May 18, 2019
as precisely doled out as diplomatic speech
pushing innuendo far out along an horizontal axis
Goodnight - Harvey Schmidt - Mary Martin, Robert Preston [from I Do! I Do!]
awkward
as though they hadn't discussed it before
was this supposed to be the norm or the ideal or the polite fiction
Spanish Carol - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey [December 1971]
We sing a version of this as a hymn at our church.
Scarlet - U2 [from October]
Just the chorus, ma'am.
You Don't Have to Tell Me - Julian Lennon [from The Secret Value of Daydreaming]
among the values of having music in my collection that I'm not overfond of:
In this case
it was my reluctance to listen to the whole album all at once, several years ago, that began my practice of listening to albums one song at a time
it helps each song to the extent possible
i.e. albumizing songs seldom does songs favors
this one goes on too long
his voice is easily sufficient to be an interesting back up singer or duet partner for someone who might milkshake him on into less dull terrain
interesting that
among the variations of Americana sound
one of them is stripper tempo
the old bump&grind
is officially ours
Track 9 - Seattle Chamber Music Festival [July 2001]
piano quartet if I accurately count violins back there
late 18th Century styling
each phrase graced differently
nobody wears the same jewels
Introducing the Band - Bob Dylan [Key Arena October 13, 2006]
". . . playing on another guitaaahhw"
Banned Rehearsal 795 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [June 2011]
and this begins with me introducing the band
a spate of tapping threatens pandemic of tapping
thrift store toy electric guitar find
a delicate sound for as many folks as were in the room
microphones and patch cords placed so that in listening to them here, facing South, I hear what the west wall of the studio hears facing East
though I face South
45 degrees to my left is north and 45 degrees to my right is south
thrift store toy electric guitar find's tune is picked up by purchased from church Sunday school piano
tapping
a drum excites its skin
sometimes excited skin excites snares
our own dance to ecstatic release
Neal makes a swarm of bees over there on the piano
if the tempos line up the bees might escape
keep the polyrhythms lively now folks!
lots of tapping broadly defined
mostly tapping within those chamber doors or that chamber's door
shy sound gathers
Line of My Life - India Glover [from Pup Demo]
multiple affects in a young voice
potentials are there to push further
May 19, 2019
Sonata in D minor K. 9 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
the too long sequences allow subtler ripples within diatonicism to be revealed
Boris The Spider - The Who [from A Quick One]
they caught that one in the web of the mitt
SMACK!
The Night Before Christmas - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey [December 1971]
verses like illustrations
turn the pages one by one til the end
old-timey-like story
sister to Little Orphant Annie (also a look back)
Another Tricky Day - The Who [from Face Dreams]
Entwhistle and the drummer for this are a brilliant rhythm section
just not for the Who
and this is a bland sort of song after Boris the Spider Above
Assembly Rechoired 2 - Keith Eisenbrey, Karen Eisenbrey, others [June 1986]
and where was it? I don't recognize the piano
perhaps a young adult church group (confirmed)
certainly enthusiastic
swaths of rattle shaker overdrive
Retrospectrum - Berthold Goldschmidt - Gaede Trio
dire
post-
expressionist
Scarlatti
I really dig his gothic clockwork counterpoint
Track 10 - Seattle Chamber Music Festival [July 2001]
modernist take on romantic take on the baroque
professionalism: the measure of how categorical we have become
"...woe my road is spoken..." draft 060709B midi - Keith Eisenbrey
within a mod-17 framework
lacking in internal symmetry
the possibility exists for a modal system based on ordered arrangements of transformations traceable only as pattern identity
pastiche modern quartet as though by a latter-day expressionist neo classical
Mit Jaaye Ghum Dum Maaro Dum - Abhishek Bachchan, Ayush Phukan, Earl Edgar D'Souza, Zubeen Garg, Angaraag Mahanit (Papon), Ash King, Sunidhi Chauhan, Anushka Manchanda, Auriel Cordo, Swastee Shree, Sharma [from Bollygood volume 1]
21st Century Schizoid Man
Zillah 160717 - Keith Eisenbrey
a recording made on the hoof
no reason to hold still while listening
sipping tea at teapot dome teapot gas station
back on our Zillahiad
our new phones are alarming
a crow caws us marching orders
that crow that caws four caws and then three caws
repeat into the distance
don't stop
keep walking
once more we pass by the crow who counts caws
municipal sound system set to Frank
May 21, 2019
fearlessly stopping and starting the sense of awareness just above the moment
misdirection is key
I Love My Wife - Harvey Schmidt - Mary Martin, Robert Preston [from I Do! I Do!]
