Preface
- Benjamin Boretz "Language, as a Music"
Texts
Recorded
April 11, 2020
War - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]
lesson and carol
cover of course
As a song it suffers from an irrecoverable opening whammy, much as does Also sprach Zarathustra.
Who Cares About You - Full Toilet [from Full Toilet 7"]
a great trip actually
It has that opening whammy thing down and then stops.
Pledge Allegiance - Robber's Roost [from Live in Minneapolis]
political?
add to the right left margin lists of Boretz's I/O
Winners - Manfriday [a Rescued Record]
hey kids
do it yourself
without leaving the house
sampled sound feel
no reason for instrumental intervals
if none are strutting
hey kids
insert your righteous strut solo here
push button for cheering multitude sound sample
When the Darkness Comes Out at Night - Whitney Ballen [from White Feathers/White Linen]
a sweet song sung with joy
playful
down with how unimportant it is to be taking it seriously
a strenuous joy
April 12, 2020
Banned Rehearsal 921 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [October 2016]
the need:
a place to stand
: could be a score
: could be a habit
: could be a rut or a phone booth or a wood box
: could be a vehicle
: could be a room or the past or our conjointed experience together
? our imprimatur ?
? does our place to stand allow adequate liberty to each others' places to stand ?
? does our place to stand disappear in the experience of the moment, become transparent to it ?
? are we now the center of attention ?
The house of Atreus has fallen in the dust. Pastichery has a similar problem.
a magnum mysterium - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]
see?
if you don't mess with it so much it's lovely!
Monkey on a Chain - Courtney Marie Andrews [from No One's Slate Is Clean]
big voice saying things to you holds its own
plenty big
I'm Set Free - Brian Eno [from The Ship]
slow moving rise of pitch level into choral harmony
like any another choir anthem might do has done
You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon [from The Essential Paul Simon]
staccato talk-o
urban tales
told quick
Desert Bloom (underlying electronic track) - Steve Scribner
a chorale underneath the yet dark sky
commendable intonation doing
no fade out on that
no sir just cut it off
yes
lovely understated it-ness
April 14, 2020
Gradus 302 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [November 2016]
calls into question the tense of listening
a fluid multi-morphing attitude to the sense of experience of what might as well be called now
bending sequential experience to follow the path we have formed to be on
[aside: music is often composed so that sequence matters to its image of comprehensibility. It can't be mixed or shuffled in our experiencing of it and still be recognizably it.]
this
shit
isn't
radical content determinacy writ so large as to be ungraspable as experience
Darlington County - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]
or Klickitat County
as Karen sings it
the better life elsewhere
the myths of worker migrant america
the allure of the south
whips his big man out
sax, right
Dust and Dirt - Smokestack and the Foothill Fury [from America's Freedom Death March]
a report from the grit road
DIY blues hillbilly perfection
last red cent shiny dime
and time in time
Ocean Ambience Rocky Coastline (Volume 3) - Pete Comley
arcanely catalogued and sequenced
for real
a drawer of specimens
of such beetle-like things
alike and not the same
a memento of eternity
that will persist beyond and without regard for our time of woe
and even these not eternal
all of it that we can be conscious of is limited to that of which our consciousness is capable
no more
April 15, 2020
Singet und klinget, ihr Kindelein - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]
instrumental parts and vocal parts of essentially identical, interchangeable, double-able
does it mean that they were intended to be infinitely arrangeable,
or that these were the sorts of lines composers knew how to work with and were acceptable in polite paying company
and that they intended these pieces for the particular forces available to the instant occasion for which it was written
nor to be ever after considered
I Will - High Class Wreckage [from High Class Wreckage]
your evil ways
yeah I like 'em
the increments are extraordinarily narrow
but carefully prepared to inhabit the package they are packed in
with only just the bare necessity of protrusion
Banned Rehearsal 922 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer [November 2016]
"Bickleton Burger" for Aaron's birthday
shades of Aaronsbundler wheezing on the pump organ
trigger alert: metal on metal squeaking
out loud
reading from a score
of any kind
is
to some extent
a cop-out
a dis-engagement
a breach of social contract
or
one's part comes apart
joins collectivity
the undigested past
disgorged
use fresh water
April 16, 2020
You Make My Tremolo - Sun Sect [a Rescued Record]
The band plays in another room, early DIY? Demo-ish frog croak
record me! I wanna be a paperback writer
bluesy bland guitar hook
What Love Will Provide - Yuni [formerly in Taxco?] [from Sanpaku]
late surf pop in a big can
Austin - SeaStar [from Never Go Back]
the power of a melody sung alone
still does it for me
all one ever really needs
Working On The Highway - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]
all he really needed here
was a set of spoons
Smoke Goes Clearing - Shelby Earl [from Burn The Boats]
teaching one's self's mirror's you
who comfort
him or her
me you I
Gradus 303 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [November 2016]
rung one:
the nearly replete
rung two:
the replete
{of the collection so far}
this is not counting in the sequential manner, i.e.
1 - 1
10 - 2
11 - 3
100 - 4
101 - 5
110 - 6
111 - 7
1000 - 8
1001 - 9
1010 - 10
1100 - 12
1011 - 11
1101 - 13
1110 - 14
1111 - 15
it is out of order as counting
and will continue to scatter as time goes on
that is, taken as an expression of quantity in base 2
increment becomes confused or refracted
and that refraction is a figure
writ upon time
any segment of a rung might express a number in base 2
and any number can be placed in a hypothetical time point
so that composition can be time travel
{{having grown old with tape bleed it is easy for me to hear a PPP pitch instance followed by a the same pitch played F as just that: tape bleed
though here, that's just how he plunked it}}
and partitions of rungs played together
(think Babbitt's arrays)
are different quantities or quantity numbers nobbing hob together in a counterpoint of time travelings
extending beyond the universe
like tapes played together
as tape bleed made big
Bransle de poictou - La bona novella - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]
The Renaissancy in all its jingle bell hoary glory
so quaint
--- Warning - Operation ID [from Legs]
a ringtone to riff under
push it around if you can
holds together under pressure
not immovable
but moves as a thing
Go Fast - Crystal Beth and the Boom Boom Band [from Yugen 3]
create a rhythmic environment
like a room to be in
of one's own
as it were
decorative impulse
in a non bull-shit way
throw some posters on the wall
what you might want to see
to reflect memory and aspiration and attitude
Postscripts
(-)ture he has labored at this and to be
complete monicker means a year at harvard
without music the only reward he
hung there from another mind
dyes dray violet
blows on the bass drum
