"So what you identify as exterior phenomena concerning which your awareness is formed as intersubjectively sharable concreta are more likely the projected objectifications of the energies, the wave motions, the vibrations of your self-evolving psyche. Psychedelia may be the firmest reality, mystical transcendence the clearest identity of what you experience."
Benjamin Boretz - "More on one on one" from "inside in . . . / . . . outside out" Open Space Publications, 2020
Texts
Streaming
March 20, 2022
My Old Friend Death - Nat Evans - Lori Goldston, Will Hayes
edge
of the realms
the realm
of edges
the realms
of the edges
of realms
understanding our own broken symbiosis
From Recent Arrivals
All Too Soon - Betty Roché [from Take the "A" Train]
between
singing a tune
saying a thing
and setting a poem
as a poem
and being entirely
each
Party - Beyoncé [from 4]
money
lots
thrown at a dance
Nardis - Bill Evans Trio [from Explorations]
catching time
that waits not
in midair
even Bill's
accompaniment
to the bass solo
is melodic
over long
distances
Dream of Life - Billie Holiday [from Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia]
a message
from one to another
does not advance plot
functions like an aria
Recorded
March 19, 2022
Symmetry - Anthony Braxton, Woody Shaw [from The Iron Men]
fast forward
frames per second
camera aimed at the gravel
highway
Life is Cheap - Flipper [from Generic]
purposefully flat
unvaried
diatribal verse
A Matter of Life and Death (Parts II and IV) - Steven Mackey - Steven Mackey [from Open Space 4]
not to be approached
but with filters
and stomping
The Song of Majnun - Bright Sheng - Houston Grand Opera, Ward Holmquist, Raymond Very, Ana Maria Martinez, Jill Grove, Grant Youngblood, Mary Petro, Jonita Lattimore, Patrick Blackwell, Michael Chioldi, The Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Richard Bado
the text sits uncomfortably
both
within its sung pitches
and
within the orchestral accompaniment
an extended quasi-recitative
the surroundings are malignant
resistant to interaction
moments don't so much occur
as
they are inflicted
puppet characters
puppet tunes
constant flux of activity
nervous about flagging attention
everything conflicts
line by line
set pieces
prosaic
prosody
or stilted
page
words
end of 6th scene
has a nice set piece
holds still
to be musical
for a
moment
moves
into a death scene
gets distracted
expression
entirely conventional
that is
within the
work's
internal cultural conventions
stuck
Interview with Sir Charles Mackeras (with Alyn Shipton)
two brit
adjacent accents
sparring
they're talking
about orchestral size
an experimental person altogether
rotary valve trumpets
to prevent people from cracking
could be Shostakovich
Indiana - Antique Scream [from Sink the Sun]
an urban sound
for the heartland
danceable
preeny prancer
plays
with dancers
What's Wanting For (Karen vocal) (final) - Your Mother Should Know [May 20, 2012]
I like how the drums sound
each individual drum
is in a different
spot
Grand Guignol - Tomten [from Cremation Songs]
certainly self-heroic
how can you trust a guy
with a backup choir
underlining the important words
of the message
I'm atellin'
ya
Banned Rehearsal 1045 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [February 14 and 17, 2022]
each faction
is uncertain
as to what might be going on
we
wander through each other's minds
differing versions of electronic
keyboard sounds
a multilayered backdrop
deep focus
electronic
Aaron's sound is big
I like what I am hearing
it sounds like each of us
this messed up Bach sound
has
unaccountable sparkles
the layers become more obscure
mists arise
vaporize slyly
in the air
always there
are these
signposts?
is this language?
