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Bickleton, WA

Preface

ODE TO SIR ANDREW AGNEW:

AND ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

"Sir Andrew Agnew, oh! thou scourge of sinners,

Thou legislator against vice

And nice

Hot Sunday dinners!

What shall we do

Now thou art gone - thou and Sir Oswald* too -

To make men fast and pray

Each seventh day?

Who now shall save us from sin's burning embers?

Now that we've lost our two old Marrowbone members?"

But seriously, Sir Andrew, do you think

There's so much harm in meat and drink?

That a hot steak

Ate once a week

Show a depraved state of society?

That frizzled bacon

Argues a soul mistaken?

And - pray don't start! -

That devil'd kidneys show a dev'lish heart?

That there is irreligion in hot fry?

And that cold pie alone is pie-ty?

If so, begin, Sir, with the rich: ask these

To give up their ragouts, and stews, and fricassees.

I guess they'd think your application rather strange;

but if you will work out your bill,

Believe me, you must take a wider kitchen range.

Then Sir you think it wrong

In 'bus or cab to ride along

The streets,

Intent on rural treats

At Hampstead, Islington, or Turnham Green;

but have you never seen

The crowd

Of knight and dames, on palfreys fierce and proud,

That fill

Hyde Park o' Sundays? I don't wish to tease,

But, Sir, for riders such as these,

There ought, I think, to be a rider to your Bill.

No doubt it's very wrong, and shows but little nous,

To go a tea-drinking, and making merry

At th' Eagle, Rosemary Branch, or Yorkshire Stingo; -

Chalk Farm's as vile, by jingo!

There's something very black about White Conduit House.

Richmond is sad;

And Twickenham's as bad:

And Hampton Wick is very wicked - very.

But Sir, - excuse the freedom of my pen -

D'ye think that they
Who spend the day

At Tattersall's, in laying wagers

On Derbys, Oaks, and Legers,

are better men?

And then, the Clubs! - where gambling of all kinds,

and vices such as daylight never saw,

Are carried on behind cast-metal blinds -

For these, Sir, Can't you frame some new Club Law?

Then, Sir, I know

You vote rat-killing low;

And wouldn't sit

For worlds in the Westminster Pit.

And so no doubt it is - extremely shocking;

But so is cocking!

And I have known full many a noble lord

(I have, upon my word,)

Fight cocks upon this day:

so pray,

Before us poor folks you legislate,

Just try to quell this main-ia in the great.

Then music drives you mad:

And, Scotchman tho' you be,

I know

You wouldn't suffer even a Scotch fiddle;

And, as for "down the middle,"

And such-like tricks of Dame Terpsichore,

I've often heard you say they're quite as bad;

And that all persons merit a sound whipping

Who are found tripping,

(Apropos -

How you'd be shock'd in France

To see, Sir, a whole country dance!)

Mind! I don't say but that all this is wrong;

But is it worse, Sir, than the Sunday song

of Grisi, Albertazzi, Betts, Rubini,

Lablache, or Tamburini?

And would it not be better first to wipe out

This sin among the high and mighty of the State,

Before you put the poor man's pipe out?

For my part, I think Vivi tu

As wicked as All around my hat - don't you?

And really I don't know

How you can stop Jim Crow,

And let the rich

Carry their concerts, Sir, to such concert pitch.

And, if, Sir, I may speak

My mind, you plan to gag our week

(Tho' done perhaps with very best intention)

Is but a weak invention.

Besides, Sir, here's a poser, -

At least to me it seems a closer,

And shows a shocking lack of legislative skill -

If nothing, Sir, 's to work from Saturdays to Mondays,

Pray how's your bill

To work on Sundays?

*Sir O. Moseley, who lost his election, they say, from having seconded Sir Andrews' Sunday Bill."

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

Texts

Recorded

Bickleton, WA

April 27, 2025

Madrigals, Book IV: Anima del cor mio poi che da me misera me - Claudio Monteverdi - Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini

a poetic/sung breath
opens
and fills a constellation of pitches 

neumes become sound

Das ist je gewichlich wahr, SWV 388 - Heinrich Schütz - Capella Augustana

these words
are inscribed
upon the space
beneath the cathedral dome
in which
we participate 

these things
are certain
and
will not be moved

Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV 148 - Dieterich Buxtehude - Simone Stella

long notes
pointed at
and underlined multiple times 

this this this
is the pitch that matters
and these pitches
are how it matters

Premier Ordre (sol): La Bourbonnoise, Gavotte - François Couperin  Kenneth Gilbert

jolly and free of care

Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gotte, BWV 76 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Amsterdam Baroque Choir, Ton Koopman

long tones shine like brightening stars 

||excursus:
late 18th Century eschewal of contrapuntal forms
perhaps
a reaction
to what might seem to be
the constant chugging engine
of voices
working themselves out
over the tops of each other 

began to make the dukes yawn?

