Playlist

Preface

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

"Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands. So, too, it is, that in these resplendent Japanese seas the mariner encounters the direst of all storms, The Typhoon. It will sometimes burst from out that cloudless sky, like an exploding bomb upon a dazed and sleepy town."

Herman Melville, from Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale.

Texts

Recorded

February 15, 2026

Sonata in D Major, Kk. 313 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

structuralizing voice motions

Lobe den Herrn, miene Seele, BWV 69 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Amsterdam Baroque Choir, Ton Koopman

multiple meshing polyphonies
in a mesh
of metapolyphonies 

modes of declamation
such as
recitative
aria
chorus
chorale
duet
parts of the rhetoric
of its text payload
as is
its tonal mesh

Kinderszenen: Kind in einschlummern, Op. 15 #12 - Robert Schumann - Florian Uhlig

oh that astonishing dissonance
against a missing other 

a masterpiece of tonal poetry

Weber – Preciosa: Einsam bin ich, nicht alleine, S453 - Franz Liszt -  Andrey Ivanov

treating its honest simplicity
as a Romantic ideal of self

is it
how anyone
saw themself
ever? 

an humble prayer

2 Pieces: Caresse Dansee, Op. 57 #12 - Alexander Scriabin - Michael Ponti

sprinkled fae motes
sparkle
drifting
to the least final sounding
final cadence
of its time

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

February 16, 2026

Symphonic Raps - Louis Armstrong, Carroll Dickerson's Savoyagers [from Hot Fives and Sevens]

practiced togetherness

Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream?) - Roy Orbison [from For The Lonely]

Sha-de-Dah-dab 

I like the back up singers in this cut

Charlie Browning - The Young Men [a Rescued Record]

local
college ball
novelty
throw away 

Charlie Browning
still first-downing

Burning of the Midnight Lamp - The Jimi Hendrix Experience [from Electric Lady Land]

powered blues
the parties mix it up
in the between

Doctor Jimmy - The Who [from Quadrophenia]

whistling wind flange
(gustless) 

the repetitions of stanzas
in industrialized songs
in cyclic loops
become more uncanny
with each iteration 

the same blank wall
in each direction
in-terminate

Rosy - Bruce Springsteen [from Live at The Roxy]

vamping through the introductions
goes on and on 

life escape fantasy

Cars are Cars - Paul Simon [from Hearts and Bones]

a disbalancing inset groove
in the bedrock groove

Relentless - T Bone Burnette [from The Talking Animals]

a production
shaped
as a song
might be

Soft Queenie - PJ Harvey [from Rid of Me]

power brag

Frozen - Madonna [from Ray of Light]

were these a real person's anxieties
would they ever seem to be experiencing them
with this kind of production value?

Sing & Seek - Christian Asplund [from Brainstun]

a vamp
is an explicit point of reference
tonally and metrically
a smooth but firm floor
for dancing upon
barefoot

Thank You - Courtney Marie Andrews [from Urban Myths]

smile for awhile
a way
to not
quite
say it
straight
splitting a statement
in breaths that
don't match the
sentence structure

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

February 17, 2026

I'm Not Gonna Worry (Cinnamons Cover) - Acapulco Lips [from Demos]

cooption
of a traditional lyric
for a new abode

Track 2 - S. Eric Scribner [from Free Improvisations Quartets Project]

the construction
in sound
of a platform
for the elevation
of sounds 

we conspire
to lift ourselves
with voice alone

Cave Creatures - Steve Layton & Sound-In [from The Many Voices In Our Heads]

hold still
and they
will come
to you 

all of them

Me and My Gin - Bessie Smith [from Empty Bed Blues]

she seems to pronounce it "sin"
at first
but that may be an artifact
of the track's path
to me
here and now

I Walk a Little Faster - Blossom Dearie [from Give Him The Ooh-La-La]

making hay
out of a few different notes
from our first encounter
with
their containing lines
or
in stepwise movements
from
line to line
falling

Sally Go 'Round the Roses - The Jaynetts [collected from Neal Kosály-Meyer's Bo's Milieu]

warnings
that sound in one's head
on repeat

The Wheel's On Fire - The Band [from Music from Big Pink]

sings
as a steady
beat
of firmly
planted
feet

Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting - Elton John [from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road]

a constant
and steady onslaught 

firehose dance

TV Party Tonight - Black Flag [from Nancy's Mix]

frat punk

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

February 18, 2026

Clay - Echo and The Bunnymen [from Porcupine]

half-bar or so
of guitar sound
foot in a door
for the song
to push in behind 

explaining oneself
in opaque metaphors

Little Fugue in G - The Canadian Brass [from More Greatest Hits]

interwoven certitude

Throb - Janet Jackson [from Janet]

bass layer
of the danceable beat
and its impersonal machinery
another layer
of what might be overheard
from the nearby booths
another
of what might have been
in your ear
another
of ones imagination
having intimate relations
later

Watch My Back - Aretha Franklin [from A Rose is Still a Rose]

backing singers
hold down the fort
during flights
of melismatic arabesquery

It Ain't Worth It After Awhile - Bettye LaVette [from A Woman Like Me]

is the purpose
of a projected persona
to allow a listener
to identify with
or otherwise empathisize
to see oneself in a situation
or to diagnose another's problems 

the blues
being in the form of a
dialog between an explicitly projected persona
(singing the text)
and a supporting bed of commentary
shifting
under that persona's body
as it moves

The Shop of Wild Dreams - The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet [from Laws of Motion]

hard contrast
back and forth
between sax sound
and sung sound
to open
establishes a metrical-rhetorical framework
by which
the continuation is understood
in small and large

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

February 19, 2026

Chaotic Heart - Your Mother Should Know [recorded live at The Comet Tavern, Seattle, March 5, 2013]

enthusiasm
is a reckless game 

one of my faves of theirs
in an energetic performance

Like It Anyways - India Glover [from Ur OK I Guess]

the bass and shuffle drum
add body to the sound
but not much to the song
which
perhaps
didn't need them
being plenty bodily
with just the voice
and the simple guitar figure

