"In the Attorney's Office"
Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) - from "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club"
Texts
Recorded
April 8, 2023
Banned Rehearsal 1065 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [December 5, 2022]
rummage
sampling bag
and table contents
drum heads touched
and rolled upon
restless stasis
knocking on the walls
rocking rhythm determined ad hoc
by shape and size of rocking
mechanism
evening peace
temple gong bong
Pavana Fantasia, Fvb. 257 and Galiarda, Fvb. 258 - William Byrd - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
regular figurational cyclicity
can be refrained from
at any point
meter in the Galiarda
can be recalibrated
at any time
effective use of timpani
then a great deal of talking in lengthy
speeches
::
a character here has a dual dramatic role:
their
speaking role
and their singing role
joined only at the body on
stage
the opera itself
takes place on two stages
the
speaking and singing stages
they don't just move at different rates
but on separate planes
interesting sounding instrument
back there
somewhere between
bassoon
and a muted horn or tuba?
Mazurka in F-sharp minor, Op. 6 #1 - Frédéric Chopin - Garrick Ohlsson
climb one way
descend several others
mock battles interspersed
Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen, Op. #122 #8/B. 50 #3 - Johannes Brahms/Ferruccio Busoni - Wolf Harden
the melody is deeply buried beneath another piece
The Last Time - Louis Armstrong's Hot Five [from Hot Fives and Sevens]
study idea:
chart the relation between income from gigs and income from
record sales
among a population of musicians
over time
data would be hard to come by
Trio (Take B) - Erroll Garner [from Erroll Garner on Dial]
play a thing three times
do another thing
in the place of the
fourth time
do a thing
twice as long
as the first thing
do it again
in another place
mix it up
This Little Girl of Mine - Ray Charles [from Ray Charles]
bragging on his lady friend
subtexts
infantilization
worth
of woman as what she does for man
played for upbeat and fun times
Rough Lover (Mono Version) - Aretha Franklin [from The Electrifying Aretha Franklin]
fun as a dance
but holds out an ideal of manhood
for good or ill
that could be an invitation to abuse
and at any rate
being
an ideal
is unobtainable
unsullied by flaws
The Wind That Shakes the Corn - The Irish Rovers [from The Unicorn]
that didn't turn out well
words front
rough news
from beneath the law
53rd and 3rd (Live at the Roxy) - Ramones [from Leave Home]
eschewing all nicety
Just Like a Woman (Live) - Bob Dylan [from Before the Flood]
Seeger pulled his plug
because
(he says)
nobody could hear
the words over the amplified sound
but Bob was always about the words
first
the music was just an amplification of his voice
into a
larger arena
the larger the audience
the more tenuous the
connection
between the musician and any member of that audience
amplification as a means of self-protection
Banned Rehearsal 125 Side A - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [December 21, 1987]
open without motion
the creative pleasure of listening
is making
something of it
a hindrance to that pleasure
is the need to make
something
pre-ordainedly understandable
of it
some music asserts itself against that hindrance
some music persists
only outside that hindrance
some music pokes at that hindrance
hey
whatcha doin'
some music wanders around that hindrance
as though
it were a crotchety roommate
some music makes it a character in a cyclic
drama
referentialized obliquely
some music simply is not concerned
with your ability to make something of it
Pilgrim's Chorus from Tannhäuser - Richard Wagner [from World's Greatest Choruses]
sung in English
how barbaric
cadence added for closure
I'm Afraid of Americans (Nine Inch Nails V1 Edit) - David Bowie [from Earthling]
using articulated cycles
to obscure the passages
whence and
whither
enclosing the dancer
within a permanent motion chamber
My Life as a Dog - The Humidiflyers [from Blue Ducky]
a rollicker
something about growing up
and Jimmy Dean
Lids Film Layer 4 - Keith Eisenbrey [July 1, 2007]
picket fence framing
objects of sound persist across the slat cycles
coming and going
in sizes measured by slat count
graphs
their shapes
by slicing their moments
in a regular pulse
even whap beat
