Preface
"There is a species of imaginative phenomena which consists of the imaginative creation and experiencing of entities and events whose identity consists of having their being by virtue of having been created by being imagined."
- Benjamin Boretz "music/ /consciousness/ /gender" from "Being About Music Textworks 1960-2003 J. K. Randall Benjamin Boretz Volume 2: 1978-2003"
Texts
Streaming
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/.
November 28, 2020
each tone repeats
fading in
fading out
each fading in
repeats
repeats fading
critters
unhide themselves
larger planets enter the frame
ambient as in ambient music
:: a
simulacrum of our world of sound
but with (here)
lots of repetition
so that
no
iteration is more than an item in an ongoing series
(terminable without
consequence)
and it still goes on
though we have tuned out
from it
radio world, the fabulous, of
repetition tips the
hand of artifice
machined beneficence
unstable mirroring
synthetic peace
November 29, 2020
Doug Haire
healing immersion
sing bedrock flowing
as mantle billows
stretch the membrane
other places
birds and water
insect buzz by
monkey chatter
some critters are
rude
we seek to identify
in so seeking
we notice aspects
and analyze
find its
parts
to identify them
some remain only identifiable as themselves
with no
index to the outside
there is no reference for them
the internal distant
vastnesses
each with unnumbered choruses of crickets
mapping their habitat in
sound
December 2, 2020
signal
and functions
on signal
same as working directly with sound
yes
no
sometimes
maybe
any more or less so
than any other means of producing sounds
singing
clapping
pulling a bow across a taut string
striking such with a hammer
we discover things about our bodies
and about taut wires
and stretched
skins
and about signals
and what can serve
as a function on a signal
an expanded field of inquiry
Recorded
November 28, 2020
The Entertainer (A Ragtime Two-Step) - Scott Joplin - William Albright
designed for surface clarity
(depth is not to be trusted)
November 29, 2020
Quartet in E-flat, op. 109 (#4) - Max Reger - Reger Quartet
a hotbed of competitive contrapuntalists
making dire melodramas
of their
technoid games
this is how they got their jollies
busy spirits of night
let's do
a fugue
it'll be fun
Noches in la jardines de España - Manuel de Falla - London Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, Carol Rosenberger
Petrushka visits opulence in Madrid
colorful costumes of my native land
exported to the central European culture sponge
exoticism is a sure sign of
modernism
spectacle!
December 1, 2020
classical in the same sense
that Tchaikovsky was
enough for the flavor
without
appreciable transformation
the 18th Century is another exotic locale
a sensibility
seen through a window
we're not really at this party
the 4th movement is out of character
Pick Me Up and Lay Me Down in Dear Old Dixieland - Sophie Tucker [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
favorite (scary) Plantation Songs
Home Sweet Home - Frank Jenkins [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]
each verse is in a different pick or strum style
December 3, 2020
Moses und Aron, Act II - Arnold Schoenberg - Sinfonieorchester des Osterreichischen Rundfunks, Michael Gielen, Gunter Reich, Louis Devos, Eva Csapo, Elfriede Obrowsky, Roger Lucas, Richard Salter, Ladislav Illavsky, Werner Mann, Maria Muhlbacher, Elisabeth Wagner, Helga Chlup, Elisabeth Brommel, Alfred Winkler, Franz Handlos, Chor des Osterreichischen Rundfunks, Wiener Sängerknaben
centripetal
it examines us
minutely
with needles
and scalpels
to be performed in a small locked room
symphonic as only a staged oratorio
that
never averts its gaze
can be
In Sesssion at the Tintinabulary
November 29, 2020
Banned Telepath 66 201129 South Outpost - Steve Kennedy
November 30, 2020
Banned Telepath 66 201130 Tintinabulary - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey (in situ), Anna K, Neal Kosály-Meyer (monocasting from Lake City Outpost)
December 1, 2020
Banned Telepath 66 201201 Toad Hall - Aaron Keyt
Banned Rehearsal 1015 2011119-30-1201 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
Postscripts
he'd have to get mine in his pocket right
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