August 3, 2019
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| Sunrise Picnic Area - Mt. Rainier National Park - August 2019 |
performed from memory by Neal Kosály-Meyer
Gallery 1412, Seattle
The up
and the down
of him
What a warm time we are in there
Recorded
August 4, 2019
Quickie - Geto Boys [from We Can't Be Stopped]
bragging bragging
sorry, no
Gloria - Antonio Vivaldi - Atlanta Symphony and Chorus, Robert Shaw [from Robert Shaw Master of the First Art]
"A" is the opening tutti. It stops. Only then, after the stop, is the cadence of "A," but it is now the beginning of "B," which is the chorus. Nice!
The rest of it, for all the peculiarly dragging suspensions, doesn't live up to that first flash of a brilliant idea.
Banned Rehearsal 708 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [September 2006]
ppp for a while
then subito mp
bending the bells
gamelan of pot lids hung from a purple painted rafter
(I did not choose the pot lids by their pitch, as though I were intending them to be a transportable pitch collection to play regular music upon, but for the voice of each one, how true each one rings.)
so far, a percussion ensemble with feedback
then a flute and a twangy
all the way to the end a composition of a small range of sounds placed just so, like a rock garden
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| Shadow Lake Trail - Mt. Rainier National Bank - August 2019 |
Tints for Milton - Wayne Slawson [from Milton Babbitt: a Composers' Memorial]
whisper vowel beat boxing
tantalizements of ringing voice
start over (helps if both channels are coming through (Obb (the cat) had fallen and been tangled in audio cables))
voicing of the whisper vowels is applied from outside
This reminds me a bit of Aaron's fallen piano piece with the blow straws.
Gradus 296 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [August 2016]
As it just recently was in the live version, it is here, for a while, on a single pitch.
What are we waiting for? For time to elapse.
Why wait? It will elapse without waiting.
In order not to interrupt Cagean silence. That is why this is Neal's piece and not mine.
I do want to interrupt Cagean silence, from all possible angles.
Why do I? I resent the branding of it, the name tag, the personal claim.
clock time: anti-aesthetic time.
experienced time: the stuff of it.
Sonata in G minor, K. 35 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
Without precise attack simultaneity, this would fail.
See My Way - The Who [from A Quick One]
What they were doing was beyond the capabilities of the engineering they had at hand, or perhaps it was just a bad day.
Track 14 - Empire Brass [from American Brass Band Journal Revisited]
can't leave you like that, let's march! parade!
one's music's history as a recruitment tool
old as Europe
as theater
City of Dreams - Talking Heads [from True Stories]
Perhaps in the elsewhere they are more certain of their primeval blessedness than we can be here in the more freshly conquered west. Or perhaps it is just these times that make it difficult to be so hopeful, so hopeful as this is.
Punk-Bitch Game - Geto Boys [from We Can't Be Stopped]
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| Salamander in Shadow Lake - Mt. Rainier National Bank - August 2019 |
sexual politics as a stage show
kind of brilliant actually
Agnus Dei (Adagio) - Samuel Barber - Atlanta Symphony and Chorus, Robert Shaw [from Robert Shaw Master of the First Art]
an appropriation of a sacred text for uses other than sacred, a clearly effective commercial act
and yet, recontextualized
slowest
ever
snow globe
snow fall
I remember a Seattle Symphony concert several years back, in which this piece (in string orchestra guise if memory serves) followed, and then immediately preceded Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw, the narrator storming in from behind the audience, the second time, as though crying the last hour's news.
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| Shadow Lake Trail - Mt. Rainier National Bank - August 2019 |
Obsidian and Ironwood - Robert Tree Cody and Will Clipman [from Heart of the Wind]
I find myself incompetent to judge
in this
what might be authentic
and there might be some authentic in there, I do not know
I have doubts about it in many aspects of it
but am unwilling to brand it as inauthentic
without lengthy and perhaps total equivocation
Gradus 194 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [July 2011]
In the latter days of just only A naturals.
Under the fundamentals emerges
a sense that a lower cavern still
presists as a presence behind
How long does it take for a piano wire, once struck, to settle into stable cyclic progression?
And does that cyclic stability persist right into null motion, or does some form of chaos guard silence from sound?
big drum roll bell clang roar
to find standing wave space
Cellar Door - Robber's Roost [from Live in Minneapolis]
if you don't get your way
quickest tempo psalm tone tune smithery
In Session at the Tintinabulary
August 5, 2019
Assembly Rechoired 59 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy
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| Shadow Lake Trail - Mt. Rainier National Bank - August 2019 |
When Karen and I were first left to our own improvisatory devices, back in 1986, we decided to name any tapes we made in which no other charter members of Banned Rehearsal were present "Assembly Rechoired." On this night Aaron was on his way back from Alaska and Neal was stuck late at work, so here we were again. Steve brought over a miniature banjo he had recently procured at a thrift store for about $4. We played the porch.
Postscripts
happened her entire honored so would
have scorned her or at the very least sent
her ball awry and it had her mightily
open olive lakes
nascent arid tactics
everything cold
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