Ward - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey [October 15, 2023]

prying open a tight meter

Let Jesus Lead You - The Jubilee Gospel Team [from Goodbye, Babylon]

subtle pressing forward in the tempo
only gradually
becoming
clearly
apparent 

fancy cadence
just for nice

Aren't You Kinda Glad We Did - Sarah Vaughan [from Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin]

morning after
less than sorry 

outcast
doubt cast

Dialogues for Violin Solo - Eduard Steuermann - Paul Zukofsky

the layers
have been pressed thin 

razor
stairs 

for violin, 4-strings

Jugband Blues - Pink Floyd [from A Saucerful of Secrets]

adrift
in a bay
of lines
from songs

Cleotha-March and Two Step - Scott Joplin - E. Power Biggs

gears of like size
turn cams
on spindles
sparking a motion
through the various stanzas

You're The One - Yoko Ono [from Milk and Honey]

some flavor of fame
requires one to make statements
like confessions
and mass produce them

Surrexit Christus Hodie - Cambridge Singers [from Brother Sun Sister Moon]

setting a most proper tone of celebration

Dumb - Nirvana [from Unplugged in New York]

a tune of alternating short spurts
articulated by a repeating phrase
that ends differently on each iteration
wrapped up
with a cycle of
I think I'm dumbs

Pack Up Your Sorrows - James King [from Bed By The Window]

social prowess
fair ground

Track 7 - Eckstein Middle School Bands, Moc Escobedo [from Mach 6]

tricky counting
with duet
for piccolo and bass clarinet

End This - The True Bugs

a moment
in a time poem capsule

Lips and Limbs - Waxahatchee [from Cerulean Salt]

the simplicity
of singing the song
with a noncompetitive accompaniment

U Don't Know - Black Dresses [from Hell Is Real]

anxiety
industrialized
puts on ferocious face

Mutes and Overtones - Tom Varner, Neil Welch [from Out of the Mud]

start over
the distant shimmer of it
was drowned
by the heat pump fan 

Music Drowned By Fan

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

Goofus - Slim Lamar [from That Devilin' Tune]

1928 mouth drumming
key in the door
introduce
to each of the folks in turn 

them's over there's
the lovelies 

lively dance
with carnival tricks

Why Was I Born - Morgana King [from Morgana King Sings The Blues]

the existential feminist query

why was I born
to love you 

cuts both ways and back

Love You Madly - Ella Fitzgerald [from Love Songs: the Best of the Verve Song Book]

finds some hip slang swing 

light on its feet

An Orange Grove in California - Rusty Dedrick Orchestra [from Irving Berlin: All By Myself]

my dad grew up on an orange farm
in California
his dad
died
of a heart attack
trying to run it
through the Depression 

what bird flies West again? 

streets paved with gold dossier

Love Train - The O'Jays [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]

this train
has been through a sermon or two 

altar call department

Live - Mrs. Whitehead [from Bard Sampler 82-83]

thrash and hop

Stand - REM [from Green]

orientation ritual

Cold Mountain Is A House - Robert Morris - Deborah Norin-Kuehn, Margaret Kampmeier [from Open Space 30]

descriptive
of several architectures
walls
floor
fences
boards

I Learned From The Best - Whitney Houston [from My Love Is Your Love]

cottage industry
in romantic revenge fantasies 

last laughs best

Samples - Excess Time - Steve Kennedy [from State's Exhibit]

office of liquid machinery
stay on walkways
do not cross yellow lines

Intermezzo in midi: DanceSquares - J. K. Randall [from Open Space 22]

the articulations
by silence
require precision
more than heft
so that
the parts
are merely listed
never promoted

Seven Months - Red Ribbon [recorded live at The Comet Tavern, Seattle, March 5, 2013]

all heft

Astotas - Triptet [from Slowly, Away]

arrives like weeds
or moss
at night
under cover
of damp Winter 

fibrous
unyankable
earthclenched 

firmly belonging

Create Desolation and Call it Peace - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey [from Keith Eisenbrey 5: 1984-1988]

halting steps
reluctant words
solemnly spaced 

repetition
is rhetorically required 

always moving on
always sinking more deeply in

In Session at The Tintinabulary

February 15, 2026

Warwick - Keith Eisenbrey

Keith Eisenbrey · 137 Warwick 260215 [260215]

February 16, 2026

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

Gradus 428 - Neal Kosály-Meyer

a new note!
what joy! 

it is the note
that is not an A-flat
but rather
the note
a semitone above G-nat
(natch!) 

any note
can send a Morse-ish message 

a note
is
in that space
a valueless token
that is
its value
as a pitch
is immaterial
to its time points' patterning
any other pitch
would serve as well 

be that as it may
and nevertheless
and notwithstanding
the particulars
of the pitch in question
as being meaningful
in regard
to the time point structure
of its rhetoric
any pitch
has a suchness about it
that suchifies
anything
it touches
the modes
are helpless against each other 

|Rung| 

new rung
a second pitch
added to the last

so
we have the time point patterns
of each pitch
and the time point patterns
of both pitches together
and the time point patterns
of their interactions
all reckoned
with the suchnesses
of each pitch
and the suchness
of their intervallic effects upon each other 

the acoustic relations
among pitches
are perceived
as effects upon
changes within
by virtue
of their particular proximities to others

Postscripts

Drops

Keith Eisenbrey 30: Sabbatical Improvisations (part 1) 2013-2014

In 2013 I had reached an inflection point in my big project, Études d'exécution imminent, and took a sabbatical (indifferently observed) from composing written-down music. I filled the time with various forms of improvisation, both "in-the-moment" composing, and sometimes puttering about with multi-tracking and other digitally applied effects. Here are the first bunch of them.

recordings of my compositions (and more!) can be found at keitheisenbrey.bandcamp.com - free to download or stream 

Playlist

Preface

"
contraponderables , parablisms , allelomorphs [:imaged:] implode ;
designanda , mined , scrunch -- & [ , transhewn ] quicken , take life .

