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Preface

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

"I now thought our troubles would soon be over; mine were very nearly so in one sense at least; for after Mrs. Coxe, and Jemimarann, and Tug, and the maid, and valet, and valuables had been handed across it came to my turn. I had ofter heard of people being taken up by a plank, but seldom of their being set down by one. Just as I was going over, the vessel rode off a little, the board slipped, and down I soused into the water. You might have heard Mrs. Coxe's shriek as far as Gravesend; it rung in my ears as I went down, all grieved at the thought of leaving her a disconsolate widder. Well, up I came again, and caught the brim of my beaver hat - though I have heard that drowning men catch at straws: - I floated, and hoped to escape by hook or by crook; and luckily, just then I felt myself suddenly jerked by the waistband of my whites, and found myself hauled up in air at the end of a boathook, to the sound of "yeho! yehe! yehoi!" and so I was dragged aboard. I was put to bed, and had swallowed so much water that it took a very considerable quantity of brandy to bring it to a proper mixture in my inside; in fact, for some I hours I was in a very deplorable state."

from The Comick Almanack, 1st Series 1835-1843

Texts

Live

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

January 29, 2026

Nonseq Curators Concert
Gretchen Yanover, Haley Freedlund, Cuong Vu, RM Francis
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

Gretchen Yanover 

we know where the ground is
so we welcome the light
as it streams
in loop based accumulation 

build a place to stand
a floor to move upon 

narrow body electric cello

Haley Freedlund, with Brandon Carter, Ray Larsen, and Tom Varner

taking hymns apart
reclaiming free heterophony

Cuong Vu, with Greg Sinibaldi

trumpet and an electronic wind instrument device
warmly lyrical
an ocean has appeared around us

RM Francis

creative misdubbing
confusing the software
speech
that will never quite be language
music that will never quite be speech

Recorded

January 24, 2026

Shanti/Ashtangi - Madonna [from Ray of Light]

we'll be futuristically primitive
I've got just the costume

JB - Keith Eisenbrey [from Summer Songs/Winter Mix]

Keith Eisenbrey · JB (Winter Mix)

epistolary
working hard
at messing up any sound I couldn't polish
which is all of them

Paparazzi - Lady Gaga [from The Fame]

celebrity
selling celebritous fantasies
across the land

Conquer The World With You - Smokestack and The Foothill Fury [from Lone Buffalo]

wake up call
time to get doing

Go - Whitney Ballen [from You're a Shooting Star - I'm a Sinking Ship]

another break-up song
as though from the heat of the moment

Missionary Chant - Keith Eisenbrey [September 24, 2023]

stately proud and plain

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

January 25, 2026

Madrigals, Book IX: Sì, sì, ch'io v'amo - Claudio Monteverdi - Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini

the words dance from the singer's tongue

the notion of pitch-class
is a mode of thinking
in terms of the registral cyclicity
of pitch space

Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt, BuxWV 183 - Dieterich Buxtehude - Simone Stella

one could conceptualize pitch space
as a registral continuum
made of pitches
related by position 

then
one could add upon that
the terrain of intervals
forming acoustic nodes
as they pulse
across the registral continuum
of pitch space 

then
one could add upon that
the cross-registral cyclicity
of pitch-class space
abstractly conceptualizing
the network of intervals
forming acoustic nodes
across the registral continuum 

and
then what?
syntaxes thereof?

Laßt uns Sorgen, laßt uns Wachen, BWV 213 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Amsterdam Baroque Choir, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman

these words float
on dancing notes 

if a figure seems to sing
we imagine a person of that figure 

Bach keeps his imaginary persons straight 

(nein echoes)
(not nine echoes)
(not necessarily)
[Ja ja! echoes]
[Ja Ja]
||:Ja:|| 

there goes that happy couple
ich küsse dich
over and over
their phonemic parts of speech
phase through each other's gender

Sonata in B-flat Major, Kk. 310 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

the count of tonal corners this music turns
daunts 

we are in the deepest cellars of B-flat now
I reckon 

worry not
we'll head back upstairs now

Kinderszene: Ritter von Steckenpferd, Op. 15 #9 - Robert Schumann - Florian Uhlig

a picture book picture

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

January 26, 2026

Buch der Lieder I: Angiolin, S531/6 - Franz Liszt - Alexandre Dossin

as the imagined melody
and the imagined lute
inform each other
the song expands
to fill its swelling heart

2 Morceaux: Désir, Op. 57 #1 - Alexander Scriabin - John Ogdon

a sketch in quick pencil

Two Deuces - Louis Armstrong's Hot Five [from Hot Fives and Sevens]

tempo shifts
sudden skitters

A Fool For You - Ray Charles [from Ray Charles Live at Newport]

each line
has a center of thrust
that must be pushed
or rolled
through
or over

the centers
of thrust
cycle heavily
but
their continuity
gets complicated
as the song moves into further verses

Chants Sacres - Henri Pousseur - Philadelphia Composer's Forum, Joel Thome, Valarie Lamoree, Eric Rosenblith, Jacob Glick, Michael Rudiakov

quasi Webernesque directness
and lovely too

Blue Differentials - Sun Ra [from Monorails & Satellites]

the cogworks
patched together

Corazón  - Carole King [from Fantasy]

exoticistic
primitivistic
but can't stick with it quite

It's Hard To Be a Saint in the City - Bruce Springsteen [from Live at the Roxy]

street mouth
spits words

40 - U2 [from Under a Blood Red Sky]

a hymn with chorus

January 27, 2026

Banned Rehearsal 163 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [December 20, 1988]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 163 881220

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

in an intricately designed polyphonic passage
we participate in that design
as though we were among the parts
each voice
is a person
and our attention
traces a path
through that design
which path
is also a voice
and also a person 

this
is not an intricately designed polyphonic passage
though multiple voices are clearly present
the difference is
that it is discovering its paths
as it goes
and
we join in that discovering
as a listening
participatory voice

Cold Mountain Songs: Piano Interlude - Robert Morris - Margaret Kampmeier [from Open Space 30]

vehement words are spoken

How Many Times - Aretha Franklin [from A Rose Is Still A Rose]

commiseration pill
apparent social purpose 

but the moneyed sound
is alienating 

why can't I be more glamorously miserable?

