February 7, 2019
Nonsequitur presents the 34th annual
Seattle Improvised Music Festival
Hollow Earth Radio, Seattle
CK Barlow electronics / Ambrosia Bardos voice & electronics ||
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| ceiling pizza |
Banned Rehearsal (Pete Comley, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer) ||
Andria Nicodemou vibraphone / Chris Icasiano drums
First of all, the Banned sends a sloppy big "thank you!" to Steve Peters, Nonsequitur, and the multitudes who have kept this festival going for 34 years. I have been much remiss over the years in not getting to many of its events. Thank you for inviting Banned Rehearsal to join in this time! We were all of us excited to be there, and I hope everyone there in the hollow of the earth at Hollow Earth Radio found us at least puzzling, if not as all sorts of magnificent as I honestly think we were, having heard the recording now several times. But enough of us.
CK Barlow and Ambrosia Bardos play loud electronics splayed out on a table. Their sounds push back like firehoses, scour like sandblasters. No fooling around here, you will be cleansed up raw near bloody.
Bryan Lineberry, Schraepfer Harvey, and China Faith Star live to go lickety split, or to lay it out sweet and true, or somehow both at once.
We started out quiet and scribbly. Then we got more so.
Andria Nicodemou and Chris Icasiano do density and having done density density is done for true
Recorded
February 2, 2019
Six Six Sixties - Throbbing Gristle [from Greatest Hits]
wearing de rigueur wrath on his disgusted sleeve
another know it all
Banned Rehearsal 89 - Karen (Meyer) Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Doug Haire, Neal Kosály-Meyer, Wally Shoup [June 1986]
all previous banned rehearsals are hereby
rendered
the circumambulation of Green Lake
continued
must have been a second tape player being played into the microphone of the recording device from which the artifact arose
What explanation do the passers by explain to themselves us passing by by?
in recording our walk we are the noisiest of what we hear
visit the nature mall
looking for Neal's old place
the same few feet of tape replay are played and replayed at irregular intervals and in irregular scraps
a bit like a toddler game see my toy into your face over and over yes I saw it
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| Oregon Trail, near Baker City, Oregon |
brass playing is all about tonguing
as string playing is all about bowing, and hence arms
the audible tongue
scenes of the mythic west
Patti's Parlour Pieces 1-4 - Ken Benshoof - Keith Eisenbrey [from Preludes in Seattle, June 2016]
How did I accidentally luck into studying with such an elegant pianistic magician?
If you play with ears open the music takes care of itself.
February 3, 2019
Compulsive Loves - John Aylward - Mary Joy Patchett, alto sax, John McDonald, piano [from Milton Babbitt: A Composer's Memorial]
completely lovely
tender playful
gentle
but that doesn't capture the wide embrace of it well into the night
Gradus 290 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [May 2016]
music is thinking in the sense that it is a medium within which we can hear each other think
a concretion of thinking like as to language
but a different medium than language
though both ride on the same carrier wave of sound
let us then listen to each other think
(if the silences in Gradus are intended to be taken as Cage-an silences then I have a confession to make
I have been grossly abusing them)
I wonder, has there ever been a launched-themselves-upon-a-project pianist with such patient insouciance?
so you say this is going to take more orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude of sessions than there are particles in the universe to complete?
well, we'd best get started
the magic though is that as vast as it is
the infinitesimally tiny time we have to consider it is rich in melody
such a tiny thing
strand of mere magic
it's snowing outside as I listen, but on the tape's outside are the birds of a Spring past
a combination (rung) can be a simultaneity extended varietously
or a melody matrix spontaneously permuting all its orders
and everything that might be imagined in between
Der Satyrn Tanz - William Brade - The King's Noyse [from Mascharada]
almost any style can be a carrier wave for music thinking itself out loud
Since I Fell For You - The Sonics [from Boom]
their slow dance number
best use of the B3 4ever
YMSK should do this as a cover
Hackensack (take 2) - Thelonius Monk [from The London Collection]
his fingers is all elbows
rhythm is a body
comin' through the rye
rock on your haunches
side to side
don't rinse, repeat
anxiety paranoiamal
all your lipstick shows
little Satie jape to end it there
Seeing and Believing - Screaming Trees [from Clairvoyance]
a distinct hit of a subset of west coast 60s psychedelia synthesized in situ
Evening - The Young Fresh Fellows [from Electric Bird Digest]
a power surf take on what should be a romantic ♥♥♥♥ slow dance (moi!)
strange little tag for fans only
Get It Up - Thee Emergency [from Can You Dig It]
virgin boot camp
February 4, 2019
The Songbird Flies Unhindered Through Storm and Violence - S. Eric Scribner [from Storm Sound Cycle, May 2011]
coming to terms with what isn't about us
finding rhythm or sense in it is our pretence not its
Finnegans Wake Part 4 Chapter 1 - James Joyce - Graziana Galatti [from Waywords and Meansigns]
calling all
hear ye
cemetery insomnia
he voice it whispers
where did thoughts come from?
(flips back around and goes through Part I Chapter 1 also, but that's it)
In Session at the Tintinabulary
February 4, 2019
312 Bus - Keith Eisenbrey
on the bus home from work one of the tire chains had come loose and made sweet whap whap whap whap whap with the wheel well
I recorded on my phone
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