January 26, 2019
medley hit
corporate drop the needle
oh I remember that song
it sounds like I ought to remember that song
oh that song is by the same?
souvenir
once emerged
never comfortable
Another Sad Song Littering the Highway of Life - Doug Palmer - Keith Eisenbrey [from my recital Preludes in Seattle, June 2006]
I love how the melody emerges from the chord voices
and perches on them
and complains to them
Clusters - Hubert S. Howe [from Milton Babbitt: A Composer's Memorial]
mouth shapes like pipe organ music with full, muscular, control of the pipe shapes
mouth shapes evoking bell decay in immaculate motions
cuts off sharply
can't stay gotta go
bells and gongs and mostly metal sounds scrambling around the Joyce worm, and guitar
and wooden train whistle
one is concerned with the ceasing of doing anything
that the ceasing be not too artful
nor too lazy
as though already on to the next thing
through the side of one's mind
offhandedly
metal on metal squeal talk and rasper rasping sweet nothings into the dragon's ear
declamation
can ring Morse taps
guitar elegy
scrape chatters on
coexistent doings
January 27, 2019
Der dritten Mascharada - William Brade - The King's Noyse [from Mascharada]
distinct strands of thinking
structure: cadence point sequence
fanciful: interior phrase shape conversation
Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques - Maurice Ravel - Frederica von Stade, Martin Katz [from Voyage a Paris]
accompaniment not an equal partner (as in Schumann) but every detail counts as much as anything sung
since I don't understand French I am not disturbed by any wordpainting that might be there
which seems mostly intent on capturing the mood of the persona singing this song
rather than the meanings of the words lifted out of the song's context
Louie Louie - The Sonics [from Boom]
as packed as packed can be
Evidence (take 2) - Thelonius Monk [from The London Collection]
interjectionary left hand blats
Well Paid Scientist - Dead Kennedys [from Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust]
a certain proto hip hop structure in the sense that any new affect segment sounds dropped in as from a tone arm
Coward Till The End - Julian Lennon [from The Secret Value of Daydreaming]
You :: Me
a complaint
when out of ideas throw a bridge away
more than a little Sting-y
warm wash synth rinse
(fade out long? really?)
Tomorrow's Gone (And So Are You) - The Young Fresh Fellows [from Electric Bird Digest]
song for kiss off
Holding On - Thee Emergency [from Can You Dig It]
punk attitude about what? getting through it
for battle within the way it is
The Field of Arbol II Magnetic Fields - S. Eric Scribner [from Stormsound Cycle (live) May 2011]
de-peopled
unobserved
plain
a distant world in a fictional universe, not where the action is
not even in the same galaxy cluster over from where the action is
Finnegans Wake Part 3 Chapter 4 - James Joyce - Conspirators of Pleasure [from Waywords and Meansigns]
The reason we don't think of English as a tonal language is because we are all deaf.
The speaker is using their voice pitch reverberance to sever the parts of the adherent puncrustaceana from the next deeper encrustacean of adherent puncrustaceana. In short, it's puncrustaceana all the way down.
like unto a decorated psalm tone, it would make a remarkably strong password
not an exercise in declamation
perhaps in acting
as though any bit could have been heard as a could have been heard out in Dublin wild.
We see or hear these words as the pulsing of a vessel of flowing wordery
lexicon only viewed through a microscope and delicately held open (the tissue of the vessel) above scalpeled through
three weeks to heal
January 29, 2019
Der Pilligrienen Tanz - William Brade - The King's Noyse [from Mascharada]
short phrases with clear countable beats
within which cage
the action is
Trois Mélodies - Eric Satie - Frederica von Stade, Martin Katz [from Voyage a Paris]
The plain and square is foregrounded
or would be
if it were
actually
plain
or square
Wichita Vortex Sutra Part 3 - Allen Ginsberg [from Holy Soul, Jelly Roll]
joy covered with ash
give up your desire
this vortex named
Hackensack (take 1) - Thelonius Monk [from The London Collection]
the image of: tempi of LH and RH going off, slipping away from each other in cogjolty syncopation
but each always right with it
can seem several beats or measures off, but ain't
so: the sense of having awkward joints, or celebrating them
Here drums, have it.
In Session at the Tintinabulary
(and beyond)
January 28, 2019
Banned Rehearsal 974 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
January 31, 2019
Piano Gusting - Aaron Keyt - Jennifer Chung, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [at Jack Straw Productions, Seattle]
Aaron is participating in Jack Straw's celebration of the piano they (Jack Straw/KRAB Radio) dropped from a helicopter some decades ago. There the harp lay, many ranks of strings still intact. His score is for piano four straws, amplified by little contact microphones and tiny amplifiers. We blew in the straws, remembering the rush of winds as the soft plummeted home.
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