in hollow space
precious little articulation
of much of anything
Now I See You Now I Don't - Your Mother Should Know [recorded live at The Victory Lounge, Seattle, July 21, 2017]
this is our brand newishest song
Vortex - Kaley Lane Eaton [from Cedar]
melodic rhyme
can take advantage
of all of melody's power
April 12, 2023
The Earle of Oxford's Marche, Fvb. 259 - William Byrd - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
not wise
to confuse all those marching feet
with metrical games
Daniel in the Den of Lions - North Carolina Cooper Boys [from Goodbye, Babylon]
a Sunday School lesson mish mash
Daniel, Jonah, Gabriel, a Sea Shore
questionable bible facts
in comic rhythm
Klacktoveedsedsteen - Charlie Parker [from The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz]
message
passed through a well-oiled machinery
task to task
out pops the finished widget
wrapped and ready to ship
Cold, Cold Heart - Jerry Lee Lewis [from Rare and Rockin']
the famous scandal
interesting
that it was in the UK
that
they were offended
by what
we
in the States
were
willing
at the time
to let slide
or to shrug our shoulders
and say well them hicks will be hicks
at
Please Please Me - The Beatles [from Anthology, Volume 1]
do unto me
Chapter 24 - Pink Floyd [from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn]
a reading from the Book of Changes
I remember coming upon this passage
in reading
many years after hearing the song
it was like
seeing a familiar face in an unexpected city
diary entry with all its self enfolding contradictions
The Mogul - Neal Patman [from The Art of Field Recording, Volume 1]
two tempos
a slow whine
and a quick steam train chug
thumping with the foot on the chug
otherwise
all done with
mouth and diaphragm
through a hardworking harmonica
Il y a baume à Gilead - Nina Simone [from Fodder on My Wings]
a chaconne
Pas de voix - Charles Amirkhanian
through a barrier
metallic briars cling
pull back
strike a
light
no good
another
worse
hollow wind
arachnid
guides
city street
horns and bangs
steam rush
voices
indoors
dish clank
a story
of Barbara
who drinks a lot
a master piece
a work of art
whose art
whose master
down a drain
bells and bells
breath and breath
Amazing Grace - Traditional - The Canadian Brass [from The Essential Canadian Brass]
with celebratory variations
like from New Orleans
Try It On My Own - Whitney Houston [from Just Whitney]
inspirational witness message
crank up the anthem machine
I'm Singing With The White Christians - The Capitol Steps [from O Christmas Bush]
Banned Rehearsal 825 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt [November 19, 2022]
busy at the stove
might be cooking
might be stirring ingredients
beginning to mix
airy wafts and peace pipes
a gentle souled
session
You're With Me - Lures [from There's No Pressure]
where the chord changes
track the lines
and stanzas
across
verses
they serve
a similar function
between the same
measure out
a regular
and structured interval
Banned Telepath 95 Tintinabulary - Isaac E, John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey [December 19, 2022]
in which the Meysenbreyers set up their Christmas Tree
purchased with a
gift card from employment
rustling of nylon needles
as their wire
branches are bent back into place
we discuss the possibility of hiring a
tree in '23
oh boy the lights
lots of sighing in this one
conversation overheard
is different than language declaimed
occasional interjections on guitar
shake some tambourine
the
cracker angel
has a belly button
no cats to bother it anymore
oh golly
they sent that whole pack of stuff from employment
the
Our First Christmas
ornament
birds in a cage
1986
the magic still works
look it's R2D2
besides it's
snowing
the day Obb rode the tree slowly to the floor
Galiarda, Fvb. 260 - Jehan Oystermayre - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
series of nested figures
moving sequentially
from position to
position
layered
in measured phase shifts
Baltimore - Bix Biederbecke, Frankie Trumbauer [from That Devilin' Tune]
some music we enjoy
because it contains its time within it
like a
movie that becomes a sort of costume drama
simply by waiting for
fashion to change around it
not just the style of playing
but the
technology of reproduction
and attitude of how to record music
is he threatening to set fire to the library?
