Preface
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With words and added fuel to his anger,
And part approved with silence, and yet all
Were grieving at the loss of humankind,
Were asking what the world would be, bereft
Of mortals: who would bring their altars incense?
Would earth be given the beasts, to spoil and ravage?"
- Ovid "Metamorphoses" (translated by Rolfe Humphries)
Texts
Recorded
January 11, 2020
Sonata in E-flat Major, K. 68 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
Sequences of figures alternate between moving and holding still. Then the sequences all move. Then only a part inside moves in modal shift. And now back to when we started, but with a flourish.
Ceremony of Carols - Benjamin Britten - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey (director), JoAnne Deacon (piano)
A procession clomping clump clomp up to the risers.
Each verse is set.
Static. Flat.
Picture Book. Block Print.
(Relies on wide open grin charm.)
Front cover. Back cover.
Clump clomp clump clomp.
Ben's mbira moment
shimmer bells shimmer
sea bird keen
keen sea bird keen
This is an unstable
→tenuous←
pitch space
we inhabit here
Noh punctuation
crumarmbira
such lovely melody
tres belles
bell trees
Superman - REM [from Life's Rich Pageant]
such a 60s sound
psychedelic Beatles
song structure: strongly developed, complete, composed.
Well done fellas!
Untitled (Slow Waltz) 6th version - Gavin Borchert - Keith Eisenbrey
reverb: grandly huge
(rolls around in it)
title of a work: an inseparable part
Is the untitling a decision to not title or rather to title it untitled?
reverberation: the space sings back
Teenage Daughter - Whiting Tennis [from Three Leaf Clover]
a considered arrangement
(We heard Whiting Tennis several years ago at a nearby dive.)
January 12, 2020
Banned Rehearsal 801 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [October 2011]
an arcade of curiosities
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Simultaneity of attack is not a thing that can happen among these sounds. Even were it to be demonstrated to have happened as an acoustic event-fact, recourse made to a study of the wave form, it wouldn't sound like it, because the parts themselves are in such granularly conceived individually specific time worlds as to be un-comparable at any such bludgeonly level as simultaneity could exist in. If simultaneity of attack is impossible (and sequence at least partly undeterminable) can there be a meter? a tempo? syncopation?
Rattle: a contained chaotic system, like humans.
We have transgressed to the rear corridors of the arcade, its backrooms and utility closets.
Rearview - Three Fingers [from Go Deep]
Vocal syllables are not just on notes, but each note has a vector-complex of diphthong to keep it lively.
Sonata in F minor, K. 69 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
a repeating
or a seeming to be a repeating
figure made of pitch contours
with familial resemblances
Christmas Oratorio - Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns - Bellevue First Methodist Church Chancel Choir, Betty Eisenbrey (director)
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We can consider replacing the specific composed accompanimental sound with a stand-in - such as piano or organ for orchestra - but not so much of replacing the choir and leaving the orchestration otherwise unmolested. Changeling accompaniments.
In order to be a Masterpiece (tm) of this type it must be doable by amateurs or it won't sell.
Helluva soprano there!
He gave the Magnificat to a mixed ensemble of solo singers - heavy on the male end.
A rather dreary business in the end.
Respectable Street - XTC - [from Fossil Fuel]
The drum sound has an interesting isolation.
The art of stage dance has morphed into the art of music video
January 14, 2020
Banned Rehearsal 108 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [December 1986]
Utterance is experimental at root. We don't know what we think until we do, can't know the effect of our thought, ever. Hot tea helps on a chilly evening. It is a comfort to know there are some live ones left in these melancholy days. Also sprach Mehitabel. And sometimes we mark time only.
January 16, 2020
Untitled (Slow Waltz) 7th version - Gavin Borchert - Keith Eisenbrey
Each of these Versions 2 through 7 was made using the "Acoustic Mirror" effect in Sound Forge. At the time I made them I was concerned that the result was too obviously fake. But after all these years I understand this is largely because of the close proximity I had to hearing the raw take. All recorded acoustic images are exactly as fake as all the others.
As a composition, the central or key image is the just-too-long collapsing modulation sequence that occurs just before the first long pause: after which the image of that sequence is heard to have been permeating, and to continue so to permeate, every motion. It is and was the moment it hears itself.
Gradus 110 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [December 2006]
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the second A
but first let us pause
before we break our silence
let us not linger
except over the pause after
Minimalism: the art of decoupling specificity from iteration.
side thought: music engravure as a form of critique or analysis.
In Session at the Tintinabulary
January 13, 2020
Banned Rehearsal 997 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt
It was a cold dark snowy night. Aaron braved a brief break in the precipitation to join us here at the Tintinabulary, keeping us on track to get to number 1000 in time for our show at Gallery 1412 on Groundhog's Eve.
Postscripts
ward purgation terrible frightful
sensory night length the spiritual
rare since this base manner lead lowly ex-
to little dots that flash
the bridge
densely mirrored
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