July 22, 2018
Banned Rehearsal 78 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [May 1986]
the legendary push to 100 begins in earnest
we figured we could fill 23 sides if we got together as often as possible and made several sessions every time
with dulcimerian strum and guitar and funmaker
distinct presences playing pitches
vaguely downhome funmaker bend button to imitate saw or bee swarm
the relation between the metaphor of steady beat and the metaphor of click track clock time
each is a kind of virtual reality
Neal sings a sudden song Strange Animal interrupted by a wicked great funmaker effect
Sprite in punkissimo overdrive
clocktime is a metaphor of objectivity and reproducible results
beat is a metaphor of inner time - heartbeat breathing sleep
to conflate them is to sell beat short
to measure the rightness of a beat by its adherence or not to a click track clock time timepoint is to utterly mistake its subjective essence
trading image for fact
clavichord even gets in there most sinister of sounds
disproportionality is our speciality
does it go on too long?
experiments should not halt upon receipt of desired result
desiring a result is an ur-error
Stay Away - Nirvana [from Nevermind]
ferocious bass playing back there
sure like that fuzz box
Downtown Hangaround - Blank Its [from The Funhouse Comp Thing]
minimalist patterning
nice focus
power suit
another in a series of drafts of a set of variations for string quartet
affect is carrier wave for pitch set transformation
Life in a Marble - Youth Rescue Mission [from Youth Rescue Mission]
just a young man and his strummer joined by kin on cello and voice
Gradus 288 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [April 2016]
the highest G
if the acoustic machine that is the piano
strings soundboard hammers frame harp dampers
could be adequately modeled algorithmically
then one could design interfaces for the dampers
on a gimble or as independently operated as the keys themselves
one to play the hammers
one to play the dampers
could virtual strings break?
algorithmic modeling of the sound of a string breaking?
virtually?
if it doesn't then the model is inadequate
limitations are important
the E comes in as though it hadn't really
July 24, 2018
how exactly weight is adjusted to articulation
Don't Fish In My Sea - May Rainey, Jimmie Blythe [from Alan Lowe's Really The Blues]
celebration within complaint
irrepressible right hand comments
Ubangi Stomp - Warren Smith [from Sun Records Definitive Hits]
copping to racial thievery (N word trigger warning)
What A Sweet Thing That Was - The Shirelles [from Shirelles Anthology]
as crowded as the words are
there is lots of time for spare my my my my to spill out
Septet - Arthur Berger - The Contemporary Players [from Form]
long tones doled out sparingly
to tell
we search them out where they cling
past woods edge
a guide will be wanted
to return
Barefoot School - Bellevue First United Methodist Church Children's Choirs [from my Mom's tape of May 6, 1971]
I shared narration duties on this, and so it becomes one of the very earliest instance of recorded sound recognizable as me
our charming pious tale of spreading the benefits of civilization
July 25, 2018
I've Never Been In Love - The PK's [from a private tape]
history: the night before Karen went off to UPS at the end of the 1981 Summer in which we (she and I) happened to have both been in the same room at the same time for the first time Karen and Neal and Yvonne made this recording of their (really proto-PK's) collaboration. It was supposed to be a good tape.
Shut Out The Light - Bruce Springsteen [from Neal's mix-tape Six B-Sides]
story ballad family retrieval
Banned Rehearsal 268 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Paul Eisenbrey, and Aaron Keyt [September 1991]
big honk speaks across the spiral tape as it lies on its reel
J clears his throat
nervous sort of explosiveness
chatter
all the doo dah day yes sirree doo dah
buddha baby
imitates squeaky violin squeal
failure to incandesce but many many colorful bits
bug call
July 26, 2018
Haunted House - Fall-Outs [from The Funhouse Comp Thing]
politely overdrawn accusation
gaslighted
never trust a breakup song
Song From The Storms and Winds - S. Eric Scribner [from Storm Sound Cycle, live at the Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, on May 21, 2011]
tone held through thundernuk place
within place within place
In Session at the Tintinabulary
June 27 - July 6, 2018
Two Pomes Play - Keith Eisenbrey
Most of June and into July I was working on getting an adequate recording of these short two-voice
July 23, 2018
Gradus 336 - Neal Kosály-Meyer
. . . and the fifth B
perihelion swerves of many kinds
lit up the bubble of now in etheric mind nowhere hidden
