"The poem fronts for alternative grammars finding their material moment,
Otherwise
and inevitably language hides its hungry ghosts.
And the cup swirls
interiorily and no limit in folding."
George Quasha - Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole
Texts
Recorded
December 17, 2022
Little Wonder (Junior Vasquez Club Mix) - David Bowie [from Earthling]
a song
being more than its definitive published version
might also
be
a collection of parts for varied reassembly
collaboration
invited
Gradus 22 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [August 6, 2002]
fourth A up ca 220 Hz
a signal in constant vigilance
responding to
acts of indication
we play notes by pointing at them
patient
for its next indication
indictment
indicatement
indictatement
dictator
indicator
indictator
indicement
the finger points
and in pointing speaks
potentate
potentater
puissant spud
one hammer for
three strings
efficient but bludgeonly
space left for silence
evidence of payment of a debt
a receipt
room left
for
the master to pass between
G**** Biker - Bruce Springsteen [from Magic]
telling one
who that one is
celebratory taxonomy
taxonomination
into glory
we touch objects with objects
sound
character of touch
intimate conversation
and public discourse
differ
in
personal anatomy of the other
not their genitalia alone
but
the interior shape of their selves
as well
intimate
addressed to the whole of self
public
addressed to the
public of self
only
some tiny twanger
has been amplified
its broken wooden parts
have a voice
easily busy
Idiot Orange - Red Ribbon [from Freaks Only]
solid
does not budge
not a inch
implacable inertia
drummer and bass are strong
Roosevelt Station 220730 - Keith Eisenbrey
for some few weeks
the escalators sang
like canids to the moon
do not harass the escalators
S'elle m'amara - Johannes Ockeghem - Blue Heron, Scott Metcalfe
follow this pattern exactly
we'll meet up at the end
I promise
An Almain, Fvb 200 - Traditional - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
the bones of later forms
a balance of dance phrases
Sonata in A Major, Kk. 212 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
scales quick and slow
and gradations between
balance of dance
phrases
expanded
embellished
ramified
and let loose
Impromptu in A-flat Major, op. 90 #4 - Franz Schubert - Alfred Brendel
figurational mensuration
exact sizes
a multiplex
variously
joined
ABA
with contrasting affect
a model of personal irony
polite and cheerful
on the outside
passion and moodiness
on the inside
feather the passage paths between
Keyhole Blues - Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven [from Hot Fives and Sevens]
tells a thing
aimed at the end of the statement
as baseline
Three Pieces for Choir: The Main Deep - Johanna Beyer - The Astra Choir, John McCaughey
harmonies slipping down a window pane
sough hush
Forget If You Can (take 1) - Billie Holiday [from Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia]
Handsome Hal and his tintype gal
a gentle slow dance
for quiet
cheek to cheek
Another Hair Do - Charlie Parker [from The Complete Savoy and Dial Master Takes]
wiggly butterfly float
but staring in the eye
From Folio: December 1952 - Earle Brown - Michael Daugherty
sudden aggressions
birdlike singular attacks
icy
doing a little Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis thing on the keys there
nice sounding recording
the players all sound real
studio
for sure
but a real believable room
That Lucky Old Sun - Aretha Franklin [from The Electrifying Aretha Franklin]
a lamentation and a prayer
interesting substitution
of troubles
for sins
that are washed away
Dear Landlord - Bob Dylan [from Biograph]
stuttery piano figure
part of a generic arrangement
with drum and
bass
a plea
John Lee - Fairport Convention [from Meet on the Ledge]
the singer has a pronounced accent to my ears
from where?