I Want Some Sugar In My Bowl - Karin Blaine [from Dirty Money]

time for some clever rhymes
and even some scat
where an instrument would have soloed

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

Gradus 150 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [December 29, 2008]

registers can move from place to place
jacked into the dynamic trunk line 

as I recollect
and I may be wrong
but I think I was using a small stereo mic
and aiming it at the wall
point blank
to mimic my PZMs
and de-emphasize the right/left up/down skew
of keyboard sound
as metaphorically conceived 

these are all A-naturals
since he said so 

but
that fact
vanishes in the experience
is not a part of it 

to name a pitch class
is to reify
a set of experience nodes
as being referential

Gonna See John Salvatier- Swingset Showdown [from Cymbal of Appreciation]

a bit of sophomoric patter song energy

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

Maple Leaf 181110 - Keith Eisenbrey [November 10, 2018]

a few minutes of squawks and screeches in the yard 

fowl language
deafened partially
by traffic noise

Soundscroll V, Part 2: Tranquil Landscape - S. Eric Scribner [from Hexaphonic]

what passes before our staring ears
washed in light

Devil's Gonna Get You - Bessie Smith [from Empty Bed Blues]

long long lane
with no turnin'
flame
that keeps on burnin' 

give up now dude
the way you're going on 

sure as you're born to die

Do I Love You? - Judy Garland [from Judy In Love]

we can see the nightclub uniforms
and matching stands 

she shapes her vowels with her hands 

and the quiver of her spine

3 Olden Style Pieces: I - Henryk Górecki - Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zofia Kilanowicz, Antoni Wit

heart on sleeve
and little else 

brother to Hovhaness
nostalgic for a lost homeland

Turn Out The Stars - Bill Evans [from Some Other Time / The Lost Session from the Black Forest]

the difficulty
with that half step in particular 

if we remember it
in each passing chord
that moves to the next 

is recollection remembrance?
now where were we?

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

He's Misstra Know-It-All - Stevie Wonder [from Innervisions]

rewriting Mr. Nobody
for the Grifter era

Train In The Distance - Paul Simon [from Hearts and Bones]

the sound of greener pastures
everybody thinks its true
into our hearts and our brains

She Loves You - The Beatles [from Past Masters Volume 1]

high school drama rumors
don't be stupid fellow
the chum's advice

March from The Love for Three Oranges - Empire Brass Quintet [from Class Brass On The Edge]

quite amusing
but full of filler

I'm On Your Side - Bonnie Raitt [from Fundamental]

no tone exists at its inception
but only in the process of its duration

Livin' Road - Keith Eisenbrey [from Summer Songs/Winter Mix]

Keith Eisenbrey · Livin Road (Winter Mix)

one song piled on another
one song pulled through another 

trying on a persona for sizes

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

January 28, 2026

Disappear - Beyoncé [from I Am ... Sasha Fierce]

word painting producer
echo effect of empty space
for disappearance

Lion Storm - Ancient Warlocks [from Ancient Warlocks]

sound intended to press against the walls

Talking to Myself - Red Ribbon [from Dark Party]

yodel register crossing

Banned Rehearsal 1084 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [September 25, 2023]

listening for how the room accepts its sounds
persons of varying persistencies 

synthetic reproduction
of the original space
or
synthetic production
of a believable space 

believing the space
is needful
for believing the sound 

we
are a box of items to rattle with

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

When I Woke Up This Morning She Was Gone - Jim Jackson [from Turn Me Loose White Man]

as though in mid weep 

song as an act
over the top simple-folk sentiment

Willow The Wasp - Norman Monath [from Songs of the Pogo]

in search of lovely lives
to shield it from the sun
wasps with wondrous wives
lyrical nonsense rhymes

From This Moment On - Ella Fitzgerald [from Love Songs: the Best of the Verve Songbook]

Vegas ready

Etcetera - Wayne Shorter [from The Classic Blue Note Recordings]

tempo on a rough road
ruts and rocks
all terrain advised

All in All - Morgana King [from New Beginnings]

sparkly evening romance
yikes where'd the choir come from? 

end of show send 'em out song
with modulations
and guitar shred break
shark jumping
can't be far off

Madison Avenue - T-Bone Burnett [from Truth Decay]

in demo clothes
highly moral in character

Banned Rehearsal 164 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [December 23, 1988]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 164 881223

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

this is a small room
crowded with sounds
expertise is no guarantee
bam bam
short cut
motor rhythm
linked
to body feedback
what feels good to do
must be good to hear
(?) 

we find a low and rumbly sound
swathes of register
all in a sweep of zither strings 

toy reed organ
in a simulacrum of unanimity
with the big boy piano 

a singing
the pulsers get all excited
about finding a groove
but back off 

tribal vibe
lifts into incandescence
leaves room for any hosh p'kosh 

Christmas Eve Eve
a voluntary
on the near nativity 

spirited
anthemic
with descant extempore 

we cadence and regroup
play childish
and hope for the best 

almonds and nectarines

Volte - Michael Praetorius - The Baltimore Consort [from Le Rocque 'N' Roll]

written down music
and writers down of music 

for what did this survive?

Track 7 - Students of Joan Schoepflin [June 9, 1998]

every piece
includes its program
as announced
to teach stage presence and poise

A Woman Like Me - Bettye Lavette [from A Woman Like Me]

a literature of complaint
and accusation
and exploration

Closer - Vince Mira [from The Cash Cabin Sessions]

campfire strum tempo
cowboy sincere

Second Thoughts - Jesse Canterbury, Greg Sinibaldi [from Ascendant]

reeds imitate a bell's resonance
and move from within that space

Skyline Trail, Mt. Rainier National Park

January 29, 2026

Gradus 342 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [November 12, 2018]

completion
up to
the penultimately to be added B 

we open
with notes of pointedly determined durations
mostly short
and spread from there 

de rigueur long pauses
allow the space
and the ear
to regroup
a disciplined articulation 

as esoteric as the project
is explained to be
the fact of it
in action
is ceaselessly intimate and personal

Whirlybird - Steve Layton [from Bedtime Stories]

procedure of manufacture
kept in line
by timing belt 

so many ticks
for each step 

heat pound wash
heat pound wash

In Session at The Tintinabulary

January 25, 2026

Winter - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey

Keith Eisenbrey · 134 Winter 250126 [250126]

January 26, 2026

Banned Rehearsal 1143 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 1143 260126

Postscripts

Drops

Music of Kosály-Meyer, Verrall, Palmer, Baker, Oldham, Osborn, and Cobb

This album is a selection of music by various Seattle-area composers, composed between the 1940s and 2010 or so.

