January 13, 2019
at their raucous best
it is itself
straight ahead
no flinching
Criss Cross - Thelonius Monk [from The London Sessions]
number (or quantity) theory
he's laying all this stuff out there folks
listen up
take notes
it's on the board
Luxembourg - Elvis Costello [from Trust]
derives from the same era as Jenny Jenny above
the bridge gives it away
I love the song, but I'm not sure I'm as enamored of the echo on his voice as he was.
Banned Rehearsal 86 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [June 1986]
cans and shakers,
cornet,
then
then
YES! The Obo Roi!
Cornet & obo roi make a fine distortion on the tape
lively, but gets a bit stuck in a music trap,
that is, we play music, which is a trap, a habit, a known
Neal finds a pretty little lick on ukulele
a Waltz from Karen on the Funmaker
just like practicing but without any pesky sense of trying to get better
nothing like highminded commercial free improvisation
nothing like
the didgeridoo says didgeridoo
the game we play is to bump each other off our respective kicks
Bierhall badge achieved!
"I Love Baseball" a sudden song
I have a phone call you'll have to get all quiet to which request compliance is partial
We all join in a rousing rendearment of "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" in a slightly less creepy shade of the Mack The Knife tempo, my obligato line to which is perhaps my finest moment on toy piano ever
a polite swing
bandstand ready bandleader arrangement
even pokes La Marseillaise in there a la Faschingschwank aus Wien
Liebeslied - Benjamin Boretz - Keith Eisenbrey [from my recital: Preludes in Seattle, June 2006]
An unfinished and now withdrawn mid-70's composition, the pencil score to which Ben presented to me as a gift in 1984 when I came back to Seattle. I have performed it many times, and I have also modestly altered it (Liebeslied, Amended), and less than modestly utterly and completely re-composed it at Ben's prodding (Sonata Liebeslied).
What it is about is the particular intervals between chord changes, as they go on, going on within other ongoing musics.
The Last Jubilee - Rachel Harrington [from Celilo Falls]
"don't be blue
if you don't wake up today"
- a kind of subjunctive, as though sung from sleep
"just pick up your harp and play"
Banned Telepath 48 Somerville [Aibell, Jennifer Chung, Aaron Keyt, May 2016]
Assembled (by me) from several sound files hurled across the intersphere from Somerville MA
sound boundaries :: intervals gaps joints adjacencies gores
g'bye kiss me quick to Wallace (a spinet/player cyborg)
vacuuming
If the parts are indestructible the joints can be haphazard
BIG FUNMAKER
what pipe organ music could be if given half a chance
advice for listening: let go of your morbid abstemiosity
don't just live a little live a lot go to the outer
part of what Wallace is, for me, is the mediated Wallace, the recorded sound of it, as it actually landed on this side of the Rockies
Courante I & Courante II - Johann Grabbe - The King's Noyse [from Mascharada]
a gracefully balanced wit dancing on the points of pins
January 15, 2019
Go Joe Go - Phil Napoleon [from Alan Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
a big orchestra
the 1926 recordist/tech was not quite up to the task
too few microphones, not enough multitrack capability
but its all there if you listen for it
and the dynamic range is real
What's New - Art Pepper [from The Way It Was]
Did the more subtle degrees of nuance become part of the point of this music because the technology made it possible?
You Hurt Me - Wayne Storm [a Rescued Record]
I'm still loving you-ooo-ooo-ooo
hurt me
The spoken verse
Is anything worse?
Spoken word
Poetry's turd?
Darn That Dream - Thelonius Monk [from The London Sessions]
all the extremes of dynamic differentiation in play between mezzo forte and forte
and degrees of forwardness to the back of the hall
Eliza Act 3 - Keith Eisenbrey, Dave Jones, Aaron Keyt [December 1981]
. . . is hushed
twins
two twins
echo
sophomoric in big chunks
not yet awake to the concept that there is a possibility of much more than the clever
best when we leave the wordplay out of it
even better when the musicplay is left out of it too
ceremonial irreverence - a necessary preparation
we exit
fading
on hisses
January 17, 2019
Johnny Bye Bye - Bruce Springsteen [from a collection of 6 B-sides]
barely comes on before it goes out
like a bonus quarter track
Banned Rehearsal 279 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [December 1991]
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because of the feather
a mighty view
Dr. Seuss's "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins" is a touchstone of my own intellectual awakening
(structures of the tale revealing structures of knowledge)
hats and crowns and fathers
very serious nonsense
the father of the father of Nad
the magicians from the southwest tower
Karen remembers hearing the story as told by Captain Kangaroo
nursery songs if songs we do
sounds
guiro overdrive
drum guiro dialogue as conversational composition
In Session at the Tintinabulary
January 14, 2019
Banned Rehearsal 973 - Pete Comley, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
Not rehearsing for our upcoming gig at the Seattle Improvisation Festival on February 7, 8pm at Hollow Earth Radio, we crowd six into the Tintinabulary
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