Playlist

Recorded

June 19, 2018
Mona - Youth Rescue Mission [from Youth Rescue Mission]

a tinge of string band and blood harmony
later, the center of sound scatters

Banned Rehearsal 908 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt - April 2016

assembled from Banned Telepaths 47 - Aaron playing Wallace in Somerville, MA; Karen, Steve, and me chiming in at the Tintinabulary in Seattle
sounds' seeming mass
moving air
massive instrument objects
to move air in specific modes
Wallace enters the space
otamatone answers
a trio for two pianos and otamatone
Steve provides essential percussion entwinings
actuation centers wander about the space
light percussion takes the field
copper pipe insulation squeak speak.

A Voluntarie - William Byrd - Elizabeth Farr [from My Ladye Nevells Booke]

an ordered garden path
a path of vistas

Jazz Lips - Louis Armstrong's Hot Five [from Hot Fives and Sevens]

horns dancin' wild

Slippin' And Slidin' - Little Richard [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]

piano and drums keep it lively for bouncing voice and horn on

Mr. Ed's Theme Song - Jay Livingston

well there it is

A Poem On The Underground Wall - Simon and Garfunkel [from Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme]

egregious poeticizing
insufficient song

June 20, 2018
Track 3 - Tillicum Junior High School Orchestra [from a private tape of a concert given March 3, 1971]

a little waltz, probably some J. Strauss or other

Two Hymns of Brahma - David Jones - Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Michel Singher [from a private tape]

Americana brash, then going for exotic ala Hollywood, in the service of which we find some pretty nice colors

I Know What I Know - Paul Simon [from Graceland]

He writes this from the sound first, then downward into the song. It is no better a song than it needs to be to inhabit the sound from within which it emerges. PS as groove assembulator.

June 21, 2018
Psalm 23 (meditation, responses) - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer

This 1991 score still intrigues me, specifically as it concerns the question of what small part of the

final performance result is actually written down. The score consists of a small book of page pairs. One facing page contains a verse from the Psalm and the other holds two short fragments of written music, the first fragment of which is always the same. In performance I improvised a path from the constant fragment to each not so constant fragment. This particular recorded realization (there have been several) follows my entire clavichord take with an edited version of Neal's reading. I guess, in some sense, this is the (responses, meditation) version of (meditation, responses). Listening to it after all these years I'm thinking I should do more composing for clavichord.

X-Communication - The Sub/Con Group [from Sonicabal 2001]

industrial-like sounds
between sci-fi Foley sound and music sound
unfortunately it wanders into  recognizable beat stuff
if it is a drum machine then it is making a point about drum machines that didn't much need making
if not, then ditto
a paucity of color

Nocturne Interruptus - Brad Anderson [from Dark Energy / Interstellar Pianos]

honest cheap sounds thrills naked non-finesse

Consort of Voices - S. Eric Scribner - Clifford Dunn, Keith Eisenbrey, Matt Kocmieroski, Dale Speicher [from Storm Sound Cycle {private recording}]

the tempo is somewhere in the single digits per minute, and mostly whole notes
some minimalist stratagems wander through to reveal, briefly, the spirit that had hovered throughout
I believe this was the final piece in Steve's 9+ hour live epic Storm Sound Cycle, performed at the Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, in May of 2011. I don't remember what instrument I was playing.

Animal - Ravenna Woods [from Alleyways and Animals]

interval :: production-distance between overdubbed tracks :: vocal/piano drums/synth :: reverbillumination
artpop

In Session at the Tintinabulary

June 18, 2018
Banned Rehearsal 961 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer

We gathered on the porch for the first time this Summer.

We note that it is pretty close to the 34th Bannediversary (June 24, 1984).

Playlist

Upcoming This Week

 

Thursday, September 4, 2014 9pm

Your Mother Should Know

The Spencer Glenn Band

Canals of Venice

Rendezvous, Seattle

 

Recorded

 

August 26, 2014

Percussion Symphony - Charles Wuorinen - New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, Raymond DesRoches

 

There are very few pieces of recorded music I feel are better served on headphones than through speakers. This may be one of them, simply because the volume needs to be cranked so high to bring the quiet stretches up from inaudible that the loud bits make me nervous for my speakers, not to mention my neighbors. Live, I presume, the effect would be magnificent - thunderous to intimate whisper.

 

The Flowers of Romance - Public Image Ltd.

 

Fastidious insistence on deliberate drabness. Upside-down sound design. Eno's flip side.

 

Casio Improvisation No. 1 - Larry Solomon

 

Cross-rhythms of frantic birdhoot in viscous undulation. Starlings flock through honey.

 

August 28, 2014

Two3 No. 5 - John Cage - Stefan Hussong, Hiroyuki Okano

 

All cues to pitch-centered listening activated in order to be thwarted.

 

Deceived By Starlight - Roger Zahab - Dale Speicher

 

steady yearning unwavers

firm vigorous resolves

shrugging off magic if possible (or)

 

Tango Orientale - Ole Saxe - Karen Bentley-Pollick, Ivan Sokolov

 

Never gives up its dance.

 

Midnight at the Apollo 13 - Gas Huffer [from The Funhouse Comp Thing]

 

This is not about being new, it is about being plugged in to a source.

 

In The Pines - No Man's String Band

 

Sthrum-heavy plain song straight play.

 

In Session at the Tintinabulary

 

August 24, 2014

Transverse Flute 140824

 

August 25, 2014

Banned Rehearsal 868 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Meyer

 

One last time on the porch for the Summer. (we presume).

 

August 29, 2014

Walk Home (parts 1 and 2) - Keith Eisenbrey

 

Last year I walked home from work (about 7 miles) one evening, meeting Karen at the half-way point for supper. This time I decided to record the experience. I tucked a miniature recorder into the right side pocket of my backpack, padding it with a wool sock, and off I went. I turned it off when I got to the restaurant and started it again when we left. The first part, from the Columbia Center at 5th and Columbia, north on 5th Avenue, right on Stewart, left on Eastlake is mostly traffic noise and a few glimpses of conversation. The second part, across the University Bridge, right on Campus Parkway, left on the Ave, right on NE 75th, left on 20th, left on 88th to home, includes my conversation with Karen, the subject of which is partly the remarkable coincidence of our chance dinner companions at Little Water Cantina. We were sharing our table with a young couple and as we talked it eventually came out that they were also Karen and Keith. We showed each other our IDs to prove we weren't pulling legs. On top of that, they had gotten married in Ship Bottom, New Jersey, which is the one place on the shore I've actually been to.