Playlist

Recorded

March 10, 2018
Large Cortical Areas - Robert Pearson [from Sonicabal Volume 2]

newness, as in what we would expect to be an entrance of a new idea, comes across here as opening a door in order to hear what has been going along already, but from a different room, reverberated against other walls

Assembly Rechoired 49 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Kelly W, Allen Welch, Suzanne Winter-Welch [April 2006]

What is this activity we do, as experienced by some who beforehand have only a verbal description

that time cool people came by - photo by Allen Welch

of it, and who, then, are asked to experience it, first, by joining into it, and thus creating uniquely what they experience as the experience of the activity, that what that we do? It is a test. Everybody supplies their own hurdles. 10 minutes in more or less a groove is achieved.
a valid entry to a larger scope for the question of what sound sounds like

Prelude - Paul Kikuchi - Jesse Olsen Bay, Stuart Dempster, Bill Horist, Paul Kikuchi, Alex Vittum [from Portable Sanctuary]

sleep drizzle still pacific shore
what wakes us

Banned Rehearsal 907 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer

missing from my experience of listening back, which was omnipresent in my experience of doing, is the internal monologue of decision making - what one is thinking about what one is doing while one is doing it, an experience unavailable to memory and thus to the recording, which itself is a memory, a trace

we do not play our toy instruments as though they were less than instruments

Wallace, do we hear thee?

as Neal said, we don't know what we are doing, but (as I add) we are listening very carefully as we do it

In the old days the session was over when the cassette tape ran out. In a concession to getting to bed eventually, and especially now that the recording device we use could keep recording for hours and hours, we give ourselves 30 minutes or so, at which point I move toward the device and wait for a spot to push "stop." Once the participants realize that is what is going on, a game ensues. Each sound made is both dare and question. Do you think we're done (punk)? now? now? now? how about - no wait - how about now? or . . . ? If I am patient (which I occasionally am) it can lead to a lengthy improvised-out fade as everybody get smaller and smaller, and smaller and yet smaller.

March 13, 2018
Ariel - Greg Sinibaldi - Greg Sinibaldi, ewi/electronics; Ryan Ferriera, guitar; Ted Poor, drums

For my third pass, in anticipation of a more formal review, I listened to each the tracks one at a time. It's surprising how much difference simply standing up and opening each file separately can make. Oddly, as a whole it seemed shorter, or rather, it was over more quickly than I expected.
1. Arrival of the Bee Box - specific pitch focus is present but not crucial, or not so crucial as touch or breath. tripartite. answered by drumguitar power pounds giant boot stomps Godzilla shrieks stomping giddy giant ewi, airborn, drifts off seeps into undergrounds
2. Lady Lazarus - fancy echo/reverb effect grappling the sound lovingly if not quite gently. interlude.
3. Cut - settling into a groove but just off center, keeping its distance. dropped into the droid factory
4. Lady Lazarus Part II - signals rhythm radio dial short wave chatter insects and bones tiny lizards dismantling machinery hulk radio signals from the underworld as Cocteau's Eurydice into which pours saturate flesh
5. Black Sweet Blood Mouthfuls - reverie massive dance strenuates to ascend falls back weightful impressive craters deep traces a long moody dragon passed by here
6. The Atrocity of Sunsets - drumrattle solo begins, ewi poking at the flesh it cracks open the beast's wings are spread to dry
7. Wintering In the Dark - in a room alone imagining the demimonde as imagination bitters and dries
8. Elm - working down a terraced grade, finger mirror child's play itsy bitsy spider twisting down ponderous grace whales or stone kites overgrown in dense woody talons

In Session at the Tintinabulary

March 11, 2018
Maple Leaf 180311 - Keith Eisenbrey

Neal borrows a bass

a noisy bird at sunrise, and traffic

Banned Telepath 61 Chignik Lagoon School - Aaron Keyt

So far, just rumored to exist. fingers crossed. Intended for what will eventually be Banned Rehearsal 954.

March 12, 2018
Banned Telepath 61 Seattle - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer

Our local go at it

March 14, 2018
Banned Telepath 61 Port Haiden - Aaron Keyt

And a supplement from parts in the far away  northwest

March 15, 2018
Bass Tracks for Fish Distributor and Ruined It - Your Mother Should Know - Neal Kosály-Meyer, bass