Preface
"Stimulating Speculation no. 1: What something Is is merely our way of indexing the context to which we ascribe it."
J. K. Randall "Compose Yourself: A Manual for the Young" 1970
Texts
Live
June 1, 2019
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| Sunnyside, Washington |
Robin Jackson and the Caravan
Wilsonville Festival of the Arts
Wilsonville, Oregon
And this is why I didn't blog last week. I spent the blogging time driving to and from Wilsonville (3+ hours each way).
Sandel & Karrick and two others were a light swing jazz band that gained my trust with some fine playing and by the covering of an obscurish song I actually knew! "The Frim Fram Sauce." Delish.
Robin Jackson and the Caravan had some more fine fiddle playing and a woman that switched between accordion and trumpet. Robin sang a fine original song about the best way to find the one of your dreams: on the dance floor. Get out there dudes! Shake that thing!
June 7, 2019
Lori Goldston: Rivulet
Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
Dave Abramson, drums & percussion
Haley Freedlund, trombone
Kole Galbraith, bass guitar
Lori Goldston, cello
Greg Kelley, trumpet
Austin Larkin Violin
Pre-auditory sentences:
The drum set sports a large square cymbal. Trombones, as a whole, are not built straight up and down. There is a warp. Microphones are discretely obvious spies. As are many ears. The large square cymbal is holy.
sound:
ultra slow
rococo chorales
rochocho corals (e)
Ben said of Bruckner "I'm in favor of anything that goes that slow." This is Bruckner in a cold dark land. Muffled blows on the bass drum.
Superb stuff Lori! I'm glad we got out to hear it. And then the next morning we had your strawberry jam on sourdough waffles. Equally intense.
Recorded
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| Sunnyside, Washington |
Sonata in G minor, K. 12 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
no slack, taut
a discourse of taut pushing form to the front
Upon a . . . - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey, director [April 1966]
as the aperture closes gently
the silent movie kiss on the sward
Beyond and Back - X [from Wild Gift]
shit-kicker punk
bouncy battle verbal
shuffle
Lonely Girl - Screaming Trees [from Clairvoyance]
instrumental solo
or simply band without voice
impression live is different in kind from impression on recording:
live: a flow of focus among visual and audio
recorded: no "and"
Symphony in A, op. 141 (#15) - Dmitri Shostakovich - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy
the parts don't hang together
they combine and cross combine
attempt a consensus among a ghostly hall of shape-shifting changelings
1. emptiness (silliness) of the powered
2. weary suffering anger seething repressed, ignored, banished with the old faith lava monster doing biding time :: frivolous chains, but chains at that :: breaking point
3. meanwhile in plain day / gradations very fine indeed / between bureaucratical webs, secret handshakes, (the High Sign) /?/
Plato's shadow and aesthete's image in counterpoise
4. now is fate's time (it's a bitter comment upon two fellow political-minded composers: Rossini and Wagner)
under night's secrecy
it will come to it
(here be the stakes)
:skeleton key ↑↑↑↑↑↑
"...woe my road is spoken..." draft 5.4 Final - Keith Eisenbrey [July 2006]
If, in 21st Century contrapuntal practice, we have moved our focus along the axis toward individuation of voice and from the harmony of the whole it is because we understand that a new axis has arisen.
In the deep background this is a late generation riff on the good old 4-3 suspension chain.
May 27, 2019
Whiskey In The Jar (mix B) - Train Case [July 2011]
I adjusted the balance in the vocals and brought guitar in on verse 2, or rather suppressed the guitar track until then.
Intro - Ease [from Roots]
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| Sunnyside, Washington |
working on precise sound
listen to the guitar how it pulls the cymbal sound tight
multi tempo
sequentially
big pretense of Manly Sound
Sonata in G Major, K. 13 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
loops and gates
proceeds like an algorithm: counters, stepping
music for the age of thinking clearly
Red River Blues - J. T. Adams [from The Art of Field Recording Vol. 1]
blue river reds
with some talk beforehand
Winnebago Warrior - Dead Kennedys [from Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust]
cheap laugh and not all that funny
Banned Telepath 6 Berkeley - Aaron Keyt [June 1986]
some other session (#65) plays off to the left
a bit of close sound hints that Aaron may be in the room
an abwords list: abandonment abatement abduction abeyance
Dong!! a potlid perhaps, cookware
we call Aaron. It's OK.
We hear a session stop during a session
Australian clicking sticks (see 982 below) in Seattle are recorded in Berkeley and sent back to Seattle
an audio-only skype session to be assembled as a whole only later but lined up ill so you'll have to put it together in your head on your own
our rows are not the same
NEWS! 2nd Bannediversary (the 35th will be 983 or 984 I think) Amontillado
a dial-up phone
where are Neal and Anna?
Oh. No.
paperformants by Neal Meyer
a problem with numbers
(there's that royalties tax spiel)
the dramatic appearance rising through the smoke effect from beneath the stage
one wonders: a collection of things she has heard guys say (or others) as political commentary.
Gradus 101 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [July 2006]
outside a distant plane makes mealy-mouth flange of the A naturals vibrating free
producing tones
a moment of silence
a time for prayer
On Ear and Ear - Hilary Tan [from Milton Babbitt: A Composers' Memorial]
Debussy smiles
restless motion
not afraid to end it twice
Shine Rock - Low Hums [from Shine Rock]
Lots of guitar and some vocalism making sounds that are like the shape of storytelling.
