Playlist

Preface

"New words would be needed to describe this impossible music."
- Honoré de Balzac "Gambara" (translated by Clara Bell and James Waring)

Texts

Recorded

March 8, 2020
Sonata in C Major, K. 95 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

a teaching piece
for hand over hand leaps

could be useful as a music
while a scene is being changed

Pray for Rain - Benjamin Boretz, Art Carlson, Glen Carter, Bill Delp, Janet Fader, Bruce Huber (from Inter/Play August 1981)

serpent under cover
proceed with suspicion
and circumspection

Nothing to Lose - Thompson Twins [a Rescued Record]

Produced with a capital P
too much for the frame of the song
more a demonstration of what might be thrown against a wall

nothing sticks

Serenade for Winds op. 44 (selection) - Antonín Leopold Dvořák [from Naxos The Very Best of Dvorak]

the stories told by those who march
early films listened to how these go
in their shot by shot modeling

this music's camera angles
don't move

Legend of Persephone - Shelby Earl [from Burn the Boats]



coded personal direct address

Corollaries (Up's Up) 160911 - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey

so that each note fades to nothing

what the pianist is engaged in
in this activity
is different than the effect
the result of the pianist's activity has
upon the listener's listening

performer's point of view

because sound surrounds us
we don't presume that the performer
hears a different thing than we do
(an illusion)

What sort of wall is this we are set to climb?
which interval is most conceptual?
:: the time duration between
:or: the pitch interval?

why?

how far away can we get?

Sonata in D Major, K. 96 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

fanfares! fo fun!

(here's the guy who doesn't favor fanfares
(not a fanfare fan))

O! The Heroic FanFare! O!

A delightful magnificence
made of near nothing

Outside The Rain (Live 1982) - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]

makes a lot out of 4 or 5 notes
sings us more eloquently than we could imagine saying ourselves

Es ist ein Ros entsprungen - Michael Praetorius - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]

on lute?
ah! then sung
then with a little bell kit
or celesta

Louisiana Donut Counter Man - Whiting Tennis [from Three Leaf Clover]



a super hero
into the bass
in a big way
can't have enough of that bass
nope

The Day You Deleted Me - Your Mother Should Know [live at SkyChurch November 2011]

a loud sound with a soft, sore, heart

Goin' Nowhere - Arbor Towers [from In Transit EP]



angel /\ demon

shoulder familiars

March 10, 2020
Sonata in G minor, K. 97 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

no waiting until you are ready
dives right in and heads for the bottom

which is why the repeats are so helpful
do-overs

as well as being an articulation point
among many similar such points in miniature

←←←←←||→→→→→

Janus?

web of articulation points

Fome Fay Fubfeffile - David Hicks, J. K. Randall, Daniel Warner [from Inter/Play August 1981]

whispertorial conspiration
statements spoken out
left shoulder
right shoulder

say it!
as read

!boom!buzzingboxes
(such sympathy for vibrations)

take a thing somewhere
and it is compromised as a thing

plant a thing out there
and it might stick

pool shots

two talking makes not a conversation necessarily

an enclosure opens upon us
sounds can be made that aren't, first, for others

open every day
closes it

In Sesssion at the Tintinabulary

March 9, 2020
Banned Rehearsal 1003 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer


Aaron was out of town, but we braved the virus and made our intrepid noise.

Postscripts

it usual breakfast do you think it is

because i had perhaps that is how i

stick it he said anything first don't think

open olive lakes

nascent arid tactics

everything cold