applying a commercial sound
to non-American roots music
some neighborhood of London
Hate and War - The Clash [from The Clash]
a confessionary preacher
does a lot of indicting
Living for the Depression - Flipper [from Generic]
in the states
punk rapidly became self-parody
Valse - Aaron Keyt - Keith Eisenbrey [recorded October 19, 2006]
so sweet
but full of doubts and worries
Tannhäuser March - Richard Wagner [from World's Greatest Choruses]
pad the intro
it's a big chorus
and we all want to see the
costumes
the glory of our German forepaternalists
Praying Mantis: Shroud - Jarrad Powell [from Natural Selection]
pulse of industry
metronomes and timing belts
regulators
and
quartz crystals
applied colonialism
notwithstanding such
this is really pretty
Seeds - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey [recorded live at University Temple United Methodist Church, Seattle, March 17, 2007]
isolated
as on a slide
repetition encloses
severs
in
from out
left one open
and it escaped
Grass Stain - Waxahatchee [from American Weekend]
explanation
not to be sent
ever
perhaps
authenticity
markers
Jerseyville Illinois (demo 3 of 3) - Your Mother Should Know [recorded June 15, 2017]
emphasis
on IS a house
it DOES exist
sugar plums and tinkerbells
Lavender Haze - Taylor Swift [from Midnights]
removed from ordinariness
aspirational problems
fungible persona
social decoration
personal expression is not a thing in this
it
exists for its clarity
Who's You Tellin? - The Pebbles [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
likeable
easy
porch sized
Exactly Like You - Count Basie [from The First Records He Ever Made]
this music would not fit on a porch
requires a stage
tables
and a dance floor
Nobody In Mind - Joe Turner [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]
tinfoil piano
everybody talks back at the blues
It Might As Well Be Spring - Blossom Dearie [from Blossom Dearie]
sung in French
for all the boys
that came back home
He's My Star - Little Richard [from The King of the Gospel Singers]
production value
strings harp organ
if he needs an extra syllable
in Bethlehem
he adds it
no problem
even chimes
Fixing a Hole - The Beatles [from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]
George rescues this one
adds ironic commentary
to the
self-absorption
Ego Rock - Janis Joplin [from In Concert]
conversation in blues
twisting around an inverted sex brag
A Solo Requiem - Milton Babbitt - Nina Berman, Steven Beck, Eric Huebner
spoken from the other side
the persistent aggregate formation doesn't
bother me
I can't count that high
that fast
so it leaves me
lost
but endlessly distracted
like Bach
gestures need not match
to converse
rhyming couplets
caught
in brambles
Cowboy - Bow Wow Wow [from Love, Peace, and Harmony: The Best of Bow Wow Wow]
but not a bullboy?
too many movies
objectification of the male human
turnabout
fair play
Paradise - Bonnie Guitar [from Dark Moon and Other Country Favorites]
pretty much the same thing
more or less
straight from cowboy
country its own self
Die Dreigroschenoper, Cannon Song - Kurt Weill - The Canadian Brass [from The Essential Canadian Brass]
theater and its music
demand an immediacy of surface to sink through
Gradus 23 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [August 13, 2002]
underline for oneself
return to focus
re-centering
minimize
mind wobble
inscription by ordeal
scarification
the what one
is doing to oneself
as a performance
the experience of witnessing
as one might
an execution
removal from commerce
so
that
a neural lattice might break free
and open up outside
Wild Turkey - Smokestack and the Foothill Fury [from Kitchen Recordings]
a snippet of libation pouring
in likeness of a spot ad
Banned Rehearsal 821 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
tribes of snoring
from villages of dens
a longwinded reedy blatherer
dancers up from stage traps
night howls
industrialism blunders in
microphone
as the alien's ear
who hears
the whole
from a different vantage
while playing an object
we engage with the whole of it
to reveal a
voice from within its whole
when listening to that voice
we only
hear the whole of what the voice says
immediately
not the whole of
the object
industrialism
rinky dink presets
provides for us
what it
wants us to want
pollution
drumming rains on the roof