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

Playlist

Preface

"The Concert Season" and "A small Music Party"

from The Comic Almanack an Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips and Oddities, First Series, 1835-1843

Texts

Live

August 21, 2025

Leanna Keith: So Long And Thanks For All The Fish
Greg Campbell, Kaley Lane Eaton, Ray Larsen, Christian Pincock, Bonnie Whiting
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

Unfortunately Leanna couldn't be with us this evening, but a fine crew soldiered on for the benefit of their moving expenses as they adventure toward a doctorate. We all wish them well and earnestly hope for a speedy return if that is in our cards. 

we jump in the pool together
gastromanciful drum buzzer
we are moving gently
by inertial drift
our surroundings
also
but independently
without conflict or friction 

an uprising
hydrothermal event imminence 

a memorial sequence 

respecters of spotlit solos
temporary hierarchies
(provisional) (ad hoc) 

homing in
target located 
dogged pursuit
scrabbling and clawing 

tooling down the road
easy traveling
parallax
hills
mileposts
and bridges

Recorded

Jasper Mountain Reserve

August 16, 2025

Banned Telepath 20 Seattle - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [June 23, 1988]

in celebration of the fourth Bannediversary
some Amontillado
we are now ready to toast
cheers
hm hm hm 

getting even with the louds
who lived next door
by being quiet 

the funmaker glows into life
brightly blaring
full force room fill 

a quiet sequence of piano sounds
fits of energy
occasional focus 

too languid to gel much 

we take a tour through the music room

August 18, 2025

Esta Noche Serena - Black Cat Orchestra [from Dante's Inferno Live Score]

I'm guessing this show
is a tour through Hellville
and not a transformation of the entire book
top to bottom

Banned Rehearsal 506 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [September 5, 1998]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 506 980905

Jasper Mountain Reserve

rhythm urges burst immediately
wander among uke and drums
Neal restrings an electric guitar with the volume up
I observe from my organ loft
calmly

keeping it lively
with slow heavy tones 

now
can be quite an extensive bubble of awareness
but
when we turn our attention
to attempt to look directly
at now
it
eludes us
we can't observe it directly
so
it might not exist
but
there it is
all the time
and everywhere 

that sound cost seventy five cents
a comparison is made
to a sound that cost a dollar 

what is meant
by free
in free improvisation
(without cost) 

there erupted a high scream
there's the banjo
so
I've had it at least since then 

no pickles
no mustard
no sesame seeds
no bacon no cheese 

to a wandering piano chorale
and so
down to the shore
seabirds squawk
in the electric guitar rigging 

the feedback spotlight
blares triumphantly

Closing Time - Humidiflyers [from Humidiflyers]

follow the denials 

these guys were fabulous musicians
high competence levels

Wake - Aaron Keyt [recorded live at The Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, September 4, 2008]

to bells and birds
a ritual morning
for imaginary orchestra 

psychedelic impressionism 

Fibber opened the closet again 

the sky is a delicate hue
lovely

Swift Arrows - Shelby Earl [from Swift Arrows]

songs have histories of their own
their where's and when's of enactments 

Karen and I heard her introduce this song to the public
when we heard her at The Reverb Festival in 2012

Lamb Day 180505 B - Keith Eisenbrey [May 5, 2018]

Keith Eisenbrey · Lamb Day 180505 B

sheep bleat with occasional vibrato
hominids honk in syllables
there are maa sheep
and baa sheep 

there are chickens

Stately Autumnal Bizarro Bolero - Pete Comley [from Paintronics Vol. 2: Paintronics Electronics]

organization by tools used in its accomplishment
resulting states as settings change
maps an area of passing awareness
throbbing lowness

Jasper Mountain Reserve

August 19, 2025

Madrigals, Book VIII: Hor che 'l ciel e la terra - Claudio Monteverdi - Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini

reading the poem
as a literalized dialog
the literalization
of a poetic image (dialog)
is unnecessary
but that it allows opportunity
to embody the characters of the voices
in a separate polyphonic space
flesh them out
distinguish the voices and the vocalists
(separately parseable)

Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren, BuxWV 214 - Dieterich Buxtehude - Simone Stella

glory poured out
and runnethed over

Premier livre de clavecin: Deuxieme Ordre (fin) : Les Papillons. Tres legerement - François Couperin - Kenneth Gilbert

they flutter a jig among the flowers

near Walla Walla

O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Amsterdam Baroque Choir, Ton Koopman

a pleasant land
sculpted as a meaning
wide enough to encompass
best and worst possibilities
mortal terror
comfort borne on the winds

our proper response in all humility
oh joy! trumpets! 

the duet toward the end is jawdroppingly twisted
must be tricky to sing

Sonata in D Major for Organ, Kk. 288 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

the size of these organ tones is overlarge
takes a Scarlatti to make their dancing sparkle

Prelude in D minor, Op. 28 #24 - Frédéric Chopin - Garrick Ohlsson

the hands have cut loose from each other
tear the place apart

Album für die Jugend: Kleine Studie, Op. 68 #14 - Robert Schumann - Éric Le Sage

weightless dance
en pointe

Prelude in B-flat minor, Op. 37 #1 - Alexander Scriabin - Dmitri Alexeev

a quiver of an eyelid
the earth holds still 

its named key is just where it ended

Walla Walla

Put it Right Here (or Keep it Out There) - Bessie Smith [from Empty Bed Blues]

trash talking
them no good
spouses

Practice Makes Perfect (take 3) - Billie Holiday [from Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia]

works with the dynamic of each phoneme
and their rhythms

Sonatas and Interludes: Sonata IX - John Cage - Boris Berman

so
each preparation-in-common set
has its associated figure set
everything in its box
even if it only once appears
it is already in its box 

apparently
or
are they
the colors
gaudying up the surface of the boxes
perhaps they're all empty
what then
nullity within nullity