"
- J.K. Randall "provoked your majesty" from "Being About Music Textworks 1960-2003 J. K. Randall Benjamin Boretz Volume 2: 1978-2003"

Texts

Recorded

May 10, 2020
Lost - Smokestack and the Foothill Fury [from America's Freedom Death March]



banjo solo
whittle out of a stick

Side Effects - Lunas [from Over Me]



solid core riffing song with coda in a different sound world: first fuzzed then ringy

Stiff Joints - Yuni in Taxco [from Sanpaku]



old fashioned (60s?) room feel
neo psychedelic

Your Eyes - Tyler Daniel Bean [from On Days Soon to Pass]



projecting the guitar figure into the greater arrangement
the band is a bigger guitar

modest fuzz
turn off the amps
close the door

May 11, 2020
Made Of Sand - Shelby Earl [from Burn the Boats]



a mixed message
solid, firm
utterance of nonsubstance

unmeasured space between slow curving beats

Airstrip Timber Sale - Bicycle Face [from The Wonders of Female Strength]



tree hugging message on good enough music

The Muse - Operation ID [from Legs]

barking mad
then falls away by a long ellipsoidal curve

unstable orbit

worry heats up to start over
having come back around

Last Call - No Rey [from Contradictions]

attributed thoughts
the music is competent enough
in a stripped down REM sort of way
not to challenge
but to comfort with familiarity

Broken Heart - Eddie Vedder [from Ukulele Songs]

the intonation of the ukulele's sound box pulls the octaves tight

A Line - Arbor Towers [from In Transit EP]



begins like a story teller
but loses a grip on his saying of what he's saying

relies on the languishing mood to hold us
not so danceable that we don't wonder when it will be over
stops sudden

Kill the Kids - White Orange [from White Orange]



fill every molecule with sound
the moshers are bobbing in it
like ducks
this is so quack!

engineer can have 7 seconds at the end to play
no more

Our Heads Split Us Apart - India Glover [from Pup Demo]

diary entry or epistle or practice for a conversation
India leaves in the do-overs
bravely done
those redone do-overs!

song structural elements
verse chorus bridge for example
as tarot to organize the circling obsession of what to say

Wooden Hands - Yuni in Taxco [from Slow Charade]



not filling the room tight
as White Orange does

always an equal distance to each of its moments
never gets closer

White Dwarf - Ancient Warlocks [from Ancient Warlocks Live]



fantasy heroic
the line can only be held aloft a few syllables at a time

instrumental gravity
surface of center mass
feel it press upon you

Echolocation Song - Triptet [from Imaginary Perspective]



invents itself from the sound of itself
life inside the bell

Loon Lake - Tyler Daniel Bean [from On Days Soon to Pass]



speak slow
for attracting girls
is the line we hear

be the strong silent romantical type

back to the journal entry epistolary poem heartfelt note plea

Henry Darger - Michael Owcharuk [from Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble Volume 1]

What is it that makes this so instantly and clearly a theater pit composition? Nothing is left to chance. The composed-ahead-of-time synchronized tunes.

(helluva pit orchestra though!)

a fire escape quiet evening movie melody
3 scenes

and that playing it together live room they are in that is clearly there with you.
Here.

Brauerhaus - Three Fingers [from Go Deep]



pop punk shows its roots
a love song fantasy memoir

Gold and Silver - Star Anna and The Laughing Dogs [from Alone in This Together]

cleaning up
emptying after
a house
vacant of its curator

Luaidh Mo Chèile - SeaStar [from Never Go Back]



purposeful mis-accentuation to imitate a translation
or a tune inflicted: find the first tune, find the last

Track 5 - High Class Wreckage [Live at The Funhouse, July 2011]

I was recording these on a DAT, re-using media (it was getting hard to find and expensive) - never convinced that the recording wouldn't be totally overdriven and a waste. Looking back it is quite a nice little time capsule.

Stride - Robber's Roost [from Live in Minneapolis]



keep appearances up
he talks even faster than he sings or strums

Track 5 - Pouch [Live at The Funhouse, July 2011]

mathematics of what fits in four and how,
emphatic
it lets us in briefly,
so that we are the cadenza

The Motherfucking Bus (Part II) - Chaotic Noise Marching Corps [from Zero to Lizard Man]


and its qualities
how it sounds
as it goes
and where

Empires Ending (Side A) - Koko and the Sweetmeats [from Sacrifice]



what is it that, socially, holds a sound, like this, together? Are all of them, really, personally, into it? Or is this just, sadly, resignedly, close enough?

bang the tambourine desultory

I'm Perverted - Choke The Pope [from Emotional Material]



takes more than that

May 12, 2020
Cold Wind - Curtains For You [from After Nights Without Sleep]



this beat bounces
nothing is so massive
as can't be maneuvered
or respun
while up in air

No Jobs - Robber's Roost [from Swallow Your Fears]

hermetic seal
|:|fear|:|
safer there than here

Soundform I (underlying electronic track) - S. Eric Scribner [from The Storm Sound Cycle]

presence with minimal activity
steady slow flow
and our ears in their respective location to it

Relief - Lunas [from Over Me]



compressed right up to the speaker cone
somebody's singshouting something back there somewhere
it even sounds like it might be an interesting vocal, so why is it buried? is it too particular?

slow down quiet coda
no vocal

13xxooxoxxoxoox - Paul Rubenstein [from Solo Trios]



playing with an invented tuning
invented being my theory for what this project uses to find places within it that will articulate

attractive trio
mbira of some kind
a monochord?
and a sound I don't recognize, but has a bit of a celeste or toy piano sound to it, lower pitched though, almost sustained

If It'd Rain - SeaStar [from Never Go Back]



a chord figure is a way for hands to behave so as to support the voice, like audible hand talking, enfolding voice in a bodily embrace of suggestion or precision

Franz and the Eagle - Goat Rodeo [from The Goat Rodeo Sessions]

all the burrs filed off and polished so it won't hurt easy listening very tasteful