Bickleton, WA

April 28, 2025

Sonata in B-flat Major, Kk. 272 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

passages
with similarities of figuration sequence
but differing tonal motions

Sonata in F Major, K. 533 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Mitsuko Uchida

stage repartee
master chef in the kitchen 

middle movement
idealized maidenhood
pious and pure
kept 

third movement
distinctly not
a ripsnorting finale
a quiet pleasure

Die Schöpfung: Der Fünfte Tag - Franz Joseph Haydn - English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, Sylvia McNair, Donna Brown, Michael Schade, Gerald Finley, Rodney Gilfry

title card
the curtain opens
to the cute critter dance
the vibrantly encreatured world

Humoreske in B-flat Major, Op. 20 - Robert Schumann - Peter Frankl

a suite of conversations
a vision of timestopping beauty
a thrilling encounter
a sanguinary yarn
tender confidences
strung
so that
the oddball alternations
reach outside
the confines
of their number 

one can never
not expect
a return

Bickleton, WA

April 29, 2025

Sonata in F-sharp Major, Op. 30 (#4) - Alexander Scriabin - Dmitri Alexeev

tonal parfumier
for me
not an aroma
but
the image of one 

senses quickened
and the hounds are off
on the scent

Dippermouth Blues - King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band [from The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz]

music
as decorative art
fashions change

Finnegans Wake, Chapter 7 (continued) - James Joyce - Neal Kosály-Meyer [streamed January 9, 2021]

the hand's touch
is a language without words
as very recently
as a thousand rains ago
the noxious pervert's
perfect lowness
stank out of sight
how is that
for low
laities and gentle numbs
the Monster Book
of Patriotic Poetry
whiff the polecat
at close range

I Can't Get Started (take 1) - Billie Holiday [from Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia]

hitch a ride
on the silver screen fantastical

Symphony No. 1/rejected mvt. 2. Largo (1938) - Charles Ives - Charles Ives [from Charles Ives Plays Charles Ives]

in search of past music

Sonatas and Interludes: Sonata X - John Cage - Adam Tendler

exotical fan fiction

Janet - Duke Ellington [from Piano Reflections]

energetic intro
sudden calm
outro back to energetic
(fade)

Bickleton, WA

The Blessing - Ornette Coleman [from Something Else!!]

sequential speechifying
in lengthy periods
of ornately metered lines

Anna (Go To Him) - The Beatles [from Please Please Me]

here guys
sing into this can

Crosstown Traffic - The Jimi Hendrix Experience [from Electric Ladyland]

misogynistic sex brag

You're Pretty Face Is Going To Hell - The Stooges [from Raw Power]

another one
priapic strutter

Sunbird - Carole King [from Welcome Home]

living the dream
life
in a sunbaked hippie montage

The Murder Weapon - T Bone Burnett [from Proof Through The Night]

a double attempt
on an epic
U2 type
stadium entrance
but
his voice isn't that big
gets lost
in such a large space
tries too hard for grandeur
unearned

Improvisation for Organ and Guitar (Part 4) - Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [from Wake - Yu Feng - Improvisation]

occasional intonation
(when the beams cross)

thrashing away
energy release
allows relaxed functioning
for cooperative listening

Track 2 - Elizabeth Panzer [from Talking Harp]

harp music
that sounds like harp music
so that
if you want harp music
you can have some 

this one
has sharp words in it

this music wears the costume of a story teller
every page colorfully illustrated

Banned Rehearsal 500 (part 3) - Isaac E, John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Holden K, Kia M, Neal Kosály-Meyer [June 27, 1998]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 500 980627 part 3

