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Preface

"

NOW ADVANCING ACROSS AN UNROLLED SOUNDSCROLL.

ALL OF IT - FROM START TO FINISH - IS PRESENT NOW. FROM BEGINNING TO END. THE WHOLE STORY. A PRESENCE NOW FROM BEGINNING TO END. --: PAST PRESENT & FUTURE PRESENT (,: ALL THE TIME :): PLAINLY VIVID. (EQUALLY. ((& UNVARYINGLY; - ALWAYS. &) EVERYWHERE.)

QUALITY OF HERE:?- :(EACH WHERE INDEXES WHOLE STORY 0F.). THE SAME FULLNESS OF STORY OF. -- (-: THE SAME OLD STORY. _ &

NOW? -:(,RELEASED FROM START) ADVANCES;-& PASSING AS A POINTER PASSES (,___ AS TIME MIGHT PASS-), DIVIDES PRESENCE NOW (,ALWAYS) IN TWO PARTS: THE PAST PRESENT FUTURE PRESENT PART (,BECOMING SMALLER & SMALLER) ACROSS WHICH NOW HAS YET TO PASS. :PASSING AS A POINTER PASSES (,- AS TIME MIGHT PASS-)-: NOT TOO FAST (-& NOT TOO SLOW EITHER -), BUT JUST RIGHT.- (CAREFUL NOW. )-. EACH NOW (.!PRECISELY) POISED HERE ON ITS NEXUS.-. -OF? CONGEALED;)-) TIME.

(: WHAT HAS NOW BECOME?

"

J. K. Randall "a soundscroll" from "Being About Music Textworks 1960-2003 J. K. Randall Benjamin Boretz Volume 1: 1960-1978"

Texts

photo by Betty G. Eisenbrey, altered by me

 Live

December 12, 2019
Kathy Moore, Crystal Beth, Guitar Cult
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

Kathy Moore

paradigm: solo stage act in the small
quest: how big a sound can be made alone
clarify: not loud, big
tool: loops
types: pre-made / on the fly

elaborating environs
for voice and persona
to project
shine

Crystal Beth

power suit
constant core
accreting immersive braids
to be released and spun out
into out
places other
places outer
places
presumed still to be still spinning

self replication
on an outing
sonic super suits
to allow
an outing

final dissipation
spinning
out

dissispination

Guitar Cult

elders, circle of
lensing

call forth mind join peer power grid link
(disindividuation to amplify intent)

led
(it would seem)
by the pulse keeper

circle stomp (dance)

care taken
on where it gets to
but is less concerned with how to get off the horse

disintonation corps

Recorded

December 7, 2019

Sonata in A minor, K. 61 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

move as little as possible
attend minutely

The figuration contours replicate into the ornament contours, and no doubt into the phrase contours as well.

Médée - Jacques Duphly - Christophe Rousset

repetitions for branching chronologies
muscular
like wrestling

This House - Harvey Schmidt - Mary Martin, Robert Preston [from I Do! I Do!]

And that's the end of that!

Nazi Punks Fuckk Off - Dead Kennedys [from Plastic Surgery Disasters / In God We Trust]

lots of words not intended to be understood

December 8, 2019
Assembly Rechoired 10 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey [November 1986]



drums, organ
(Bickleton?)

some odd disturbance in the recorded cymbal sound - grated, or sliced off at a near buzz of a tempo

carousel waltz
but wanders quickly to a slower space
seeking a lively stasis
something that will build of its own accord

which we do find
and which does never quite lose the lingering flavor of that carousel waltz

a ukulele is picked up
the electric organ is dropped

we are good about getting quiet as easily as we get loud
moreso mayhaps

the piano
playing quietly

the quiet
playing piano

:blogger make little joke there:

sounds like Karen at the drums
me on piano

clearly I was on to some thread to follow

my thinking is clear here
and I love what Karen's ultra soft cymbal sheen does to the overall

at what point in this process does recognition of a thought
as a thought
occur?

Untitled (Slow Waltz) - Gavin Borchert - Keith Eisenbrey

nice pedaling Keith!
strong piece, too.

I remember what drew me to it at first was how carefully each note must be balanced, both vertically and horizontally, and the multiple long lines that never drop, but that articulate each other out and in.

[NB: this was a version I recorded at the Tintinabulary in July of 2004. I then proceeded to apply various reverbs to it, some subtle and some not. Those versions will show up here over the next weeks]

Sahn Sun - Aaron Keyt [from November Choses]

cheerful!
It's darling!

Solo Set at HeckFest - Lori Goldston



fiddle

cellofiddle

woodpecker on maple tree in Maple Leaf, December 14, 2019

sound seems invisible
to the social chatter

treated as a servant

one rarely thinks of cello figuration in the same sense one thinks of guitar figuration, but Lori treats the cello like a outsized guitar

that is:

guitar seems to be a polyphonic instrument by default, occasionally playing single strand tunes
*
while cello seems to me single voiced by default, occasionally playing chords

(Lori begs to differ)

and there may be a tam tam

Second Thoughts - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey [Chapel Performance Space, March 2018]





The Chapel spirits were lively that evening

order passes through for a visit

short high contrast forms

December 10, 2019
Keyboard Sonata in A, K. 62 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

Domenico deigns not to modulate - he just is there (elsewhere).

The radical discreteness of parts in stark contrast

allows other parts to bridge the gaps
at points far distant from either

Les Graces - Jacques Duphly - Christophe Rousset

A hot house flower
from the center of civilization
perfumed with ornament

The Owl and the Pussycat - Igor Stravinsky - Karen Eisenbrey, soprano; Keith Eisnbrey, piano [University Temple United Methodist Church February 2002]

and the light of the moon

not well recorded, but Karen nails it.

In Session at the Tintinabulary

December 12, 2019
Jesu, der du meine Seele - Keith Eisenbrey



The 12th of my 12 chorale settings that together constitute the 12th part of my Études d'exécution imminent, recorded on 12 12.

Postscripts

any more than what is works are fixed what

know how to live with spiritual

or temporal things as substance passive

hung there from another mind

dyes gray violet

blows on the bass drum