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June 20, 2019
Music & Dance, curated by Stephanie Skura
Seattle Improvised Music Festival
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

Dancers: Linda Austin (PDX), Paige Barnes, Vanessa DeWolf, Nate Dryden (SLC), Jordan MacIntosh-Hougham, Stephanie Skura;

Musicians: Dave Knott, homemades; Steve Peters, field recordings, found things; Jenny Ziefel, clarinets

Highlights of the instruments: Steve's activated branch; Dave's bow; Jenny and her clarinets becoming a single other among the dancers.

dancers (here) are a huggy bunch

enclosed and dis-enclosed

groups or and dis-bands

signals and or dis-signs

tuned to out or tuned and in to dis-signiation

innerloper innervited

parrot dis-parate

a parent dis-apparent

posture im-post

shadowed is shaded shadow shades

rattle bow bone stick

imp-dis-posturating

Recorded

June 16, 2019
Sonata in E Major, K. 20 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

as one enters the task is clear and bright
no problems everything is taken care of
all of it
and even hearing all of it twice

wait, what?

My Cup Runneth Over - Harvey Schmidt - Mary Martin, Robert Preston [from I Do! I Do!]

two well matched singers, singing it straight, getting it right

Riot - Dead Kennedys [from Plastic Surgery Disasters / In God We Trust]

outing the pleasure of it

to really consider it (riot) as a social activity the thrill of it must be acknowledged

its purpose is to force a response
to bring the war home to see

a high and a crash

It's Hard to be a Saint in the City - Bruce Springsteen [from Live 1975-1985]

Metamorphic - AMM [from The Nameless Uncarved Block]

after preliminary display, gets down to its shadow quiet business in earnest

She's Got Everything She Needs [?] - Bob Dylan [from Key Arena October 13, 2006]

BD is ill served, musically, by his fame. It closes to him the more appropriate venues for what he does. Consider the multitude in attendance here, of which I was one, applauding for all he has been, not (necessarily) for what he just done. We, in short, are no longer capable of hearing what he is doing, having been deafened by his past, smothered in the overlarge room.

Whiskey In The Jar (Neal's vocal) - Train Case [July 2011]

He even gets the 'd' in awakened. In the last verse, where he sings the counter part, we hear the subtle intonational inflection required for blood harmony.

No Tattoos - Dead Bars [from Split w/ The Tim Version]



and I wann-ta forget everything

tá toos
TAT ous

lives for the woa oa oa oa oas in the middle

Sonata in D Major, K. 21 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

If the piano is the master of the just-so chord voicing, the harpsichord wins on glittering figuration.

Whiskey Man - The Who [from A Quick One]

double (literary sense): the shadow image of intimacy
or the desire for same

United - Throbbing Gristle [from Greatest Hits]

robot dance Totentanz Heine-isch
faithfully together for ever and ever

June 18, 2019
Kosály-Meyers 2 - Anna K, Neal Kosály-Meyer [July 1986]

mostly rubbing
hard on hard
but also tapping
barking seal
cookware bells and guitar

The bridge of any stringed instrument is generally optimized in its location upon the sound board. What if it were, instead, liberated, freed to explore? Imagine an instrument designed not from the sound up, as in traditional computer musics, but rather from the structural and acoustic properties of an object up? A complex of materials that could be struck or incited anywhere by any thing any which way at will and with abandon? Behold: Forming.

This tape is getting rather fun. Lovely! It does not aim. It does. Neal speaks from Romans, an Epistle to. See Psalm 8:2 the fineness of one's focus determines one's self at each moment.

The typewriter fires off a writing. Perhaps a poem Measured by the firing of its keys.

whapk wapk whakp

sudden song: Mail That Letter (N K-M)

I ate a plum. A lesson to end.

June 19, 2019

Four for composers' ensemble - Bard College Composers' Ensemble [from Open Space 6]

problem: if a music, not necessarily this music, is intended to not intend, that is, is not intended to produce a desired result, but is, rather, intended to allow some result of a set of results, to be discovered later, is that still too much weight, to much expectation, too much burden? Does, or might, for instance the mere nearness of academic imprimatur infect with anxiety even the expressly eschewed, vehemently sequestered, activity therein engaged? I.e., can we escape, anywhere, how we got to here and the socio-economic power structures permeating our environment? Even when all those are absolutely abjured?

(It helps to have outsiders.)

Too much, that is, for an experience to arise untainted by intention?

**

However, "composers' ensemble" hits the right note. Like a string quartet: I play violin in a string quartet

thus

I play composer in a composers' ensemble
composing amongst them a composition of composition

some piercing shrieking has arisen
unpretty
wild with power

nonbinding but persuasive agreement to make something specifically not described, but cooperatively arranged as in a service of worship

In Session at the Tintinabulary

June 16, 2019
Ginkgo in Turquoise Ink 190616 - Anne Gorrick - Keith Eisenbrey

I gave Anne Gorrick's encaustic monotype another run, this time on the steel-string guitar my brother Paul made (his first) and gave to me after (he says) he got better at making them.












June 17, 2019
Banned Rehearsal 983 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt


Neal was in or on his way home from Mexico City, where he was participating in a James Joyce conference. Next week: The 35th Bannediversary.

Postscripts

uniroyal-soled sandal in the minor

league stacks along with all the bigs he was

probably offed he wasn't rubbed right likes

sand paper
stones
time