Wildflowers - Bicycle Face [from The Wonders of Female Strength]



single location mic recording is enough information to construct a believable space in which the musicians are
i can almost tell how mussed the bed is she is sitting on

May 13, 2020
The Short Answer - Full Toilet [from Full Toilet 7"]

meta raw
nothing left but what abrades

Cemetery Girls - Chaotic Noise Marching Corps [from Zero to Lizard Man]

no room left for pretty moments
blast filled

{the kind of energy that, quite frankly, made me quit band back in HS}

Sex Dreams - Courtney Marie Andrews [from No One's Slate Is Clean]

perpetual parting words
music box sounds sound like memory (a trope)

Exes R Us - No Rey [from Contradictions]

heartfelt?? not really
comfort after severance? hm
the clever title gives it away

In Place of Time - Whitney Ballen [from White Feathers, White Linens]



noisy motor sounds in the left channel
reverbed up for mood lighting

Love In the Way We Wanted - India Glover [from Pup Demo]



all sorts of b'bye songs this afternoon

Attitude Adjustment Stations - Yuni in Taxco [from Sanpaku]



backing vocals hiding in the metallic reverb
it is hard to hear
so shiny!

Terrible Touch - Ancient Warlocks [from Ancient Warlocks Live]



instrumentalists in touch with their slow slow tempo
they know exactly where it is

and the value of a strong vocal delivery
though buried in this live recording

Distant Rooms - Shelby Earl [from Burn the Boats]



she is not an alto profundo
nor a mezzo soprano
her voice is someplace that is all of each of those

or
it inhabits each place clearly and wholly

a difficult voice to forget

Seattle, CA - Choke The Pope [from Emotional Material]



adenoidal lesser Seattle novelty song
good for a lame laugh

Where Are You? - Operation ID [from Legs]



meter patchwork hip hop quick change pulsethread sensibility

On Days Soon To Pass - Tyler Daniel Bean [from On Days Soon to Pass]



There is a brief (single bar?) drum tempo intro to the whole which otherwise has nothing to do with the rest of it - though I could hear it as an index point for section-to-section affect relation, i.e. the feel of that intro to what ensues
in relation to the relation between what then ensued and what next ensued.
a key to allow a certain nothingness or transparence to stand alone

Satellite - Eddie Vedder [from Ukulele Songs]

uke holds its own against a well carved lyric baritone

what is the difference between songwritering and tunesmithering?

Head - Three Fingers [from Go Deep]



1st measure (the standard)
2nd measure (the incremental instability)
--
repeat (hold the standard)
repeat (as new increment or as increment of increment)

Under The Surface of Saturn - Triptet [from Imaginary Perspective]



right there where your face is

Galway Bay - SeaStar [from Never Go Back]



the grass grows greener
back there

Wolves In Disguise - Star Anna and The Laughing Dogs [from Alone in This Together]

we've all heard the song of the siren blues
beware

Families - Bicycle Face [from The Wonders of Female Strength]



recognizably sized people singing

May 14, 2020
Track 6 - Pouch [Live at The Funhouse, July 2011]

full body rock breaking hammer drive
cut short ? string breaking hammer drive ?

Sharlet's Rag - Robber's Roost [from Swallow Your Fears]



song for the little dog who leaps for tossed toys

Track 6 - High Class Wreckage [Live at The Funhouse, July 2011]

holds steady rushing forward
trips over its feet

To Find Sense In Freedom - Lunas [from Over Me]



another fast part slow part song
in play: bass as line, as rhythm

as rhythm drum as pulse as polymeter
polymeter yes, even though in lock step

rhythm guitar as chord as fuzz
as polymetric glue

lead guitar as voice:
voice elaboration avatar
rides atop or within

Sunspots - White Orange [from White Orange]




markers have been removed or obscured

you are in the song but the terrain barely changes

an engineering feat to make any of it audible above any of it

Giant - SeaStar [from Never Go Back]



old prophetical tales

Idlers - Yuni in Taxco [from Slow Charade]



vocal, languidly, finds spots within the changes to arrive at so that the whole might circle with working hard at it
slow bit faster bit song

Lucretia, We Need Ya! - Bicycle Face [from The Wonders of Female Strength]



heroes of old battles
history for the sistery
just voices and clapping

Will We Ever Make It To the Ocean (B-side) - Koko and the Sweetmeats [from Sacrifice]



tambourine ring
choral harmonic phrases

Threads - No Rey [from Contradictions]

professionally done
brand applied

Milky Shakes - Samantha Boshnack [from Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble Volume 1]



slow intro
like Haydn
movement doesn't build complexity energy
more of a heat up energy to boil over
send in the drummer to cool things off
or bring out a new dancer
back into the night air with bass and flugel
suite-like

Dying Stoned And Alone - Choke The Pope [from Emotional Material]



fast bit slow bit for the moral of the story
play it some more with cymbal spray
back to fast bit to repeat it out
slow moral again

Innocent Love - Smokestack and the Foothill Fury [from America's Freedom Death March]



the cussedly independent being
whose sole song
is their cussed independence

is a clown type

When I Think Too Much - Tyler Daniel Bean [from On Days Soon to Pass]



you can just taste the swimmy light show

is it about
or is it like
depression?

(probably) not performed from a depressed place
but finding the heaviness of it
its comfort

Eduardo Kac's Dream Song - Yuni in Taxco [from Sanpaku]



I am frustrated in my desire to hear them singing. What seems to be happening behind the engineered scrim gauze is more interesting than any effect that the scrim gauze could ever have.

Ghost Town - Three Fingers [from Go Deep]



you got scared
and left me here
guess I'll have
another beer

[two syllable beer: bee'-ə]

who is the ghost,
the absent one
or the fright that scared the absent one away?


Eggs Over Toast - Curtains For You [from After Nights Without Sleep]



bacon grease
cooking life
in every way whimsified

First of Seven - The Sun Giants [from 7" Split with Deadrones]

a rhythm section on the make
I remember in hearing them live how fine the bass player is

a band is a thing people are in

Assembled in Quarantine at the Tintinabulary and Outposts

Since the middle of March Banned Rehearsal has been making recordings from our holed-up locations and sharing those sounds among us. I have assembled here each bi-week's individual files by layering them together. This is the same practice I have followed for the Banned Telepaths, of which the first were made in our first year. It isn't a new practice for us, just a special name for solidarity.

