September 29, 2019
The Memory of All That (pre-release version) - Benjamin Boretz - Megan Berti, mezzo-soprano, Zuzanna Szewczyk Kwon, piano
the setting
attends the rhythm and structure of the argument
as much if not far far more than the meaning of the words
or of the whole, of its sentiment
the rhythmic structure of the argument being
as much if not far far more what it means
as what the words end up saying
Huge Guy In The Mosh Pit - St. Rage [live at the Common Good Cafe, Seattle, August 2016]
the words
mosh pit
sung or shouted
as a single word
moshpit
equal accents or nearly so
the rhythm of its formal discourse
patterning its procedures
formality concerned with formality
El Salón México - Aaron Copland - New Philharmonia Orchestra, Aaron Copland
our own unearned exotic
Northern European derived culture in a clash with Iberian derived culture
mixed with our collective unspoken sins toward our native cultures
North and South translated to the New World
which is as old as ours was
the tell: the folk elements treated as primitivistic color
When the Kids Get Married - Harvey Schmidt - Mary Martin, Robert Preston [from I Do! I Do!]
sax and violin
the oldest team in Vaudeville
(nothing else holds fashion)
Donnerstag aus Licht Act 2 - Karlheinz Stockhausen - Michael Angel, Paul Sperry, Markus
waiting with stagy impatience
for something
occupying itself
thumb twiddling
left to its own devices
a(n) [insert collective noun here] of practice rooms
din?
dreariness?
sanatorium?
everybody is in their own individually packaged muffle room
bordello?
grindhouse?
penance?
cloister?
nunnery?
woodshed?
cord?
perfect example of what the 80s sound could be
I wrote the word "ouffit" and then "ooffit"
I might have meant "outfit"
not certain
nor what I might have meant by it
String Quartet 2 (Quasi una Fantasia) op. 64 - Henryk Gorecki - Kronos Quartet
incremental disbetterment
something is always still, always hard, scarred
repetition disrupts
who can pen the most dire quartet?
big accordion chords wheeze in the warm strings
all those little wooden boxes set a quivering
always heavy
a weary ever so weary load
those noisy obfuscations are really noisy
its narrative is a jumble
and then he practically plays Silent Night for us
repetitions in stepwise increments
a bit of Scarlatti's formalism as formalism game
"Strummy Song" - Bob Dylan [Key Arena October 2006]
tangled up in blue?
a rhythm section is only as valuable as the freedom it allows
October 1, 2019
Gradus 196 Part 2 [at Chapel Performance Space, August 2011] - Neal Kosály-Meyer - Neal Kosály-Meyer
some foreign agent is making clanky sounds
perhaps they were outside the Chapel
knocking pipes about
learning to press the keys one mechanism at a time
in all the combos of key mechanisms there are
the nearly infinite machine
first rung (of these two): two notes - low and mid
second rung (of these two): one high A
laughter in another more distant sounding space leaks in to this one
throughout of course the fluctuating hish of people-moving machines, their engines, their tires on pavements
the goal is to learn to play piano
by playing this piece which is a piece for learning to play the piano
but only in the sense that this piece and the piano are the same
playing anything else isn't playing the piano in the sense one is learning to play by playing this piece
Siberian Delirium - Crystal Beth and the Boom Boom Band [from Yugen 3]
a hard tight wad in the high back nasal space of the mask
as though robotic
Sonata in F Major, K. 44 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
Scarlatti is that fellow you always knew or suspected was worth chatting up
and really was
listening is a life hack
reckless with trajectories
Les Eolides - César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck - New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur
about the downbeat
before it
after it
just above it
buoyant beat
no beat without an essential qualification (not a beat until qualified) (only a beat in that it is qualified)
predicates an invisible bass line
surreptitious line logic
the itness of it is deeply concerned with the preceding and succeeding its of its itnesshood (Daseinsheit?)
Batman - The Who [from A Quick One]
popronicity badge achieved
television and rock and roll
reverse engineered for flavor
Moon Over Main - Dead Kennedys [from Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust]
close interval yodel echoed by guitar
benefits heavily by being indecipherable
gamer music
each segment a play level
playing with what would be fire in firmer hands
That Was Your Mother - Paul Simon [from Graceland]
bar talk story
and the science of the groove-like groove
In Session at the Tintinabulary
September 30, 2019
Banned Rehearsal 990 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
As we were playing I noticed that the tiles on one edge of the drop ceiling my Dad and I put up 25 years go were sagging alarmingly next to where some had fallen several years ago. Now I need to decide what to do about it. In the meantime we rattled around the room.
Postscripts
morning and the sun was mounting willingly
and the time arrives which laechelnd winkt und
19 sinnend kind betrueben fleht hat
but the troll said (and hungrily
too) I'm going to eat you
the sound
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