"Rhythm is time relocating.
Thought-provoking putativity sounds just like
labile reflexivity.
The boat is rocking itself."
George Quasha - from "Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole"
Texts
Recorded
April 1, 2023
G*** B*** - Madonna [from MDNA]
sidestepping rape transgression
playing with the erotic firearm
all bang bang
no gang about it
outside of the title
if the game is to be cool
by being bad
then the play only leads in
one direction
You Ruined It When You Hugged Me Back - Your Mother Should Know [recorded live at Victory Lounge, July 21, 2017]
volume and balance have an expressive effect
even when mostly ignored
Infrathin Condition 18 - Doug Haire [from Infrathin Conditions]
this sound sounds geological
a roar heard through ones feet
whines
in an atmosphere
the terrafirmasphere here
is infirm
tiny
little chp chp sounds
passing squalls of starlings
in the outside
world
even an engine
and a jet
as though we were in a
culvert beneath a highway
a note can have a motion imputed to it
even while held
the imputed
motion
is from one function to another function
a scale degree
functional enharmic
two functions one note
Médée, Act I - Luigi Cherubini - Opera Quotannis, Bart Folse, Phyllis Treigle, Carl Halvorson, D'Anna Fortunato, David Arnold, Thaïs St. Julien, Jayne West, Andrea Matthews, John Ostendorf, Brewer Chamber Orchestra, Chorus Quotannis
a French language opera in 1797
interesting times
opens with treble voices
singers sing notes
the same as piano does
but
when I hear
piano playing notes
the resolution into notes as such
is intuitive
to me
whereas
with voice's plethora of acoustic possibilities in
play
those as such notes
are at a more distant intuitive remove
for me
its more of an effort
a baritone voice enters speaking
a conversation is had
a
punctuation in the act
this march knows its a march in an opera
not on the street
before the march
the trebles do some solo
singing and some ensemble
after the march comes the massed voices
conflict
another talking bit
this singer has a really interesting ping
an alto-tenor
or a
tenor-alto or ein Heldenalto
here is a passage presaging the opening of Das Rheingold
big
cadence
another conversation in talk
they've got stuff to say at
length
they communicate in paragraphs at a time
Mazurka in F minor, Op. 7 #3 - Frédéric Chopin - Garrick Ohlsson
modulating from the back rooms of one key into the garrets of another
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, Op. 122 #5/B. 50 #2 - Johannes Brahms/Ferruccio Busoni - Wolf Harden
fine garments elegantly draped
regally carried
The Last Time - Louis Armstrong's Hot Five [from Hot Fives and Sevens]
the eighth note rhythm is mostly more a weight thing
than a time
in the first eighth thing
not 2:1
but 4:3
or 6:5 I
could believe
Trio (Take A) - Erroll Garner [from Erroll Garner on Dial]
serious fun
love the quick
uh oh lick
echoed after a tick
by the piano
Take My Hand, Precious Lord - Elvis Presley [from Elvis' Christmas Album]
the production is perfect
this record sounds really good
I don't think he was sure how he wanted to pronounce "gone"
so he finds
a unique diphthong
Dr. Feelgood (Love is Serious Business) - Aretha Franklin [from I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You]
accompany
company
companion
Blonde in the Bleachers - Joni Mitchell [from For The Roses]
song from in the business
to the business
concerning the activity
of being in the business
treating what was sui generic about the earliest rock and roll
as the
root music for a quasi revanchist coup
Vous etes seuls, mai je desire - Nina Simone [from Fodder On My Wings]
well there's roots and other roots
clearly a dance
Tres iubilationes - Peter Eben - David di Fiore, I Fiori Musicali Brass of Bratislava [from Grand Music for a Grand Castle]
this music sounds best if one is below it
so that
it can fill the
space above you
brass choir
perhaps the only instrumental ensemble
that can really
compete with a pipe organ
in a cathedral space
this is quite a nice composition
a bit old fashioned
but well made
it really does demand
that it come upon us from on high
music as a morality play
or tale
see Bunyan
theatrically
gestured
nice job Dave!
