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| I-90 Floating Bridge, Seattle |
Sonata in A Major K. 83 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
wherein
it might
elsewhere // have been at
before what counts
as balance
If You Were My Love (unreleased version) - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]
voice
person
music
costumery
song
movement
(She likes appoggiaturas as much as Mozart did)
What an experience of a person might be
presented to allow just so much of naked self
what clothes to wear?
hair to do?
face to paint?
other armor
Joseph, lieber Joseph mein - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]
a carol for a pageant
having survived obliteration through all the time passed
Heart of the Wind - Robert Tree Cody, Will Clipman [from Heart of the Wind]
loop echoes accumulate, dissipate
otherwise they are inactive to the flow: dis-agented, neutralized, abandoned
echo: the past filtered by distance and memory
instant nostalgia
Gradus 200 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [October 2011]
tendrils drill air
lentils's tendrils
guest
quest
game of frames
roots drill earth
little lintel lentils
and other beans
game of beans
alien beans
go-like
pine cone stones
beans in frames
lintels of lentil tendrils
pine cones
conifer cones
O I been working on the bean frame
been bean framing
(". . . simple words like if and it . . .")
frame farm
farm frame
frim fram
Bad Service and Boredom - Robber's Roost [from Live in Minneapolis]
punkfolk
with Full Toilet tempos
February 16, 2020
Sonata in F Major K. 82 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
If ascending the chord is by a different figure than descending back down then the option opens to switch them up. One could sing these lines, but they truly seem to have been born as finger figures
Damaged I - Black Flag [from The First Four Years]
guitar presses down sharp and heavy,
pounds down and presses
squishes
dam'udge
squeaky squeal between the pounds
Feel It - Sun Sect [a Rescued Record]
funk bass
front half back half
of each measure
sits on the balls of its feet
then on the heels of its feet
back forth pelvis shift
of each measure
The Persistence of Memory, for Giselle - J. K. Randall [from Open Space 39]
Understandable at and through every moment and event, this music is helpful to its own self-understanding. This music tells you itself.
Sea, Sea, Sea - Whitney Ballen [from White Feathers, White Linen]
A fully formed song: more like JKR than like Sun Sect.
Corollaries (Down's Up) 160924 - Keith Eisenbrey
so that each note fades to nothing
more like a wood block print than like a drawing
more like an impressed trace than like an inscribed trace
i.e.
not through-composed but rather strophic
testing tensile strength
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Within the last year or so I went back to these pieces and changed some of the notes. I did this in order to adjust the process of moving across the register limit from high back down around again to the bottom, and vice versa. This was less to benefit these pieces exactly (but I think it did) than to make them easier for me to think about - especially as a part of the larger project to which these belong, because I needed essentially the same flip to happen in a later piece and being consistent seemed to be more clear than not. But I resist remaking all these recordings with the corrected notes. I'm moving on.
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| Portal to the Pacific, Seattle |
exploring the crevices that Neal might miss on the steps
Sonata in C Major, K. 84 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
His direct repetitions serve to hold an event still. Otherwise they would forever be running in all directions at the same speed. The kinds of motion are in balance as kinds, among themselves.
The Dealer (unreleased version) - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]
ah,
it's about cards
a photo of a ballad
Independence Day - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]
same relation but different angle of shoulder shrug
anthem
hook
dance
ballad
ritual
sermon
Summer - Whiting Tennis [from Three Leaf Clover]
hook based lyric not a ballad
just not hook heavy
Banned Rehearsal 802 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
[November 2011]
in full battle, though it seems so friendly
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| Bike Tunnel, Sam Smith Park, Seattle |
not to worry
it's not a real duck
lands deep after launch into composition land, throwing curves at each other by bend of bay, a battle of giants and a spat of sprites
Fickle Sun (II) The Hour Is Thin - Brian Eno [from The Ship]
message from:
message to:
February 17, 2020
Sonata in F Major, K. 85 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
wiggling fingers for pleasure
I've Heard It Before - Black Flag [from The First Four Years]
meta put-on
self parody
Fun Time - Bruce Willis [a Rescued Record]
motown:: about: competence, collective, specialized function, how it's done.
Slavonic Dances op. 72 (#10 in E minor) - Antonín Leopold Dvořák [from Naxos The Very Best of Dvorak]
forgets which key it was headed at
end of 2nd phrase
or is that a sly glance?
Usefully marketable music for social occasions, available for solo, duet, orchestra, infinitely arrangeable
allow time for the old folks to be charmed
Death March - Smokestack and the Foothill Fury [from America's Freedom Death March]
formidable
full body soul voice dance engagement
cinched tight
Corollaries (Up's Down) 161021 - Keith Eisenbrey
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| Sam Smith Park, Seattle |
honed
machined
as precisely unambiguous as can be
music as data stream
study question: why might this be useful and to whom?
Sonata in C Major, K. 86 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
Presuming the opening figure to be written as {graphic}
what a marvelously packed toolbox of durations and duration relations.
Always delightful, often astonishing
Blue Lamp (from Heavy Metal) - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]
stage show
album
"greatest hits" is a concept, therefore Bella Donna is a concept album
It may not be the best way to approach someone, but it does provide a sample of sorts. We put up with the notion that being a hit was what the song was about because it is commercial music after all.
Magnificat quinti toni - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]
obsessed with consonant blend
like Partch was
back in its day
serious money
paid for this music
Three Leaf Clover - Whiting Tennis [from Three Leaf Clover]
laid back comfort empathy
Badlands - Your Mother Should Know [live at Skychurch, November 2011]
make an entrance
come out swinging
invoke the muse
Ocean Ambience Rocky Coastline Volume 2 - Pete Comley
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| Jimi Hendrix Park, Seattle |
cavern voice
One would think an entire indexed collection of ocean sounds, impeccably recorded, would be soothing. It is not. It is terrifying.
Isolation of sound
nameable characteristics,
nothing mysterious, extraneous, unnamed
wanders in
hears all
highly classified
February 20, 2020
Sonata in B minor, K. 87 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
What sort of society allowed this to flourish? So tightly bound
harpsichord v piano
harpsichord: note's incipits overwhelm - rational/digital
piano: the harp overwhelms - irrational/analog
rationality overwhelms itself as does ir-
alike unstable
Louie Louie - Black Flag [from The First Four Years]
"it just shows I'm not very smart"
a musician's re-rendition, rethinking the rhythmic premise, playing the Sonics' game.
Hearts and Bones - Paul Simon [from The Essential Paul Simon]
hollow spaces after downbeat or strongbeat
a muttered hook
strong hook
allows wandering away
In Session at the Tintinabulary
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| Jimi Hendrix Park, Seattle |
Gradus 364 - Neal Kosály-Meyer
one and two
pulsing bean
might just be
the dryer making that thumping
acting out schematics
software controlled
liberating or confining?
It depends.
Postscripts
delay her but the old rag-topped nag
covered the 600 miles of dark nearly
like swung off at I hadn't since I
don't count
roll a clam shell down a level plane
redwing blackbird on a bare tree top
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