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"'Vere are they?' said Sam, reciprocating all the old gentleman's grins.
'In
the snuggery,' rejoined Mr.Weller. 'Catch the red-nosed man a goin' anyvere
but vere the liquors is; not he, Samivel, not he. Ve'd a wery pleasant ride
along the road from the Markis this mornin', Sammy,' said Mr. Weller, when he
felt himself equal to the task of speaking in an articulate manner. 'I drove
the old piebald in that 'ere little shay-cart as belonged to your
mother-in-law's first wenter, into vich a harm-cheer wos lifted for the
shepherd; and I'm blest' said Mr. Weller, with a look of deep scorn - 'I'm
blest if they didn't bring a portable flight o' steps out into the road a
front o' our door, for him to get up by.'
'You don't mean that?' said
Sam.
'I do mean that, Sammy,' replied his father, 'and I vish you
could ha' seen how tight he held on by the sides wen he did get up, as if he
was afeerd o' being precipitayted down full six foot, and dashed into a
million o' hatoms. He tumbled in at last, however, and avay ve vent; and I
rayther think - I say I rather think, Samivel - that he found his-self a
little jolted when we turned the corners.'
'Wot, I s'pose you happened to
drive up agin a post or two?' said Sam.
'I'm afeerd,' replied Mr. Weller,
in a rapture of winks, 'I'm afeerd I took vun or two on 'em, Sammy; he wos a
flyin' out o' the harm-cheer all the way.'
Charles Dickens - from "The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club"
Texts
Live
Six Seasons: Album Release Concert featuring the music of Angelique
Poteat
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle
Ripples of Possibilities - Laura DeLuca, Angelique Poteat
closely tailing
tether dance
our day
of low-key frolic
at the ocean's shore
Pacificus - Will Langlie-Miletich
grounded
on open string
the floor is firm
the ceiling
distant
domed
Fluid Dovetail - Angelique Poteat, Olivia Chew
getting together
or approaching getting together
each new move
prepared by the last
in an unsevered thread
Meditation on Providence - Efe Baltacigil, Thomas Lee
long linear procession
its going is continuous
and without seams
Album Listening Party - II. Push V. Thankful VI. Sparkle
Laura DeLuca, Mikhail Schmidt, Artur Girsky, Olivia Chew, Sarah Rommel
all in it together
so that
all in it
know
they are
together
in it
Ken Benshoof talked about
writing for musicians
as
thinking
about the kinds of things
that
they like to play
lines
that clearly fit
the lines of others
that clearly fit
tightly communal
close
indoors thinking
Recorded
Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 64 #3 - Frédéric Chopin - Garrick Ohlsson
slides right past establishing cadences
missing exits blithely
but
then
the key it is in
is
whatever these notes are doing
together
being
where they are being
The Collection - Charles Ives - Dora Ohrenstein, Phillip Bush
strong and brave and manly
and sentimentally resolved
'Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk [from The Complete Blue Note Recordings]
front halves and back halves
just one of several segmentations possible
of groups of two and four
Belchezaar - Bob Dylan [from A Tree With Roots]
a folk tale
from the years of exile
nothing else
there was
no man
(just the hand)
Abraham, Martin, and John - Ray Charles [from A Message from The People]
there's another interesting keyboard sound
some sort of electric piano?
or a stop on an organ
I suppose
on an electric organ
the sense in which it's a stop
is entirely metaphoric
Willya Wontcha - Bonnie Raitt [from Green Light]
honkytonk dance
packed with twang
The Wind Blow East - Mike, Peggy, and Penny Seeger [from American Folk Songs for Children]
an unlikely weather forecast
from all directions
Devil's Arcade - Bruce Springsteen [from Magic]
every song has a power move
you could set your watch to it
Breaking Free for a Moment - Steve Layton & Improv Friday [from Shared Circle]
some textures resolve into pulse
others
into several
others
are genuinely wild
a music can explore textural landscapes
Silver (Demo) - Waxahatchee [from Out In The Storm]
differentiated melodic ranges
and trajectories
between the verse
stanza
and the louder wider choppier chorus stanza
Bejeweled - Taylor Swift [from Midnights]
separates the last word of a line into a new space
("...| |nice")
also
by repetition of each part
and at different increments
Easy Evil - Sarah Vaughan [from Feelin' Good]
soft low brass and reeds
in a slow groove
love that low scooped
"agaaaaain"
Nameless One, No. 3 - Sun Ra [from Celestial Love]
they're cooking on this one
from the point of view
of the
musicians
in their musical interactions
the audience
must be
with them
among them
(participation)
The Dress Rehearsal Blues - Tielman Susato Krummhorn Gesellschaft [from The Glory of The Krummhorn]
then I started thinking about it
snippets of conversation
this is actually quite sweet and funny
there they are
playing
around with my crazy recorder tunes
on krummhorns
folks just
joking around
with notes I wrote!
