Seattle Composers' Salon
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
Jeremiah Lawson
Mariza Costa-Cabral
Keith Eisenbrey
Sheila Bristow
Doug Palmer
Jeremiah Lawson - Sonata in D minor
Mariza Costa-Cabral - Piano Pieces (selections)
Keith Eisenbrey - Anybody's Fingerbook (selections)
Sheila Bristow - Piano Pieces (selections)
Doug Palmer - 3 songs from an opera (Farewell My Lovely) - Barbara Hume, voice; David Paul Mesler, piano
It was a distinct pleasure to be the substitute host for this event. I didn't want to be distracted from my Tom Baker impersonation duties by taking notes, but (my own entry possibly excepted) the presentations were all distinctly engaging, the Q&A was lively and supportive, and we all left smiling. I look forward to hearing more from everybody.
Recorded
Rusalka op. 114 Act I (selection) - Antonín Leopold Dvořák [from Naxos The Very Best of Dvorak]
Oh silver moon
Every few moments I got a whiff of one of his near contemporaries. Franck! Wagner! Mussorgsky! Puccini! Verdi! This little aria gets through a bunch of stuff.
Bumper in the Hail - Courtney Marie Andrews [from No One's Slate is Clean]
affect calibration
(Dvořák was doing the same thing)
often effectively
though the power immersion wash at the end may be a bit much
Corollaries (Down's Down) 160924 - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey
so that each note fades to nothing
how low will it go (just that low) (that time)
the notes allow super-ample time to get to thinking so that each note appears !!bang!! mid thought
like a rock through a window
wait for it
the fact that it has a beginning and an ending may not be a proper part of its itness
dynamics
discretely, politely, stable
so as not to disturb
each movement a step more ritmato and varied
Sleeping Angel (from "Fast Times") - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]
center stage spotlight glory
spinny stars
Badlands - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]
inhabits the persona of his song's fictive voice
you could, almost, believe it is him saying it
a bit of a method over-actor
break the furniture
Japanese Lanterns - Whiting Tennis [from Three Leaf Clover]
effective use of found or pre-recorded sounds, structurally psychedelic
Chaotic Heart - Your Mother Should Know [live at SkyChurch November 2011]
I recorded this from an elevated booth/cage in the back of the venue.
The drums sound great!
a call to arms
a come on in
The Little Western - SeaStar [from Never Go Back]
co-memory
commemoration
heroic journey
and its heroic heroes
(Trio) Sonata in D minor, K. 89 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder, Rémy Baudet & Frank Wakelkamp
muscular 3rd movement
for the enjoyment of the participants
Machine - Black Flag [from The First Four Years]
same remit as Throbbing Gristle
but without the synths
(in their dreams)
or so they say
The Noon Witch - Antonín Leopold Dvořák [from Naxos The Very Best of Dvorak]
baseline balance with high alarm to hinge into other dramas, other scenes.
spends a lot of time transitioning and hearkening back or forth
happy to get outdoors
uh oh
(spooky woods)
Song From the Voices on Earth (underlying electronic track) - Steve Scribner
outlived cellular husks easing through the seafloor
and beyond
whistling into the dark void
Corollaries (Up's Down) 160924 - Keith Eisenbrey
so that each note fades to nothing
That this would be a shorter piece if the damper pedal wasn't pressed the whole time is certain. So: instrument and tempo correlate (a corollary with correlations). tee hee.
Polyphony is a compression algorithm
Melody determines duration shapes
Immediate repetition (at the zero interval) startles and sticks out as does no other interval as it comes about: a unique noticing in this context :due to: the interval as such is underlined. Sameness shouts.
inquiry
enquiry
anquiry
onquiry
unquiry
we smash its atoms
we are those who stare at beans
(Trio) Sonata in D minor, K. 90 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder, Rémy Baudet & Frank Wakelkamp
evoking a much larger ensemble than just these three by judicious use of articulation and counterpoint
(back to compression algorithms)
Gold Dust Woman - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]
dance and song
how to be seen :: own it
high fantasy (dragons, witches, etc.)
Esprits divin - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]
certainly attractive enough
One True Love - Whiting Tennis [from Three Leaf Clover]
bitter edge recrimination song
Ask Your Question - Your Mother Should Know [live at SkyChurch November 2011]
Neal's deVille (the guitar amp, courtesy of High Class Wreckage, see below)
comfort sound transitional object
Flesh - Crystal Beth & The Boom Boom Band [from Yugen 3]
heterophony reed to strum
took a long wild run at that loop
witchprog
February 25, 2020
(Trio) Sonata in G Major, K. 91 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder, Rémy Baudet & Frank Wakelkamp
decorum maintained
at all times
at least in this room
when we get outside we can let loose into outdoors decorum
{interesting use of empty beats there Domenico!}
back indoors again
on the way home among familiars
Six Pack - Black Flag [from The First Four Years]
establish a rhythm then goose it
mirror of their song "TV Party"
but smaller
Because The Night - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]
verses thrown away for a hook heavy chorus
modulation won't help
nor will an unearned noodly nowhere instrumental thingy
this just sounds tired
Slavonic Dances op. 46 (selection) - Antonín Leopold Dvořák [from Naxos The Very Best of Dvorak]
music you can do for yourself for sale here
no time to finesse nothin'!
Over - High Class Wreckage [from High Class Wreckage]
rhythm differentials
are a crucial braille
within the energy beam
February 27, 2020
Corollaries (Up's Down) 161008 - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey
hairpin envelopes
an illusion of distance and speed
in a doppler-bereft universe
image: arriving then leaving
not staying
and,
unlike
unmessed-with
piano notes:
no clear beginning
or time point
as such
at all
at least in the sense that
we ontologize the note as happening
→→→→→→here←←←←←←
then going away
it is always itself throughout
across expanse
a spatial now
Sonata in D minor, K. 92 - Pieter-Jan Belder
The strong rhythmic profile allows the substance of the structure to play surreptitiously, hid. Led blindfolded.
Gold and Braid (Live 1982) - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]
rides the band surfer-like
pop music in general often has a difficult time with the ends of things
fades and raves and other cop outs
Nothing In Common - Thompson Twins [a Rescued Record]
Stingy Julian Lennon vibe
empty professionalismus
can't fade out quite quickly enough
In Session at the Tintinabulary
February 24, 2020
Banned Rehearsal 1002 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer
here is polenka tell in french well brought-up
punch yes sing you keep standing get money
that will be much for that's quite a lullaby
** ** **
the snow had disappeared
but the weight of it had not
lighted windows
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