Bling Blang - Guthrie Family [from Woody's 20 Grow Big Songs]
song as a record of how our talking went
its rhythm and accent and rhyme
I'm Afraid of Americans (Nine Inch Nails V1 Mix) - David Bowie [from Earthling]
a dance production with recurring episodes
lots going on inside the
sound
all the anthemic
all the time
gospel witness
Summer of My Dreams - Back Burner [from Simmer On]
polite
relaxed
good time music
for kicking back to
sentimental romanticization of a rural past
very American
it
could so easily veer ante bellum-wards
April 3, 2023
Banned Rehearsal 824 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [November 5, 2012]
a busy system
or populated
several agents on stage
uncertain
yet how they will interact
language asserts a front position
its
presence activates language brain
song
is a means of
interpenetrating
language land into music land
and music into
language
lexical flow on autopilot
give it an inch
it will take the page
very like any preconfigured musical vamp will
it steps away from
any prior ongoing process
but why?
to retrieve a sense of
competence or comfort?
Feeexta - Camarones Orquestra Guitarristica [from Feeexta]
work out to
or work up to
testosterone display behavior
Sinfonia 5 - Keith Eisenbrey
winding strands
variously smooth and disrupted
registral
articulation
where we are is not all of where we are
neither tonally nor metrically
nor
is where we are headed
all of where we will be
The Gambler's Doom - Rev. J. C. Burnett [from Goodbye, Babylon]
exegesis of a deck of cards
dredged up from the bowels
Embraceable You (Excerpt) - Charlie Parker [from The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz]
Now At Last - Blossom Dearie [from Blossom Dearie]
a soft touch
to keep the song in the singer's control
Broadway
regret song
How Do You Do It - The Beatles [from Anthology Volume 1]
like an arrow pushing through it
Nice Work If You Can Get It - Thelonious Monk [from Standards]
he instructs the piano
Mama Whoopin' The Blues - Neal Patman [from The Art of Field Recording, Volume 1]
harmonica and voice
same body
foot thump
same voice
used as timbral extension of harmonica
and as percussion
You Made Me Love You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins [from Frenzy]
overdoing overdoing
Banned Rehearsal 124 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [December 19, 1987]
I take the mic and read Tricker the Squirrel
Aaron plays drums
and Karen dulcimer
again I say roar
six month snore
what'll we do
Karen plays a hymn tune
we switch to the high
hat
violin replaces ocarina
Aaron sticks with the suspended cymbal
and things improve almost immediately
when language goes away
language's imperative to say things
gets in its way
music
has no such hindrance
not that it is without pitfalls
pre-sets
auto-pilots
undigested historical figuration groups
competencies
Jazz (We've Got) - A Tribe Called Quest [from The Low End Theory]
commercializing self assertion
selling ones own
Track 5 ("I Dream of You") - The Humidiflyers [from Late Fall Unfinished Sketches]
one presumes
part of the desire
is to be in the cool crowd
at the party
which
socially
as I understand it
the band is
by default
more or less
so
one must
play the part
which includes playing the music
that stands for
cool
within the partying group
Lids Film Layer 3 - Keith Eisenbrey [June 30, 2007]
a beat-ish feel that morphs by addition and subtraction of input burst content
plays with regularity
input and processes designed
in order
to generate certain pattern types
in the output
tiny fragments of
pitch figurations
wander in
but much of it sounds like a rude
noise
any image of a downbeat
is entirely manufactured by the
listener
there was no such intent within the process of generation
setting up a loop beat in order to let go
and let hang
on top of
oneself
Huge Guy In The Mosh Pit - Your Mother Should Know [recorded live at Victory Lounge, July 21, 2017]
big guitar
Crooning - Amy Denio [from Chapel Sessions]
a device
as an instrument
one plays
with ones voice
Pavana, Galiarda, Fvb. 254, 255 - William Byrd - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
misbalance balanced
by alternate misbalance
such misbalancings
propagate profligately
overlaying
out of phase
Train On The Island - J. P. Nestor & Mormon Edwards [from Turn Me Loose White Man]
I hear fiddle and banjo
vocal of course
all of which moves
in an intricately fingered and bowed heterophony
Sweet Sue, Just You - Miles Davis [from 'Round About Midnight]
display for sure
but of workings out
of things
that require
display for their workings out to exist
within their necessary social
context
Lovers By Night, Strangers By Day - The Fleetwoods [from Come Softly To Me]
time to call your girlfriend, dude, have that talk
Land of a Thousand Dances - Little Richard [from The Explosive Little Richard]