Wow!
I never knew I'd had
such an influence!
***Flawless (feat. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) - Beyoncé [from Beyoncé]
dominance
fence
an essay
New Found Land - John Moen [from Roll Columbia]
this is the best on-topic song Woody wrote for this project
Traquito - Christina Aguilera [from Aguilera]
dance floor
circling lights
How I Got Over - Aretha Franklin [from Amazing Grace]
participation is a relationship
in which all are engaged equally
Advance (12" Single Version) - Boogie Down Productions [from Criminal Minded]
syncopatic groove poetics
shouting ones name
into the groovoid
false endings
True Colors (Cyndi Lauper) - Prom Queen [from Covers]
pop music
:: a groove dedicated
to providing
the relatively
inarticulate
with well-formed expression
:: like greeting cards
Silly Boy Blue - David Bowie [from Toy]
closely composed melody
fully operatic
Stumble - REM [from Dead Letter Office]
traversing the given
the fenced yard
the language
chord
change
schematic diagrams
(lead sheets)
Best Friend - Madonna [from MDNA]
a diagrammed lyric
(by production/chord change cycles)
each part
in a box
writer::inker
writer::producer
Missing Words VI: VI. Erebusterror (Erebus-Terror) - Eric Nathan [from Missing Words]
theatrical cues do not jump mood
it is sacrosanct
not even event
can shake it
Cousins - Bruce Hamilton & Friends [from Mash Hits Vol. 1]
somebody is banging metallics in the hallway
Totem 55 - Sascia Pellegrini [from Totem V]
these sounds pass
as the four winds pass
in gusts and gales
Shut Up, Tim - Swingset Showdown [from Short Bus Ruckus]
tantrum
Track 16 - Star Anna [streamed from Fiddler's Inn, Seattle, March 7, 2022]
(tuning for the last song)
the flow of song
is of such a nature
that
only total
personal
engagement
will allow
it
unimpeded
it
will
necessarily
then
be
formed
in the image
of the singer
its totally engaged agent
it
can only properly exist
as
one's total engagement
with it
Old Soul - Northern Departure [from Live from Sound Off 2012]
this one's for the guitar nerds
in front of stage
lyrics
are
a version of the great American migrant worker clan legend
My Funny Valentine - Amy Denio
playing the Peggy Lee/Morgana King game
and quite credibly too
cicadas?
Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 64 #1 - Frédéric Chopin - Garrick Ohlsson
fast forward
to the middle part
then again
to get out
Qu'il M'irait Bien - Charles Ives - Dora Ohrenstein, Philip Bush
stylish
prim
Who Knows (Alternate Take) - Thelonious Monk [from The Complete Blue Note Recordings]
pointing out the key features
as they whip by
I'm A Fool for You - Bob Dylan [from A Tree With Roots]
part of the rehearsal process
getting the chords right
Take Me Home, Country Roads - Ray Charles [from A Message From the People]
chemistry between Ray and his choir
calls them
like a fiddler
dance caller
Let's Keep It Between Us - Bonnie Raitt [from Green Light]
a song can be a theatrical presentation
of a private-type conversation
so we know how to say
what we fantasize ourselves needing to say
Nothing Will Be As It Was - Sarah Vaughan [from Brazilian Romance]
the meter is spacious
and activated with multiple internal rhythm
vectors
clapping game
sing-song song
Terry's Song - Bruce Springsteen [from Magic]
all the greatest greatests
roped into a mixed hyperbole
Holy Ground - Taylor Swift [from Red]
the end of each line
finally moves to a different note
the
sequence of those different notes
is a composed line
simple but
effective
Initiatica - Steve Layton [from No Answer]
into the magic
part of ritual
the part
that re-envisions
time's passing
Pure/Honey - Beyoncé [from Renaissance]
an advertisement for a lifestyle
Precious Lord, Take My Hand/You've Got a Friend - Aretha Franklin [from Amazing Grace]
these gospel arrangements
are compositions upon a hymn
fabulous
without question
but
the hymn remains itself
always ready
for a new ear to re-invent it
Say No Brother (Crack Attack Don't Do It) [12" Inst. Reality Mix] - Boogie Down Productions [from Criminal Minded]
like music minus one
rap your own shows
what of it is made
bit by bit
laid out for use
not for show
Around The World - Christina Aguilera [from Lotus]
this sex
is a themed production
Enchantment Under the Sea
oops
somebody pulled the plug
White Ghost Train - Cahalen Morrison [from Roll Columbia]
off topic?