I announce
that I will go prepare the coffee 

a feedback has been formed 

it had already been a long session
and we were fading 

Aaronsbundler attempts a rescue 

tunes into
our stress fractured commonality
hanging in there

Bickleton, WA

{journal entry of July 6, 2006:

of all human endeavors
music exists
or could
strenuously
for our benefit
music
for the sake of music
that is
for the furtherance
of the art of music
is an empty task
unless
understood
as a metaphor
an image
of ourselves
furthered
in the music
experienced
as furthered
in the music 

generates
into a parallel knot
of domestic livingsound}

April 30, 2025

Interlude - Jay-Z [from The Black Album]

up from below

Banned Rehearsal 736 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [April 7, 2008]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 736 080407

sounds of objects interacting
back alleys of culture
prestige transits elsewhere
in the public eye
we make mechanisms
that can be made
to make sounds
make sounds
in the ways
they are made
to make them 

splooshy puddles of organ clumps 

piano sets up a soapbox
to huckster from 

we sit back
to enjoy the evening dim

Here Comes The Sun - Peter Fedofsky [from False Ties and Nice Hoods]

cinematic moment
for happy romance

Bickleton, WA

Banned Telepath 61 Port Haiden - Aaron Keyt [March 14, 2018]

through these sounds
we bring this room
to you 

acoustic character
imported spaces

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

improvisatory collaborative groove production
subcultures within subcultures 

it's subcultures all the way up

Sly Mongoose - Montrose String Orchestra [from Turn Me Loose White Man]

in those days
our time was fluid 

that fiddle player
sure can play

School Girl Blues - Rosa Mae Moore [from Really The Blues]

heart to heart
mom & daught? 

scenes from a weary life

The Flat Foot Floogie - Louis Armstrong, The Mills Brothers [from Louis Armstrong and Guest Stars]

one of the greatest tracks of all time
in my ever so humble opinion

Little David Play On Your Harp - Merle Travis [from Turn Me Loose White Man]

its time
follows its own internal logic
with no apparent concern
for industrial uniformity

Walking at Night in Key West - Allen Ginsberg [from Holy Soul, Jelly Roll]

when the mad
have lost their glad

Of Thee I Sing (Take 1) - Sarah Vaughan [from Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin]

just about the kinkiest song ever
eh?

Track 4 [from The Life Treasure of Christmas Music]

in multiple languages!

In a Station - The Band [from Music From Big Pink]

alienation of uniqueness
among the inanimate

I Wish You Would - David Bowie [from Pinups]

barely a chord in width

Rave On - Bruce Springsteen and The E-Street Band [from Live at The Roxy July 7, 1978]

finding his inner Memphis

BB JB KE SJ DS 830725 - Benjamin Boretz, Jill Borner, Keith Eisenbrey, Sarah Johnson, Dan Sedia [recorded at Bard College, July 25, 1983]

we pause to hear our thinking

at the time

and for some time thereafter

I felt I had made a significant breakthrough

in how I thought of/played/composed with the piano

this session 

in my enthusiasm

I may have taken over some of it

spreading new wings 

but

this first part is just lovely 

starts with guitar and piano dancing
Jill's electric violin pizzicato
provides prodding 

if

in fact

this is the tape I think it is

which I think it is

as it gets to the part

where I play loud 

here's my Bill Evans chorale chords

and yet
I may be mistaken
time has passed since then 

quite an enjoyable session though 

I'm not sure I have the track labelled correctly
as to personnel

{confirmed wrong on all right-aligned counts

not that tape at all}

Sabre Dance - Canadian Brass [from More Greatest Hits]

does not sound safe or sane

Banned Rehearsal 347 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [December 17, 1993]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 347 931217

as though we had never stopped
plug it in
and it goes 

turn off all the choices
it doesn't know what to say 

I'm guessing
I'm doing my pinniped imitation on sax
and Aaron is on the keys 

Jingle Bells
as we near the holiday 

had not yet developed
a reasonable mic placement
the room sounds emptier than it does now
its reverberation was harsher 

Aaron sings the haydideedayday song 

like a waffle in the waves
weightless waiting within

Bickleton, WA

{journal entry of December 1, 1998:

saxophone makes an early squeaky appearance
is it me ?
:sounds like Aaron on the organ
I don't think Karen tried to play it...
yes
must be Aaron at keyboard
myself at sax 

what is the difference between a tune and lyricism?
a tune is composed from outside
prepared
and lyricism
is an active state
an activity
a compositional activity
a tune can be invented on the spot
but
this is not the same
as waxing lyrical
a tune
composed
can be a stimulus
to lyrical activity/composition
but
is it possible
or even desirable
at one and the same time
to compose a tune
which stimulates
a separate
and time-skewed
lyrical activity? 

