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 Preface

"But I inhabit that world with you together. And my output, if it has genuine ontological energy, is probably implicitly aggressive - in principle, just because it's mine, not yours - in relation to you. So we have a problem; a mutual problem if mutual survival is what we both want. And we'd better come up with some social structures within which we can try to build a solution. I don't think that the intensely competitive, skill-oriented structures for doing and learning music which have mostly been institutionalized in our culture are going to help us deal with the problem of mutually wasting each other, because the problem arises precisely in a competitive form: each of us seems to need all the psychic world-space there is; and, therefore, we need to devour and subsume everyone else's space within our own."
- Benjamin Boretz "The Inner Studio (strategies for retrieving reality in music experience and practice)" from "Being About Music Textworks 1960-2003 J. K. Randall Benjamin Boretz Volume 2: 1978-2003"

Texts

Streamed

Wayward in Limbo

"With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series now moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is curating and commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of exclusive material. Many of these will be essentially 'live' performances recorded at home for this occasion. Others may create a mix of pre-recorded material that has not been previously released elsewhere."
- from the Wayward Music Series website at https://www.waywardmusic.org/.

August 8, 2020
Nordra (Monika Khot) - Just over the hills, from the city

held under events discernably indistinguishable permanently impersistent
signal voidward
single word void
roto-pter phantom moves in no direction but moves direction the less
would be angels of mercy antisepticizing too utterly scanning dark with dark
abandoned beacon echo back unanswered decrepit entropy insatiate
the squeaky toy at the end of earthly

August 9, 2020
Michaud Savage - ACAB
with Lori Goldston, cello; Christopher Lee, poem; Jesse Miller and Roxanne White, speakers

White Bodies to the Front
This Was Peaceful Until You Came
This Shit Is Real Pain
Every Day
Peace Isn't Passive, It Is Active
Dear Black Man - Christopher Lee
The Peoples Assembly

agency sympathy spontaneous gathering to out the pain of the grievance
pain meets terror
violence
verbal occupational poisoned ranged
sure do like to make the bang bang
processing refining meaning and purpose

August 11, 2020
Evan Flory-Barnes

Doe, Oh So Very Dear
The Way Out
Nah
I'm Out
Memory Lane

what carefully counted syllables measure
sense accumulation and sense modulation
bass part leads metrical modulation (like those 16th Century virginal dudes)
sense and time intermodulate upon each other

Recorded

August 8, 2020

Quartet in 1 Movement (#2) - Milton Babbitt - Composers Quartet

every imaged glimpse of it returns, scattered but tautly held retrievable instantly

School Day - Chuck Berry [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]

list of daily facts in need of no modifiers
that slant is more than supplied by the metrical delivery
followed by a prayer

Like Dreamers Do - The Beatles [from Anthology Volume 1]

imitating an imitator
into it, though

Run Run Run - The Who [from A Quick One (Happy Jack)/Sell Out]

the happy glow is gone
this one is not for the ladies
cut off fade out

Selections from The Style Show - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey, JoAnne Deacon [from a private tape - April 1972]

possibly Eve had the proper idea (never caught on)
I'm sure we all know the words
the eruptions of applause and mess of the recording: we are pulled in to glimpse the signal of the trace of the performance like as if we got stuck behind several tall people at the movies

Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]

industrialization complete
ape chatter

Largo - Aaron Keyt - Seattle Symphony

Fafner Park
in the dark

not in order
can't be
order does not pertain here

August 9, 2020
Things Songs Are Made Of - Bonnie Guitar [from Blue Moon & Other Country Favorites]

kodak moment sentimental

Banned Rehearsal 281 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [January 1992]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 281 920110

events can be classified but that does not bind them together
even if they are bound together
it isn't classification that does it
"My Lips Are Chapped"
a late sudden song
direct to cassette mastering
reduction to countable quantities of voices
where voice might be some thing some one does at some time and or another
microcosmoid contemporaneity
social polyphony expressed as sound
bells are a recurring source
Banned Rehearsal is a ritual gathering of an ideolectic tribe
I got glue (bundler)
for bundling and binding

Commingled Containers - Stan Brakhage

"a photography of the essence of life itself as the interaction of pulsating and commingled containers"
this is your brain listening to music

F r AgM e Nt(s) - L. Marcus Oldham - Keith Eisenbrey [from my recital Preludes in Seattle, March 2007]

devestatement
{I don't think Marcus liked my performance, appreciated collegially, but not liked so much
I hit too close to the core of it
its exact durations of things
my opinion: one my best performances of anything in the sense of hitting it exactly}
miles down from the impact zone

Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra - Michael Weiss - Octava Chamber Orchesta, Michael Weiss, Jeffery Brooks

Newsreel Presentation
silent film with diegetic music
re-enactment like Ren Faire
some long ago von Weberesque premiere

Sonata - Aaron Keyt - Keith Eisenbrey [recorded September 2014]

imperturbed times making parody of repetition
an analysis of another music that could be the analysand of that other music
which preserves what of which?
not half bad performance, past Keith!