nothing to do with dams or electricity
or even Oregon
Territory
westward now to Death Valley
Toy (Your Turn To Drive) - David Bowie [from Toy]
gauging how much it takes
to hold interest
in spinning
cycles
a hypnotism trick
accumulation without transformation
Nocturnal Me (Echo and The Bunnymen) - Prom Queen [from Covers]
surrounded with cushions
and heavy hangings
incense and
voluptuaries
Recite Remorse (Demo) - Waxahatchee [from Out In The Storm]
a song
to be sold
must be
in the approved range of styles
industry demands it
more effective than censorship
Missing Words VI: VII. Rolleirückblende (Rollei-Flashback) - Eric Nathan [from Missing Words]
gravity inexorable
questions allowed
answers not so much
does it follow
that
if music is made of sound
and that
if sound is a translation of a signal
that
then
music
is made of signal(s)?
or
is music a mode
that only
exists
in the translation of the signal
which translation
is
our invention
Give Me All Your Luvin' (feat. LMFAO & Nicki Minaj) [Party Rock Remix] - Madonna [from MDNA]
buy my records
Bad Morning Breath - Swingset Showdown [from Short Bus Ruckus]
at least it isn't prolonged
Broken Submarines - Kithkin [from Live from Sound Off 2012]
battle songs
go for the show-off moves
accelerandos are a good
trick
Call Your Girlfriend - Star Anna
instructions
among the famous 50 ways
to do it
Waltz in D-sharp minor, Op. 64 #2 - Frédéric Chopin - Garrick Ohlsson
he does not move into a new key
he simply discovers it
where it
had always been
eternally ready
careful of that harmony down there
those voices are plotting amongst
themselves
Weil' Auf Mir - Charles Ives - Dora Ohrenstein, Phillip Bush
sonorous pianissimo
All the Things You Are - Thelonious Monk [from The Complete Blue Note Recordings]
piano sneaks in behind the vibraphone
while the singer practices
distraction
I Forgot to Remember to Forget - Bob Dylan [from A Tree With Roots]
searching for the eternal strum groove
for the laziest summers
Promise Me - Sarah Vaughan [from Feelin' Good]
soft light romantic
vocal technique remains sharp
in this new
world
Me and The Boys - Bonnie Raitt [from Green Light]
playing with cars
Rain, Come Wet Me - Mike, Peggy, and Penny Seeger [from American Folk Songs for Children]
fragment of a prayer
Jack of All Trades - Bruce Springsteen [from Wrecking Ball]
doing all those manly things
to get by
shoot 'em on sight
Piano Dream - Steve Layton & Sound-In [from Further Journey]
disparate transmissions
waiting for the lights to change
which may
be delayed
combined sound environment
arising by chance
for
encryption
a community may develop in the meantime
Cuando Me Dé la Gana - Christina Aguilera [from Aguilera]
drinking songs
are drinking songs
the world over
Every Saturday Night - Ray Charles [from A Message from the People]
catfish butterbeans and chitlin
regularity is deceptive
in that
any thread of it
may not
persist
new threads disrupt
some times
appear
like
islands
Superpower (feat. Frank Ocean) - Beyoncé [from Beyoncé]
there's that O Holy Night arpeggiated accompaniment figure
this song is
a staged dance on film
Getaway Car - Taylor Swift [from Reputation]
twisting a song around an excuse
Liza Jane (Alternative Mix) - David Bowie [from Toy]
the vocal infiltrates
from within the guitar fire
Climbing Higher Mountains - Aretha Franklin [from Amazing Grace]
a question arises
concerning the sacredness of bodily expression
and what that means
Never Tear Us Apart (INXS) - Prom Queen [from Covers]
living in vintage sound
songs can tell a story
or
be about
one
recitative
da capo aria
da capo
ad lib
The Song of the Grand Coulee Dam - George Rezendes, David Grisman [from Roll Columbia]
or
can be an excuse
for banjo pickin'
built
by the hand
of the man
Glassloops - Bruce Hamilton & Friends [from Mash Hits Vol. 1]
enter as a polyphonic voice
everybody here
seems to be dressed in
the same chord
the power of fashion
Sparks Fly (Demo) - Waxahatchee [from Out In The Storm]
leapwise melody
to rejigger the accentuation of syllables
that's nice
Infinity - Kung Foo Grip [from Live from Sound Off 2012]
a physical workout
to shout this
so quickly breathless
Keep On - Star Anna & Mike McCready
hang in there folks
Syntopia 2 - Sascia Pellegrini
a caldron
closely watched
patiently attended
||{a break for an important stretch}||
back to the patient caldron
in progress
the caldron
is not just what is in it
but also
who put what
is in it
into it
mumble crumble
roil and rumble
third part
much later
many centuries in fact
a very long
process of attendance