Tenderly - Bill Evans [from Everybody Digs Bill Evans]

ways to slide a wedge rhythm
into the collective flow
so that it glides across its floor
like Fred Astair's toes

Till There Was You - The Beatles [from With The Beatles]

a technical exercise
walk the pop walk

Walla Walla

Whistle While You Work - Louis Armstrong [from Disney Songs the Satchmo Way]

as pop
it centers the star
exclusively

Too Young - Michael Jackson [from Music & Me]

they are laid out
as upon a platter
made uncanny 

must have been quite the stage
big high note
ending blaze of glory

We Three - Patti Smith Group [from Easter]

acoustic
signifies memory
cinematically 

Patti not Pop
because
the band doesn't fade into professionalism
it holds her in place
actively 

the matter of the words
matters less
than their mattering
to the voice of the song

Walla Walla

Grunt - Benjamin Boretz, Jill Borner, Keith Eisenbrey, Dan Sedia [from InterPlay]

an otherly sourced dub
than the one heard last week 

some ghosting artifacts
provide a temporal glow 

having a thought
that is about
what it floats on
to increase its intensity
but
one does not always follow the greater imposed flow
but
that flow
that is imposed upon 

convergence
in a new sound world 

the frogs of night are heard from the yard
no interior
can escape their song

Up Town - Roy Orbison [from For The Lonely]

location location location
aspiration in love with the address

That's The Way Love Goes - Janet Jackson [from Janet]

the voice has become a ghost in its own song
a set of tracks
to be overlain
and filtered
and layered
and echoed

The Wind - PJ Harvey [from Is This Desire?]

simulacrum of a dialog between voices
lining up tracks from separate times

Jasper Mountain Reserve

August 20, 2025

Song of Solomon 3:1-4 050517 A - Keith Eisenbrey - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey [recorded May 17, 2005 at Jack Straw Cultural Center]

more 5/8 troubles
take cut off after fumble

Made of Stone - Dolly Parton [from Backwoods Barbie]

it isn't often we hear an older voice in the commercial music of this culture

Mitchell 131114 A - Keith Eisenbrey [November 14, 2013]

Keith Eisenbrey · Mitchell 131114A

Mitchell was a guitar I bought from a neighbor
an acoustic with pickup 

I was trying out
how to record directly to a device
through the pickup
but
the battery in the guitar was dead
and the result was this

Track 1 - Free Improvisation Quartets Project - a quartet from among: Amelia Love Clearheart, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Bruce Greeley, Ha-Yang Kim, Aaron Keyt, Jim Knodle, Carol Levin, Neal Kosály-Meyer, S. Eric Scribner [September 30, 2018]

the applause has been getting together
in small groups
to make music
improvisationally 

any group of people
has a sensibility
as a unique grouping 

improvisation
as practiced herein
might be an embodiment
into common experience
of that sensibility
as an intimate social form

Old Hundred - Keith Eisenbrey [July 16, 2023]

Keith Eisenbrey · Old Hundred 230710 [230716]

after having finally noted and understood
the weird key signatures used in the shape note book
and transposed it to its printed key 

my added parts
support the tune
in spite of themselves

Alley Rat - Jimmy Blythe [from Really The Blues]

insinuating bass line
between the cracks tones
ripple up the bod
toes to twinkles

Alcotts - Charles Ives - Charles Ives [from Charles Ives Plays Charles Ives]

more care taken for this one
it would be an interesting speculative period-instrument experiment
to perform this
on a little square piano
such as may easily have been
in many a parlor
at the time of this composition 

if
that isn't
what's going on here 

it may just be the recording
but that piano
(though quite nice)
is not a grand
or so I would guess

Walla Walla

Try Your Wings - Blossom Dearie [from Give Him the Ooh-La-La]

partitions the poem with wit
cocktail bar tempo

Something You Got - Chris Kenner [from Land of 1000 Dances]

I like the sound of this recording
the sounds sound like they're in the same room
they mesh

Old Friends (Bookends Theme) - Simon & Garfunkel [from Bookends]

at the end of side one of the album
on vinyl
a side
could be a structured set
so
the intelligentsia
could find an easy sophistication
goes all symphonic and all

Leave Your Hat On - Etta James [from Etta James]

objectification as flattery

Where Pathways Meet (alternate mix) - Sun Ra [from Languidity]

a monkey bar framework
supports the antics of the swinging agents
by bending with them
spring assist
framework of dance

Ricochet - David Bowie [from Let's Dance]

his words are posed
for maximum cool
fashion edge
music to wear 

punctuation break

Banned Rehearsal 142 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [June 30, 1988]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 142 880630

Walla Walla

we'll let some lounge-y sonorities hang in the air
nightclub for dissolute composers
no namby pamby movie songs for us
we roll our own 

ever shifting metaphors
not mixed
but
on the move

MovieTone!
Metaphors On The Move! 

maudlin as all get out
Weepy Clown
begging the skies 

proceed to collapse
do not pass go
do not collect two hundred dollars 

shake the bars
silver screen narrative
music holding a thread in your face
immediate repetition
a gambit for awareness
bubble extension 

