Playlist

Recorded

April 28, 2019
Banned Rehearsal 100 Side B - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [June 1986]



how long can it begin to be

can it hold
beginning
edging backward
into the earliest beginning
to possibly begin

in order

a low spinet tone joins up
keyboard talk
how very Inter/Play of them (us)
east coast Crumar and Baldwin grand
west coast Wurlitzer (?) and Baldwin Acrosonic
plays a chord
then another and again

but have we begun
or begin we still

cymbal announcement from just at the limn of beginning
drum roll please It Has Begun! (soon)
we Aaronsbundler step steady march step
Fantastic Variations on it

3 characters each interpreting the goings on to their own purpose
toys with ending
so coy

My Country arises in glory
'tis of thee a patriotic moment
Flag Day after all
after our fashion
we playfully play

now waddle it be?
wad dull it be?
Electric Garbage not yet
we should all leave singing for the time being
and now a Hymn

Bickleton Burger sung in Bickleton
we carry on despite frequent incursions from Knitters
everything what ever was has been a riff upon the old march we do
and several
we tune as though about to
drift off



Red Dress - Jad Fair [from Kill Rock Stars]

'tudinal meta-sophomoric
color me the ages of seduction

Spirit Wind - Dean Evensen [from Native Healing]

rhythm guitar with help
very like a psychic reading
spread your guesses wildly
reel them in one hit at a time

Liebeslied Amended - Keith Eisenbrey, after Benjamin Boretz [recorded March 30, 2007]

my touchstone

amulet

an am

on om

anamonom

I play to see where I

am that I am

which fingerprint of mine is most firmly etched here?

my additions or my ear editions

auditioned

:: a note about the big repeat of the whole at the end: it prompts the repeat iteration to sound as though it says let me try that again ::

-Ben: I've been thinking about this piece, and our relationship, recently, as expressed in this piece, in the gift of the pencil score to me from you, your gift of offer to allow recomposition
as in
start here
it is yours

Thank you

Interlude - Claire Sykes [from Hendrix Uncovered]

delicate // unreconstructable

Banned Rehearsal 913 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt [July 2016]



on the porch fire cracker works

slow march let the tree sough free of tree
a march grimly determinated

we discover and work through new slants using all available old slants
Mahlerian the bird I need a word or two with you
come down here says the bird one need do so little
the night is magic about now

April 30, 2019
Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K. 3 - Domenica Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

excessively intricate balloon animals twisted out of duration and incipience

O Thank Thee Not - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey, director [April 1966]

choral strophes stress feet and lines

Trinkle Tinkle (Take 1) - Thelonious Monk [from The London Collection]

within the imprecision of this approximation
an impression of focused intent
bluesing a note by flutzing the lead ins

Track 9 - Empire Brass Quartet [from American Brass Band Journal Revisited]

lives in a vague mudness of repetition and unassuming newness
within strict bounds

The Flowers of Guatemala - REM [from Life's Rich Pageant]

two-part instrumental bridge to chorus repeat to fade
final verse the backing vocal moves closer up
ding!




Grand Circus Fantasia - Canadian Brass [from Red, White & Brass]

clowns of brass
they play glorified kazoos after all
the theater show of skill and juggle

May 2, 2019

Track 5 - Seattle Chamber Music Festival [July 2001]

Brahms, I believe

Track 4 - Bob Dylan [from Key Arena October 13, 2006]

unafraid to allow his expressive imagining to overstep his available technical range
he knows he won't hit it and won't be heard but goes for it anyway
taking care of business
always musical
the spirit speaks through the body

The Sow Took The Measles C - Train Case


I think I was working on the balance between the vocal parts

Let Today - No Rey [from Contradictions]

We heard this band at The Josephine back in the 2013
big baritone voice
acoustic guitar rhythm
narrow pitch affect
8 syllable lines
phrases move one to another
from well enough but seem constrained
within their meter, their phrase, their
careful tune

In Session at the Tintinabulary

April 29, 2019
Gradus 347 - Neal Kosály-Meyer

what is in your flask of notes? subflasks?
determined
inflicted with endness

indeterminate as to || fallen apart soon to be assembled || or include pull in in clude ink l'ud enclued
clued in (k)

Playlist

Recorded

November 18, 2018
Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 130 - Beethoven - Alban Berg Quartett

the more these unison notes get to know their fellows not the less fellowship ensues but the more specific their intra-life

the key upon which we stand is often a bit soft
just before a cadence our feet punch through requiring detour

this warmheartening mass of stringbox resonance, if we could imagine it as arising from other means than stringboxes,
what might that means be imagined as sounding like

alone

the key must be somewhere around here
look everywhere

The Prodigal Son - Rev. S. J. "Steamboat Bill" Worrell [from Goodbye, Babylon]

rhythm saying translation
gospel according to Rev. Steamboat
Amen

Blue 7 - Sonny Rollins, Tommy Flanagan, Doug Watkins, Max Roach [from The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz]

each chord to chord sequentialization they play is cross-indexed to other songs in which such exact sequentialization pre-occurred in their individual and immediate imagination

tell me true
do I or you believe Max Roach was really keeping track of where one was through all of that?
yes, do.

Working In The Coal Mine - Lee Dorsey, Allen Toussaint [a Rescued Record]

Zoolander! or slang code?

Wheatland - Oscar Peterson, N. H. Orsted-Pedersen, Louis Hayes [from The Great Connection]

settles into frenchfilm montage mode

the happiness of it treated as one might have treated a key in other spheres

the hypothetical
other
electron

Pop Pop Da Da's Empty Word Club Band - Aaron Keyt - Neal Kosály-Meyer, vocals

a precision key-bard contains its own recomposed notes (program)
what can a Da Da do? La de Da?