heart throbbing
fine
Mazurka in B Major, Op. 63 #1 - Frédéric Chopin - Garrick Ohlsson
metrical pulse
is much malleable
his stuttering ornaments
and witty all dones
Feldeneinsamkeit - Charles Ives - Mary Ann Hart, Dennis Helmrich
to show that he'd been to school
and knew how it was done
on the
continent
so pretty
I Should Care (Alternative Take) - Thelonious Monk [from The Complete Blue Note Recordings]
its that piano vibraphone singer act again
a comic clumsiness
in
the grace with which they support the singer
purpose of the piano solo
to fuddle the time of return
You Win Again - Bob Dylan [from A Tree With Roots]
not a bad demo
the mix is OK but crude
America the Beautiful - Ray Charles [from A Message from the People]
fanfare in marching rhythm
in the further verses
and the big
timpani bam bam bam bam
ala Zarathustra
I Can't Help Myself - Bonnie Raitt [from Green Light]
party time for golden youth
looks back
to its more innocent
remembrances
It's Simple - Sarah Vaughan [from Brazilian Romance]
a song is made of pitch energies
pulling at each other in an enclosed
space
Daddy Shot a Bear - Mike, Peggy, and Penny Seeger [from Animal Folk Songs for Children]
through the keyhole and never touched a hair
Le Miroir Amère - Steve Layton & Improv Friday [from PPP]
given half a chance
we will find voices that lead
judging a song
one can't rely on
either
the independent
strength of the words
nor
the independent strength of the music
there is
another music
to how they synthesize
into
something
more than joined
Labyrinth - Taylor Swift [from Midnights]
was that a french horn blurp?
sure sounds like it
what would these people sing about
if their love lives weren't
complicated at
least as presented
Amazing Grace - Aretha Franklin [from Amazing Grace]
carried along
we carry along carrying along
every word
in
every statement
no slack
we are securely carried along
Stop the Violence (Massive 12" A Capella Version) - Boogie Down Productions [from Criminal Minded]
just the vocal track
digital silence
between segments
Circles - Christina Aguilera [from Lotus]
this song is a rude gesture
Roll, Columiba, Roll - Fine Company [from Roll Columbia]
wild and reckless
to be conquered
Summer Renaissance - Beyoncé [from Renaissance]
long stanzas
are distinguished by their trajectories
or
there is a set of cycling trajectories
that are sequenced into a
song
When You Need Me - Bruce Springsteen [from Tracks]
band comes in at the 2nd verse
full cliche
by the book song
production
Dronedrift - Bruce Hamilton & Friends [from Mash Hits Vol. 1]
two harmonies alternate
tick tock
split return
we do love to
throb
the layers are removed piecemeal
that's the show
Brass Bean (Demo) - Waxahatchee [from Out In The Storm]
demo
just the song
with its skeletal arrangement
pre-production
no fancy hem to finish it
You've Got a Habit of Leaving - David Bowie [from Toy]
production is Bowie's native compositional paradigm
composing a sound
file in the shape of an industry song
Free From You - Swingset Showdown [from Short Bus Ruckus]
celebrating self-centered slackerhood
Closure - The Oh Wells [from Live from Sound Off 2012]
the keyboard sounds like a toy
not bad in itself
but why play dull
patterns
with a dull sound?
more a skit than a song
In Session at The Tintinabulary
January 14, 2024
Luton - Keith Eisenbrey
I'll be at these for a while I think.
January 15, 2024
Banned Rehearsal 1095 - Haley, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
Stu and Renko sent some venerable lids/bells and they are rung in introduction so that the other lids and bells can get to know them
January 17, 2024
Dies ist der Tag, den Gott gemacht - Aaron Keyt
January 19, 2024
Nun wolle Gott, dass unser Sang - Aaron Keyt
these are fun to play on clavichord which forwards their particularly Keytian graceful clumsiness
Postscripts
Drops
Keith Eisenbrey 11: 2007 - Music as Film (part 1)
My "Music as Film" project involved building complex sound textures from tiny fragments of sound outward, and was inspired by aspects of some of Stan Brakhage's film making techniques - especially the kind of individual care taken with each frame of such films as "Mothlight". The source sounds for Consider the Birds and Sputnik Love were portions of recent Banned Rehearsal sessions that happened to be on my computer. For Lids Film I recorded myself playing bells and potlids, and used that.
Volumes 1 through 10 are available at keitheisenbrey.bandcamp.com
All are free for download.
Skaldmud's Doodle Gallery
listening journal doodles from 2016 and 2017