I don't remember this session at all
I wonder why I was feeling such grandiose gestures?
angry at work perhaps
that would be about when I'd had enough
of being an abstractor 

we take a break
to start over
differently configured
among the instruments 

such dramatic psalmody 

another long pause
into a strange land
of tape wobbles
and shimmery cymbals 

I have no idea how we made that sound
it may have involved the reel to reel
in our play time 

and now
the piano is back
with a lullaby
being poked by the sprite 

a drum machine
has been birthed
without intent 

the piano plays in tenths
0 4 7 9
root with added sixth

a session of episodes

Hero - Mariah Carey [from Music Box]

cinematic
is the new symphonic 

triumphalist life advice

Banned Rehearsal 507 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [September 12, 1998]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 507 980912

we wash colors into the space
to hear it shining
bells on the vast walls 

142 ended with me on drums (pretty sure)
and ten years later
there I am
on drums again (pretty sure) 

as to piano and organ
I am at a loss
and I'm only guessing
Neal on guitar 

we press toward loudness assertion
apparent personnel
may have changed instruments
in the melee 

it isn't always pretty
we scrabble
and march forward
come what may 

we work the canvas vigorously
we ring the bell
to mark our leaving of this space

Lauries Porch - Steve Kennedy [from State's Exhibit]

morning coffee by the river in the woods
roar of crowd surf

Jasper Mountain Reserve

August 22, 2025

Chapel Event - Sheri Brown, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer, Lin Lucas [recorded live at The Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, September 4, 2008]

audients take their seats individually
the camera is still
the stage is only partially visible
our viewpoint is behind and to the right
we were noticeably younger back then

pre-eventual pacing and seating adjustments 

each audient
is there for their own reasons
as are each of the performers
I am pacing
the doors are shut
(sound)
the lights dim 

Wake begins
the audients are dematerialized into fuzzy specters
the camcorder struggles with the dimness
struggles to find a focus
which throbs irregularly from near to far 

Sheri
a bright splotch
indifferently defined 

priestlike
I hurl the ping pong balls
from the red bucket
and retire 

anyone's eventual perception
is limited
partial

Sheri has a long pole
from behind the pillar
holds it aloft
then balanced upon their skull
Lin appears
I begin to recite
garbed ceremonial
poles are crossed
I lecture myself
the stage
is peopled
gas masks
in honor of the anthem 

Neal fortissimos
in octaves of As
As
in fortissimos of octaves
octaves
in As of fortissimos 

a bright hand emerges
through the spaces
between the heads
of audients 

a dancer
is a body
that draws attention
a bodily avatar
of
our sense of body
occluded
by our own
and others
bodies 

retains focus
by
its own disciplined focus 

ghostlike forms appear
and dis- 

gnomic spirits
enraptured
knight of a pale order 

the unsettled focus
moves the figures of the audients
the space itself
is quivered

the sound of the camcorder's focus mechanism
a quiet tick tick  

forms are guesswork
and then
Neal alone with his A 

focus narrowed
near to vanishing 

hallucinatory figures
wraiths
materialized
transcession
to center stage
light returns
as As fade  

gestures are mimed
ite missa est 

immolation by applause
to clear the focus
thank you for coming
the ping pong balls
are collected
collectively
the camcorder
is put out

In Session at The Tintinabulary

August 17, 2025

Chard - Keith Eisenbrey

Keith Eisenbrey · 111 Chard 250817 [250817]

Walla Walla

August 18, 2025

Gradus 419 - Neal Kosály-Meyer

we will hear a plethoric value of pitches
we specialize here
in sonorities
that call intonation into question 

thought threads
spun upon commonalities
among moments
and discommonalities
among the same figures 

play
upon the variable values
of the durations
of now
as
they pass through the figures 

a figure
differs from a filter
in that
a figure
particularizes
and a filter
departicularizes 

figures deepen abstraction
filters sand it smooth 

commonalities assist us
in keeping our place
or
in mapping our position
reassurance
desperate measures 

the pages are loosely rumpled
an alternative compositional approach
might be
to maximize discommonalities
in the immediate awareness bubble
that
any latent properties of the rung's combinations
would make themselves apparent
as though
from raw data 

threading through commonalities
is a mode of compositional thinking
but not the only such mode 

the written score*
is a geography to be explored 

*Neal
when necessitated by the plethora of pitches involved
produces written out scores
(graphically structured representations
of the rung's pitches in pitch space)
which
he then explores
by searching paths
within that specific geography
(perhaps geomorphology)
(or pitch space morphology)
(better terms?)
locations
(pitch sets)
cross-referenced 
by their constituent pitches
and/or pitch classes

Postscripts

Drops

Music of Benjamin Boretz
Keith Eisenbrey, piano

The music of Benjamin Boretz, which I first encountered as an undergraduate, has played a central role in my own sense of musical possibility and depth ever since. I was deeply fortunate to study with him for a few years in the early 80s, and have been blessed with his ongoing friendship and conversation since that time. It is my distinct pleasure to share these recordings with you now. 

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

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Preface

"It's difficult to believe in reality."

George Quasha - from "Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole"

Texts

Live

October 4, 2023

Cornish Music Faculty Showcase
Raisbeck Auditorium, Seattle

Granada, Three Brief Episodes  - Michael Nicololla

ornate flavor (Isaac Albéniz)
a critter amuses in the middle of a quiet afternoon

3 Klezmer Tunes - James Falzone, Neil Welch, Ray Larsen

(Belf's Romanian Orchestra)
a revived genre for social celebration

The Great Train Race (by Ian Clarke) - Leanna Keith

took the flute world by storm
an amusement

Inside a Stone - Jesse Myers, Tom Baker

gently jostling
river washed
rubbing is rocks doing

Improvised - Ray Larsen

a little longer than short
leading a path where it flows

"Not the Right Time" and "Lookout" - Kaley Eaton

begin outside
spiral in

New Work for Quartet - Tom Varner, Neil Welch, Leanna Keith, Greg Campbell

vigorous stirring with bubbles
elaborate timer bells
intricate decorations
twisted wine

Over Oceans - Johnaye Kendrick, Kelly Ash

vocal duet unaccompanied

Improvised - Marcin Pączkowski

becoming a multitude

Recorded

September 30, 2023

Intermezzo in C Major, Op. 4 #4 - Robert Schumann - Eric Le Sage

getting mileage out of unanswered phrases

Mazurka in B minor, Op. 30 #2 - Frédéric Chopin - Garrick Ohlsson

turned over enough times
surely it will yield the hoped for response
Fie!