guilty but not sorry
Velvet Shoes - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey [December 1971]
unison vocals and scale degree charged piano accompaniment
a quiet number
to show off the accompanist: JoAnne Deacon
Different Finger - Elvis Costello [from Trust]
a seductionary attempt: legitimize transgression through glorification
Dream Operator - Talking Heads [from True Stories]
self help mythology
DIY purchased here
Strong, Warm and In Command - Steve Fisk [from Kill Rock Stars]
assemblage of texts arty and erotique
Pie Jesu - Gabriel Fauré - Seattle Chamber Music Festival [July 2001]
Must Be Some Way Outta Here - Bob Dylan [Key Arena October 13, 2006]
song of the trapped
[NB - once again, not sure of the actual song title, but someone will let me know I'm sure.]
May 22, 2019
Whiskey In The Jar (Mix A) - Train Case [July 2011]
in later mixes I left the guitar out for verse 1, one of my better ideas
Sweet's Too Slow - Ancient Warlocks [from Ancient Warlocks 'Live!']
vocal depowered
all guitar and drums
hint only
of where the words go
schematics for how balance works with and against time and memory, dramatic completion, the old reproducible orgasm is just not a thing here
A Melancholy Sound - Arthur Vanderveer [from The Art of Field Recording Volume 1]
song intonation liberated from accompaniment
"and then the morning sun
will be darkened at noon"
Track 10 - Empire Brass Quartet [from American Brass Band Journal Revisited]
a nice little waltz for dancing in the evening's sentimental gloaming
the trio is light banter
then light banter is hidden amorosity
a near understanding
then the flirty brushoff
Banned Bestiary - Karen (Meyer) Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [assembled June 1986]
selections, but I don't remember who put this together
2 Early on we applied to be in the Seattle Fringe Festival, now long since defunct. We were, apparently, not worthy: either not fringe enough or far too fringe or are these guys even serious or simply not from the right neighborhood of fringe. We're still here. Persistence has its bragging rights.
3 At that time, even 100 session in, we didn't have a sufficient body of work to have been accurately characterized. We still don't.
4 It isn't that short outtakes don't do us justice. It's that they don't do our listeners justice. We think they'll need to cheat to get there. (from #9)
5 someone of us must have felt retrospectivy. Such a tiny slice of the whole of it as lived.
6 The Pelleas Monster. Which? The.
Narrows View.
your blood cholesterol level
(control)
May 23, 2019
Tomorrow, Wendy - Concrete Blonde
heartfelt, but with a typical cheap shot at Jesus for allowing suffering
"...woe my road is spoken..." draft 060709C midi - Keith Eisenbrey
one more tweak after this
some of the complete syntactic segments come across as transitions passing into moments rather than as moments. Love that.
playing with midi dynamics. Nearly there.
Odds and Ends - Robert Morris [from Milton Babbitt: A Composers' Memorial]
we enclose gestures as shapes within spans, as spans within shapes,
as gesture spans of shapes
Banned Rehearsal 914 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [July 2016]
elbowless room in a closet of spaces
pseudo rhythms jammed in there in a pocket of pseudo text
shifting sands of intent accretion or avulsion in the small or accelerated time-lapsely time
the woman of his dreams
the definitional extension into his well of metaphor
body is anchor
important to understand and accept as such
to understand that anchors are metaphors on the floors of our seas
In Session at the Tintinabulary
May 20, 2019
Assembly Rechoired 58 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy
Aaron was not feeling well, and Neal pleaded exhaustion
but we the three persisted
Postscripts
of my weight so i left mt. nebo a
good two days before our plane's departure
in case the big load or the long haul should
but the weight of it had not
lighted windows
hung there from another mind
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