||tuning violin and organ
a lyric stasis
a need for lyrictivity
a prefound basis
a seed
from outside
an insemination
sounding
like some familiar surface
familiar
or current event
onhooking
to
John here
here's Nhoj
cleverness
is something recognizable
an event
for clinging 

a matrial material matrix}

Bickleton, WA

May 1, 2025

Changeling - The Kent 3 [from Blood on the Flat Track Soundtrack]

complete with its own narration
monodynamical 

Psalm 133 (take 1) - Keith Eisenbrey - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey [recorded at Jack Straw Cultural Center, May 10, 2005]

pretty good take
but for one bobble (mine)

Fallen So Hard - Smokestack and The Foothill Fury [from A Live Wire]

a live recording
sounds about like he did when we heard him

Songs Your Mother Should Know - Neal Kosály-Meyer - Karen Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [recorded live at The Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, July 5, 2013]

introducing the man who formerly had no hair

a mini musical

I must have been hosting Salon that night

Ain't So Simple - Brenda Ray [from Original Songs/1950s Music]

a member of our church shared these tracks that she had made

Magnuson Park 230411 A - Keith Eisenbrey [April 11, 2023]

Keith Eisenbrey · Magnuson Park 230411 A

some crows having a ruckus
traffic and twitter birds
traffic
that constant roar of the urban world

Bleeding Hearted Blues - James P. Johnson [from Really The Blues]

blues thread
comment thread
dance thread
all twisted together
a strong rope

Ha Ha Blues - Rosie Mae Moore [from Turn Me Loose White Man]

scenes from rural life
in the low lane

Bickleton, WA

I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket - Herman Chittison [from That Devilin' Tune]

style and influence
followed with
baseball stats! fluency
every year
a new amazement
trace of pedigree

Sonata Breve, Op. 26 - Lockrem Johnson - Lockrem Johnson, Gerald Ogle

they go through things together
two for one
and one for two
a not unmassy breve
as breves go

Saving My Love For You - Johnny Ace [from Turn Me Loose White Man]

so this
is the late great Johnny Ace 

a completely believable voice

Frankie and Johnnie - Morgana King [from Sings The Blues]

right through a hardwood swingin' door 

how few verses are required
to tell the whole sorry tale?

The Bells of St. Mary - Bob B. Soxx and The Blue Jeans [from A Christmas Gift to You from Phil Spector]

if a bell is mentioned
a bell must be rung 

repressed
by a wall of sound
only the hook matters
the rest is window dressing

Let There Be More Light - Pink Floyd [from A Saucerful of Secrets]

now there
is an entrance
perfectly cinematic
that
actually sounds
like something
somebody
cares about 

emphatically
not
in song form
more like
sprawled
in an altered state
across the ruin
of a song form

Quadrophenia - The Who [from Quadrophenia]

replacing orchestration
with attitude and amplification 

if you make the soundtrack
the film will surely follow
build it
they will come 

vamp after vamp
all intro
no showtime
overture
in the form
of a table of contents

Bickleton, WA

Utopia - Sun Ra & Walt Dickerson [from Visions]

these guys
are on some same page alrighty 

adept at tuning
to a going
that isn't a groove
that
could be sold and fitted
to use elsewhere 

something about the vibe of this
reminds me of Mike Marlin's Dubious Duo
(equally fab) 

this is about them
with each
we
are witnesses to it

The Cutter - Echo & The Bunnymen [from Porcupine]

tracks have histories of their own
how they got made
and histories
of connections
how they found me
compilators are valuable
to mix culture
for our mutual benefit 

this track
and its band
found me
via Nancy's Mix
underground share tapes

In Session at The Tintinabulary

April 27, 2025

Swanwick - Keith Eisenbrey

Keith Eisenbrey · 95 Swanwick 250427 [250427]

April 28, 2025

Gradus 413 - Neal Kosály-Meyer

pursues its path
approaches all taken
or each taken
all transformation
all the time
acoustic models
limit tonal possibilities
wrist shaking
fist shaking
proclaimed
in high legend

Postscripts

Drops

I had the great good fortune to meet the eminent Seattle composer Lockrem Johnson (1924-1977) a few months before his death. A vast treasury of information on Lockrem and his times, including scores and historic recordings, can be found at lockremjohnsonestate.com.

