Playlist

Preface

"Too late, alas, lover and god repented
The cruel vengeance, and hated both his anger
And willingness to listen,and most of all
Hated the bird for telling. He hates the bow,
Hates quiver, arrows, and the aiming hand."
- Ovid "Metamorphoses" (translated by Rolfe Humphries)

Texts

Recorded

March 3, 2020
Clouds of Mercy - Whiting Tennis [from Three Leaf Clover]



slidily tuned vocal
too pristinely captured to believe
a bit of talk in the last moments of the fadeout
don't make it real

Don't Fly Away - Your Mother Should Know  [live at SkyChurch November 2011]

The guitar and drums proceed in a unison bolero rhythm at no particular odds with the plan of the words. not fully worked out.

HLAH - Chaotic Noise Marching Corps [from Zero to Lizard Man]



OK, so similar in its unison rhythm to DFA above, but here the vocal is mostly with it, only partly straying. No steps are taken to assure aural legibility of the text. The static texture of it is the whole point.

Sonata in F Major, K. 94 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

tonal contortionism
left foot
on red
always
or so you think

Old John Henry Died on the Mountain - Henry Gradell Terry [from The Art of Field Recording Volume 1]

with ax whumps and hound yip
exertion poem
inexorabligatto

Reading: Luke 2:17-19 - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]

careful pronunciation
it must be correct
because it sounds so correct

Stabat Mater (selection) - Antonín Leopold Dvořák [from Naxos The Very Best of Dvorak]

patterns of neighbor notes in alternating alternation
melodic head rhyme
a duet

The sung lines start as folk song
but foul themselves in the pitch design

Nasty and Mean - Yuni in Taxco [from Sanpaku]

mumble pop
gluey echo
no danger of distinctness

The no fuss end is nice.

Corollaries (Up's Up) 161021 - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey

to clear the air
short
and formed of itself

March 5, 2020
Sonata in G minor, K. 93 -  Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

a fugue
The offset of the 3rd entrance is gauged by the figuration footprint of the subject.

Subject is an interesting word choice.
Is it a metaphor from the pictorial art? :: the subject of the painting
Is it a metaphor from the grammatical art? :: the subject of the sentence
Here it is more like "index brick" or "reference set."

What would a language thing be like if it used a subject like a fugue does? What might a language-fugue subject be like?

I Need to Know (Live 1982) - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]

echo lines
viewmasteringly joining
into round focus

Candy's Room - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]

more
tiresome
hyperinflation

so

much

ado

about

what?

The Golden Spike - Whiting Tennis [from Three Leaf Clover]



If you let the noise sound precede the song it is clearly intentional, therefor not noise

pleady and soulful(tm)

Rocks and Glass - Your Mother Should Know  [live at SkyChurch November 2011]

I might be
they and I
still don't know
or might not

the common malaise
claimed as personal
dynamic meaningfullness mirror

Champagne - No Rey [from Contradictions]

with a sense of humor

and

allowing the rhythm
to punctuate the structure
rather than hide
or smear it

In Session at the Tintinabulary

March 2, 2020
Gradus 365 - Neal Kosály-Meyer

Some sonorities
do not fracture easily.

Focus on a single fulcrum

**

Some sonorities
come prefractured.

Finding pieces.

Postscripts

so hot they shoot forth flame and thus charity

is not a gentle and delightful desire

it seeks the will to be delightful spirit

[***]

insidious green

violets

the numbers reduced irretrievably