May 28, 2019
Gradus 294 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [July 2016]
being peaceful and dyadic
enjoying those low notes played quietly
Sonata in G Major, K. 14 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
the floor is slick
take care
Rock and Roll Music (live) - The Beatles [from Anthology Volume 2]
Tiag Guls - Throbbing Gristle [from Greatest Hits]
disconnect as to how they arose through the visual arts and how they found me as sound, as a band, which isn't what they ever were either way.
Good Christian Men Rejoice - London Symphony Orchestra [from Listen to the Joy]
makes a halfhearted feint at development
You Speak Jealousy - Unwound [from Kill Rock Stars]
to imagine as the voice of one articulating something
the feeling of it?
sung as a box to put a thought in
this one is not a nice thought
Take Me To The Water - Rollo Dilworth - University Temple Chancel Choir; Chris Vincent, director; Howard Wolvington, piano]
(my church's choir, in which I sing tenor, performed just the Sunday before, disclosure done)
from an arrangement tradition (still trying to figure out what I mean by that, more later perhaps)
riffing on an older tradition
to what extent is it exacerbated rather than assisted by the music publishing industry
Whiskey In the Jar (Mix B Reverb) - Train Case [July 2011]
add light reverb
all it needed
Ko - Paul Kikuchi - Paul Kikuchi, percussion; Taina Karr, oboe and english horn; Ivan Arteaga, clarinet; Greg Sinibaldi, bass clarinet; Natalie Mai Hall, cello; John Teske, contrabass [from Autonomic]
recorded right up in their faces
pitches within tones
embodied boulders
it might take a river to move
May 29, 2019
Sonata in E minor, K. 15 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
the power of contrary motion
or of motion at all
sparingly applied
the bewilderment momentaire
when suddenly we know we have moved on
but know not whither
this bounce bed is not smooth
is not without underlying peas of anxiety
but it is for real
and to be sure it do bounce
Think About It - Stevie Nix [from Bella Donna]
encapsulated message
take a pill
a capsule
mantra suggestion
advice
to be taken aurally
before leaving
May 30, 2019
Banned Telepath 6 Greenwood - Karen (Meyer) Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey [June 1986]
we each seem to be handling our microphones
or (ah ha!)
we are recording the taping of the microphones to the wall
it will all be on 101, stay tuned
and of course the Amontillado (see Berkeley above)
and cookies too
tweety birds are heard but they are the loud ones outside now not anything on the tape
I poked my self outside to be sure
We speak to Aaron at the same time, but offset, perforce
clicking sticks (see below and above) twice
discussion of the trip to Downunderland
the smell of Amontillado on tape
2 years in, establishing tradition out of teacups
this is how Banned Rehearsal began
this is the first sound
oh no uh oh oh dear oh heck
twice as many couches
cranberry satin and pink lace
I got a bug in my amontillado
other than that
it's dead
everybody knows the chorus more or less
uh oh the bug's gone
the ukulele stays in tune for one year
June 4, 2019
Goin' Cali - Bruce Springsteen [from Tracks]
The West: toward death, the promised land
Bruce does Independent
a musician can do something like this when they's got nothing to lose by it or when they are so big no one will remember that they did it anyway
Banned Rehearsal 705 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [July 2006]
im-Vögel-ating geese and ducks
shadow play on a hot day
drums sneak in among the toots and hoots
goose keeps it real
June 5, 2019
So Cool - Choke The Pope [from Emotional Material]
even the guitar sound hangs up toward the sinusoidal
hard to belong when everyone is title of track, it is
(attack on disaffectitude by out-cooling the so cool
The science of oblique sequitur (neither non nor non-non)
June 6, 2019
Pitches Low and Inside - Stuart Dempster - Marzena Music Ensemble [from Hendrix Uncovered]
Dempster Stu
Dijeri Du
Cistern
blothern
bone
tone
gone
too soon
Every Day I Have The Blues - Billy Stewart [from The Best of Billy Stewart]
He allows the pitchiness of the drum kit to build into a rhythmonic groove.
Who was his drummer? Was that him himself? Damn!
set back
do it again
done
Is That All? - U2 [from October]
A song is buried in there among the guitar (nice job Edge) and hook (good enough). Probably not enough song to bother much with.
I Believe - REM [from Life's Ritch Pageant]
Hey, don't stop, I was digging that finger pickin'!
phrases on stickies posted on a revolving lyricbelt squeezbox.
there is something almost Renaissance-harmony-ish about how it hangs in counterpoint space.
UCLA Experimental Workshop Ensemble - Elaine Barkin, Benjamin Boretz, Lindsay Clare, David Open Space 12]
the room is made small with close sounds
close sounds can be heard moving
percussion and variously excited strings
punctuated by sax and crumar(?) ((synth of choice)) (((NB we prefer Wurlitzer)))
neither passage episode nor selection
an hollow
a grove
or a thicket
In Session at the Tintinabulary
May 27, 2019
Gradus 349 - Neal Kosály-Meyer
all
all this and
all this
7th chords arose as a means of mediating between the cognitive demands of pitch class and just intonation.
Does astonishment come to the roses, or do the roses come to astonishment?
How does one come to the astonishment of roses? ↔ ↔ establish the environment within which sufficient complexity exists so that astonishment will arise as summoned. The voice-leading trick there is there but sounds like something else cognized.
June 3, 2019
Banned Rehearsal 982 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt
I was intent on scraping and clicking with wood sounds
Postscripts
will be a good thing to leave sad the fruit
of and the happy traits about which it
in the house of fire
soon
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