1-24: 24 Preludes, Op. 50 (1967)
25: Sonatina for Trumpet and Piano, Op. 35 (1950)
26: 2 Songs to a Child, Op. 27 (1942/1948):

Do You Hear The Snow

Good Night

27: Chaconne, Op. 29 (1948)
28: Songs in the Wind, Op. 32 (1949)
29: Jazz Hanon 11 (1971)
30: Last 2 Songs, Op.52 (1973):

Because I Cannot Tilt Your Head

An Old Tune

31: Fifth Sonata, Op. 34 (1953)

Keith Eisenbrey, piano (all tracks)
Peter Nelson-King, trumpet (Op. 35)
Susan Payne O'Brien, soprano (Op. 27 and 52)
Lorri Froggét, soprano (op. 32)

Songs in the Wind recorded live at University Temple United Methodist Church, Seattle, October 13, 2007
2 Songs to a Child and Last 2 Songs recorded live at The Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, March 16, 2024
All other tracks recorded 2023-2025 at The Tintinabulary, Seattle.

texts
Do You Hear The Snow by Lewis Carroll
Good Night by Mark Twain
Songs in the Wind by Ruth McDonald
Because I Cannot Tilt Your Head by Anon.
An Old Tune by Robert Abraham

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

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Bickleton's Market Street Cafe & Grocery

Preface

"Both ends of the line are exposed; the lower end terminating in an eye-splice or loop coming up from the bottom against the side of the tub, and hanging over its edge completely disengaged from everything. This arrangement of the lower end is necessary on two accounts. First: In order to facilitate the fastening to it of an additional line from a neighboring boat, in case the stricken whale should sound so deep as to threaten to carry off the entire line originally attached to the harpoon. In these instances, the whale of course is shifted like a mug of ale, as it were, from the one boat to the other; though the first boat always hovers at hand to assist its consort. Second: This arrangement is indispensable for common safety's sake; for were the lower end of the line in any way attached to the boat, and were the whale then to run the line out to the end almost in a single, smoking minute as he sometimes does, he would not stop there, for the doomed boat would infallibly be dragged down after him into the profundity of the sea; and in that case no town-crier would ever find her again."

Herman Melville, from "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale."

Texts

Recorded

April 19, 2025

It's Not Right But It's Okay - Whitney Houston [from My Love Is Your Love]

kalimba 2 + 2
shown to underlie the shifting funk 

it says its piece
then dances it out

Psalm 133 (take 2) - Keith Eisenbrey - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey [recorded at Jack Straw Cultural Center, May 17, 2005]

words strung through a thicket

Migrate (feat. T-Pain) - Mariah Carey [from E=MC2]

we'll sound like money
surrounding the body
dancing

Banned Rehearsal 839 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer [June 24, 2013]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 839 130624

Bickleton, WA

we announce ourselves present

donning nervous armor
does not make less visible
or
nervousness/discomfort
less apparent

take copious amounts of time
for listening 

sessions
in rooms
are a different experience
than their recorded playback artifacts 

social aspects
and aural aspects 

microphones
are the ears of a mechanism
that isn't us 

a mess of it
can best be mended
by stepping aside
to let it go

Doorway - Black Dresses [from WasteIsolation]

clearly heard
well presented

Banned Telepath 100 Tintinabulary - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [April 10, 2023]

toy piano
rolls around
with a ping pong ball
in a can 

we think about this can we are in
keep its can-ness 
in our thoughts 

the diphthong
of a guiro's ratcheting
is in the shape of its body 

blatant ruralist vowels
on the tiny speaker 

a social space
in which to listen collectively
and individualistically
and openly

Bickleton's Market Street Cafe & Grocery

April 21, 2025

Madrigals, Book IV: Anima dolorosa che vivendo - Claudio Monteverdi - Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini

wracked by unbidden sobs
half subdued

Herzlich lieb ich dich, O Herr, SWV 387 - Heinrich Schütz - Capella Augustana

choral voices/choral persons
stand in for
congregational voices/congregational persons
we
are to identify
with
them

Ich dank dir schon durch deinen Sohn, BuxWV 195 - Dieterich Buxtehude - Simone Stella

the attitude of prayer
is a feat of imagination
enacted
the public face
of one's own closet
and
as imagined
from above
God's-eye-view

