Preface
- J. K. Randall "Program note for shouldn't we talk ?:" from "Being About Music Textworks 1960-2003 J. K. Randall Benjamin Boretz Volume 2: 1978-2003"
Texts
Streaming
March 13, 2021
Choral Tapas - Seattle Pro Musica, Karen P. Thomas, director
Joseph Rheinberger, Melissa Dumphy, Gabriel Fauré
flocking pages
a fancy margarita
smoky triple
with lots of fun sounds
woke with production value
"career"
(MD's amazing accent)
Brisbane being infiltrated by
Philly
March 14, 2021
Concert IV: Ha-Yang Kim - the day is burnt, the night is calm - Seattle Modern Orchestra, Tiffany Lin, director
we are dark
we are blue
dragon snore
black light
music lifting up
dragon dream
curiculums vitae
are not so much irrelevant
here
as they are
incongruous
a rumbling in the presence
sleeps with Patience
seeping force
into repressively permeable time
were
we gray
or blue
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/.
March 13, 2021
Garrett Fisher & GraceAnn Cummings
Raga Études for Piano - Book I: Winter
sweeps and washes
gnaws relentless
who speaks
and from where
who speaks
speaks
from behind the canvas
as one might imagine Debussy
behind an
orchestral sound
cyclic pieces named for time of day and of season
solar calendar
taken as pieces they emerge complete from the start
at the end
intent on static projection
of something inside
as a light
might glow
a time is not a story but a moment protracted
a tight squeeze
should you seek to enter
the sonorous surface
but these
are different pools
they move en masse
stick
together
March 14, 2021
Paurl Walsh
tonality per 18th Century practice
involves the establishment of a
reference set
the tonic triad
and a set of triads
relating
to that reference set
which (I V IV) together are the key or
tonality of the work
which work
would typically explore that key
in terms of that key's relationships
to analogously structured
keys
related to the reference key
by relative maximal common tone
relationships
this music
if considered as a structure of triads and keys at all
departs from that practice
or at least doesn't appropriate the
sense of a single reference set
a home
rather
a slow
oscillation of triadish simultaneities
provides a wash or backdrop
against which other sounds are presented
without phrases
cadence
or need to explicitly compose all the sounds
so that
they are tightly bound
structurally or tonally
to the oscillatory
atmosphere
nor to its particulars
the pitches of which it is made
are immaterialized
a chamber
slowly fills
Recorded
Music for Piano - John Cage - Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Lise Mann, Neal Kosály-Meyer [April 1985, Meany Studio Theater, Seattle]
a lot of white noise in it
and dancers in the attic
musicians who have learned to listen to each other
will compose with the
sounds they make
cooperatively
as in conversation
without
regard to what the notes are
nor how derived
we aggressively
express
we communicate with each other
amongst ourselves
without regard to the relative opacity
of
our communication outside our group
this performance 23 years after the score's propagation
is now 36 years
past
like hell I was going to learn all those notes to play them right
instead I considered the score to be a score of gestures
more than
of notes
gestures notated
as one would notate notes
I will let the night sky
or the paper maker
imagine my music for
me
do we have personalities
clearly
do those personalities mold these tones
unavoidably
I am antagonistically related
to John Cage (as a body of music)
why
he fills me with things to think
couched in terms of antagonism
habit of thought
if you don't take him too seriously
he's
just fine
or rather
if you take yourself more seriously
antagonistic but not dismissive
subject matter
a critique of
or critical analysis
of
arranging how things are
so as
to out the face of culture
he's talking about our doing
co-optivator of experience
not liberating
the original audience
to this presentation
allowed themselves
to wander around
I will also
a chance based system that I can explain to you in a minute
or a deeply
derived system that defies our explanations
essentially
Horrorland
or or and
HorRorLand
hORrORlAND
hrl
HRL
His Royal License
critiques of masterwork culture
the loudspeaker effected a more profound
change
in our listening psyches
than Cage ever could
March 15, 2021
I Can See for Miles - The Who - [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
yet another stalker anthem
translation
my suspicion is boundless and incontrovertible
Adoramus Te - [?] - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey, director
pretty high-toned for the LWS
mom tried
Anais - Diane Thome - Michael Finckel, Diane Thome
acoustic and electronic talking
early days
electronic sounds
starting where they split from the acoustic
like sparks
at the time
no way existed
I think
to make the digital
electronic part
real-time realizable
it had to be pre-synthesized
composed ahead
Pastorale: "The Color of Water" (texts) - Neal Kosály-Meyer - Neal Kosály-Meyer [October 2010]
Neal talks
quoting his program notes
and epigram
and a poem
the color of eyes' intersection
the first pass through
isn't really playing it
sure it is
the tempo at the Cause Célèbre
Cassini Tests - Scott Worthington - Scott Worthington
A.
synth and bass
bowed
acoustic upright
discussing matters across languages
that share of themselves
but
whose times operate
at different lags
or that share time
but
not space
B.
believably lyrical
human sized expression
pose-less
gentle
thoughtful
playful
generous
or like a body language
translated across a gap
or around a bend
March 17, 2021
A___'s First Sermon - A___ B___ [1987]
a documenting artifact
recorded from the standpoint of a concentrated
listener
a perfectly still listener
wavering in focus never
notes
but doesn't attend
its fellow listeners
March 18, 2021
Banned Rehearsal 287 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [February 1992]
foghorn sax
at the tintinabulary
our drums
P's tenor sax
since passed along to Doug P.
quantum flip
the standing wave
sax style
for nursing tad
not sure what it would hitch to
drums puttering
making one with general puttering
and moving into
and cohabiting
with just so and whatever
you are a fuss
music for nursing by
stones
rocks
tones
rock
spears
football
little lists
big game
that's a bone
a critter bone
hedgehog
words related or not
these are a few of my favorite things
disemboweled otters
disillusioned electorate
a list of plural noun phrases
typesetters
transcendentalists
direct to cassette mastering
masterless mastering
you can't leave until
you open the door
open lee
a
door
odor
Postscripts
::Consult the Oracle
first stanza concerning this dark night and its
now to discuss the about which love's urgent
longings 1 of dark night and its traits it
Reality Check::
don't count
roll a clam shell down a level plane
redwing blackbird on a bare tree top
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