Praeludium, Fvb 99 - Galeazzo Sabbatini - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
the rhythm
of the underlying melody
whether
it is one
two
or three
or four
notes per measure
has
a structural effect
at
far deeper levels
than
it
might
in later styles
Gaude Maria Virgo - Peter Philips - The Tudor Consort, Peter Walls [from Cantiones Sacrae Quinis Vocubus]
the walls were singing
it arrives at us
but not
from a
single person
a collective expression
Sonata in B-flat Major, Kk. 172 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
climbing steps
up a few
take a bow
segments of direct repetition
segments of sequences
a rhythm of
their interplay
Sonata in C minor, Op. 112 - Ludwig van Beethoven - Walter Kempff
he plays it big
sweeps it off twice
finds a place inside
then one inside that
and another
each fugal answer
accompanied
by echoes of its figure
in the other voices
much is left unfinished
lost in the rush
to get on with it
full of false starts
feints
sudden shifts
of point
of view
the variations
are
full of directions
not taken
spilling all over
Waltz in A minor, Op. 34 #2 - Frédéric Chopin - Alfred Cortot (1934)
flexibility of tempo
extreme dreamy memory
of an experience
of a dance
or
wish
of a dance
as fun to play
as to hear
everybody parties
Little Alabama C___ - Henry Burr [from Evans 78s]
well that's offensive
the happy life
of the enslaved
among
the cotton fields
under the moon
A Night in Tunisia - Charlie Parker [from The Complete Savoy and Dial Master Takes]
the thread is complete
in each of their ears
the clues are for us
Springsville - Miles Davis [from Miles Ahead]
this car
has a smooth ride
so sleek
massed horns
He's A Rebel - The Crystals [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
no sense having a sound
that blends into the road noise
Your Precious Love - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
it takes more than two beats
to firmly establish
what counts
as a beat
slow dance sentimental
Burning Bridges - Pink Floyd [from Obscured by Clouds]
as film music
intended
to fade back
out of sight
I Remember You - The Ramones [from Leave Home]
all
for the sake
of the ooooo
to rhyme
with
you
lackluster
Our Greatest Saviour (Hyfrydol) - Rowland H. Pritchard - Christopher Parkening [from Simple Gifts]
in several variations
I wish he wouldn't moan along
brushing teeth
light lamps
and intoning
hum sound
with
various vowels
35 years ago today
as I listen
taking care of
cataloging
the bugle is low blowed
Karen is playing with the cats
Anarchy and Amnehitabel
who were still kittens
but getting
bigger
we must have been pretty sleepy
a cat says a thing
I
practice my nonsense lingo
so I'll be good at it
when we have kids
in a few years
with kalimba
I think
I put
Karen
to sleep
a little ocarina song
for our cats
listen up
finger
breath
thoughts are slippery
never look back
the day we saw
Morris the Cat
at
The Cat Show
Anarchy purrs
we are all sleepy
a busy weekend
you
wouldn't think
would you
biff bam pow
I was still
writing letters
one to somebody
each day
They Can't Take That Away From Me - Morgana King [from This is Always]
they way you hold your knife
haunt my dreams
nicely turned guitar
solo
March 22, 2022
Banned Rehearsal 469 - Isaac E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [October 18, 1997]
468 was an unmitigable digital disaster
due to massive
constant
clipping
so levels were turned back down
getting some system
hiss
but one of these sessions
or other
we'll find a
solution
learning periods are for real
we seem to have entered an
old funeral parlor
and
Kingsbury the Aged P
still pretty new to the family
back then
and solemn drums
toddler comments
our hats
may be tipped
an electric guitar
enters the discussion
that's a snake
we are gooey
viscous
hiss
cuss
guitar morphs
into a feedback pool
dark and misty
Isaac at 14 months
comments
preverbally
a frustrating age
this session
is a lair
of a long beast
guiro says a thing
and the radio blathers
an adjoining chamber
or the same
with some new furniture
time is contacted
and amplified
now it's a classroom
Aaron reads for us
the inner static
of a distracted mind
rectify the offending members
the arcane art
of tuning strings
Keith demonstrates
on the aged P
we shake our cymbals
at fate
and its minions
Keith chorales
quietly
in the back
Neal blathers
into the skrying pool
the space squeaks
on its bells
and spring whistles
copyright free
illustrations
some baritone
decides to sing on the radio
some feedback
gets out of the pool
a whole choir
has joined the baritone
the piano
repeatedly
puts a stop to it
too bad
about the hiss
the problem
with being a human being
is
we really like
to repeat things
we really like
the chorale
continues
despite the shakers
and
the you know what I'm saying lady
on the radio
not a typical funeral
for sure
where the guy
doesn't want to stand up
and be
you know
interactive
more DAT
than we thought we had
extra innings
coda
coda pop
Love Me - Obie Trice, 50 Cent, Eminem [from 8 Mile]
defense posture
brag tactic
Consider the Birds 3 - Keith Eisenbrey [February 3, 2022]
starts out
downright tuneful
a particularly whistly bird
Absent Reminders - Steve Layton and Improv Fridays [from PPP]
architecture (lapsed)
enclosure
partly collapsed
invaded
by the vegetable kingdom
and moss
and fungus
bugs
about their buggy
business
magic in this light
Banned Rehearsal 931 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [March 20, 2017]