time for the shift change
D Line to the Stream Line - Alone in Dead Bars [recorded live at The Victory Lounge, Seattle, July 5, 2017]
journal in the moment
past from the present
tense issues
Banned Rehearsal 1056 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer [August 1, 2022]
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I admire the clarity of the presentation of every little thing
Jonah in the Belly of the Whale - Rev. F.W. McGee [from Goodbye, Babylon]
part of the point
is the shuffling of the story elements
the moral
presented
is a non sequitur
When My Dreamboat Comes Home - Bob Pope [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
the explicit topic
by text or title
of social music
is
romance and all pertaining
December 22, 2022
Amazing Grace - Mahalia Jackson [from Goodbye, Babylon]
every syllable ornamented
or nailed firmly
all in one thought
Two Bass Hit - Miles Davis [from 'Round About Midnight]
playing tug with a lab on a beach
you can make the game even
but
you have to focus entirely on the game
the lab will not waver
My Funny Valentine (alternate version) - Bill Evans, Jim Hall [from Undercurrent]
extra time
so let's dink around with one we already did
just for
fun
creating the concept of high brow pop
or
using the language of pop
for alternative ends
mass produced aestheticizing gaze
I Think I Can Hear You - Carole King [from Rhymes & Reasons]
sound
as stationery
rag content
color of cream
consistency is essential to its purpose
Pulled Up - Talking Heads [from Talking Heads: 77]
music follows text
provides the grid
within which
the poem
alternates verse to chorus
like a little lap dog
Heroin - Moe Tucker [from I Feel So Far Away: Moe Tucker Anthology 1974 - 1998]
escape as adventure
heroin
to hero
or heroine
desperately seeking Major Tom
Untitled - Aaron Keyt - Keith Eisenbrey [recorded October 19, 2006]
broadway stutter anthem
I think I could have taken it at a slower tempo
let it breathe a lot more
I Can Explain - T. Bone Burnett [from The Criminal Under My Own Hat]
a certain sneer in the deep back of his persona
rubs wrongly
leaks
through the arch ironic presentation
Col - Emily Doolittle - Seattle Chamber Players
growth
step by step
from seed
to meadow
to tangle
to flower
to bursting pod
Pattis Parlour Pieces 4-8 - Ken Benshoof - Keith Eisenbrey [recorded live at University Temple United Methodist Church, Seattle, March 17, 2007]
1
dancing lazily and sentimentally
2
melody floating every which breeze at once
3
magic costume change
4
a bit of sparkle dust
Nic Nac - Black Plastic Clouds [from Electroplate]
steering between self-expression
and dude-bonding
and being the
noise in a dive bar
that binds the crowd together
and holds back
the dark
toy piano plunks
firm and gentle
conversation among tiny registers
Pitch Collection 1 - Sascia Pellegrini [from Atoneide]
quantity affects result
but is not a feature of it
some of them
may be the same as some others
after all
and counting
inside a sealed chamber
is a guess at best
why bring it up
order
vertically
likewise
break
move to a new place
in which
to hear
from the
old
anew
they throb through a virtual space solidly
break
move to yet new
than either place was
break
move
land hard
hold firm
break
Corrant, Fvb 203 - Traditional - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
rhythm and contour coupled tightly
My Old Dad Got a Brand New Way To Love - Cooksey Leecan [from Allen Lowe's Really The Blues]
well oiled
Swingin' at the Cat and Chew - Original Yellow Jackets [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
slung low
arms close to sides
long hoods
close to shiny
pavement
Sad and Disappointed - Big Maybelle [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]
staccato single syllables
You Ought to Have a Wife - Sarah Vaughan [from In a Romantic Mood]
ah shucks
you dolt
it oughta be me
a strange play for Sarah
straight up 50s pop
In Session at the Tintinabulary
December 19, 2022
Banned Telepath 95 Tintinabulary - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey
December 20, 2022
Banned Telepath 95 Toad Hall - Aaron Keyt
Banned Rehearsal 1066 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt
Postscripts
Skaldmud's Doodle Gallery
some listening journal doodles from 1991
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