Premier Ordre (sol) - Les Nonetes: Les Blondes, Les Brunes - François Couperin - Kenneth Gilbert

ornaments have mass
that must be accommodated
within the meter

Du sollt Gott deinen Herren, lieben, BWV 77 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Gächinger Kantorei, Helmut Rilling, Helen Donath, Arleen Auger, Julia Hamri, Carolyn Watkinson, Adalbert Kraus, Aldo Baldin, Wolfgang Schone, Phillippe Huttenstocher, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart

the world proclaims with one accord
the soul responds one by one

Sonata in C Major, Kk. 271 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

flirtatious

Symphony in G minor, K550(550) "Grosse g-moll" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Academy of Ancient Music, Jaap Schroder, Christopher Hogwood

troubles crowd in
we worry again
resolve to work harder 

axis
to the one
axis
to the two
weight shifts
from above the toes 

first movement
protects the second
from profane ears 

three places
for one to be 

sneaks into a fugueish texture
and must traverse the fugue
to get out of these keys

Die Schöpfung, Der Vierte Tag - Franz Joseph Haydn - English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, Sylvia McNair, Donna Brown, Michael Schade, Gerald Finley, Rodney Gilfry

spectacle reenactment
from within 

cyclics within cyclics

Bickleton's Market Street Cafe & Grocery

April 22, 2025

Kinderszenen, Op. 15 - Robert Schumann - Alfred Cortot

a dot
can be a fermata
advanced agogics 

irregularities welcome regularities among them 

one size fits none 

a key
can be a forming feel
fully dynamic

Symphony in E minor, Op. 95 - Antonín Dvořák - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Järvi

of course there's nothing uniquely new
about the new world 

timp sounds great!
thuggish 

familiarity
comes down
to listening ahead
hearing ahead of the sound 

what appealed to me
as a kid
its harmonic solidity
melodic directness
fairy-tale dramatics
its ample spaces
all those
still appeal
but
as a depiction of the Americas
it is altogether
too dreamy to be believable

and
as any kind of prescription
for American Music
it turned out a bust

happy haven
for the suffering masses
of the old countries
an ad
flyers
posted
on poles and walls 

folk music Nationalist craze
of the late 19th Century
precursor
to the Primitivism
of the early Modernists
see Le Sacre
fewer than 30 years after this

Bickleton, WA

Etude in E-flat Major, Op. 42 #8 - Alexander Scriabin - Michael Ponti

fling confetti
catch it falling

The Old Hen Cackles and The Rooster's Gonna Crow - Fiddlin' John Carson [from Turn Me Loose White Man]

robust intervals
you can still smell the cat in the gut

Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson [from Anthology of American Folk Music]

Blue was mighty true
a good old dog
dug his grave
with a silver spade

The Very Thought of You - Billie Holiday [from Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia]

voice in the booth
piano
is the rest of the diner's clatter and dance
rhythm section
are the seats
winds
are our response

Sonata No. 2 for Piano (1938): Concord, Mass., Hawthorne (excerpt) - Charles Ives - Charles Ives [from Charles Ives Plays Charles Ives]

a few seconds of gauze

Sonatas and Interludes: Sonata IX - John Cage - Adam Tendler

toy orchestra
toy piano
prepared piano
prepared orchestra 

preparation:
a technical fix
to disguise ones pride
as humility 

preparations
chosen for their coloration
of the pitch resonance color

as a pitch decays
it splits
into its self
and
our immediate memory of itself
overlapping

All Too Soon - Duke Ellington [from Piano Reflections]

magic tune
float mote weight 

mono invents its own space

Young and Foolish - Bill Evans [from Everybody Digs Bill Evans]

some parts of these harmonies
resolve this direction
some that
we make do

Repleti Sunt - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey, JoAnne Deacon [April 16, 1963]

not a bad go at it
considering where and when this was

You're Telling Me Lies - ? and The Mysterians [from The Best of ? and The Mysterians]

gaslighting one o'one

Bickleton, WA

Visions - Stevie Wonder [from Innervisions]

aspirational idealism
in a prophylactic space
every story
goes around
at least once
be pretty
fade out

Where Pathways Meet - Sun Ra [from Languidity]

urban busy
crowd in
crowd out
lobby
elevator
hall
cubicle
crowd in
crowd out
task in
task out

Side 1 - Pink Floyd [from The Final Cut]

