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Preface

 "So the body is musicalized; but also music is corporealized - its ontology is objectified as one's own identity or as the situation obtaining between one's self and it, or its identity; such an objectification is like an extralinguistic reconfiguring of the expressive event, a turning it over in your mind and body - re-living and re-doing pieces of it - not only experiencing what you are doing, but also doing what you are experiencing."

- Benjamin Boretz "music/ /consciousness/ /gender" from "Being About Music Textworks 1960-2003 J. K. Randall Benjamin Boretz Volume 2: 1978-2003"

Texts

Streaming

January 9, 2021

Finnegans Wake, Chapter 7 - James Joyce  - Neal Kosály-Meyer

did his hair

Shem's Bodily Makeup
speech without words
the Joyce sub
marine man
fear these
talk about lowness
of
it 

it
will trickle out 

commuinicaauted 

not a bit sorry
new irish stew
becoming a novel 

communicquated 

among the pornfarts of speech
low

the obligatory
ewe of queue

lowness 

forehead as visual
stank out of sight as structural 

Persse O'Reilly
toon
Leitmotivalisticatulus
a bad fit of pajamas
these are the words we heard 

were we to memorize one wwword
we e eoooe a k (dd)

dd(ak)
d a d
k d
( ) 

in the names of the incensed privy
moose gas 

onechapteratatime
echapte
e a ch pt htcp thpc 

tits 

the age of his arteries
public impostures 

once
current
punce 

edge you
candied
fermented words
highly prosy crap in his hand
let us pry
to booth

we all take [*] 

premature gravedigger
to find out how his innards work 

Lowness (of the) Highlands 

he points the deathbone
and the quick are still 

woe woe woe
way way way 

[*misforbegotten] 

he lifts the life wand
and the dumb speak

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/.

January 9, 2021

Tom Baker

Traces:Sarah – Melissa Achten, harp
Traces:Henry – Tom Baker, bowed mbira
Traces:George – Tom Baker, electric guitar
Traces:Nellie – Lily Shababi, viola; Madison LaVigne, cello

floating
amidst chatters and engines
we are inside
the outside
may not persist
if we could move
we would wander 

signal transmission released from location
the chambers are roomy but interminable
walls are made of empty space 

intermittency

January 10, 2021

Rahikka (Carson Rennekamp) & James Lee

gentle otherworld 

whole body float 

slow river wonder land 

periodic without stops
semi-stops
or any else stops 

it flows
and undulates
breathing
river music
un-flow stasis
null motion
in null space
no disturbance below the surface 

music designed for living with
like walls and ceilings and floors
and the volumes
so arising
between them

January 12, 2021

Bit Graves

built from center of a sound outward
the center is at the root
unshakable
discord's squirrels notwithstanding 

the space aliens are talking
welcome to bloop beep land 

irresistible periodicity
shop sounds
manufactory

Recorded

January 10, 2021

The Quaker's Courtship - Train Case

sense and sensibility

Love is a Landmark - Antonioni [from Lullablaze]

voice flips yodel-like into a distant part of the head
and occasionally drops into an alto warmth 

not without some technique there
no question about it
she got some pipes

Jhon Come Kisse Me Now, Fvb 10 - William Byrd - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]

The written music of those days looked different than the written music of our days. I wonder if those old guys had different concepts of what music was made of, than our concepts are of what music is made of, stemming from the differently shaped symbols?

Courantes - Michael Praetorius - New London Consort, Philip Pickett [from Dances for Terpsichore]

the art of pleasure
dance
the night is long 

one for strings
one for recorders
(what's record about recorders anyway?)*
drums and brass and krummhorns

*great Wikipedia article with terms like fipple flute and jongleur.

Suite in F Major, BuxWV 239 - Dietrich Buxtehude - Stella Simone

multiple voices together
even virtual voices
create a lyric line
inexplicitly
between them
a melody of their intervals 

Fux thought
perhaps it could be explained
mechanically

Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her, BWV 700 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Michel Chapuis

more than two voices
of course
means multiple inexplicit lyric lines
which being lyric lines
create 2nd order inexplicit lyric lines
between them
melodies of intervals of intervals

Lamentationes pro die Mercurii Santo 2 - Jan Dismas Zelenka

the art of making the word beautiful
aestheticizing prophecy
a risky gambit 

sensuous dissonance

3 Excerpts from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Miklos Spanyi

familiar to generation after generation of piano pupils

Partita in F Major, Hob. XVIIa.2 - Franz Joseph Haydn - Christine Schornsheim, Andreas Steier

duos are clearly as much fun to play as to witness
possibly more

January 12, 2021

Symphony in F Major, K130(130) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood, Jaap Schröder

as much as it continues returning
it presses forward 
never looks back
completes the phrase
spins the tale
harmonic progression becomes a thing
with a narrative of its own

January 13, 2021

Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36 #1 - Muzio Clementi - Howard Shelley

now that's familiar! see CPEB above.
a nice clear little piece 

but
as a child
I got the impression that Clementi only wrote pieces for children
because his music never came up again 

were teaching pieces a publishing vogue?
lucrative no doubt
democratizing music
anybody can learn

Sonata in G, Oop. 31 #1 - Ludwig van Beethoven - Wilhelm Kempff

the quick-echo figure that opens
is more than just a clever flourish
it informs everything
as effective as it is obvious
even when noticed by its absence 

I tried to learn this as an undergrad at the UW
it got the better of me 

the figure continues through into the third movement
right out to the double bump end

Sonata in F-sharp minor, Op. 61, "Elégie harmonique sur la mort de Louis Ferdinand" - Johann Ladislaus Dussek - Tuija Hakkila

he sticks with a figuration
out as far as it will take him
the appassionato strains in its harness 

keyboard as arena
of worth and prowess
a martial art

January 14, 2021

Impromptu in B-flat Major, Op. 142 #3 - Franz Schubert - Murray Perahia

balanced phrase
lyric expression
song is the model 

theme and variations
to show how expression is foreground
the theme is a carrier wave 

same dude
different mood 

anti-reductionist
(we contain multitudes)

Etude in A minor, Op. 10 #2 - Frederic Chopin - Alfred Cortot [1942]

like Queen Mab

String Quartet in A minor, Op. 41 #1 - Robert Schumann - Quatuor Via Nova

let us gather in this lonely place
to share what comfort we can 

doubling back on himself
bursting outward 

balance is
hinted at
alluded to 

counts as dire 

through figuration meter is liberated from the bar line
an invisible hand molding the tension of a poignant balance

In Session at the Tintinabulary

Assembly Rechoired 60 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey

Keith Eisenbrey · Assembly Rechoired 60 210111

Karen and I made some noise while engaged in an ineffective attempt to straighten things up out in the Tintinabulary

Postscripts

::Consult the Oracle

without music the only reward he

took students is he out of a sigh and

raised mine so goddamn important me old

Reality Check::

the lion in my wall

unravel

lick her side then