Preface
"Music --
in one way of hearing it, the way which might be called
'hearing it' --
engulfs you; you're within it and it's within you -- no
outer, no inner --
the variable shapes in (n) dimensions are happening
to you not being observed by you."
- 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/.
December 5, 2020
Gyre (Michael Shannon, David Stanford, Carl Lierman)
1. A Method of Cloak
2. Curves
without space
it needs time
to transpire
and space
through which to
travel
recorded music
when played back
has two possible spaces
the first
is the trace
of the space
of its original
transpiration
its concert hall
for instance
the second
is that
of its transcription
the space
synthesized
by the mechanism of recording and reproduction
the
artifactual space
made by having been transcribed
out of sound
into something else
where the first is absent
where the signal
was not sound
before transcription
that first
is so necessary
to our
understanding
of sound
that we create it
imaginitively
we create
the space
in which
this sound
was
though it never was
cats are alert to motion
ears are alert to change
we seek to eat
we eat that which we sought
December 6, 2020
Heather Bentley and Dio Jean-Baptiste
this music is moving along
making its path quickly
confident
nonstop close to the ground
playing the time loops
the ride is smooth
lightly touched
to find this place where stillness allows song
December 8, 2020
Nital Etch (Kevin Lewis)
Desperation
if
this is ambient music
why do I find it
counterintuitive
except this is songlike
with chords and figurations
slow but
there
property
::it seeks sameness
even its changes
are from one
sameness
to another
in going to another sameness
sameness is replaced but never moved
mood
unbroken chords
to not question
chords beat
does not question
beat tempo
not tempo
no
issue arises
from within
no return
tuning back in
we
never left
sounds have purpose
but not ours
December 5, 2020
Banjo Rag - Herald Goodman and his Tennessee Valley Boys [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
ragtime rhythm of eighths and sixteenths
resolving into a 4|4
of
which each beat is characterized
by an ordered set of eighths and
sixteenths
in order
to not confuse
Circus Polka - Igor Stravinsky - Noel Lee
each stroke
unique by being in a unique relation
to its neighbor
strokes
How Come You Do Me - Miff Mole [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
stripper tempo
attractive sleaze
lots of room
to wiggle
within the meter
and dynamic range
December 6, 2020
Fantasy for English Horn and Orchestra - Walter Piston - Seattle
Symphony, Gerard Schwarz
serviceable and unassuming
#mood with #effective #moments
Searchin' - The Coasters [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
a song is a character
a role
an invention of a self
Duet from Christ Lag in Todesbanden - Betty Eisenbrey, Hazen Folse
both singers passed recently
within a year of each other
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - Aretha Franklin [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
so what's with the parentheses anyway?
these words are higher in
register?
fabulous song but really
what's with those parentheses?
Three Shakespearean Songs - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey [from Songs & Silhouettes April 1972]
gaudy
so shiny
a glitz about it
repels
Pastorale: "The Color of Water" - Neal Kosály-Meyer - Keith Eisenbrey [at Brechemin Auditorium, January 1985]
seed of Gradus
sequential explicit accumulation
and since
if every configuration of keys
is accounted
as
among the rungs
it follows
that any piece
as a raw configuration
is so
accounted
and
it further follows
that this
as such
is so
accounted
it therefor follows
that among Gradus's many rungs
lurk the
possibility
of the propagation
of its own seed
other than a few sloppy simultaneities I think I played that rather well
December 7, 2020
In The Synthesizer - Ann McLellan
states modulate in global increments
some things change in some ways
some things remain in the same ways
considered neither from inside
nor outside
changes around the constant have no effect upon the constant
it is a machine after all laid bare
||
followed by bits of early Beatles 4 to 8 bars or less each in a pile
alright now George
December 10, 2020
Banned Rehearsal 284 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [February 1992]
tiptap dingding
sessions of this era
Tintinabulary or Toad Hall
we alternated more
or less
what's the tell
could be either
must be Toad Hall
by the answering machine
angry baby with a club
bambam
baby got rhythm
one note at a time
marking time
by making sound
taking care
not to gel
then it just does
piano harmonica small percussion
once it gets its gel
it hangs on
then lets it go
no
fuss
drum little man
play lugubrious runes
low on the piano
to
make the baby giggle
Postscripts
on sion's one's votaries oh thunders
finger scorch'd the stone garb
glance appear shiver'd
by a long twist at the back of 31
the cat sleeping on my ankles
the fox crisscrossing the field
my
shadow on the down road
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