Preface
"encreaturing each newly multiplied member
and all as well,
irreducibly metabonded herenow,
repleting, for clarity's sake,
whatever has been
beclogging in metaform effusion without,
backcumulating in multiform deflection within,
whatever across a timescene tightwarped
the flickerthickening multiprescient urnow
of omniconjunction fast
forever attached
has been unspooling,
from a firstindexed moment,
to now"
-Benjamin Boretz "Language, as a Music"
Texts
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American Interwar Piano Music
Peter Nelson-King, piano
Alexander Lipsky - Four Sketches (1928)
Harold Brown - Little Prelude No. 1 (1935)
Elliott Carter - Pavane from Pocahontas (1936)
Lazare Saminsky - Three Shadows (1935)
Amy Beach - By the Still Waters (1924)
John Alden Carpenter - Diversions (1923)
William Bailey - Musing (1930)
Our local unearther of old treasures presented another fascinating glimpse at the strange and often lovely things that American Music has been. I was especially taken by the sophisticated keyboard writing of Amy Beach and John Alden Carpenter.
Recorded
April 4, 2020
Walk The Corn - Three Fingers - [from Three Songs]
succinct, bracingly so
The chord change pattern provides an ample expanse upon which to inscribe vocal precision.
Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks [from Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks]
variations on the oo oo oo
(the lines as rhythms have angled jumpcut corners to them)
oo oo oo variations come back with "eyes on him"
Seeds - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]
stadium blues bluster
here's the part where you applaud us
Track 1 - Pouch [Live at the Funhouse, July 2011]
the vocal: a cross between a roar and a shout and a scream
the foil: for a beach buggy bounce instrumental
Que Linda Noche - Lunas [from Over Me]
take me I'm a door prize? out of your way? Posies-like power pop.
Airplane Blues - Allen Ginsberg [from Holy Soul, Jelly Roll]
circles around his old themes
just like the blues do
mostly
Tau garçó, la durundena - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]
is there documentation of the theatrical alternation of solos as a practice
or could we determine its origin in more recent times?
Gradus 202 (Rung 3) Live at the Chapel- Neal Kosály-Meyer [December 2011]
Rung Three begins with a long wait, and then, it seems, another, without pause.
While we wait the mind wanders.
[an interruption]
live theater! with stomping!
then a high A-nat
then a mid A-nat
so at last: two
compositional idea: play mostly the higher A-nat
occasionally dropping in the mid A-nat
ratio of higher/mid is, say, 50/1?
all pp to p
not long this 20 minute rung
we applaud
Willow I - Tyler Daniel Bean [from On Days Soon To Pass]
The instrumental is way up front.
They could re-do that I think.
It's a nice sound but it overwhelms the vocal for no apparent reason.
April 5, 2020
Leather and Lace - Stevie Nicks [from Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks]
They! - U-Men
Screamin' J opening
rollicking good humor having a grand old good time
seriously not taking themselves
not so seriously
a bit like Young Fresh Fellows, but ruder, and (provisionally) smarter in an overtly smarter way
Roots - Wild Assumptions [from Roots/Run Like You]
long
short long
short long
quickly bounced
|2 1 2 1 2|2 1 2 1 2| etc.
Gradus 300 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [October 2016]
pale wash of signal dispersing sheer to the buoyant abyss
rung one
single pitch
must have been the new one
place protection here in order to continue safely on
up the pitch
rung two
two pitches at a Major 6th
G-nat to E-nat
the long silences serve to keep away that this-music-is-part-of-a-piece feeling
that is
that the moment we are in is locked in place
pitches assert their distinction from their function as interval node
I am what I am without comparison
Over Yonder Where Jesus Is - Leona Ruth [from Art of Field Recording Volume 1]
solo mezzo voice
sung straight with tasteful ornamentation
gives tasteful a good name
The River - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]
wherein he tells a long story
get 'em on your side
build rapport
fathers songs and lovers
in time of war
tale told to a bar stool
in carefully constructed verse and chorus
uncertainty on the part of the speaker as to whether this wasn't his dream all along that they got or didn't
hope deflation
Love Song to Make Us Millions (side A) - Koko and the Sweetmeats [from Sacrifice]
In a large space
falls apart with impeccable elegance
into a new and slower tempo
Analysis Paralysis - Three Fingers [from Go Deep]
nice rhythm section!
