August 4, 2018
Forest Show - music by John Teske and Neil Welch
Ravenna Park, Seattle
John Teske, bass
Neil Welch, tenor and C soprano saxophone
Samantha Boshnack, trumpet
Ebony, cello
Noel Kennon, violin
Greg Campbell, drums
it is a rare thing
 |
| not Ravenna Park |
just then -
to experience the same
precise
blending sense
of being a proper part of this activity we are doing together
I have been conscripted to battle
that much is clear
(flash scene)
(Gangs of New York)
(Dead Rabbits emerge)
warriors of cosmic conscience and little bells
now relics on the table
battle whom? what?
the clear co-association of each of us with the march, the us, the procession, was enough
we are us
we are the knights who process with bells
fear us
but seriously folks
there was a call, a gathering, a procession, and an anthem
there was preaching and a rite
as though
the blood of prophets
grows up
through us
church arising
through cracks in the pavement
fall you will rise you must
dust of priests fear not tidings
so loved the world
in own image
us
--- Thank you John and Neil and your superb cohort! Joy is a pleasure and joy in music is a particular pleasure.
Recorded
August 4, 2018
Duetto "Donque io son . . . tu non minganni" - Rossini - Failoni Chamber Orchestra (Budapest), Will Humburg, Roberto Servile, Sonia Ganassi, Ramon Vargas, Angelo Romero, Franco de Grandis, Hungarian Radio Chorus [from Barber of Seville (Highlights)]
also no moment like any other
conversations and coils and negotiations and journeys
I Want Jesus to Walk With Me - Homer Quincy Smith [from Alan Lowe's Really The Blues]
reed organ and tenor sweet
Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
before band-ness became what it came to be
as: who and what did that
is: when the group was a group of singers first, accompanying themselves perhaps
Baby It's You - The Shirelles [from Shirelles Anthology]
alarming dynamic contrast in the mix
gives the singer's voice room to get low and sexy
Substitute - The Who [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
mixed blatant so that
what is front is front
what's back is back
The Journeyman's Grace - Fairport Convention [from Meet on the Ledge]
the word "I" has almost an "oh" sound to start: "oh-EE" rather than "ah-EE"
an accent that was near to that that returned in the heydays of Brit Punk
England land of diphthongs
Strawberry - Keith Eisenbrey, Dave Jones, Aaron Keyt [November 1981]
one side of a conversation
telepathic feelers
you enjoy your dinner
NB - this is one of the very few bits of recorded sound left over from that proto Banned Rehearsal time
I've Seen Your Face - Julian Lennon [from The Secret Value of Daydreaming]
suffocation saturation sound
August 7, 2018
Banned Rehearsal 269 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [September 1991]
Toad Hall and its intonation of doom and destiny
you will have to listen to what this little bird says in order to construe oneself
boogah! boo-gah-loo!
a unique compositional challenge: engage with a protoverbal sentience
nailed it
(easier than with a verbal sentience, especially than with a neoverbal)
a seminar open table conference hearing congress convention
of rhythmic inflection
from inside the tape, any input from outside the tape serves to shrink, diminish, circumscribe
the challenge of any sound is to be more than its fact
August 8, 2018
Caress Me Down - Sublime [from a private mix CD]
a sex brag weaving between Spanish and English
little bit of a Bo Diddley beat
I Love You - 260000 Volts [from The Funhouse Comp Thing]
urge mindless
certainly does not overstay
Nature Lives in Motion Part 1 - S. Eric Scribner - S. Eric Scribner, Mike Sentkewitz [from Storm Sound Cycle, Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, May 2011]
how it begins
cetacean siren keen feline yowl caw
limn of sky and ocean
was not
a long process begins here
utterly without hurry
time to enter an impersonal space completely progressing clearly in imperceptible increment to space-alien cricket field
never clear whether bird sound is from the can or from the out
disbalanced
what is in the room barely registers over what already persists
our world matters so little
what of it is the use of it as over above what is the other of it, the it of it
the passing squalls have carved the landscape into passing squall impervious hollows
little can happen except in the eddies where flotsam collects
a corner is turned around a ridge line into a furtherscape where we sit and say what we did and what we heard
best get on up the trail
!fun fact: my laptop was used to play back the canned bits
syncretic land/sea/jungle/alpine could be all at once or
rigging creak on ocean ship
70 minutes in a dynamic event with bird tweet or not
August 9-10, 2018
Finnegans Wake Chapter 6 - James Joyce - Maharadja Sweets [from Waywords and Meansigns]
from space!
each line a separate dream full formed
folk strum recitativo psalmtone focus
the finessed intervals between each end of line spokesung and guitar refrainingcommentary
as though this were simply sung for y'all to hear
!to Anna Livia!
is each
things enumerated here
focus: size of
riddle me this: range of
reading with specs :|| answer ||: rank of
!! Finn Mc Cool !!
sees of
another silent hiatus
after which the tune bends downward not this not that game show !!! ANSWER !!!
sub basement ward
FIVE
fragmentsed fastjumbleforwardthroughawesomeheap
MS SAM!??? almost
teachermaster filtertransformuliterates into dialogue reported
sequentiated logo layers
the linguas distracted
each from their each
quiver against each other in layerous words
In Session at the Tintinabulary
August 6, 2018
Gradus 337 - Neal Kosály-Meyer
Every piano composition performance should announce itself with equal forthright-ery and detail.
what is the exact nature of it? exact to the absolute? notes emerging into consciousness
after all these years it is easily as much about teaching me to hear piano music one note at a time
as Neal learning to play so
an interview question (hear below)
Do you, when moving from one rung to another during a single double 40 minute session,
think: this is a new thing entirely wipe the slate clean of rung before just preceding
or: now I'm just gonna move some notes around
or: something else entirely?
gap between what it says and what it is
transformation through filter of availability (as a compositional strategy)
downright narrative
Interview Question - Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer
I was so tickled to come up with an actual question that I asked it. Neal answers immediately.
August 7, 2018
Oak Harbor 180807 - Glen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey
I was in Oak Harbor, Washington, on Tuesday, with my brother Glen, who decided to give his car an automatic bath. I recorded it with a phone app.
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