March 22-24, 2020

Banned Quarantiniad 200322 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt



April 6, 2020
Banned Quarantiniad 200406 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer



April 20, 2020
Banned Quarantiniad 200420 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer



May 4, 2020
Banned Quarantiniad 200504 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer

Postscripts

twig hairs ruffled up and with open eyes

and few words unhoped-for but when she

invited me to take the place next to

***

iris ask'd

solstice into

open olive lakes

Playlist

Preface

"ok so thats got it together. so you couldn't pry it apart with a tendollar toothpick. so maybe its the payoff on all the purple burble's been let off around here lately, not that I'm naming any names you understand, but lets face it, you know what I mean, with the windows shut and all, hard to feature all that jive in one sitting."
- Benjamin Boretz "Language, as a Music"

Texts

Recorded

April 18, 2020
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC [from a private mix CD]

Bragging about some sex or other having been had, but for who's benefit?

his?:
so that he can remember a good time?
so that he can misremember a bad time?
so that he can establish his prowess over us?

our?:
so that we can hitch a ride on his good time?
so that we can admire his prowess over us?

eponymous your?:
unlikely

Middle of the Riddle - White Orange [from White Orange]



There is a predilection for extreme uniformity upfront
blocklike simple parts
big bricks laid straight

-- how many bricklayers can a bricklayer layer? a bricklayer can layer all the bricklayers a bricklayer can layer if a bricklayer can layer bricklayers --

clear demarcations underneath
to put oneself into a mind, a meditation, just not the quiet kind

Ravenna Park A - Keith Eisenbrey [November 2016]

Keith Eisenbrey · Ravenna Park A 161125

Our footfalls munch down the path.
It is a polytempo (see bus chain below).
But understandable as what it is.
It takes little effort to piece it together as a single texture

composers' intents:
what was heard by composers or imagined by composers to be hearable as X

our easy cognition of what that is
such as recognizing walking

the relation between:
our recognition of what it happens to have been, and
to composers' intents

(unfinished thinking - I do that a lot)

a polytempo heard as a whole
like Ben's fluttering leaves, a still picture that can only be experienced as a film is experienced

the motion fills in the stillness
the texture of it

The Promised Land - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]

He has to shout to be heard over the roar of his approbation. He takes upon himself the voice of us, his version of us.

personal cosmic celebration
is church of a kind: cult of personality: enabler of power feedback: we approbate: he sings: he sings our song big enough to be heard
and to sound as big
as it is in our personal cosmic

Jiaen - Yuni in Taxco [from Slow Charade]



left right alternates guitar power strikes establish poles
)(      trippy     )(

He over-uses the effect on the voice, I suppose to make it join the high jangled partials' moil with a kind of moil warp.

The Whiskey and Fire For All - Chaotic Noise Marching Corps [from Zero to Lizard Man]



a pledge of allegiance to themselves

bands
cults
churches

A.W. at 10 side 1 [1986]

Neal had been at the UW and Neal being Neal had talked to his teachers and thereby acquired some piano students. When he left for San Diego I took on two of them, including A.W.- but that was a few months later.

This tape was made while Neal was the teacher. It consists of short recordings made by an extremely bright 10 year-old, improvising on piano and noisemakers. They are each and all kind of cool, full of humor. It also paints a lively picture of the space of creation and of the distortions promulgated upon that space by the imperfections of the recording mechanism.

button chunk slide show next please

Pedagogically, does it make sense, or is it effective, to inform the student of the important features of music before allowing them to infer that this music thing might require such things as important features?

distortion to die for
the microphone is greatly disturbed

gramophone telephone microphone
gramovision television microvision

Neal, as teacher, is using a part of this to both invent and teach Gradus. A.W. names each note and then plays it. Know your notes.

Our methodology was not typical

the acoustic/tetrachordal norm of Western music is hard coded into the keyboard's pattern of diatonic key. (It's quite clever, how each key feels different under the player's hands.)

Neal and A.W. find that note humorous.

Tunnel Mountain - Chad McCullough - Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble [from SJCE Volume 1]



What is the conversation about and where is it being held?

Conversations are held.

A date movie.

Ravenna Park B - Keith Eisenbrey [November 2016]

Keith Eisenbrey · Ravenna Park B 161125

sounds damp
in a gravelly sandy gritty wet shiny sort of way
swing squeak call of distant trumpet beast
we walk to where it can no longer be heard
then cease recording

April 19, 2020
Cover Me - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]

The song comes with serious packaging at both ends
icky weird

Without You - Eddie Vedder [from Ukulele Songs]

It occurs to me here
because he is using it
that the melodic trope of making two tunes out of one by alternating high and low notes in which the high notes can be one tune and the low notes another
is a finger thinking figure
not arising through vocal thinking
but it works

Falling - No Rey [from Contradictions]

bit of calypso in the concept
a whole set of characters in a place
an advertisement for falling in love again

A.W. at 10 side 2 [1986]

We continue with F 2.
no need to ask the question
it is F-sharp not G-flat, decisive

A truly patient 10 year old intelligence

DRAMA: will it be A-flat or G-sharp
inquiring minds are all aquiver

A-flat it is! the crowd goes wild.

The microphone in the device is unshielded, so it picks up its own mechanicalism. clunky.

And now that all have been nominated, they are mine!

Whatever is happening is happening because they are listening, truly listening, to all that is happening. Randallian in many essential ways.

Segments or Takes. Stop and record again.

Each a specific thought, unclouded. Admirable attention. I wish you could hear this, but they were a minor. It moves beyond piano. Jim would dig this. Some scrapy thing. buzzguiro. Really gets into it. Without hindrance of system. When you come to a bridge, cross it.

