Preface
"An impression of this order, vanishing in an instant, is, so to speak, sine materia."
- J. K. Randall "What Is It about About?" 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/.
March 20, 2021
Kenny Mandell
for Edgard Varèse (flute)
revisiting clarity
or
a familiar but challenging climbing wall
for
contemplating alternative routes
for Eric Dolphy and Anthony Braxton (alto sax)
careful progression
keep the immediate memory
in full view
for Sam Rivers (tenor sax)
melodic interval sets
and species
of alternation rhythms
for Steve Lacey and Thelonius Monk (soprano sax)
weight
and mouth molding
Jarrad Powell
Land (2020)
critter calls
synthesized or derived
or straight
the distinction is entirely
in the processing
in which
it is all a digital signal
so why do we
distinguish sounds that way?
the transparency of any medium
is an illusion
::
::
these
are sounds that make a place
sounds are
but don't happen
they
reference
or seem to
the object
or environment
that produced them
they are
present
or they are not
they appear
and fade
but being an object
or an environment
they don't happen
they
make a scene
conjure it
Recorded
March 20, 2021
Hypnotize (Amended) - The Notorious B.I.G. [from Life After Death]
so
it's personal power appropriation
and rhyme-marish riffs
for dancing at
is
it
Track 4 - ?? [from a compilation]
(from my mom's collection. I presume this was from a local chamber music camp she attended in 2002)
2 violins and cello
late 18th Century rondo
if it is Haydn
it would not
surprise me
if it is Mozart
it would
Bab-O for csound - J.K. Randall [from OpenSpace 33]
reflection in a glass lightly
Rocks and Glass (single) - Your Mother Should Know [January 2012]
with acoustic guitar,
Neal & Karen
duet vocal a la demo
(my recording
& production)
progeny of REM
a band
is a bunch of gigs
and a collection of recorded songs
if
a band is what happened
and what remained
March 21, 2021
Almande, Fvb 14 - "Traditional" - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzgerald Virginal Book]
the narrow binds of early keyboards
are a means of holding attention
Symphoniae sacrae II, Singet dem Herren ein neues Lied, Op. 10 #2 - Heinrich Schütz - Capella Augustana
voice is in charge
but it does whatever the instruments might do
hyper aware
of meter
freely mixed
short piece with stunningly varied affects
Suite in C Major, BWV 226 - Dietrich Buxtehude, Simone Stella
solid landings are reserved for period finals
elsetimes
we study leaning off
the rails
landing in a spring
to launch
multivoiced polyphony
as lever
with
which
to shift weight
inside phrases
15 Chorale für die Weihnachtszeit, Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 738 - J. S. Bach - Michael Chapuis
applying plain words
in segregated affect
trajectorifications
varying the
accompaniment in each verse
but too fancy
for singing to
or along with
Lamentationes pro die Mercurii Sancto, Lamentatio I in C minor - Jan Dismas Zelenka
sets the announcement
here begin the lamentations of the prophet
slipping into
a new key
at the last moments
of anything
sudden turn
as articulation point
Movements in G Major - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Miklos Spanyi
snotty teen pieces
throwing little chromatic scale passages around like money
how so very proper the nose be thumbed
number is an analysis
quantity is an
image
but of what
math and poetry
have the same object
but neither knows
what
that object might be
when that
where that
who that
what that
object might be
our maths and poems
clothe the muses
who yearn for nakedness
Sonata in C minor, Kk 115 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
progress by diversion
great trill stuff
stops
starts in an other piece
entirely
there he did it again
fooled me twice
this conversation goes on a long time before the orchestra sneaks in to party
fancy singing coloratura show piece
another conversation
among tunes
recitative
and sung lyric
::
a segregation too far
a ballet
the alto
struts
another conversation
more orchestra party
then they sing at each other
just begging to be overacted
March 23, 2021
Sonata in C minor, Hob. XVI:20 - Franz Joseph Haydn - Christine Schornsheim
as many disparities as can be got into the package
sort it out later
but first
a reminder
a key with a thousand faces
each period includes a myriad of
affects
in tracery paths
before the cadence articulates the limit
among the
movements
of congruity
in range
of disparities jampacked
Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36 #3 - Muzio Clementi - Howard Shelley
teaching pieces
corruption of the young
like those multi-transparency layers
of plastic tissue pages
in the World Book Encyclopedia
teach a piece
that is
just the necessary proper parts
you are surreptitiously teaching
what is
proper
and necessary
March 24, 2021
Sonata in D minor, Op. 31 #2 (the Tempest) - Ludwig van Beethoven - Artur Schnabel
my first Beethoven Sonata
in High School
and my first Beethoven Sonata
recording
he does not soft touch the contrasts
the quiet arpeggiation
and
recitatives
their number and spacing
their inter-contrastings
so subtle
echoed in
2's opening
such discontinuities
reckless
Sonatina in C Major, Op. 88 #1 - Friedrich Kuhlau - Loredana Brigandi
let's play some fun scales
balance and lyricism in everything
we are civilized after all
Etude in A minor, Op. 10 #2 - Frédéric Chopin - Cecile Licad
each note counts
played a bit slower than Cortot does
for clarity
Boris Godunov, Act IV, Scene I (1872 version) - Modest Mussorgsky - Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow, Martti Talvela, Leonard Mroz, Nicolai Gedda, Bozena Kinasz, Andrzej Hiolski, Aage Haugland, Halina Lukomska, Polish Radio Chorus of Krakow, Boys Chorus from the Krakow Philharmonic Chorus
groups are arguing
choral dialog
the outside has ceased
for the Czar
all moves
sink deeper
unable to escape
the pull of this
inexorable mode
whose center is
emptiness
March 25, 2021
Parsifal, Prelude to Act III - Richard Wagner - Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
not proceeding
always misbegetting
a false memory
of a nongoal
all stones dissolve
bringing a spear
to a Gordian knot fight
Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103 - Johannes Brahms - Gächinger Kantorei, Helmut Rilling, Martin Galling
proportion of phrases
that start big and get small
as to those
that start
small and get big
and their ordering
occasionally a polite phrase
that stays
put
and its proportions
and ordering
harmless ethnic fun
for proto Nazis
Romaface
heavy feet trochee
durationally amplified
falling apart
Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3 #2 - Serge Rachmaninov - John Ogdon, Brenda Lucas
4 fists are better than 2 but not much
4 Preludes, Op. 22 - Alexander Scriabin - Michael Ponti
intent on saying it
it slides descendingly
no pretense beyond its saying
transformative momentary figures
In Session at the Tintinabulary
March 21, 2021
Banned Telepath 73 South - Steve Kennedy
Steve tuned in to disasters in progress
March 22, 2021
Banned Telepath 73 Tintinabulary - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Neal Kosály-Meyer
and we gathered in the studio, calling Anna & Neal
Banned Rehearsal 1022 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer
then I piled them up
disasters and all
Postscripts
::Consult the Oracle
not only them pasturing the patriarch
jacob altar the gods to purify
themselves and to change their tasks first they must
Reality Check::
two scrambled and an english, tea
no view now
elf ore
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