Da Da as (sophomoric) (insufferable) cleanser
works a charm

Hyena - REM [from Life's Rich Pageant]

the big guitar guitar guitar sound is a room they love returning to

Banned Rehearsal 274 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [November 1991]

johnny jump up?
in the pre-garage Maple Leaf Tintinabulary
before it was infested and became

Boylair

jumpup jumpup

cymbal of drumset and shrillpenny whistle join to battle high fidelity
jolly jumpup baby we have here

a drumbeat and its worthy opponents the different drummers
vowels intonate
differently hung in acoustic space
low or high on the bendy branch
rattles and cymbals totally into messing with cassette tape limits

the drums may be big in Jerseyville
but they're bigger here

6 and 3
got it to go (an ad)
Piccolos is closed! replaced by Pete's Pizza

the beads travel over the face of the ground
like a horde of antelope

there is no still point at the center of it all
Aaron sibilates a list with s sounds
everything goes (on) in the mouth
it's a stage
all the world's a

when Banned Rehearsal talks gibberish to toddlers
we overdo it
hyperintellectually
in a way that only Da Da did could

tempo on a slider

the stance from which Aaronsbundler is played
always
in motion
on the march

Lauda Anima - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey [composed February 2001; recorded November 2018]


in my mind composing this I was focused on subverting the 4 4 4 4 -ness of it but ended up problematizing octave equivalence or non
seemed almost too simple when I wrote it, too obvious
I was wrong about that

November 20, 2018
Froggie Went a Courtin' - Bruce Springsteen [from The Seeger Sessions]

replication of field recording at the start
we are Miss Mousy
every song is a reason for a big fat singalong

Soundform I Voice - S. Eric Scribner [from Storm Sound Cycle May 2011]

visitation
or creek crease along the trail
creek cross creek crease

November 20, 22, and 23, 2018

Finnegans Wake Part 2 Chapter 3 - James Joyce - Jenken's Henchmaen [from Waywords and Meansigns]

as si fi ro bo vox overread from signalsphere
detailed language largely bulldozed by and under space
space synthesized joyce voice
as though humano-utteral rhythm abstracted from spellingplay picked up from broadcast
oaky doaky in episodes cued by interludes and breaks
gender in voice filter
knock knock
wanders off from digital filter to a more transparent sing song spoken area
it is with great relief that we
tuff as reset word
making silly voices
tuff

what might we make of the expanse of this? draw maps? train our microscopes? pursue dubious rumors of sense?

does the global, granular, and quotidian together gathered form a whole or only so if we close our eyes I believe in Fairies I do I do (Kathleen E saw them wearing boots)

suspicion :: the helps we get from our fellows indicate paths of pains of inquiry which, truth be told, have so often been found empty and wormy

OR

one's own associations distract into the personal

we each make of it what we will
if we will
less and less do I so will

missive from distant galaxy

OR

to decipher by xray of ruined scroll unflattenable

guns!guns!guns!guns!
ends with chantish (on the) plain cloistered (in the)

November 23, 2018
Ah, miserata vita - Johann Grabbe - The King's Noyse, David Douglass [from Mascharada - Music at the Bückeburg Court of Ernst III]

oh, how compositionally arch!
balanced with clowns
so as
to cut more deeply

King Arthur Act II - Henry Purcell - Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet

barely dramatizing outside of a desire to compose a complexity of vocal presentation, spectacular!

by stringing it together
with a plot and characters

actual stage acting not required
rather
discouraged

In Session at The Tintinabulary

November 19, 2018
Banned Rehearsal 970 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt

Aaron brought over a new wind instrument, a tiny little saxophone about the size of a soprano
recorder

Playlist

Recorded

August 16, 2015
Out of Time - REM

All its roots hang out: old-timey string band (bowed strings), jazz (horns), R&B (keyboards). They engage as though in conversation with their audience, as though in conversation with their clan. The image projected is one of
mutual understanding, i.e., we treat you as one of us therefore you understand what I'm saying from the inside. This allows the audience to project themselves willynilly into the role of understanding conversant, even though they might not have a clue what the band is saying.

Banned Rehearsal 411 - January 1996 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer

Full of sturdy, thickly clustered sounds. It is difficult to squeeze between them to get inside. We find the workspace where the soon-to-be-thickly-clustered sturdy objects are fabricated. In the back we find an acoustic guitar tuned like a swarm of bees, amplified (I think) with headphone-pickup. We step into the yard as the first bulkiest portion of the session comes to an end. We pick up pieces of what might be lying around. This session sits firmly in the era of Let's Improvise a Chamber Symphony.

August 19, 2015
Banned Rehearsal 599 - February 2001 - Pete Comley, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Ann K, Aaron Keyt, IKM, Neal Kosály-Meyer
Five years later we're painting virtual 3-D scenes - spacescapes (note the near-palindrome). Here we have a moorage at  near dawn with a gentlest of breezes and a whale and kelp beds and bellowing sea-lions in each others' faces (manager v. ump). Crabs and darting birds. Now we travel to outer space, tuned in from the control room. Now we find mudpots. Now we drum up weather.

In Session at the Tintinabulary

August 16, 2015
Trio 150816 - Keith Eisenbrey


This week's dubbed trio started with  suspended pot-lid gamelan, followed by ukulele (a Silvertone), finishing with hollow-body electric guitar (also a Silvertone).

August 17, 2015
Banned Rehearsal 892 - Jenny Chung, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer

On the porch once again as the summer continues to be distressingly pleasant. Aaron, one final time this year in his local configuration, brought Tony the Treble Trombone over, and Jenny brought cookies (mmmm). Tony bites staccato into the evening echo-sphere.