Preface
From a conversation between Benjamin Boretz and David Lidov, imagined by David Lidov
- reprinted in the liner notes of Open Space CD 40
Texts
Recorded
January 18, 2020
HM - Tyrannosaurus Grace [from E.P. 1]
long explanation over
tight licks
underline one word 5 times (write it down now, class)
hang a whole clause up there in five underlines (yes it will be on the quiz)
Banned Rehearsal 917 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [August 2018]
language artifact:
a. (psycho-acoustic) our ears are tuned to it as it tunes to our ears
b. (psycho-linguistic) as text, it references a meaning outside of its sound, it comments upon a world it creates by reference
c. (hard-wired) it becomes discrete in a way that music sound doesn't directly
d. (indirectly) we hear tune A as the music carrier of a text B that creates a world C by reference
e. (continued) we create memory D as the conjointure of tune A as carrier of text B as creator of a world C by [as it creates by] reference
f. (continued) we hear tune A without Text B and recall memory D as the conjointure of tune A with text B which memory includes text B and thus the world C created therein by reference
g. (_____) text reference is a hard-wired psychofact
a. music sound's hard-wired psychofact is a binding of sound and instrument (sounds are sounds of something)
b. sound is a meaning of an object
c. an instrument refers to its sounds - a text refers to its world
instruments mean sounds
texts mean worlds
instrument is text
text is instrument
Sonata in B-flat, K. 70 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
so: keyboard object means this music into the world
keyboard: the autocrat's dream controller
The more-full-than-the-articulative-fabric-texture sound of a final cadence says: this is a marker, a punctuation. Measure from here.
Music for String Trio Mvt. 1 - Milton Babbitt [from Erik Carlson's Slowly Expanding Milton Babbitt Album]
What fun!!
Going Down The Road Feeling Bad - Jake Staggers [from Art of Field Recording, Volume 1]
a real whopper
banjo blues
vocal in the high sings
Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Live 1975-85]
in full frontal Sister Amy mode
call response preacher man
Grandfather's Breath - Robert Tree Cody / Will Clipman [from Heart of the Wind]
**
voice raised in song
a raised voice
a raised voice singing
(raised voice singing)
voice raised to singing
voice raised up into singing
24 Preludes - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey
Preludes to me: to keep them narrowly tonal, in keys, with clear voice leading and cadences and everything, was a discipline within which I can sing. I really like these, not a note out of place.
A key can be a hint of something warily watched.
detailed tales
polytonality at its best: in which it can also be in several keys, but often only in one, but
in which that key or several is clearly constructed by means of several completely distinct establishings.
Archibald Street - Tyler Daniel Bean [from On Days Soon To Pass]
the highway is a guitar string
strum it lengthwise with steel
harmony singing, real singing!
January 19, 2020
Sonata in G Major, K. 71 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
mode change in the middle of a four-fold cadence phrase
that is,
while in the process of stabilization
the ground shifts
case study in rock solid non-metronomic tempo
Banned Telepath 8 San Diego - Anna K, Neal Kosály-Meyer [December 1986]
bell like a door bell
squeak like a door hinge
happy holly wood
new year's moments
broadcast sound
that phenomenally dull preacher guy droning on and on
old holly wood
Jacques Cousteau
the dishes being done
neal dus dijeridu while dishes done
neal does not do dishes
duzzee
no he does not
he dus he dijeridus
do you now
you now do
now you do
you do now
do now you
an outside source
takes up residence out of time
the bibleolator of bibleolatry:
"there is no record any where in the bible that Satan can raise the dead"
bell . . . bell
As the prerecorded drone chant fades out will the denizens put on something else or will this ball bounce and hand clap clicking sticks be it?
explore bell
implore bell
implurabell
very churchy
this movement is an entire service of worship
or an operatic act that starts with a church service and ends thus
covers of a book back and front
quite a nicely subtle agogic accent there
just enough air between the times
reminded me of how St. Rage might sound
Corollaries - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey
from my performance at Seattle Composers' Salon in September of 2016
the old version before I rethought how the wraparound should work
a list of notes hiding a list of intervals
lovely extraneous noise in the mix there
back of my mind here: Dan Sedia's 1982 bike lock poem
January 21, 2020
Sonata in C Major, K. 72 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
Triads are made of scale degrees, which, as they repeat within figurations, blossom the meter buds.
out of doors
whistling in the wind
endeavoring to connect
not to monument
trudging in vegetation
ground cover
nothing that happens here
is projected to please
any outside being
or even
hardly
to reach any
through it all the cyclic motor of what I presume to be a cassette tape machine mechanism
a constant noise background
a ground upon which it is difficult
to inscribe a sound
January 23, 2020
A Matter of Trust - Billy Joel [from The Essential Billy Joel]
message front "I understand" empathy token
icky at the core
sincerity on parade
dough rake
{blogger's note: this came up for listening in error (mine), since I had already blogged it back in April of 2017, at which time I wrote the following):
BJ has great control, just no range, or sense of timing. Even the count-off is performed, tamed.
Kyrie eleison - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]
{blogger's note: back to our regularly scheduled program}
scholars of style
:: one could imagine a performance practice in which an attempt is made to hear and perform exactly what a more modern arranger had in mind when they attempted to understand this music according to the lights they were given ::
all theory all the way down is performance and versa wise
Pitch Derived Rhythm - 6 Demonstrations - J. K. Randall - Open Space Chamber Players: Matt Ross, flute; Viktor Toth, clarinet; Lauren Peacock, cello; Alana Shannon, cello; Corey Chang, piano [from Open Space CD 40]
human
invited
to regroup
at will
or whim
generous
with paths
invites further
investigations
no end
in sight
An Encore - Milton Babbitt [from Erik Carlson's Slowly Expanding Milton Babbitt Album]
conversation for
a co-discovered realm
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| your blogger, composer of preludes |
from my recital "Preludes in Seattle Part 5" of February 2018
deep in the flats: A-flat Major, F minor, E-flat major, C minor
when a pitch function is struck
within sequentiality
is not as crucial as where
within the greater conceptual space
it fits
The Far Side of the World - Dræmhouse [from Only Friends EP]
a constant and interjections
oddities
repetitions
an extensible world
In Session at the Tintinabulary
January 20, 2020
Gradus 362 - Neal Kosály-Meyer
Is there (there is) a system to how he announces the notes 2B played
Each, every, a, or any performance of an indeterminate score is determinate in relation to what was indeterminate in the score's imputed intent.
to aim an exploration at the known it is useful
to aim at the unknown
(exp) lore at ion
At what point in this project will (would) it be more advantageous
to remember which notes are not being used,
or is the discipline to not cross that bridge?
the discretion of the rungs
soundbreak in time
costume change in body
ever more rarefied selections
Postscripts
woman forgot water god's flame in
which about saying that it enjoys
eternal life yet it does not work thus
the stone
would draw thunder
the lion in my wall
