from a lively bed
begets variations

Love Ain't For Keeping - The Who [from Who's Next]

This is quite a fine little song, whose impact is diminished by the commercial necessity of bloating it out to stadium size.

Louie Louie - The Stooges [from Metallic 'KO]

Garbage rock in the sense that it doesn't take much technique to make it happen (compare with the fancy guitar playing of the Ventures, for instance). Nearly indestructible, Iggy makes a go at it.

Intermezzi, op. 117 #1 and #2 - Brahms - Neal Kosály-Meyer [from Neal's Recital Tape May 1981]

One among many distinguishing characteristics of European repertoire music: a complexity in the

Screaming Trees

way it proceeds through a phrase. Everything can be broken into parts. How do you break yours?

You Tell Me All These Things - Screaming Trees [from Clairvoyance]

No padded seat on this old bike, just tractor metal cold in the morning.

(A connection here: Steve Fisk, who produced this record, is a friend of Neal's (my brother in-law) from his days at Central Washington University, before I knew him. Small world of local music.)

October 13, 2017
Frogs 910415 - Keith Eisenbrey

(and dogs)

one mass of frog sound shifted toward the right
one soloist closer, to the left
dog is in the distance or several dogs or distances

a tape hiss
and occasional traffic
very faint with hint of pitch
emerging from the noise as proto-hum

(I recorded this from an upstairs window at my folks house near Coupeville, WA, the morning of April 15, 1991.)

distant howl
world guiro
waves of phasing rhythms in soft focus

kitchen talk downstairs
action on the edge of the sound
tink of flatware clock chime

morning breaks pulsing bulbous
flange of air prop traffic
phasing with frog croak waves
a quivering air

frogquiversphere

we apes converse in clusters of apeclatter
even from upstairs faint as it is
the room resonance of mom & dad's Coupeville kitchen

one could imagine the frogcroaksound as single oraganism's respiration
or the ripply surface of a pond
a jet's hissy roar goes on a long time
making wavelets in the quiversphere

wind roar
an event in the deep deep bass
(big frog!)

Banned Rehearsal 430 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [July 1996]

ominous biding banshee

raucus and magnificent wail

dire
D I R E
dire

the longer the held organ tones persist
the more questionable becomes their intonation

squeaky balloon violin stylings
elephant seal bellow soulfulness electric guitar

whatever this is
it is seriously pissed

drops into conversation mood
just cranky
tarzanyell grim march

off again to wander ferocious

In Session at the Tintinabulary

October 9, 2017
Banned Rehearsal 944 - Jennifer Chung, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer


We were in a bit of noisy mood I think.

October 11, 2017
October 12, 2017
Focus tracks - St. Rage
Distracted Driver tracks - St. Rage - Karen Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer

We did the basics on the 11th, and filled in some extras on the 12th.