Turandot, Act 1 - Ferruccio Busoni - Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Gerd Albrecht, René Pape, Linda Plechm Gabriele Schreckenbach, Josef Protschka, Friedrich Molsberger, Celina Lindsley, Robert Wörle, Johannes Werner Prein, Gotthold Schwarz 

one exotic
like any other
may as well be Mars
just so
the setting is sufficiently outside
any European's wider understanding
of the culturally plausible
that anything is possible 

through-composed
on a different basis than Wagner or Verdi
the music is the scenery costumes and lighting
and only peripherally
the characterization of the individuals

unabashedly stagy
an illustrated book of an opera
the pages are opaque
we can't see through into the future
nor back into the past
we follow along as it is played for us

the whole apparatus
is presumably a stand-in for out-of-date ideas of marriage 

tonality moves from one uncertainty to the next
through back alleys and hidden doors
the carefully composed lines for the singers are commendable

October 1, 2023

Song 15 - Charles Ives - Carol Sams, Russ Warner

trips and stumbles lightly through the dance

Evonce (alternate take) -Thelonious Monk [from The Complete Blue Note Recordings)

even while in the background
a rhythmic sensibility
the piano solo
though brief
is hardly as packed with notes
as his colleagues' are

Slippin' and Slidin' (demo) - Little Richard [from Here's Little Richard]

at an easy going tempo
allows inflection in the piano part

Hey, Good Lookin' - Ray Charles [from Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music]

Las Vegas is in the west
so it must be western music
no country tavern
is going to have that size of an orchestra

The Gal from Joe's - Nina Simone [from High Priestess of Soul]

tempo of brassy bodily swagger
patterned motion from measure to measure

I Was Born In Love With You - Sarah Vaughan [from Sarah Vaughan with Michel LeGrand]

the urge to say something intelligent about these cuts
to prove that I get it
do I
probably not

God Only Knows - Carole King [from Simple Things]

the habit of unpatterned dancing
free style
not a step
does it ask
that the music
it is the dance of
be heavily structured
clear to the floor
possible
the purpose
is not to express
but to extradite
expel
purge
nice guitar work back there

This Hard Land - Bruce Springsteen [from Tracks]

do New Jersey lads say
when we did ride
or
when we rode
or
when we went 

pulling in an Americana flavor of high-falutin' hick

Glass Spiders - David Bowie [from Never Let Me Down]

tells us a story
one could almost
more mood than narrative
the presence of the spoken words
is nearer than that of the sung words
we are further from the singer
than from the speaker

The Old Cow Died - Mike, Peggy, and Penny Seeger [from Animal Folk Songs For Children]

lessons in what can't be turned

Bernadette - Paul Simon [from Songs from the Capeman]

chipper
then suddenly slides into a charmed evening

Compass 3 - Jarrad Powell [from Natural Selection]

this tone has a texture
bumpy
flexible
powered
directed intent
becomes our space
all of it
we are pulled inside

Downpour - Brandi Carlile [from The Story]

sneaking up on what one means to say

Feather Floats Away - Steve Layton & Improv Fridays [from Shared Circle]

an entry
a text
a sound
a memory
an artifact
time-stamped time stamp
the participants share a harmonic sensibility and
a temporal

Meow-ow-ow - Mud on My Bra [from Demo #2 (Manger Studio Mixes)]

the world is full of creative ideas of self-expression
and of what might count as that
high energy headbanging

Duo 2 - Sascia Pellegrini [from 7 Percussion Impossibilities]

room to dance in sparkle land
hide and seek between the drizzle drops
a rain game 

lighting shift
the color of the day responds

October 2, 2023

Caprice en forme de Valse in E-flat Major, Op. 2 #8 - Clara Schumann - Susanne Grützmann

a dialog dance
light and witty

Hang Up My Rock & Roll Shoes - Jerry Lee Lewis [from Rare and Rockin']

riding on an infectious motion
whoop it up
in the voice of a teen

Wake Me When It's Over - Willie Nelson [from ...And Then I Wrote]

callibrated performance
doling out the lines without hurry

A Fool Such As I - Bob Dylan [from A Tree With Roots]

a drinking in misery song
utilitarian chord changes

Takin' My Time - Bonnie Raitt [from Sweet Forgiveness]

epistolary
the changes take an interesting bend at the end of the verse stanza
it goes where it wasn't going

Job Mob - Ornette Coleman [from Of Human Feelings]

the puppet's many feet dance lightly
while its body floats above
in a stiller wind
to another location

Amy Grant - The Young Fresh Fellows [from The Men Who Loved Music]

topical novelty
bunch of dudes fartin' off

Liza Radley - The Jam [from The Sound of The Jam]

it tries so hard
but the vocal just doesn't have much range

I Wonder Where You Are - Back Burner [from Simmer On]

song as pretext for cooperative competence
modestly showy

Girl - Shannon Stephens [from Pull It Together]

fledging
what to expect
post launch
nice guitar sound

Somehow, They Will Know - Anxious Arms [from Never Was]

microphones right up to the amps
not a word is understood
especially the ones he's hollering

Somos Nada - Christina Aguilera [from Aguilera]

swinging for the upper deck
heavy beats on piano
long decay
left to do so

O Holy Night - The Philadelphia Brass Ensemble [from Festival of Carols in Brass]

no lazy dotted rhythms for these folks
nor even any histrionics in the stratosphere

Ein Kleine Nachtmusik (first movement) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [from 100 Greatest Classics]

cadential elision
some motions are allowed to complete their tasks
some are interrupted
a scenario that goes around and around
for all the latecomers

Track 14 - The Humidiflyers [from Humidiflyers 2002]

the word part
is in a more believable voice
when being sung
than when doing the spoken thing
which sounds like it was written down to be spoken

A Pest You Metrosexuals (sic?) - The Capitol Steps [from O Christmas Bush]

Wedding Ring Vacation - Rachel Harrington [from Makin' Our House a Honky-Tonk]

lots of
-ation rhymes

gonna have some fuuuun

Your Type - Alvvays [from Antisocialites]

the word part
is partly a pretext
a spell to be cast
in order to conjure this feel of being with people

