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"And taking me by the right hand
she spoke to me thus:
'Oh Youth, linked with your mares to immortal charioteers
who have led
you here to my home - Welcome.
Since it is by no means an inappropriate
destiny that has sent you forth to travel this path
far from the
wanderings of mortals
but a Right and Just one,
it is necessary for
you to learn all things -
both the stable heart of well-rounded truth as
well as the notions of mortals-
(and with these there is nothing at all
to put your faith in)
nonetheless you shall study such matters also -
how
the things that seem
(and these pervade everything)
must seem to be."
Parmenides - from "The Poem of Parmenides" translated by Charles Stein in "Everything That Seems Must Seem To Be"
Texts
Recorded
July 1, 2023
Etude in A minor, Op. 10 #2 - Frédéric Chopin - Garrick Ohlsson
the staccato left hand
plays a hiding game
with its voice leading
Song 9 - Charles Ives - Kia Sams, Russ Warner
about a river
quite energetic
What Can A Poor Fellow Do? - Duke Ellington [from That Devilin' Tune]
composed to tickle your attention
events in regular places
and
events in irregular places
Love For Sale - Erroll Garner [from Erroll Garner on Dial]
the steady beat
hits a patch
with some drag
but pulls out
never slows
Doodlin' - Ray Charles [from The Great Ray Charles]
a concertante arrangement
piano solo
set off
against the
horns
Stairway to the Stars - Bill Evans Trio [from Moon Beams]
a chord can be voiced
with precise dynamics
and
a melody
with precise tones and weights
Blues for Mama - Nina Simone [from Sings The Blues]
one side of a conversation
questions and advice
Iceman - Bruce Springsteen [from Tracks]
a pretty nice song in the making
a bit woolly and slack as it finishes
up
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - Michael Jackson [from Thriller]
lively beat
out of seats
onto feet
dance it up
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Why I Oughta - The Young Fresh Fellows [from The Men Who Loved Music]
in their comic routine mode
because dudes just wanna have fun
Turkish Rondo - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Canadian Brass [from The Essential Canadian Brass]
the sort of piece Mozart wrote without thinking about it very hard
the
fun here
is in hearing the brass tongue their way through the finger
figures
Boundaries 4 - Jarrad Powell [from Natural Selection]
we pass by an object
approach another
the helicopter chop binds
them
Cerebral Cortez - Ghidra [from The Sound of Speed]
what are
if there are
the atoms
of this musical experience
the set
of intentional gestures
intentional here
to
explicitly include
any
pre- proto- sub- sur- ... (x-)
-conscious
gestures
there may be
Roses and Gold - Robin Jackson and the Caravan [from Dust Diaries]
a blues in conceit
but at a remove
I take that back
this is
told
from within a we
a couple
bonfire
camp song
bring your own instrument
join in
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hideously cruddy sound
crudely mixed
for perfection of image
Allez! Allez! - Steve Layton and Sound-In [from Miracles and Wonders]
layers of sound signals
each of which
presents its own generative
intentions
to add to the intentions
of the layering
String Quartet in E minor, Op. 44 #2 - Felix Mendelssohn - The Emerson String Quartet]
1
plaint of yearning
idylling in daydream
best back to hard
working
pull through in the end
for sure
diligent endeavor
a distinctly bourgeois virtue
here writ plain
I just now
idly
twisted my pen apart
2
games with the kiddos
a pity he softened that metrical
modulation there
sanding what ought not to have been sanded
so
a feature of this music
is the care taken
to complete every
thought
and move the ear
from one to the other
no non
sequiturs for Felix
3
perturbations
in an ongoing pattern
measure out times into
segments
a useful rhetorical tool
or
an insidious symptom
of received knowledge
thoroughly internalized
4
final preps underway
scurrying hands
has the guest list
been completed
napkins all folded
plate all shiny
all the
worries
the Mrs. Dalloway of composers
here they come!
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Lift Him Up That's All - Washington Phillips [from Goodbye Babylon]
gentle ragtime figures
on a dulcimer or zither of some kind
Never - Sarah Vaughan [from In A Romantic Mood]
arachnid torch song
as a warning
Baby You're A Rich Man - The Beatles [from Magical Mystery Tour]
the scribbly electric guitar interjections
are fun
(if that's
electric guitar)
Twine - Elaine Barkin, Benjamin Boretz [from Open Space 12]
really pretty
almost sentimentally so
slow changing chords
a
crumar
piano noodling
in the chords' corners
descend to a
stranger room
found a bone to chew on
or knot to puzzle out
the volcano room has been reached
unsought
a lifeline thrown
in the bass
transfer to treble hand
on tight narrow ledge
into the clear
chords transformed
all rejoice
having
passed through
dance party at the roller rink
spinning twirls
colored lights
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Nymphéa - Kaija Saariho - Cicada String Quartet
sliding through the woozy dream
of a vacant string quartet
the
images spilled out on the floor
rediscorporate themselves
into a
new sense entirely
of ghosts and gods
from the next room over
overheard
||
making an orchestra
of a chamber ensemble
:
disindividualization
Rio De Tenampa - Los Lobos [from Kiko]
laid back
with horns
party song
English Rose - The Jam [from The Sound of The Jam]
there's a subtext or two
about imperialisms and jingoisms
this
song came up diegetically
in a movie we saw recently
Two-Part Invention - Gavin Borchert - Keith Eisenbrey [recorded live at University Temple United Methodist Church, Seattle, October 13, 2007]
the parts are showing each other their places
(lovely piece Gavin
I had forgotten doing this)
their extensive grounds
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inflation of romanticized emotional meaning
of sexual surrender
soundtrack to a syrupy hot Hollywood kiss
Gradus 319 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [August 21, 2017]
Knight of the Lowest Bee
a noble bee the lowest bee
and all the
bees between
a singly strung note
but
what is that sound
a bee?
