Preface
"We could say:
that the aspect of musical meaning
which can be successfully
paraphrased
is marginal
that the aspect of consciousness
which can be logicized
is
fractional
that the aspect of gender
which can be successfully named
is
trivial."
- Benjamin Boretz "music/ /consciousness/ /gender" from "Being About Music Textworks 1960-2003 J. K. Randall Benjamin Boretz Volume 2: 1978-2003"
Texts
Streaming
Wayward in Limbo
With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series now moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is curating and commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of exclusive material. Many of these will be essentially “live” performances recorded at home for this occasion. Others may create a mix of pre-recorded material that has not been previously released elsewhere.
- from the Wayward Music Series website at https://www.waywardmusic.org/.
December 12, 2020
Samantha Boshnack and Chris Credit
Small Beast
Little Ball of Energy
Song for the People's
Improvisation
weather various
December 16, 2020
periodicity
is so us
apparent periodicity
is more malleable
than explicit
periodicity
is
(clock)
(conscripted)
(enforced)
(rigorous)
(rigid)
(machined)
]event[
]internal[
]created[
]volitional[
]volatile[
open
unfixed
areas of each
and in admixture
{meta-}
{a-}
{non-}
indust(-ry)
(-rious)
|essays|
Recorded
December 13, 2020
75 Cents - UniV [a Rescued Record]
a rhythm thinker band on the make
Toccata - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey [recorded live at University Temple United Methodist Church October 25, 2002]
Toccata is a mashup of sorts combining my old piece Retrato de Euchababilla (1986) with newer commentary upon it (2002). The newer commentary is in a music conceptual tongue foreign to the old piece. It bears an affinity to Lacrymosa (1985) in that it leans heavily on two- or three-note figures.
played well by past me
December 15, 2020
Mostly Air - Jennifer O'Connor and Choo Choo La Rouge [a Rescued Record]
drums bass guitar vocalist
doing their song
like a song is done
chord changes
on off-symmetrical points
but vacant
somehow unfinished
corporate pitch bends
rather than chord changes
running a metaphor into the dirt
half hearted prematurely world-weary
Sonata - Aaron Keyt - Keith Eisenbrey [recorded live at the Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle April 12, 2014]
in which
an analysis
a particular slicing
of an old piece of
music (Haydn)
is made a score
and realized
as another piece of music
an alternative extension
of a singular consideration
of something else
Musafir (Shab) - K.K. [from Bollygood Volume 1]
pop music without taint of blues
(why it seems wrong) :
borrowed
sheen
without the subconscious expression
of blood guilt
or
debt
in the American style but at several removes
Goe From My Window, Fvb 9 - Thomas Morley - Claudio Columbo [from Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
such exquisite penmanship
the decorative flourishes reflect the text
in
shapely lines
Passamez pour les cornetz - Michael Praetorius - New London Consort, Philip Picket [from Dances from Terpsichore]
drums and soft toned brass
velvety
Suite in E minor, BuxWV 236 - Dietrich Buxtehude - Simone Stella
the dark night without
shines in
and glows
not fanciful
serious severe complete
Fughetta super Von Himmel hoch, BVW 701 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Michael Chapuis
On the surface it is akin to Morley and the Fitzwilliam crew but it is focused on a single elaborative figure. The decorative flourishes are permeated by strands of the cantus.
Lamentationes pro die Veneris Sancto 1 - Jan Dismas Zelenka - Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Rene Jacobs, Guy De Mey, Kurt Widmer
elaboration as a means of minute study
taking full advantage of the
liberties afforded by the use of a dead language
In Session at the Tintinabulary
December 14, 2020
Banned Telepath 67 Tintinabulary - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Neal Kosály-Meyer
Banned Telepath 67 Toad Hall - Aaron Keyt
Banned Rehearsal 1016 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Key, Anna K, Neal Kosály-Meyer
Karen and I were in the studio,
Anna and Neal phoned in from Outpost
Lake City.
Aaron sent sound signals from Toad Hall.
Postscripts
his opponent's spine hard to say uncle
wasn't cowboy's maker back on the
up you
sonofabitch he said crack it was both
pitch in a swamp is a bird on a cattail
an embodiment of the absence of
itself
an image of duration bereft