Kaavaan Kaavaan - Divya Kumar [from Bollygood Volume 2]

after the fact decoration
decoration of duration rather than of impetus
activates later parts of the duration
fades the structure out with general accelerando

August 11, 2020
Fantasia "Faire Wether" Fvb 3 - John Mundy - Claudio Columba [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]

a garden with gates and vistas green
a moment dream

Bransles Simples - Michael Praetorius - New London Consort, Philip Pickett [from Dances from Terpsichore]

some sort of harp? lute perhaps? sounds more harpy
simply done like playing for singalong or dancealong why be fancy?

I love this, Wikipedia offers: "A branle —also bransle, brangle, brawl, brawle, brall, braul, brando, bran, or brantle —is a type of French dance popular from the early 16th century to the present, danced by couples in either a line or a circle. The term also refers to the music and the characteristic step of the dance"

August 12, 2020
Suite in A minor, BuxWV 244 - Dieterich Buxtehude - Simone Stella

close attention to the extremities of his harmony
outlining figures, timing and movement, and to how the innards moving among them
the voice leading is quivering with energy
Ben's rhythm genius Stravinsky argument could be applied here

Sonata in G minor - George Frideric Handel - Michala Petri, Keith Jarrett

entertaining with gracious manners
for polite applause deserved
but not over deserved

Sixieme Ordre (si bemoll majeur) - François Couperin - Kenneth Gilbert

It's the Masterpiece Theater Theme
strange how such an English show would pick so French a music

tonality hangs like Calder plates
fixed within each period
but related to each other by attitude in space

Die Wohltemperierte Klavier, Band I, Prelude and Fugue in C minor - Johann Sebastian Bach - Christiane Jaccottet

when played on piano, with its dynamic potential, the impulse is to accentuate the outside of the figure
on harpsichord it comes across differently
the extremities tint and suggest
they don't lead
the whole is brief and to the point

Sonata in D Minor - Georg Philipp Telemann - Michala Petri, Elisabeth Selin

voice confusion (or just fusion)
who is which of the bodies with flutes
person of performer as though projected into the sound

virtual body hocket

August 13, 2020
Magnificat - Franceso Durante - University Temple Chancel Choir, Chris Vincent, Howard Wolvington, organ continuo; Candice Chin & Cecilia Archuleta, violins; Joseph Bichsel, cello [December 2017]

music of this period: adequacy was essential, originality only counted in so far as necessary to keep up with fashion (not Eve's proper idea) and to display the particular splendor of this court or chapel. 

Sonata in F Major, Wq. 65/21 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Miklos Spanyi

One wonders sometimes if he could pen a straight sequence ever, even if he tried. hard.
He is trying here, but his bass line has different ideas about the harmonic path than the rest of it
A structure of toothpick twigs, thin and brittle

In Session at the Tintinabulary

August 10, 2020
Banned Rehearsal 1007 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 1007 200810

once again Karen and Keith are on the porch, Aaron is in the yard, and Neal is on the phone.

August 11, 2020
Hedgehogs 1-3 (to be edited later) - Aaron Keyt - Keith Eisenbrey

August 12, 2020
Hedgehogs 4-8 (to be edited later) - Aaron Keyt - Keith Eisenbrey

August 13, 2020
Music For Wallace Book 1 (to be edited later) - Aaron Keyt - Keith Eisenbrey

August 14, 2020
Chorale 1 (to be edited later) - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey

in a past time I had scheduled a recital at the Chapel this October. Since that doesn't seem likely I decided to put the program together as a recording to share. I have begun to collect tracks for later editing.

Postscripts

that this god would be felt in the sensory

when yet thinks it is not it is aware

of this not much dryness fruit and spirit

an image of duration bereft

or innocent or prior to any notion of pulse

or specific rational value