Preface
"Most recently, I've developed a much more expansive sense of the possibilities of musical writing ('discourse' included), locating its value not so much in its aesthetic or philosophical modalities, or its phenotype, but entirely in the imaginativeness of its writing and reading. The limitless possibilities of imaginatively writing about something - something as compelling to some persons as is music - in any of the rhetorical, symbolic, formal, or synthetic languages one might invoke seem to be irresistibly inviting, infinitely more than the aspiration to 'authority'."
- Benjamin Boretz "On Reading Each Other" from "inside in . . . / . . . outside out" Open Space Publications, 2020
Texts
Streaming
May 22, 2021
Choral Tapas - Seattle Pro Musica, Karen P. Thomas, director
"Behold, God the Lord passed by!" from Elijah, Op. 70 by Felix Mendelssohn
not my favorite big early 19th Century piece, but well sung
the smoking gun ad astra
was the cocktail
demonstrated herein
Welcome Table by Saunder Choi
text is
spoken word sung
sung word music
interesting tenor voice
really nice
stray thought
the importance of poetry
of a certain kind
for
the less powerful
or
for group identity
Abendlied by Josef Rheinberger
still awful pretty
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/.
Dick Valentine
we follow this sound in
hear what it hears
auditor
(s)
(ium)
electronique
lofty chambers
for soaring birds
cavern critters
cloister
songs
our hosts
the guide bats
return
or we have
back
to more like earth life
day and
daylife
where we were
when we first followed
May 23, 2021
Don Berman/D2 - Don Berman, Dick Valentine
And The Elephant - Don Berman
Simplest Possible - Dick
Valentine
One for Milford - Dick Valentine, Don Berman
Take 19
- Don Berman
outfit for battle
out on the town
putting up the cool front
drumming in the woods
in the light rain
moving slow and
certain
an internal conversation
May 28, 2021
Joshua Kohl
Snapshot Spring 2021
Skeleton Flower Audio Sketchbook
strum hum
zither buzz
inside
we find a place stabilized by
cyclicity
but the walls vanish
so too the ground
we float through
new masses
galleries might move us through
one of those times
sounds on walls
an alternate tour
nearer night
loose ideas
Recorded
May 22, 2021
My Little Cousin - Peggy Lee [from The Complete Recordings 1941-1947]
a song fit for urban nightclub
tables and drinks
a little vocal
show-off move
at the end
shadowing the reed
I Just Keep Lovin' Her - Little Walter, Othum Brown [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]
nearly rock & roll?
guitar and harmonica and voice
Allen calls
it Swing Era
or early harbinger of the new blues changes
Monkey Motion - Houston Boines [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]
blues with harmonica
was this that
that had been harbinged above?
but heavier on its feet, stompier
Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
rhythmic enthusiasm spills into spare syllables
Anna (Go To Him) - Arthur Alexander [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
such a sob story
May 23, 2021
Selections from The Sound of Music - The Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey, director, JoAnne Deacon, piano [April 1967]
as a story
TSoM deflects the horror of the Anschluss
by making it
about an aristocrat and his political problems
the Nazis were simply too
boorish for words
a gaslighting
there's my Mom singing The Lonely Goatherd (with spirit) and Edelweiss
May 24, 2021
I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home - Ann Peebles
affect count
one
could be a Baroque aria
"...such words as it were vain to close..." - J. K. Randall - Keith Eisenbrey [recorded April 2016]
a different viscosity than JK's recordings
the public this addresses
is a different animal
than his was
is wholly different than the experience of playing it
while performing
one is so constantly conscious
of the counting
that how the whole goes
or seems
is largely out of conscious
hands
quite a tender performance past me!
I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
potent
infantile
lust anthem
Banned Rehearsal 111 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [January 1987]
a gentle start
kalimba ocarina violin
then bugle? for
kalimba
we focus only then
the outside radio world intrudes
but we are
equal to it
preachin' brought in
a thing to be grasped
we are studying the
great kenosis passage
it is helpless in our rude hands
of course
we had the Funmaker Sprite
understanding the world through data scrambling
sure fire
a slow
announcement of our present activity
with cow bells
6PM Wednesday
of the first Banned Week
selected paper scores provided
Raccoon and Possum - Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Penny Seeger [from Animal Folk Songs for Children]
tail ID
then a 'simmon line
disjunct word bits
May 25, 2021
Banned Rehearsal 445 - Isaac E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
a gooey mass extrudes
slow
heavy
commingled
we'll
never get that out of the carpet
grind it in
drill holes
press hard
incessant weather
weight on weight
density
maximized
all the charm of a wailing toddler
a brief sniffling
calm toward the end
may not last though
partial success
9:11 Blues - Toby Twining - Matt Haimovitz [from Please Welcome Matt Haimovitz]
a continually recurring fragment
ghosts through it all
Consider The Birds 39 - Keith Eisenbrey [February 2007]
dove cote murmurs
Joe Lies - Prom Queen [from Covers]
a shape of changes
like blues in mirrors
May 26, 2021
Gradus 305 - Neal Kosály-Meyer - Neal Kosály-Meyer [January 2017]
firmly footed
limits are a type of essence
likewise essence is a
type of limit
a type
or an image
an example of a type
can be reduced to its type
an image insists on its relatedness
from my blog post of February 4, 2017:
Rich Trove struggling to cross Vast Emptiness. Pushing, spreading, expanding, more inexorably than the possibility of measuring. // Delving, pushing down against buoyancy.
Muscadin, Fvb 19 - Traditional - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzgerald Virginal Book]
short
a transcription?
made fancy for public use?
what
if ought
of the transcription's subject
survived the
process?
Symphoniae sacrae II "Ich danke dir, Herr, von ganzen Herzen", Op. 10 #7 - Heinrich Schütz - Capella Augustana
sometimes a statement requires its own tempo
or always
fond of direct repetition
of what is sung by the solo instrument voice
entwined
Suite in D Major, BuxWV 232 - Dieterich Buxtehude - Simone Stella
two movements
neither long
not composed to be complete in
themselves
or with each other as companion
incomplete in new ways
Fughetta super Gottes Sohn ist kommen, BWV 703 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Michael Chapuis
fragment
thing
on tune name
from Chorale
set to text
that begins
sequences that part company midway
we wander to twig's end
each
successive piece through the first three
is a more substantial plant
part
sunlight has descended
May 27, 2021
Sonata in D minor, Kk. 120 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
the appearance of continuity
through the mere fact
of pulse
invariance
from within
is constructed
an improvisatorial hierarchy
to
exponentialize
the counting to three
Arioso with 7 Variations, Wq. 118.4 - Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach - Miklos Spanyi
intent on taking stuff apart
for his own investigations
not for
entertainment
Sonata in A-flat Major, Hob. XVI.46 - Franz Joseph Haydn - Christine Schornsheim
this is avoiding something
talking around it
loves its own
distractions
May 28, 2021
Sonata in C Major, K. 309 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Mitsuko Uchida
one is in a suite of rooms
a set of personal relations
people have
troubles to work out
the suite of rooms
is coercive to working
things out
the structure as seen from above
key relations and
figuration patterns on a time line
and the like
are at the service
of a new experiential structure
as lived through
the long line
emerges as an idea
Postscripts
::Consult the Oracle
had not yet far enough known with impunity
but if Titorelli had never known
it yet again for heart of his wife it
Reality Check::
monologue in the world
the ground wind sees
emphatically the sound of creaking house
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