(well, I'll be)
every bee is part Fis
(H)
Pauken in H
is classical tonality
(Bach Scarlatti Buxtehude)
merely a plausible pun
upon the image of ratio?
if music can be understood mathematically
then mathematics can be
understood musically
there is a period of squeaky bench
among the playing of the bee
we
pause
then we complicate the bee
with a distantly generative note
that lowest bee transformed
yet lower
partaking of the
character
of a partial above
or
inaudibly
lower
generative note
and thus
partaking
of the unutterable
lowness of it
in part
metaphor metaphor
what are you for
I pose this query
but I
am a bore
Bee and Cis
Cis and Bee
K I S S I N G
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two syllables
distinctly pronounced
phonemes
parts and
spurts of a word
a word apart
Honky Tonk Train Blues - Meade 'Lux' Lewis [from Really The Blues]
Chattanooga choo choo rhythm
in its older suit of clothes
demonstration of cross rhythms
not for beginners
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the title words come into the lyrics
throughout the side doors
sax
solo must
and does
become completely itself
without messing
with the mood
established
likewise
the trumpet piano duet
Respect - Aretha Franklin [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
just a just a just a just a little bit
taking another word apart
by the letters
literally literately
Guest - J. K. Randall, Mathew Rosenblum, Daniel Warner [from Inter/Play]
careful pitches watched over
crumar clarinet cymbals
music in
c
slippery around that stray beat
so take care
lest you be
seated suddenly
how parts fit without plan
we hover
arrested
over a still
point
then are elsewhere
might be
probably is
a sax
not a clarinet
oh well
a clear bell out of the blue sky
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The Gondoliers (selections) - Arthur Sullivan [from 100 Greatest Classics]
the musical portion of this
is for localizing color only
as though
all the world
were a Victorian England
comedy of manners and
patters
And We Hunted And We Hunted - Mike, Peggy, and Penny Seeger [from Animal Folk Songs for Children]
competitive leg pulls
Track 8 - The Humidiflyers [from The Humidiflyers 2002]
commentary
and Ian is happy to be alive
and flow downstream
live
at some party somewherewhen
Tax Lady - Smokestack and the Foothill Fury [from Kitchen Recordings]
more dynamic contrast
than the equipment can transparently handle
I Just Want To Be Alone - Prom Queen [from Covers]
introverts' doo-wop anthem
I Met A Girl - Alone in Dead Bars [recorded live at The Victory Lounge, Seattle, July 15, 2017]
a song reports a life episode
In The Dark - Star Anna [from Live at Rimbert Illustration]
the last syllable of the stanza
becomes a multisyllabic melodic
extension
mostly on two alternating notes
but convincingly sung
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song to give information and advice
not far from
song for
preaching
True Fine Momma (incomplete take) - Little Richard [from Here's Little Richard]
The Company You Keep - Dolly Parton [from Hello, Dolly]
social oppression
from within the family
lay on the guilt
Polovtsian Dances - Alexander Borodin [from 100 Greatest Classics]
high class entertainment
in the guise of a folk style
a sure sign
of imperial ambitions
if not fact
folk art displayed
out of
context
as a style
or stylistic elements
now in our
collection
Race You Down The Mountain - Woody Guthrie and Friends [from Woody's 20 Grow Big Songs]
02 - Sleater-Kinney [from One Beat]
a sound
as a song might have
is a place to hide
armor to
guard
war-paint
super-suit
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("...my chart shines high where the blue milks upset...") - Benjamin Boretz - Keith Eisenbrey [recorded live at University Temple United Methodist Church, Seattle, October 13, 2007]
scoping out the generating chart
is not musical understanding
it
being merely the matrix
within which the composition unfolds
its
only salient features
are those that emerge in the composing
as we
hear it
in its listening
apparent continuity
interrupted at
certain moments
by apparently aberrant
or
out-of-left-field
moments
that push it
gently
elsewhereto
White Wolf Blood - Lovesick Empire
spirit quest
sending song
Banned Rehearsal 942 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [August 28, 2017]
breathing made audible
through the use of free reeds
breathing and
bee
and butterfly
bumbling
steady state
in the way
a garden or meadow
is
a meadow of
or from
or within
a collective
or
collaborated mind
Aaronsbundlerish echoes
Of Now - Michael Bisio, Matthew Shipp [from The Flow of Everything]
moves along
as though in fast forward
frame rate
street
scene
or several frame rates
interpolated
within yet another
come together
In Session at The Tintinabulary
July 3, 2023
Banned Rehearsal 1079 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt
We gathered on the patio called Anarcadia
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2-Part Invention in A minor - Gavin Borchert
July 7, 2023
2-Part Invention in A minor (a different one) - Gavin Borchert
These make lovely little clavichord pieces
with which to find
just
that tempo
and just that phrasing
Postscripts
Skaldmud's Doodle Gallery
listening journal doodles from 1999
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