Muffle and Hum - Triptet [from Imaginary Perspective]



a nearly slow tempo
Adagio not Lento
a trans-urban adagio

Banned Telepath 50 Anchorage - Aaron Keyt [November 2016]

free reeds of some kind
melodeon?

if so, its finest hour
or 10 minutes

that's what I'm talking about
in search of the implicated key

ignore the clown
if you dare

April 21, 2020
I'm On Fire - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]

Introduce the parts of a song so the audience knows where you're headed
so you can gauge the response
so you can amend the playlist

Alone In This Together - Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs [from Alone In This Together]

It's our song!
Aiming for the mountaintop in this

2nd & Virginia - Arbor Towers [from In Transit EP]



from the end of a culvert
been dumped
in countless bars
for what is possessed is what is already desired
you should feel at home in this gutter

back into the mirror

101 - Martin Butler, J. K. Randall [from Inter/Play - April 1986]

class or room?
each other
with or as a piano key operator
perhaps emerging into a shared space
wherein a project of them might become
as two might converse
without assigned topic

the signal acquired some wobble along the way

April 22, 2020
Pie - Tyrannosaurus Grace [from E.P. 1]

a polemic
arguing against a position
creationism I presume
designed in no way I can discern
to convince

(abuse of another's position is a losing proposition
from the get go)

Banned Telepath 50 Seattle - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer [November 2016]

back to the fallen house
behind the dull lecturer are some stunning tam tam low warnings
we are music sound sounding
bangings and tappings
strum and pluckings
percussounds on the edge of pitchiness
declamatory mode
the rhetoric of discourse
outed as dull
lifting it above makes it no less dull
tilt
for another event unspecified
his literary eminence honors us not
neither do we him any

Bobby Jean - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]

our legend lost
what is it that is responded to?
not the particulars
but the inflation of the particulars into a shareable moment
empathy for whom?
for ourselves' younger selves?

Track 2 - High Class Wreckage [Live at the Funhouse, July 2011]

thrill ride
we are strapped on along
drag down the flat wild down

Late Daydream - India Glover [from Pup Demo]



the line forms
on fingers plucked

guitar hands cooperate within their fret board sound box functions
(generally): one excites the other restrains :(cooperatively)
the vocal lines take advantage of the hands being busy

JKR at WM & M - Tom Hajdu, David Madole, Andrew Milburn, J.K. Randall, Nancy Riecken [from Inter/Play - April 1986]

recent quasi musical experimental activity
someplace indexed in New Jersey: Manville

nary a human was sighted
that's us on this tape months before in a Princeton classroom
we brushed snow off the benches then spontaneously fled
played book tunes
Four Corner Solo
the huge figure eight stomped on the snowfield before we got there
Snowfield
Four Corner Goons
attitudes
benches
grass plot
painted ad
concrete divider
tree bell
please remember to come back to these
no freakery allowed say hello
railroad hangout flattened three coins
three old geezers on the benches looked right there
meet at four corners
underarm synthesizer
four corner golf
snowfield green
and kicked bottle
concrete divider
same rule
the benches
appropriate intricate and distinct
overwhelms even JKR's declamation

what are we doing? I hope you will help us speculate

chalkboard scrawl across the stereofield
a choir sings in the back

Track 2 - Pouch [Live at the Funhouse, July 2011]

uncovered (outed) as a careful balance
by: JKR's theatrical (near failure to) shout down

April 23, 2020
Banned Rehearsal 923 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [November 2016]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 923 161128

Atreus falling once again
It is chosen to be heard from the other side
there will never be a better back-up band
and what view will Anchorage have of these goings on?
Here Comes Aaronbody!
free reed among the clangs and declangers
morse pulse signal reeds to bells
words remembered can be remembered
but our pluckings become unique again

My Hometown - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]

Like Manville emptying
what is created by those who flock together
brought by a woven dream that was never a promise
to those responsible for the weaving of it

my brain came from a factory (side a) - Koko and the Sweetmeats [from Sacrifice]



existential trap
blues pound
pound pound
pound blues

I got those we have title in the first line blues

bridge is a siren song of the desert retreat
decoupling - disgridding

Walk On - Ancient Warlocks [from Ancient Warlocks 'Live!']



the bass part holds steady (in its mind)
but stumbles on rough terrain
scrambles to keep posture
no notice
nothing to see

top heavy
loose joint in the middle stilts

3 Rhapsodies - Elaine Barkin - Mark Carlson, Sheridon Stokes, Gary Gray [from Open Space]

vibratos sacred and profane
brook and beak
burble and bark
Scarlatti games with pitch bends
among unnamed contagonists

15xoxoxooxoxoxoxo - Paul Rubinstein [from Solo Trios]



among a set of 3, 2 of which share an envelope type, that of them with the unique envelope type must be the song

though that may be due to the shared type being an apparent hand/finger energy (plucking and plunking) and the unique type being a sustained quasi-vocal or bowed string type

hand gestures to clarify speech

312 Bus Chain Song - Keith Eisenbrey [December 2016]

Keith Eisenbrey · 312 Bus Chain Song 161209

just as fabulous as I remember
rhythm of breaking edge of just good enough to get by civilization
convention place tunnel station

Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]

we cheer ourselves on
to oh so heroically venture forth

my escape? I crossed a lake
after venturing to sit at the feet of the East
Seattle not being Brooklyn

Helping Hand - Goat Rodeo [from The Goat Rodeo Sessions]

interrupts going nowhere to be nowhere at all

Banana Slug Taxi - Bicycle Face [from The Wonders of Feminine Strength]



will be your first choice
jewel heist!
disguise
the more they pursued them the more they got stuck
into the night

In Session at the Tintinabulary and Outposts

April 20, 2020

commercial potential 1-7 - Steve Kennedy
STE-021 200420 - Aaron Keyt
Bannedecameron 200420 Maple Leaf and Lake City - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, and Neal Kosály-Meyer (calling in)

Keith Eisenbrey · Bannedecameron 200420 Maple Leaf - Lake City

We gather ourselves as best we can. Karen and I played on the porch for the first time this year. Neal called in and chatted with street passers by and others, presumably from a safe distance. Steve made a lively roaring piece of craziness, to which then Aaron added a track of ring modulated sampled cello sound.