Once Again - Nat Evans [from My Old Friend Death]

opening down
settling
pressed
weighty

Girls Eyes - The Who [from The Who Sell Out]

doing American culture
as an act
and then an ad
sheesh

Bolero (selection) - Maurice Ravel [from 100 Greatest Classics]

but they cheated
fading in on just the last five minutes or so
but as a whole
Satieesque
it's not like Ravel invented playing the same rhythm over and over

Capriccio in E Major (#9) - Niccolò Paganini - Shlomo Mintz [from Masters of the Bow]

having firm words with myself
don't mind me
a ventriloquism

Telluride Song - Head For The Hills [from Robber's Roost]

a band
an activity
a family-like relationship
a team
a shared endeavoring
in a common way of doing

Turn Up The Radio - Madonna [from MDNA]

how old-fashioned
make me louder
producer
stand-in for group collaboration
the various filters through which she is singing
wander about in ovoid orbitals

Sea of Straight Faces - Ephrata [from Ephrata]

the care they have taken in their harmony singing shows
not done with synths

Can't Go Home - Doug Kolmar [from So Said Life]

a nice hot cup of tea
well cozied

October 3, 2023

The Scarecrow - Pink Floyd [from The Piper At The Gates of Dawn (digital)]

clip clop
horse wagon
life in the shire

Remix for P is Free - Boogie Down Productions [from Criminal Minded]

self-promotion
of both band and genre
self-consciously branding itself
within the societal conceit of brand competition

Battle - Gang Starr [from 8 Mile]

so the business of music is front and center
in the brand's conceit
the music within the business
seeks to turn around and shake hands

Sold Yer Guitar Blues - The Tripwires [from Makes You Look Around]

concerning the hard life
of dirt-level music

Collette - Yuni in Taxco [from Prizes]

long on the verge of a downbeat
which just snuck in the back door
those lines are about their pitch trajectory
a line
from top
downward to the floor
repeat

Blonde - Prom Queen [from Doom Wop]

in the middle of a doldrum
on the self-invention seas
a little bit of bleach and a magic wand

Coenties Slip - Steve Peters [from With My Back To the World]

opening with a seed
three notes rising together

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite (take 7) - The Beatles [from Anthology]

feet with feats
feats with feet

Toys In The Attic - REM [from Dead Letter Office]

actively courting the possibility of dancing in two two
or
in a quicker four four
your call

Spires - Pete Comley [from Lost City Music Volume 2]

an entire soundtrack
minus only dialogue
without film
but even so
with lighting and camera work
intact

Big K - Goat [from Live at Sonarchy]

working with power tools
wear eye and ear protection
be mindful of your fingers
router and lathe
table saw and power punch

Glad That You Asked - Song Sparrow Research [from Song Sparrow Research]

a voice is valid
by virtue of its being
as are we
equally valid
by virtue of our being
not just
born so
nor created so
but being so
in being

Why Change a Thing - Bad Cop/Bad Cop [from Warriors]

attacking life in the work place
where it drives

The New Savannah - Jostaberry [from Hello Turbine]

atypical chords and patterns
within the rock and roll world
the mid bit
where the drum stays out
is nice
I find myself asking for atypical drumming
to match the pitch stuff going on

Love Is a Contact Sport - Whitney Houston [from Whitney]

at what point historically
did the exigencies of music video production
impinge on the songwriting 

blame the producers

suggestiveness
back in our more innocent age

The Teaching Begun in Samish - Johnny Moses [from When The Humans Thought They Were People]

lift up your people

Dave & Ruth Memories - Dave and Ruth Bowman 

my people
it was this whole thing
met in Chemistry class
a red dress
navy blue skirt
not Gone With The Wind
who wrote the script?
with a piano accompaniment
there are weird politics
behind each piety
but
these were a wonderful uncle and aunt
(Dave was my mom's brother)

Son of a Good Man - Bigfoot Wallace & His Wicked Sons [from Virgil]

down in a swamp
tell a story
set a mood

Motorcycle Blues - The Low Hums [from Night Magic Wine]

the words
are not much more than the title
all day long
a constant
until the swerves
after the verse
the point of having a keyboard player
is to have someone to drown out

Iron Tears (featuring Del Sol String Quartet) - Gamelan Pacifica [from Vessel]

in the space where all are foreign
the purpose of this music
is to open possibilities
to weave tapestries
to beguile in incense

Chinese Arithmatic - Eric B. & Rakim [from Paid In Full]

transgressive exoticism
theft
there is nothing one-ish
about beat one
an excuse for fancy drumming

Faith-Based Roundup - Dubious Duo [from Children of Siberia]

lots of yelling

The Drowsy Sleeper - Mary Lomax [from The Art of Field Recording]

reading the signs
going away to the wild goose country

Out of the Rain - The Swearengens [from Devil Gets Her Way]

hey babe
I'm really trying hard over here
I did all the stuff
what's your problem
I'm suffering out here

Zap Sistah - Amy Denio [from The Big Embrace]

the texts
are a means of accessing alternative forms
for a music to take

Go-Flow - Michael Bisio and Matthew Shipp [from Flow of Everything]

searching outward
dendritical
a color of tunes
upon which
to lay ones weary bones

October 4, 2023

Saved Today - Total Experience Gospel Choir, Pat Wright [from Bits and Pieces]

ministry of celebration
new way of walking
new way of talking

How Do You Keep the Music Playing - Glenn Tate [from Some of My Favorite Love Songs]

sing the song
fill the breathing space with arpeggiation
and sweeping gesture

Vacant City - Brendan Byrnes [from Micropangea]

finding worlds in machines
starting point
being commercial
song objects
internal boundaries
pushed at
via content
which
isn't their
without-which-something-else
kinds of sounds
kinds of words

Beyond the Zero - Antonioni [from Lullablaze]

steady flow of words
over steady flows of sounds
from heels to knee
dip back and forth
rocking motion

Brillenbrillanz (Spectacles-Luminosity) - Eric Nathan [from Missing Words]

announce first
ask yourself what you're about later
discussion among the heralds
split into contending parties
talk it out

