Saturday, September 28, 2019

Playlist

Live

September 21, 2019
vectorscores
graphic scores by John Teske
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

Any Ensemble:
Greg Campbell, percussion
Luke Fitzpatrick, violin
Haley Freedlund, trombone
Nel Kennon, viola
John Teske, double bass
Neil Welch, saxophone

swell
ad:sr
prelude
trashfire

intonations:
threadshift
by the fucking neck
bone flute
mauler
libera me
brain slap
klaxon wail
papercut butterflies
blood on the hearth
death rattle

to imagine how fine any ensemble might sound
imagine them tuning

it never isn't tuning
pitch match activity

attention drifting through a space not designed to be attended by that particular attention

alien

(-)

d'y'wan'a tune again?
sure

all together
now a tuning
might be a polyvalent trajectory interwoven

ceremonial

dance -cession :: (pro-) (re-) (ob-)

September 22, 2019
Bill at 93: Clarinet Works of William O. Smith
Gallery 1412, Seattle

Variants for clarinet alone (1967) - Eric Mandat, clarinet
1412 (structured improvisation, 2019) - William O. Smith, clarinet; Greg Campbell, percussion
Epigrams for clarinet (2009) - Robert Spring, clarinet
Evening Ritual (2019) - Rachel Yoder, clarinet
Jazz Fantasy (2019) - Jeffrey Cohan, flute; Tate Cohan, oboe
Five (Six) for clarinet ensemble and clarinet soloist - William O. Smith, clarinet; with Deanna Brizgys, Jesse Canterbury, James Falzone, Beverly Setzer, Rachel Yoder, and Jenny Ziefel; Paul Gillespie, conductor

Largely possibly due to the long residence here in Seattle of William O. Smith, we have an
embarrassment of riches in the clarinet department. On this night that cup ranneth over.

September 26, 2019
Canções Profundas (Deep Songs)
by Steve Peters
Greg Campbell, percussion; Jesse Canterbury, clarinets; Lesli Dalaba, trumpet; Amy Denio, clarinet, saxophone, voice; Steve Peters, saxophone; Christian Pincock, trombone; Joshua Parmenter, additional electronic processing; Rafael Carvalho, viola da terra

an
island

is land
defined
by its shore

is an 
experiment in
isolation

a sweep upward
a most 
particular

land

even from afar

from which
how strange this other
shore must be

and vast

Recorded

September 24, 2019
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing - Robert W. Thygerson - University Temple Chancel Choir, Chris Vincent, conductor

with a light touch airborne dance

O Magnum Mysterium - Morton Lauridsen - Polyphony, Stephen Layton

gooey
really really gooey
lives to linger

Gradus 107 - Neal Kosály-Meyer (October 2006)

the first 6 A-naturals one more time

The silences could be where it is going on elsewhere
prone to wander, Lord I feel it

high tones suddenly close, poke lights

hey!
you awake?

In Session at the Tintinabulary

September 23, 2019
Gradus 356 - Neal Kosály-Meyer

Obvious Observation:
When there is only one note in play, that aspect of musical curiosity that might be called the "which note(s) next?" anxiety is set aside.

leaving: when? how loud? how pedaled? how prolonged? how terminated?

When there are two, anxiety returns

a book
on each page a word
and an aperture

through which aperture
can be read all or some part of
the word on the next page down
or not
in both directions

Postscripts

any more than what is works are fixed what
know how to live without spiritual
or temporal things as substance passive

a crow in the distance
to tell them through the middle
to see how far reaching

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