In February of 2019 Banned Rehearsal performed a short but milestone set at Hollow Earth Radio as part of the Seattle International Improvised Music Festival - after which the rest of the festival was snowed out or under, not being completed for several months. The last time we gathered together we made our 1003rd recorded session in the main sequence, said number being the legendary count of Don Giovanni's Spanish victims. The world promptly went all to pieces. We deeply regret our error.

Postscripts

inquired but if perhaps nor yet but

tiring by the guard and i to each

usually were small talk we inn new

only isomorphism
sinew at other sunsets
increment

Playlist

Preface

"The god comes wheeling down,
Does not disguise himself, so great the pride,
The confidence of his splendor. But he aids it,
Smoothing his hair, making the robes fall even,
The golden border showing; and he carries
In his right hand the wand that makes men slumber
Or rouses them to wakefulness: the sandals
Glitter around his ankles."
- Ovid "Metamorphoses" (translated by Rolfe Humphries)

Texts

Recorded

March 14, 2020
Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]

Text on a page arises from thought in a mind, and though it has a reasonable reading can be unreasonably read. As it is here. There is an interval between the reasonable and the unreasonable, an interval along a line between reason and un.

Cello Concerto op. 104 (selection) - Antonín Leopold Dvořák [from Naxos The Very Best of Dvorak]

(the slow movement)
Concerto-ness: two or more stand at a distance or entwine their parts, as each mirrors the other and their entwining and their standing at a distance.

Think Accessories - Operation ID [from Legs]



Sneaking around with sudden bright lights. Then we take a ride, go into a sketchy place. Spaceships are there. Skittery little things aren't they? Ride back out quick.

Corollaries Omnibus - Keith Eisenbrey



awesome fades in

fade in

awe

in

some fades

they come forward each at their time and at their pitch
to witness the hum of still distant or distant again comings or goings
an anatomy of chaos

March 15, 2020
Sonata in E minor, K. 98 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

artifice as, nearly, an end in itself
were it not for
nothing can be so revealing

Dream (Live 1982) - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]

pop: a style of performance in which song is buried in show.

Riu, Riu, Chiu - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]

popped up: that is: was the old practice so gussied up with production value?

The Kustard King - Whiting Tennis [from Three Leaf Clover]



self inflicted nostalgia vibe icky sound all for an I could have told you so

Draw You Close - Your Mother Should Know [live at SkyChurch November 2011]

not a finished song, but to its credit it clearly inhabits its song space.
not pop.

The Main Part - India Glover [from Pup Demo]



verse: a private communication
chorus: public

songwriterly self-referentiality (the song to itself)
diggin' it.

Sonata in C minor, K. 99 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

I think Scarlatti would have loved the way phonograph records can get stuck. But he would want to compose with where the partitions of his figures get independently, variously, stuck.

obvious: some figures cadence within themselves, others don't.
codetta summary

Soft Palate - David Hicks, James Kelly, J. K. Randall [from Inter/Play]

equal parts
forthrightly, scrapy, and snarky

We have a quick auto-response to follow where led. Everybody looks where the first looks, in turn, to not be left alone.

The familiars having been got over it then gets down to business with familiars in the unfamiliar.

the pronunciator works on pronunciation
(riddle me this:
How does a noun become a nun? By pronouncing pronunciation.)

holding pattern
until a new matter
is what

leave room
for what the matter is

(don't) dance so close
your brother (I heard that) has become a different man

bold pat

bald pat
balding pat

balding pattern
holding pattern

holding pat
hold pat

bold pat

Racing In The Street - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]

When heard live, after it has been intimately learned in the comfort of one's own vinyl, is it the same song at all, or a memory of it? They are singing along too.

Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 (selection) - Antonín Leopold Dvořák [from Naxos The Very Best of Dvorak]

must have loved Schubert.

Color Me Black - White Orange [from White Orange]



intense pressure
music between metal plates
Pink Floyd reference: (set the controls for the heart of the sun)

Gradus 297 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [September 2016]

While he was telling of what he would do I was shedding a tear for old Ireland, so I didn't hear of what he would do to the pitch set battalions of old Ireland.

Does a "combination" of __ include the intervals between those of __ of which the combination is possible of what can be combined? Mutually boned.

A collection always returns to itself (trapped)

the further we go the more subtle the distinction might be between rung and rung. If order is stipulated then ordinality is an unquestionable fact, as is distance along enumeration. O the eons!

March 16, 2020
Sonata in C Major, K. 100 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

kitten on keys game there
mouse chase
attack paw

Angel (Live 1982) - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]

song for enjoyment of a specific voice

person lifted into voice, a kind of possession
voice possessed

Outrage - Stuart Dempster, William O. Smith

Leaving parts of themselves along the way
like loops
sticky loops

doing with people in a space what would be done later by electronic means.

Wisconsin Blue - Whiting Tennis [from Three Leaf Clover]



covered up, not shown enough to be heard clearly
lazy songwriting

Superwizard - Ancient Warlocks [from The Superwizard 7" Single]



no fat on this one
lean and tense from outer space

Forest of Thorns - Your Mother Should Know [live at SkyChurch November 2011]

chaotic opening is a winner
(altar call: genre gambit)
James Brown already won that game.

Mr. Kerosene - Dræmhouse [from Only Friends EP]

veiled, but not covered up.
The threat is seen quite clearly.

compositional. solid.

March 17, 2020
Sonata in A Major, K. 101 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

direct repeat:
structural echo?
structural emphasis?
phraseological time warp?

that is: using balance A:B as reference, then with AA:B, A is both balanced by B and not balanced by B. Its balance is activated.

Orange Dots, Pasted - David Hicks, James Kelly, J. K. Randall [from Inter/Play]

Pitch freak is, I understand, the name of the game. We love notes (musical events of singular moment) because we can single each of them out as an entity. Pitch is a ready-made cross-reference among these singular items of study. They are good about holding still, so that we can listen at it closely, in grains.