five years
and two days ago
on this
the listening day
we open gently
ocarina and light percussion
pppp piano
tone low
in the mix
a tone
is shared
bones
are shaken
we hear
a suspicion
of forte
piano
shocks populace
a single tone
harps
auto erupt
the mischievers
are now at play
we understate
with
great
and solemn
intent
music
as such
resolutely
refrained from
we rattle around
ring some sound
the
same tone
twice
and again
then it falls
a bird call
calls
a flute
drifts us off
a phone
tone
tells no time
to tambourine
honk
testimony
historical
sort of
a carefully constructed song
each moment tells true
March 23, 2022
Praeludium, Fvb 100 - William Byrd - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
no longer
than one of Scriabin's miniatures
and
more
literally praeludial
it doesn't seem to presage itself
but points
forward
to whatever it might have been
that came after
Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Helmut Rilling, Sibylla Rubens, Christine Schafer, James Taylor, Thomas Quasthoff
celebration of prosperity
the fruits of colonialism
treated
lightly
when the singer breathes
the upper strings
fill in
the space
an aria
or trio
or what not
a number
within this
is a complete whole
with no needs
outside
the expression of itself
the plot
is presumed
from the
situations presented
in due order
a picture book
not
a
drama
a series
of song pantomimes
Rock Away - Sadie McKinney [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
escape by rocking chair
The Sheik of Araby - Art Tatum [form Classic Early Solos]
his eruptions
do a similar function
for the melody
as
the upper strings
to the vocal
in the Bach
above
verses
are a character study
told
in quick two-line stories
with a long refrain
see title
the guitar breaks
parse
it
for us
White Christmas - Elvis Presley [from Elvis' Christmas Album]
sings with a playful diaphragm
Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry [collected from Neal Kosály-Meyer's Bo's Milieu]
on the verse
the guitar
answers the voice
on the chorus
it all plays together
jump on the bandwagon
all over the
country
join the fun
Castles Made of Sand - Jimi Hendrix [from Jim's Mix (private)]
telling a Dylan style story
but with a moral tag
Back Stabbers - The O'Jays [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
hard
left-right production
in the face
of industry enforced
metronomic
regularity
variously emphasized syncopations
are
a provisional gambit
in opposition
Heroes - David Bowie [from Heroes]
nothing
will keep us together
that is that
what you say
extraordinary calibration
Big Science - Laurie Anderson [from Big Science]
irony writ large
in metronomic lock step
with neon letters
all done up
in proper
Englishy
String Orchestra
tie
and tails
I suspect though
this is nothing like
its
traditional garb
sounds more like Holst
or one of that mob
just the tune folks
move along
Wake Up Dolores - Los Lobos [from Kiko]
the vocal
fades back
into the mini-chorus
insinuant
more than
insistent
like
trying to understand
what someone is saying
in a noisy club
The Perfect World - Shonen Knife [from Brand New Knife]
nicely played instrumentals
this didn't come from nowhere
Banned Rehearsal 623 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [March 1, 2002]
to start
some rumbling
tapping
and piano drumming
we
then approach the scene
with some care
cornet
drums
and piano
we ponder
and poke
the cornet
is
re-cased
drums and piano
have a quiet moment
a hint of
feedback in the air
ozone near lightning
or
a distant dog
bark
near rain
metallics
lights
the cornet is again
uncased
brushed
glissandi
melodics
slow blues three
configuration
tam tam
increase of underroar
a wooden frog
somebody shouts sharply
a Funmaker march rhythm
we do all in
our power
to transform its tempo
cornet
tamtam
and
slowing march
pot lid bells
and piano tones
we rock out
after our own fashion sense
cornet
long tone
bump
cornet
long tone
a transition
piano
scribbles
March 24, 2022
legendary hero
ambiguous outlaw
poorboy wrecked
song
destructive success
What's Wanting For (alternate vocal) draft - Your Mother Should Know [May 20, 2012]
there is some confusion
as to which draft
is referenced in my
index
I have since
devised a better naming system
I'll play
the other possibility too
just to be sure
I cover them each
one has some backup vocals by Neal
both have Karen on the tune
Destroy - Red Ribbon [from Freak's Only]
a short instrumental
that evokes
but isn't
in song form
that portrays
but doesn't use
chord changes
that
transforms
its own mood
and sets its business as usual
at a
sudden
ironic remove
brilliant
DIY for the win
so many sounds
so quickly go by
many seem familiar
as though
and perhaps they were
sampled
from us
have we been
regurgitated?
I presume these are gathered samples
I can't see how
else
Steve would move
from instrument to instrument
so
seamlessly
and yet so cleanly severed
fact
I have no idea
how this was done
Steve has tricks
up his tricks
up his
sleeves
and yet
completely in tune
with some of our old
stack-o-decks
ways
the crazy guitar playing is
I
presume
Steve his own self
none of the rest of us play that well
In Session at the Tintinabulary
March 25, 2022
Anybody's Fingerbook 5x5 (transpositional) B C D - Keith Eisenbrey
Rounds for Aaron (third bit) - Keith Eisenbrey
Joshua Tree Prelude 6 - Aaron Keyt
I finally got this one.
Postscripts
Skaldmud's Doodle Gallery
more doodles from 1988
