July 1, 2018
a distance traveled before we get off the ride
Rainy Night - Duke Ellington [from Alan Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
say a thing (twice) (or two things) then comment or overturn
the back ends of the melodies invite consideration
The Goodnight Waltz - The Voices of Walter Schumann [Rescued Record]
The Age of Sentimentality's Last Gasp
jaw harp in the raw
Requiem Canticles - Stravinsky - London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen
pitch plates microadjust their relative altitude
planar placards plastered on the pitch plate walls
icons
Track 6 - Tillicum Junior High School Orchestra [from my mom's tape of a concert give March 3, 1971]
with vibraphone solo
Subhuman - Throbbing Gristle [from Throbbing Gristle's Greatest Hits]
inverted accentuation becomes name classification
July 4, 2018
Banned Rehearsal 77 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Neal Kosály-Meyer [May 1986]
vacuum cleaner vacuuming floor clacking sticks and ocarina or flute
we have a hum on the tape from something
it wanders
Neal & Anna's Outpost on Brooklyn Ave, as they were packing it up
typing tap tap tap tap ding! szzzhook!
persistent lack of focus, phoning it in, not present
weary and wearying the hum does not help
this tape has ennui
impervious time
Don't Mix The Colors - Courtney Love [from Kill Rock Stars]
words on a good enough rhythm track
half a song or less
Gradus 99 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [May 2006]
single tones allowed to linger
turn their predilections for proliferation inward upon themselves
become sets of parts independently spinning
fulfilling the compositional imperatives
which notes to play
is so simple to accomplish that the notion of necessity in the short term
or of form at all as a specious trajectory
is left far below
Front Door - Shaprece [from Scatterbrain EP]
circling insistence (a worry stone)
Banned Telepath 47 Somerville - Aaron Keyt [April 2016]
the new note nears quickly
improvisation composing itself as a composition composing improvisationality
Cavatina "Largo al factotum della città" - Rossini - Failoni Chamber Orchestra (Budapest), Will Humburg, Roberto Servile, Sonia Ganassi, Ramon Vargas, Angelo Romero, Franco de Grandis, Hungarian Radio Chorus [from The Barber of Seville (Highlights)]
intricate prestissimo blah blah blah
tour de articulation
Irish Black Bottom - Louis Armstrong's Hot Five [from Hot Fives and Sevens]
wide open window to another celebration
when it is over
feels empty
Tweedledy Dee - Elvis Presley [from First Live Recordings]
clearly worked over before release
with vinyl surface noise just as clearly audible
no-one was, apparently, thinking history and collecting quality data
(He's) The Great Imposter - The Fleetwoods [from The Very Best of the Fleetwoods - Come Softly To Me]
Requiem Cantlicles - Stravinsky - Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Stravinsky
categorically disparate rhythms
though coordinate
choral sound disblending as instruments perfectly
ceremony
voices instruments solos chorus - all treated emphatically impersonally
each is there to function just so
not anybody's show really
as though these were sound samples pulled from hammer space
July 10, 2018
". . . nineteen tzwolve . . . Webern and Berg were the ushers who controlled the membership cards . . . enowmously tense and inhibited . . . Vienna is the only place in the world . . . a closed shop . . . icy cold every inch the emperor of music . . . "
Well I Just Might Do That - University of Washington Contemporary Group Improvisation Ensemble [July 1981]
barbasol theater
it's got lemon in it
an historic moment for proto Banned Rehearsal
in that we were beginning to spill out of academic oversight
into sessions which we then inflated into legend out of all proportion to the actual results
good thing most of the sound is lost
come inside you'll catch your
keith
mind your mother
clump clump clomp clomp
done
4th of July, Asbury Park - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen Live 1975-1985]
full blown legend domain see your life as mythic grandeur
your face here
July 11, 2018
Banned Rehearsal 267 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [September 1991]
moan tube scolding big red bag of fun
soft skinned rattle of rattles
semi independent double reeds
finger independent righty lefty
breath dependent if each speaks or in turn
jalopy rattle get it firing tambourine
this sounds like Aaron's now defunct electric organ
rather than the funmaker
30 minutes in not a dud moment really
terrainish
concerns itself with another subject than the terrain we experience
much as geology arose from metallurgy and mining
Mr. Punch you are a bad bad man
diabolic plotting encrustations of narratives' remains
realms are missing
music is an abstraction of activity
informing our future selves of the past reporting back truly what we say
common pulse theory
DX7 - Brad Anderson [from Dark Energy - Interstellar Pianos]
probes in substance with danger traps beacons left behind
creatures that feed on geyser's edge in pitch darkness
July 12, 2018
slow circle
drawn
dug
stethoscope to deeper tunnel
clanging cagebars
rain drops what zooms by cares not
performance as self preservation
face of impervious
the slowly drawn circle nears, lurking, respiring
a membrane within the sound
cessation without conclusion
July 17, 2018
Finnegans Wake Chapter 4 - Rio Matchett [from Waywords and Meansigns]
immediate: as though related over morning breakfast finger thump on table
scifi traffic medievaly chanting past on the interstar
repletely misoverheard
leaning close over the cafe table
not fussy about the jointures
color not corrected as gossip passed
then report per radio tv with background
journalismus
July 18, 2018
Duetto "All'idea di quel metallo"- Rossini - Failoni Chamber Orchestra (Budapest), Will Humburg, Roberto Servile, Sonia Ganassi, Ramon Vargas, Angelo Romero, Franco de Grandis, Hungarian Radio Chorus [from The Barber of Seville (Highlights)]
light orchestral touch
the air they breathe
You Made Me Love You - Louis Armstrong's Hot Five [from Hot Fives and Sevens]
not much space on these old tracks, timewise or dynamical
best to fill it completely
Tynan Tyme - Chet Baker, Art Pepper [from Playboys]
now we got us some elbow room
such subtlety of vocal pressure
just exactly the right weight given to each part of each syllable
no slop
Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
something in the sound is often repressed
July 19, 2018
Selections from Finian's Rainbow - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey, Joanne Deacon [from my mom's tape of a concert given May 4, 1971]
extended medley or truncated show
Irish as ethnic quaint (harmless) lesser European pastoral
LA < > NY
Hollywood < > Broadway
good enough modulations (not to write home about)
Universal Corner - X [from Wild Gift]
measures measuring measuring measures
In Session at the Tintinabulary
July 2, 2018
Banned Rehearsal 962 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
July 16, 2018
Assembly Rechoired 57 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy
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