altar call of sorts
Coal Creek March - Ross Brown [from The Art of Field Recording, Volume 1]
banjo
differentiation of touch
to bring out the melody
Variations on Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken - Ronald Ravenscroft - Christopher Parkening [from Simple Gifts]
that ol' imperial fave
Kindering - Stan Brakhage
warped in time and aspect
kids
dog
toys
and a glider
Love Is a Beautiful Thing - The Young Fresh Fellows [from It's Low Beat Time]
spreading the propoganda
word among the multitudes
even the cool
kids in the band say so
proclaiming the uncontroversial
Here, There, and Everywhere - Glenn Tate [from Some of My Favorite Love Songs]
on a train
on a plane
in a box
with a fox
April 6, 2023
Lids Film Layers 3, 2, & 1 - Keith Eisenbrey [June 30 2007]
big splash opening
march to the wastes
note the features
diminishing perspectively
smaller and smaller
but no closer the
farther
together and away
listening to this project
as it
puts itself together
affords the possibility
of understanding each
successive layer's contributions
as
exactly those contributions
the layers remain distinct in the mix
and
not
as
though the whole
were a mass
that arose
fully formed
we take a peek into the works
strange refractions
experience sliced and diced
for your
convenience
my audio log entry
being speech
provides a key to the whole
were one to trace its appearances and variations
He's My Man - Rachel Harrington [from Makin' Our House a Honkytonk]
a rock beat with a Western-states rural accent
Distracted Driver - Your Mother Should Know [recorded live at Victory Lounge, July 21, 2017]
a song by a fictitious Barbara of the book
An Introverts Night Out - Daniel Husser [from 1 Month Challenge]
I recognize this point of view
Pavan, Fvb. 256 - William Byrd - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
so many surfaces to sparkle
what's this over there?
the corners
make for deceptive shadows
back into the sunlight
early inclusive language for the deity
hidden behind a conceit
How Important Can It Be - Sarah Vaughan [from In a Romantic Mood]
singing in harmony with herself no less
Everybody Loves a Lover - The Shirelles [from The Shirelles Anthology]
vocals way up front in the mix
matched only by the sax solo
it
would be interesting to hear this rebalanced
the piano player seems
quite fine
doo be doo be doo
I Can't Make It Alone - Bob Dylan [from A Tree With Roots]
trapped in a cycle of mythologization and categorization
in the press
and popular imagination
where even a retreat feeds the myth
:of:
Bob Dylan
as
anybody's portal to the rooty American past
Hush and Listen - Rev. Willia Gresham, Macedonia Baptist Church Congregation [from The Art of Field Recording, Volume 1]
the slow march to glory
preaching as a cooperative performance
All The Critics Love You in New York - Prince [from 1999]
at the back end of the album
things are less polished up
for the
hit machine
trending toward
what we think
he might think
of where he landed
Symphony in F Major, V. Hirtengesang - Ludwig van Beethoven [from 100 Greatest Classics]
what's notable
is the lack of royal triumph
the agrarian life
taking care of itself
kinglessly
just fine thank you
Why It's So Hard - Madonna [from Erotica]
four note tune in the verse stanzas
a few more in the chorus
rhythm chugs along
with machined precision
three notes in
that stanza's tune
Track 10 [from Eisenbrey 2002]
a piano trio
19th Century I would presume
based on the long lines
and easy movement among modes
Wasted - Brandi Carlile [from The Story]
songs that could be about anyone's friend
so that
they or we
can find them or ourselves
identified
with the attitude of
the singer person
Gradus 217 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [November 2, 2012]
a rung is where we can stand
not how we can stand
a note within a
rung
is a foothold
some have many
some few
what we do
while we stand
how we stand
where we stand
adjust balance
weight
stretch
bend
twist
peer
float
drift
stomp
pound
set the world to ringing
stop
the sound
rock the boat
flit from foothold to foothold
Stay With Me Tonight - Shelby Earl [from The Man Who Made Himself a Name]
anthem shine
In Session at The Tintinabulary
Gradus 379 - Neal Kosály-Meyer
what can it mean or might it mean
to evoke a set of notes as a set of
notes?
does evoking tried and true figuration types
work for or against the
project
if that's the project
or
is it merely neutral
even a randomly generated set
has potentially exploitable
properties
perhaps even unique properties
the elucidation of which
could serve to identify the particularity
of the set of notes in
question
exploration is analysis
organizing the space
by
finding ways to move within it
Postscripts
Skaldmud's Doodle Gallery
some listening journal doodles from 1993
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