October 5, 2023

My Baby's Gone - Los Lobos [from By The Light Of The Moon]

upper trunk motion
with a wiggle
that rides down body
the drums are the trunk
the guitars and bongos
are the wiggles

Who Got The Camera? - Ice Cube [from The Predator]

interaction residue
the news from one side
the talk from another

Sons of No One (The Replacements) - Andrew James Robison [recorded live at The Rat and Raven, Seattle, August 9, 2012]

living with engines
that get us here to there
this one is on rails

Lady Lazarus Part II - Greg Sinibaldi [from Ariel]

untranslated signals
compressed data
crowd chatter
dis-coalescing beat
deep in the weeds

Let's Not Kid Ourselves - Star Anna [from Live at Rimbert Illustration]

follow the beat
as it occupies the sung melody
a tough sinew

Overture to The Marriage of Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [from 100 Greatest Classics]

all those keys have a past
I'll catch you up
while we wait for the curtain

Save You - Pearl Jam [from Rearviewmirror]

it was the fashion
to include a bit of studio noise
before the song proper
a signifier of authenticity
we're real
we plug in our guitars just like you folks
high energy usage
simple parts
fancy singing

Balance Beam - Tyrannosaurus Grace [recorded live at The Rat and Raven, Seattle, August 9, 2012]

a story about something that happened
I told you so
disjointed
but the female vocal is fun
in a wild way
reckless yodel

Silver - Waxahatchee [from Out In The Storm]

a trip on the lips

Mid-Day - Hilda Doolittle - William Bond [from Quaking Aspen]

he speaks as though reading words aloud
without quite saying them

Erghen Diado - Bulgarian State Radio & TV Female Vocal Choir, Philip Koutev [from Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, volume 1]

upscale vernacular
for National Pride

Little Red Rooster - The Myers Sisters [from The Art of Field Recording]

coming by possum stew
he will taste so good to you
what they mean
is not what they are
what they are
is

Rise of The Ancients - The Ancients [recorded live at The Rat and Raven, Seattle, August 9, 2012]

their theme song
battle hymn
really gets into it

Wait For A Call - Merchant Mariner [from Merchant Mariner]

music from a port of call
happenin' joint 

imaginative tempo work in there

Part 6 - Claire Lodge [from Seconds]

a bass line
a tune line
and a rattle
now a drum
or marimba or tabla
or both
or
a lamellophone of unknown shape
click stick too!
left with the guitar squealing its tires

Trip Through Your Wires - U2 [from The Joshua Tree]

this one works pretty well
Bono doesn't overdo it
almost keeps his distance

Fat Chance - Swearin' [from Swearin']

stanza location
walls and echo and power
back and forth

Dinosaurs - Shallow Lenses [from War Poems]

looking back to better times

Arrival - Re:Naissance Opera [from Music from the Apocrypha Chronicles]

a dance is believable
or a play
or a pantomime
something on a stage
art-museum film perhaps

Es ist ein Ros entsprungen - Michael Praetorius [from The Glory of the Krummhorn]

instrumentals are analyses of vocal part singing
just the music sans words
except that we do get a singer after a cycle or so
robust temperament

Severed Head - Ian Bell, John Teske [from Embers of Discontent (final mix)]

from Labor on the run
but labor was never a monolith always a theory

Randolf The Red-Nosed Coke-Head - Three Fingers [from Stocking Stuffer]

a public service announcement
with a twist of blade

Over My Head - Denise Glover [from Dreams of The Butterfly]

lines alternate rhyme-useful nonsense
and head-on statement disguised with a rhyme

Speed Demon - Michael Jackson [from Bad]

composed from the dance out
question
is the child innocent
singing sexualized entendres
any ickier
than our cultural hyper-sexualization of a teenager

Raiding The Refrigerator - Cowgirls, The

after a faded countoff
one two three four
seven kinds of awesome

Portland Town to Klamath Falls - Tony Furtado and Kristin Andreassen [from Roll Columbia]

from the internal migrations
the BPA uses Woody's cred
to tell folks there's jobs in the Northwest
ports and railroads and timber work to be had

A Day At The Beach - The Maldives [from Mad Lives]

in which
we can imagine a more poetic life for ourselves

Ghost - Kaley Lane Eaton [from Cedar]

there's a downbeat inherency
in how this settles down
densely
under miles of ocean

Christmas Hymn - London Symphony Orchestra [from Songs for the Holidays]

this arrangement counts as song abuse

Song 3 - Peterman - [recorded live at The Blue Moon, October 4, 2012]

proto Dead Bars
quite an enjoyable band as itself

Ted Sabatina - Camarones Orquestra Guitarrística [from Feeexta]

if you have no words
there is less for the censors to latch onto

7---~--~-~--~~----~-~---~~-~--~(Rojahn Remix) - Lost Chocolate Lab [from (Previously) Clean]

the titles could be considered as horizons
distant hills' contours
a code for compass direction

guitar strum poles
for a billowy cloud tent

In Session at The Tintinabulary

October 1, 2023

Sterling - Keith Eisenbrey

Keith Eisenbrey · 13 Sterling 231001 [231001]

an arrangement of a shape-note tune from an 1846 song book

October 6, 2023

Two-Part Invention in G - Gavin Borchert

three more to go!
and they look to be considerably simpler than this one was

Postscripts

Drops

Keith Eisenbrey 4: 1983-1984

I have started sharing collections of my compositions in albums on Bandcamp. This volume finishes up the music I wrote while I was in New York (state) under the ostensible supervision of the academic world.

Keith Eisenbrey 3: 1982-1983

This set of pieces was written in Red Hook, NY, and Malabar, FL, as I was beginning to think about thinking about music.

Keith Eisenbrey 2: 1981-1982

These are what occupied my time toward at the end of my undergrad days and in the year before I went east for a while.

Keith Eisenbrey 1: 1979-1981

These are the keyboard works I composed while an undergrad at the UW. 

All are free for download.

Skaldmud's Doodle Gallery

listening journal doodles from 2010