Preface
"The words we choose to address our musical thoughts and concerns are moral actions. It's not that, by choosing, we have acted in a moral way; nor is it that, by choosing, we act in a way that is good or bad. It is, words are actions, actions that are subject, subject-able, to moral considerations. By choosing words to address our musical thoughts and concerns, we choose verbal language; by choosing verbal language, we choose, willingly or un-willingly, wittingly or un-wittingly, many words, many actions, many moral acts."
Jon Forshee "If Music, as a Music: Three Notions Around the Thoughts of Benjamin Boretz" Open Space Magazine issue 21 spring 2018
Texts
Recorded
September 16, 2018
Forever - Screaming Trees [from Clairvoyance]
twice the tune
twists away from its starting
neenerneenerness
instrumental bit
then twists away again
just to the point of losing
grip
Banned Rehearsal 271 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [October 1991]
at Toad Hall
advice for adult living
baby talk
inane conversation with sound effects
distraction of infant in the room
lots of pistons
Aaron proclaims that when J became 27 years of age Bruce Springsteen would be president.
that would be strange
opined Karen
not as strange as who is president
now that J is 27 years of age
Sonata in D minor - Jean-Marie Leclair - Philharmonia Virtuosi [from Evenings With The Captain Vol. 1]
contrapuntal weaves were all the rage still
so everything copied it as a model
as later the operatic scene
civilized grace (what else would one expect from a Jean-Marie?)
some instrumental showing off
September 18, 2018
Drifting - Wes Weddell [from My Northwest Home]
free reed harp as one-man horn section
shukashukashukashukashukashu
song of where we landed
Making Hey - Eve Beglarian - Eve Beglarian, Matt Fieldes, Damien Bassman [from Open Space 21]
or was
as in
at as
an or
even was
when that
as in
Night Signals Journey To The Sea - S. Eric Scribner [from Stormsound Cycle, May 2011, private recording]
doing next to nothing for a stretch inflates doing anything from both sides of the performance doing divide
turning in sleep
. . . crickets . . .
woke up the birds
abide next to nothing
doing
abstract literal
(fact as though image)
September 20, 2018
Finnegans Wake Chapter 8 - James Joyce - Mary Lorson and Brian Hall [from Waywords and Meansigns]
from the Ginsbergian Beat Voice Sound notion
i.e. music sound upon which to sit
to lie
8 bit hip hop
what men say about women
never the other way
witness we are to conversants' conversant converse
a pause as to shift
point of view
done
In Session at the Tintinabulary
September 17, 2018
Gradus 339 - Neal Kosály-Meyer
6th B up then a 4th above
