Playlist

Recorded

July 23, 2017
Banned Rehearsal 249 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [February 1991]

Begins with righteous plunk on toy piano. Throughout: a microscopic attention to intonation, liberated intonation, bending cymbal pitch by angle of stick. If there's enough of it, it must be real. (Quick Quaker Quotes). If there's enough of it, and it's night, it must be surreal. On radio intonations of Desert Storm, Dark Hole. When all the candles go out the tape will be over.

July 25, 2017
Banned Rehearsal 425 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Neal Kosály-Meyer [May 1996]

Bells of various whistle and guitar through synth (wahwahtech). This band is at work on stuff, dragging a muck rake into low sinking murkwood. CONCH! Deep bass blow. Relax the grip.

Ms. Found In A Bottle - Keith Eisenbrey

A composite 20 years in the making, digitally recorded textsound (Confessions of a Polyphonist) with aged magnetic tape of synthesized sound (the rotted version of AKU). Wobbly flangiform synthesizary diphthongs.

July 26, 2017
Being, Hearing, Knowing Now - Stephen Dembski - Christopher Taylor, piano

Each sound resets, proceeds only from the immediate. As memory intrudes we don't go back. Back just comes back.

Banned Rehearsal 785 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [February 2011]

How: to design an attack envelope for piano reverb.
How: sounds persists.
What: A bestiary with bell kit beast guide.
What: Gathers at the bottom of the beaker.
What: begins to react, and converse.

Your Face - Denise Glover [from Pathways]

A song can be a face of word time pitch time melody time tine time. Is what it says.

July 27, 2017
Die Kunst der Fuge, Contrapunctus XIII - J. S. Bach - Lionel Rogg, organ

Triplets trip the trap. Bits, hints, and teasers.

Die Jahreszeit "Winter" - Haydn - Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Karl Böhm, Gundula Janowitz, Peter Schreier, Martti Talvela, Wiener Singverein

". . . lange dauert." Held back, even the dire chorus building forces underground. Rhythmic hiccups. Nonmotion, a hurried up slowing down. Waiting for, not being at.

In Session at the Tintinabulary

Green Lake, Seattle, July 29, 2017

July 23, 2017
Remlinger Farms Steam Train Ride - Keith Eisenbrey

At a corporate picnic out in the country we took a miniature steam train ride. Too many conversations to post in public.

July 24, 2017
Gradus 316 - Neal Kosály-Meyer

Some are interior spaces, the caverns of swiss cheese. Some are incrustations, barnacles. Some are iron rigid bars.

Playlist

Recorded

June 5, 2016
Wicked Wind - Pomegranate [from Rescued Records]

The guiding metaphor is the literal domestication of woman: she is described as a house.






June 7, 2016
Banned Rehearsal 601 [March 2001, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Isabel K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer]

a. The longer one engages in a repetitive activity the more invested one is in it, to the point where ceasing that activity could be heard only as a repudiation of it, as an oops, rather than as a compositional choice, and so one loses freedom of choice for fear of shame.

b. Semi-arid sounds on a narrow small sky evening.

c. Or repetition suggests long distance journeying, calls of small brass at a distance. Not a narrative but a place heard through the passage of time, a place allowed in time's passage.

near Ritzville, Washington - June 2016

d. Delicate. In order to really hear this one must become quite small, focused micro-aurally.

Night Trip - Bug Nasties [from The Funhouse Comp Thing]

A TV theme song, like Secret Agent Man.

for toy piano - Stephen Dembski - Ju-Ping Song [from Milton Babbitt: A Composer's Memorial]

At once: deflationary and packed. The careful composition of rhythms and tempos is partly shadowed, not so much obscured as thrown into relief, by the presence of the clunky mechanism sound. A hefty 2 and a half minutes.

June 8, 2016
Keith Eisenbrey at Seattle Composers' Salon, January 1, 2016 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [John Teske's recording]

Prefaced and Postscripted by the talking establishes, for the recording, a measure of the distance at which we are hearing a music. At the end I was fascinated by the palpable relaxation as it became clear we were through playing, as though we were being gently released from an embrace of collective attention.

June 9, 2016
Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen BWV 49 - J. S. Bach - Gächinger Kantorei, Helmut Rilling

It was not apparently intended as such exactly, but this would work splendidly as a wedding cantata - if one wanted to model one's married life after 18th Century German society's ornately realized web of received functions.

In Session at the Tintinabulary
June 5, 2016
Banned Telepath 49 Mississipi River Brewery 160605

June 6, 2016
Banned Telepath 49 Seattle 160606
Banned Rehearsal 911 160606 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer in Seattle; Aaron Keyt at a brewery on the banks of Mississippi River