a song here
is a
situation
or predicament
within the drama
They Tell Me It's Summer - The Fleetwoods [from Come Softly To Me]
ooo dah dah ooo
actually
in Summer
the days are growing
shorter
I'll Be Your Mirror - The Velvet Underground [from The Velvet Underground & Nico]
guitar
bass
tambourine
a reflective surface
which
nothing
is beneath
My Number Will Be Changed - Naomi Bradford, the Gospel Chorus of Macedonia Baptist Church [from The Art of Field Recording, Volume 1]
some music packs its entire world in it
floor ceiling walls
this
music plays its architecture
Praise Ye The Lord - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Christopher Parkening [from Simple Gifts]
a depiction of a music
Banned Rehearsal 125 Side B - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [December 21, 1987]
a slow chorale in somber garb
ocarina weave
obo roi
wail of
woe
wanders bundlerward
any regularity of pattern
locks in a
size of thing
for a thing to be
reifies a duration
over and
above our experiencing
Merry Christmas
cries the crier
blue blue blue blue blue
I'm so blue
you're so green
she is so red
ukulele strum
Kill Switch - T-Bone Burnett [from The Criminal Under My Own Hat]
the guitar strum introduction
gives a precis of the poem to come
similes are generally an error
like
I mean
(unfinished
or incomplete song)
The Bratty Girl - Johnny Moses [from When the Humans Thought They Were People]
farther up
where there was a large tree
quit leaning on me
dig
dig in the ground
the roots will speak to you
reweave the basket
a naked basket
full of holes
a
drink of water
hurry up
and that is all
this project was fun
because it really got into the colors of sheer
system noise
in layers of pulses
measuring each other
as
cookies crumble
I find that my ear groups sounds in twos or threes
but the articulation keeps readjusting
colors of readjustments
or modes of
when the urbursts enter
the whole opens out
then the window closes
a hike with peekaboo views
regularity
of burst pulses
works
as a ground
a solidish foundation
from which to hear
My Love Don't Change With The Seasons - Bigfoot Wallace & His Wicked Sons [from Virgil]
whammy chord dip
it's so hard to find love in a swamp
lonely frog
Focus - Your Mother Should Know [recorded live at The Victory Lounge, Seattle, July 21, 2017]
hocus pocus focus
sha la la
ur roots of the band
Piano 2 - Sascia Pellegrini [from Five Piano Fantasies]
duration and sequence
a thorny lecture
April 7, 2023
Banned Telepath 100 Magnuson Parking Lot Kildeer - Jennifer Chung
Banned Telepath 100 Magnuson Frogs - Jennifer Chung
Jennifer collected some fine sounds from a city park at dusk
April 8, 2023
Sinfonia 1 - Keith Eisenbrey
I'm working on recording this piece on clavichord. Other than a few notes that I didn't quite get solid this is good. I'll try again and share when I get it right
April 10, 2023
Banned Telepath 100 Tintinabulary - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
We gather in the studio and activate devices
Banned Rehearsal 1074 - Jennifer Chung, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt Neal Kosály-Meyer
then we put it all together
April 11, 2023
Magnuson Park 230411 A - Keith Eisenbrey
Magnuson Park 230411 B - Keith Eisenbrey
I enjoyed Jennifer's recordings so much that Karen and I visited the park on Tuesday evening. The first recording was an attempt to get a bunch of crows sniping at each other - but they were more active just before I started recording. The second recording captures the transition between birds in their evening chorus and frogs in theirs.
April 12, 2023
Maple Leaf 230412 - Keith Eisenbrey
\a lonely frog in our neighborhood, recorded from our driveway
April 14, 2023
Two Songs to a Child, Op. 27 - Lockrem Johnson - Keith Eisenbrey, Kia Sams
Kia and I are working on recording some of Lockrem's songs as part of an exciting project being assembled by Doug Rice.
Postscripts
Skaldmud's Doodle Gallery
some listening journal doodles from 1993
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