November 18, 2018
Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 130 - Beethoven - Alban Berg Quartett
the more these unison notes get to know their fellows not the less fellowship ensues but the more specific their intra-life
the key upon which we stand is often a bit soft
just before a cadence our feet punch through requiring detour
this warmheartening mass of stringbox resonance, if we could imagine it as arising from other means than stringboxes,
what might that means be imagined as sounding like
alone
the key must be somewhere around here
look everywhere
The Prodigal Son - Rev. S. J. "Steamboat Bill" Worrell [from Goodbye, Babylon]
rhythm saying translation
gospel according to Rev. Steamboat
Amen
Blue 7 - Sonny Rollins, Tommy Flanagan, Doug Watkins, Max Roach [from The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz]
each chord to chord sequentialization they play is cross-indexed to other songs in which such exact sequentialization pre-occurred in their individual and immediate imagination
tell me true
do I or you believe Max Roach was really keeping track of where one was through all of that?
yes, do.
Zoolander! or slang code?
Wheatland - Oscar Peterson, N. H. Orsted-Pedersen, Louis Hayes [from The Great Connection]
settles into frenchfilm montage mode
the happiness of it treated as one might have treated a key in other spheres
the hypothetical
other
electron
Pop Pop Da Da's Empty Word Club Band - Aaron Keyt - Neal Kosály-Meyer, vocals
a precision key-bard contains its own recomposed notes (program)
what can a Da Da do? La de Da?
Da Da as (sophomoric) (insufferable) cleanser
works a charm
Hyena - REM [from Life's Rich Pageant]
the big guitar guitar guitar sound is a room they love returning to
Banned Rehearsal 274 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [November 1991]
johnny jump up?
in the pre-garage Maple Leaf Tintinabulary
before it was infested and became
Boylair
jumpup jumpup
cymbal of drumset and shrillpenny whistle join to battle high fidelity
jolly jumpup baby we have here
a drumbeat and its worthy opponents the different drummers
vowels intonate
differently hung in acoustic space
low or high on the bendy branch
rattles and cymbals totally into messing with cassette tape limits
the drums may be big in Jerseyville
but they're bigger here
6 and 3
got it to go (an ad)
Piccolos is closed! replaced by Pete's Pizza
the beads travel over the face of the ground
like a horde of antelope
there is no still point at the center of it all
Aaron sibilates a list with s sounds
everything goes (on) in the mouth
it's a stage
all the world's a
when Banned Rehearsal talks gibberish to toddlers
we overdo it
hyperintellectually
in a way that only Da Da did could
tempo on a slider
the stance from which Aaronsbundler is played
always
in motion
on the march
Lauda Anima - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey [composed February 2001; recorded November 2018]
in my mind composing this I was focused on subverting the 4 4 4 4 -ness of it but ended up problematizing octave equivalence or non
seemed almost too simple when I wrote it, too obvious
I was wrong about that
November 20, 2018
Froggie Went a Courtin' - Bruce Springsteen [from The Seeger Sessions]
replication of field recording at the start
we are Miss Mousy
every song is a reason for a big fat singalong
Soundform I Voice - S. Eric Scribner [from Storm Sound Cycle May 2011]
visitation
or creek crease along the trail
creek cross creek crease
November 20, 22, and 23, 2018
as si fi ro bo vox overread from signalsphere
detailed language largely bulldozed by and under space
space synthesized joyce voice
as though humano-utteral rhythm abstracted from spellingplay picked up from broadcast
oaky doaky in episodes cued by interludes and breaks
gender in voice filter
knock knock
wanders off from digital filter to a more transparent sing song spoken area
it is with great relief that we
tuff as reset word
making silly voices
tuff
what might we make of the expanse of this? draw maps? train our microscopes? pursue dubious rumors of sense?
does the global, granular, and quotidian together gathered form a whole or only so if we close our eyes I believe in Fairies I do I do (Kathleen E saw them wearing boots)
suspicion :: the helps we get from our fellows indicate paths of pains of inquiry which, truth be told, have so often been found empty and wormy
OR
one's own associations distract into the personal
we each make of it what we will
if we will
less and less do I so will
missive from distant galaxy
OR
to decipher by xray of ruined scroll unflattenable
ends with chantish (on the) plain cloistered (in the)
November 23, 2018
Ah, miserata vita - Johann Grabbe - The King's Noyse, David Douglass [from Mascharada - Music at the Bückeburg Court of Ernst III]
oh, how compositionally arch!
balanced with clowns
so as
to cut more deeply
King Arthur Act II - Henry Purcell - Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
barely dramatizing outside of a desire to compose a complexity of vocal presentation, spectacular!
by stringing it together
with a plot and characters
actual stage acting not required
rather
discouraged
In Session at The Tintinabulary
November 19, 2018
Banned Rehearsal 970 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt
Aaron brought over a new wind instrument, a tiny little saxophone about the size of a soprano
recorder