March 18, 2020
Respect Yourself - Bruce Willis [a Rescued Record]

Drumming is at the root of this, as a music. Every sound plays a part, even the solo vocalist.

Czech Suite, Op. 39 (selection) - Antonín Leopold Dvořák [from Naxos The Very Best of Dvorak]

as sold in shops

Movement Exercise #1 for Blindfolded Ensemble - Beth Fleenor [from Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble Vol. 1]

One of the bounds within which this plays is the obligation to play well, to make the means invisible. Not so much as though the puppet strings aren't there as that they don't matter so long as the actual pursuit is agreed upon.

Banned Rehearsal 918 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [September 2016]



here, playing well is neither encouraged nor enjoined
it is tolerated if it doesn't showboat much


allow ample room for hints of quiet doings
nearly inaudible is AOK.

composition as: establishment of a specious structural hegemony over a time span.

March 19, 2020
Sonata in G minor, K. 102 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

B follows A in more than one sense
i.e. not just follows after but tracks it either in whole or in part
aspects of A track into B, which becomes a new A for a new B.

That's the basic move.

After The Glitter Fades (Live 1982) - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]

NB: sorry, it never does. It gets in the water. glitter is evil.

This Land Is Your Land - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]

Bruce is trapped in the same stadium must be filled quagmire as Stevie Nicks, but has a bit more room to stray, just because he's a man and a bigger draw, I suppose. He still can't help gussying it up with production value and new chords. Did it need improvement?

Legends Op. 59 - Antonín Leopold Dvořák [from Naxos The Very Best of Dvorak]

episodic, a sequence of affects
relies on the pattern of returning material to tie it together (Schumann's game)
just enough to imagine a story behind it

Sweet Angel - Your Mother Should Know [live at SkyChurch November 2011]

comes with its own preamble
one chorus must be a guitar solo
a brief one

Lion Storm - Ancient Warlocks [from Ancient Warlocks Live Vol. #1]



a strong rope pulled taut

Sonata in G Major, K. 103 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

devious contrapuntal relations
he knows more ways through the maze
than you do

Wade The Water to My Knees - Lucille Holloway and Basers [from Art of Field Recording Vol. 1]

heterophonic clapping rhythm
sparks on the river

Wie schön leuchtet die Morgenstern - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]

o give me more of that old Renaissance meter play!

Symphony #9 (selection) - Antonín Leopold Dvořák [from Naxos The Very Best of Dvorak]

(the Going Home movement)
an operatic moment with hints of Mendelssohn's midsummer and Mussorgsky's Volga sunrise. The purpose of the little episode that isn't the big tune is to modulate back into the episode that is the big tune.

the backstory is hinted at in the middle bit.

Wet Petition - Yuni [formerly in Taxco] [from Slow Charade]


technological means toward a more branded sound.

Spokane Steam Plant Chimney Stomp - Karen Eisenbrey and Keith Eisenbrey [September 2016]



what fun!
how we kept from laughing I know not.

I don't know if you can still go in the room under the long open chimney in the current configuration of the restaurant there. A pity, if not.

Sonata in G Major, K. 104 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

several ways to get to the bottom of the keyboard
then some other ways to not move much at all

March 20, 2020
Leather and Lace (Live 1982) - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]

(sexual politics of the music industry as it comes out on this end)
Addressing A for the benefit of B presumes a skew of the fandom curve toward B.

Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]

Addressing A for the benefit of A (sort of), or playing Cyrano for everyman's mixtape of sexual braggadocio. Does that trick ever work?

quality instrumentals though. the money spent shows.

". . . the robes fall even,
The golden border showing"

Two Waltzes, Op. 54 (selection) - Antonín Leopold Dvořák [from Naxos The Very Best of Dvorak]

lazy gracious then briefly (while the old folks aren't watching) more physically flirtatious, then quite openly sultry

Each waltz or trio is a way that a couple might be together, dancing, framed by elegance.

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Your Mother Should Know [live at SkyChurch November 2011]

see you in a dingy bar someplace soon

Gradus 298 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [September 2016]

each musician's composing improvising listening analyzing narrating ear can activate a devious scheme
devious because, ultimately, inscrutable

must be accepted as an object immediately, while it occupies its span of experience

Analysis as a musical activity is a tool for discovering the ear behind the noise. We can hear what the ear is thinking because the playing of what we hear is the thinking of the ear.

Sonata in G Major, K. 105 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

fingery figurations are (of a piece with) the mechanics of the action
all those levers and plectra and key balances

balance - metrical, rhythmical, or of a lever - is a mechanism

Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (Live 1982) - Stevie Nicks [from Bella Donna]

the guitar part plays the part of the A (in being addressed)
what A says back (a thankless role)
is the guitar played by the B singer here?
acting out sexual politics for the benefit of _?

Reading: Luke II 3-8 - Boston Camerata [from A Renaissance Christmas]

woyse meyn
woyse guys

Romance in F minor, Op. 11 - Antonín Leopold Dvořák [from Naxos The Very Best of Dvorak]

poetic in how it fills out its pitch space

[it sounds like the piano has its lid down, muffled]

The keyboard writing is quite fine, and quite clearly post Haydn/Mozart, in that it evokes a heterogeneous ensemble rather than, say, a lute or a blended choir of like voices.

Sleeping By Myself - Eddie Vedder [from Ukulele Songs]

long line melody
takes you right along
sets you down at the end
(nice!)

Otter Song - Bicycle Face [from Wonders of Female Strength]



a delight
it is positive positive
like like

In Session at the Tintinabulary

March 15, 2020
Maple Leaf 200315



I was up early so I put the microphone out early to listen to the birds.

March 16, 2020
Meadowbrook Pond 200316



Up early again I drove to a nearby wetland park to hear more birds.

Postscripts

fired with love's urgent longings 1 of the

first stanza concerning this dark night and its

now to discuss the about which love's urgent

** ** **

pitch in a swamp is a bird on a cattail

an embodiment of the absence of itself

an image of duration bereft