Preface
"In the musical universe of one, the musical universe I inhabit within the musical spaces I share with you, with everyone, I don't assume to know what you or they might hear or what you or they might say to describe what you each hear; nor do I assume to know whether my experience might resemble yours nor whether what I say to express my experience might relate to what you would say; but still we might listen together and still I will be interested in speaking to you of what I hear, and of hearing from you what you might say of what you hear."
- Benjamin Boretz "in the musical universe of one" from "inside in . . . / . . . outside out" Open Space Publications, 2020
Texts
Streaming
June 13, 2021
Kin of the Moon (Heather Bentley, Kaley Lynn Eaton Leanna Keith)
at
the Royal Room
dark math
high order polyrhythmic
three body problem
ancestor worship
nice keys Kaley!
where beat drops
there drops beat
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/.
Sovan (Tomo Nakayama, Jeramy Koepping)
subsurface
ocean swells
smoothly suspirant
warm wash
cushioned
embrace
folded in
birds and rivulets
gurgle peace
without us
the lake shore has always lapped
June 15, 2021
John Teske - Any Ensemble
Greg Campbell, percussion; Haley
Freedlund, trombone; Noel Kennon, viola; John Teske, double bass; Neil Welch,
saxophone
swell
ad;sr
prelude
trashfire
intonations:
(threadshift
by
the fucking neck
bone flute
mauler
libera me
brain
slap
klaxon wail
papercut butterflies
blood on the hearth
death
rattle)
any ensemble
into which
anyone might be called
the name
remains constant
while the players
flow through
also
anybody plays
the same music
and
what isn't the
same
about
what they play
is the them
of what they
play
as expressed
by the score
that anybody plays
much like any institutional orchestra
even the board
is
essentially
an any board
a frame
through which
is
expressed
any player
I have heard other groups assembled
play these
at other times
filling a set of shapes
with their expression
of themselves
expressing the score(s)
Recorded
June 13, 2021
Sonata in G minor, Kk. 121 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
relatedness through common tones
and hierarchically organized
substructures of relatedness
Sonata in E-flat Major, Wq. 52/1 - Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach - Miklos Spanyi
the person of the Sonata
kindly
humorous
empathetic
understanding
wondering
quest
exerts
explores
projection of passions
onto placard pose
in lifelike
sequence
drama animated by the series of surviving production stills
vocal
melismatic cadenza
wherein the character's singer
ornately
underlines
the artificiality
of the whole endeavor
recitative
the characters negotiate
duet
they come to an
arrangement
the lilac leaves are playing a game with raindrops
Symphony in C Major (#97) - Franz Joseph Haydn - Austro Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, Adam Fischer
orchestration
as staging
and peopling
a drama
and
pulling us in
to supply
the plot
an ordered village life
living itself
within a tonal scheme
that interpermeates them
pupils twiddle their thumbs
we are so polite
and pretty
old
folks went to bed
time to party
June 15, 2021
Sonata in D Major, Op. 28 "Pastorale" - Ludwig van Beethoven - Artur Schnabel
I have been reading through this very sonata this week in my morning practice.
1st movement is generous
with not moving along so quickly
anywhere
in particular
walking along
with no one else
not headed
anywhere
one
imagines
stopping to take pictures
Impromptu in A-flat Major, Op. 80 #4 - Franz Schubert - Murray Perahia
made of discrete and balanced parts
one is certain of where one is
within a phrase or figure
they all complete themselves
Sonata in A-flat Major (#8) - Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Constance Keene
charmed I'm sure
June 16, 2021
Impromptu in A-flat Major, Op. 29 - Frédéric Chopin - Artur Rubinstein
life here
is less cut and dried
volubly finessed
Fantasien, Op. 116 - Johannes Brahms - Walter Gieseking
offsets
serial
planar
angular
Beethoven fights his keys
Brahms lets them melt in his hands
1
we sit back
in our club chairs
to talk of mighty deeds
and past loves
Imperial splendor
and youth's struggles
centennial retrospective
Europe bestrides the world
2
old figures
in newer clothes
already out of fashion
twice over
home for aging sensualists
3
intrigues
domestic and dark
a storyteller
lost in
memory land
4
the decadent decrepitude of Romanticisim
lost in fairy tales and
lushly fronded gardens
cramped quarters
[from my journal of October 5, 2004:
1 opens with something like a
Dvorakian fantasy feel shades of Bruckner
2 Schumannian coda to the
Scherzo
3 chorale from Wagner
4 a set of varations?]
June 17, 2021
Symphony in C minor, Op.29 (#2) - Alexander Scriabin - Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, Eliahu Inbal
oh what a difference
where places are places
howsoever fragile
if it has a weakness
it is that the texture is overdense for his
orchestrational abilities
but that might be the recording
his thin
textures are magical
opening of 2 especially
2 and 3 strong
throughout
an intelligent ear
for the effect of tonality
and
of the parts that make it up
In Session at the Tintinabulary
June 14, 2021
Banned Rehearsal 1028 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt
We gathered on the porch on a lovely evening and made some sound.
Postscripts
::Consult the Oracle
29 house clash companies shout has
no sign of years ago grill had but as
teddy buying the glass but nothing you
Reality Check::
the corridor
in tinted eyes
one day the osprey
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