excellent balance
clean trucks
but fussily just so
Conversation Pit (Austin Texas) - Benjamin Boretz, Janet Farr [from Inter/Play]
cote cooing
slumber hoots
tender hoots
behind all that is an omnipresent roar of what?
signal hypersensitive as to the mechanism that excites it
makes a noise, a roar, a whisper
electronically stable like dust were ye made
the effect of the recording mechanism
is present to the face of how this sounds
as though it were a movie on the outside of a building
Berberienne
coaxed out becomes quite a thing
furniture is moving across the floor
the space between is being cleared
that long song ends thwunk on the tonic
Re
Do
Tura lura lura, lo gau canta - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]
like those movies
establish local color
everybody doing some renaissance era craft
playing a part
goes way modern
10xxoxxoxxox - Paul Rubinstein [from Solo Trios]
kalimba and reboxed bowed 'ud
kalimba is less a thumb piano
than it is
a metal tongued cavern
Thunder Punch Elephant Kick - Ancient Warlocks [from Ancient Warlocks 2]
I will now hit you with tribal power infusion ceremony
power up
April 6, 2020
Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks [from Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks]
the show is the show and on it goes
everyone loves the theater
latch on as needed
We're the Center for Disease Control Boys - C.D.C. Boys [a Rescued Record]
every night we sit around and make this kind of noise
while Karen sews masks
April 7, 2020
Gradus 203 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [December 2011]
A-nats 1 3 5 6 & 8 then 1 3 5 7 & 8
the composing or analyzing ear can focus on the specious facts of notes and sequence
indexed by incipit and pitch
OR
on the lingering mix of decays
OR
both
for example
one could focus on what each new impact does to the ongoing decay mix
and at what point it simply becomes a part of that mix
or adds into it
keeps it afloat
listen to the figure from all sides til it is heard right
then move to another part to listen at
a pitch becomes a location outside of sequence space
Here We Are - Robber's Roost [from Cuatro]
I could listen to that guitar playing
for a good long while
awesome
Do The Meditation Rock - Allen Ginsberg with Steven Taylor [from Holy Soul, Jelly Roll]
I fought the Dharma and the Dharma won
for the crowds
Reading: Luke II 3-8 - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]
Mary and Joseph and the babb'
Quarter Chicken Dark - Goat Rodeo [from The Goat Rodeo Sessions]
the demotic
to what end?
to pull fans in : subterfuge
to relax : a lark
to get down : to slum
: or pretend
hard to escape its need to showcase chops
April 9, 2020
Gradus 301 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [October 2016]
an old stuffed bear
looking out the window
hoping passing kids will get a kick out of it
Early on and for many years Gradus was the piece wherein Neal played nothing but A naturals. The pitch class palette is larger now. Is it difficult to hear as the same project? No. Why not? The ear matters more. The rungs involve and engage an approach, an activity. The ear is an unwritten score.
white collar intervals like anybody else's
OR
do intervals even exist on this planet?
because clearly, these ain't them
In Session at the Tintinabulary and Outposts
April 6, 2020
Bannedecameron 200406 Maple Leaf - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer (calling in)
br 04-06-20_covid-19_2 - Steve Kennedy
STE-018 200406 - Aaron Keyt
Postscripts
coach-windows the bulky passenger the
bank always with him being that k. was
mercy and him off to besides k. had
a small road in the nether regions
an edge more or less complicated
by the motions of the whole distance between
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