Preface
"There are scores for players, there are scores for composers. A score for players you read as an invitation to enact, creatively, an intention, an idea, an image, a narrative, a sound, a structure, a quality, a complexity, a feeling, perceived as pre-existent, as implicitly in the score-code, however many sonic details are inscribed, or must be invented in the playing. A score for composers you read as a specific inducement to discover within yourself, to converge upon with your co-players, to invent, without preformed expectations, an intention, a meaning, a sensibility, a trajectory, a vision, a landscape, a music unknown before and unimaginable ever except under the influence of the scoretextimage."
- Benjamin Boretz "Notes for Open Space CD 6 (1994)" from "Being About Music Textworks 1960-2003 J. K. Randall Benjamin Boretz Volume 2: 1978-2003"
Texts
Streaming
November 14, 2020
Michael Nicolella
classical guitar
comfort food
subjects of our conversation:
the close affinity
of guitar and keyboard
(guitar the elder)
differentiation of manual function
the
ratio of pulchritudisinousness to aptitude for classical guitar
the utter impossibility of
doing what he is doing as he does it
when we all go back to live concerts
we'll have to remember not to talk during it
the notion of instrumental contrapuntal arrangement
who
invented more than one string per sound board?
across the encore universe
conceptual question with electronic instruments: are they centered on making a sound or on the subtlety of the interface with which they are operated
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/.
the membrane upon which we live
is a spherical drum
whose voice sings
under
our mad careers
howling and humming
we want patience
for hearing these
foundations
for hearing where to plant our posts
attend to the constants
whatever he's doing
even when there are extra-musical reasonings prompting it
he's always focused entirely
on what the sound he is making
is sounding like
November 15, 2020
Blake DeGraw
1. for Orchestra
2. Slath
3. for Viola
4. Six Vowels
Mensuration Canon for Six Voices
flocks
of morphing birds
longer shapes
are shared
details of rhythm
on what
would be the note and measure level
fend for themselves
aesthetic static
luscious vocal sound in six vowels
canon of the signal
a metaphor
for canon
of the pitch token information
Recorded
November 14, 2020
Seizième Ordre (Sol) - François Couperin - Kenneth Gilbert
let us imagine a ceremony
ornate nuptials perhaps
flowered maidens
cockaded youths
we are admonished
solemn but kind
now we dance a stomping
dance
now an old folks dance
or an inspection
a test time tune for developing an
answer
a song is offered
for edification
and we exit dancing
counsel is had
among the elders
or droning speeches
back outside
whew
the party should look
pretty
dress accordingly
November 15, 2020
mostly little symphonies alternating with songs with more songs as it goes
I discover that this is a
modern assemblage of works taken from his oeuvre
I should have known
as it
is far better put together as a large group than what I have heard of GFH
himself
Concerto for Harpsichord, Strings & Continuo in G Major, Wq. 16 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, Malcolm Hamilton
deep in the works
a chaos agent is kept
for later use
whence
it needn't
always be heroic
nor a battle
Sonata in B-flat Major Hob. XVI:18 - Franz Joseph Haydn, Christine Schornsheim
could be blatant pastiche of CPE Bach
Symphony in D Major, K. 133(133) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Academy of Ancient Music, Jaap Schroder, Christopher Hogwood
he tells little stories with the harmonic rhythm
one must behave
after all is
said and done
as befits the china and silver service
vigorous and royal
November 17, 2020
Sonata in C minor, Op. 10 #1 - Ludwig van Beethoven - Wilhelm Kempff
it is preposterous
that such a passage as that first section
that repeats
could serve
as a
repeatable stability
to which one might return
how can we return
where we never
quite
were
Sonata in G Major, Op. 40 #1 - Muzio Clementi - Howard Shelley
never tires of trying to delight and amuse
decorative, genteel, avuncular, patient
occasionally loses himself while playing with an interesting puzzle or a clever turn of figuration
Sonata in F minor, Op. 77 - Johann Ladislaus Dussek
melodic focus
Italianate
á Bellini
or a firebrand
November 18, 2020
Impromptu in C minor, Op. 90 #1 - Franz Schubert - Murray Perahia
foursquare phrasing
stands firm
on an emotionally unstable surface
or in spite
of
or is permeable
or sinks down into
or is the surface
over unstable depths
a
tight leash
a tenuous thread
Etude in A minor, Op. 10 #2 - Frédéric Chopin - Alfred Cortot [recorded in 1933]
in Rock & Roll High School
a paper airplane
flies through the school
camera on its back
Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 - Robert Schumann - Quatuor Via Nova, Jean Hubeau
piano can take the bass line
liberating the cello
the drama of affect
and the
drama of tonal rhetoric
are in cahoots
sudden turnaround to frenetic activity
(had
heard some Schubert)
drama on a large stage
stunning coda in the 2nd movement
amply annotated
makes the whole rather ponderous
birth perhaps of the self-conscious masterpiece genre
Variations on 'Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen' - Franz Liszt - Alfred Brendel
rather than duplicate
in ultra-grandiose modern noise
the spectacle of a baroque oratorio
get
down inside
explore the particulars
of where it didn't go before
November 19, 2020
In Session at the Tintinabulary
November 16, 2020
Banned Telepath 65 Tintinabulary - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Neal Kosály-Meyer
November 17, 2020
Banned Telepath 65 Toad Hall - Aaron Keyt
Banned Rehearsal 1014 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
Karen and Keith at the Tintinabulary, pulling Anna and Neal in by phone in a can from Outpost Lake City, Aaron at Outpost Toad Hall, we do what we do and make the noise we make.
Postscripts
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