Thatcheritic I presume 

all the ghosts live
all of them 

something about the various voices
that alternate as vocal line
is Bowie-ish 

cinematic tone poem

Improvisation for Organ and Guitar, Part 3 - Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [from Wake - Yu Feng - Improvisation]

cycles provisionally
find the resonance point
and dig in
wallow till you're warm

Neelan Shrestha, Nepal [from The World Sings Goodnight]

the sound of an unfamiliar language sung

Banned Rehearsal 500 (Part 2) - Isaac E, John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Holden K, Kia M, Neal Kosály-Meyer [June 27, 1998]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 500 980627 part 2

if I allow my pen to wander 

anagrams
continue
to please 

two hundred forty something 

center field
on the first pitch
of the inning

what might it draw?
draw ma! 

darn erasable hen
bann edrehear sal
slan derbeanh air
rehe arsal end ban 

please list them
please list ten
please listen

April 23, 2025

Tense Black Keys - Steve Kennedy [from State's Exhibit]

hip notion
ocean
hip gnotic
quiet tide

Zither Film 13 - Keith Eisenbrey [April 5, 2008]

shuffling the deck
into ever smaller cards
ever more finely sliced thin 

imagine
a fogbound harbor
foghorn stations
at four+ distinct locations
around it
each foghorn station
with a full carillon of horns
of diverse pitch expression
one could signal station A
by the hearing of a horn
from stations B
etc.
and the rhythm
of the whole
would be determined
by the physical distances
station to station
and the location
among them
of the audient
a geodetic rhythm

Bickleton, WA

Surfin' USB - Bad Cop/Bad Cop [from Wings of Techno]

industry produces cool gadgets
to be used
in the manufacture of music
along industry approved lines 

all parts fit
because
unfitting parts
can't be made
with industry gadgets

Banned Telepath 61 Seattle - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer

the vibe is hushed
puttering in the wee smalls
so as
not to wake the sleepers
sotto voce kitchen rattles 

agenda A
passes through agendi B C . . .
before picking up
where it had been
after so passing 

within our experiential bubble
sounds affect each other's musical meaning
sounds affecting the social meanings of sounds
events/moments of such social meaning
its meaning
to us

one can construct musics
of brutal obviousness
or of extreme subtlety 

bricks
or geometries
or village doings
or spiritual inquiry

Winter Into Spring - Ensemble Unnamable [from Fourth Floor]

a piano is luxuriating
in drifting dyads
and there is moving about of a body
or several
might be dance
seems likely 

Chinaman's Blues - Erskine Tate's Vendome Orhcestra [from That Devilin' Tune]

play the plainest things
with attitude
fancy it up on the sly

Bickleton, WA

Finnegans Wake Chapter 7 (beginning) - James Joyce - Neal Kosály-Meyer [streamed January 9, 2021]

now I think there needs to be a mic
upon every surface
to be amplified live 

putting truth and untruth together
Shem was a sham
and a low sham 

ear land's split little pea 

having buried a hatchet 

dirty seventh among thieves 

recital of the rigmarole

Doggin' Around - Count Basie [from Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz]

the band
is an act among themselves
orchestrational choreography

Don't Smoke In Bed - Peggy Lee [from Rendezvous with Peggy Lee]

noirissimo
black and white
and harsh contrasts
and angles of shadow

The G---- - Louis Armstrong [from Turn Me Loose White Man]

words notwithstanding
that's some singing and trumpet playing there

Like Someone In Love - Blossom Dearie [from Give Him The Ooh-La-La]

gazing at stars
hearing guitars 

she takes great care
to sing every bit of the song
fully

Skylark - Aretha Franklin [from Laughing On The Outside]

spotlighted track sequestration
swank

Raise Four - Thelonious Monk [form Underground]

unerring together
in diverse times

You Are The Sunshine of My Life - Morgana King [from New Beginnings]

from the social music
that wasn't rock and roll
Vegas style night club act
stage spectacular

In Love - Prince [from For You]

it says its piece
then fades away

Bickleton's Market Street Cafe & Grocery

Barrytown Orchestra 830724 - David Abel, Frank Carter, Keith Eisenbrey, Anne Hagerty, Benjamin Boretz, Dan Sedia, Charles Stein, Alison Watkins [recorded at Bard College, July 24, 1983]

approach fearfully
could get messy
so many ins out there
colliding carefully
full chordal nudity
the whole neighborhood
is howling now
all circling their cots now 

cyclic activity
some fang and growl
we part in peace

April 24, 2025

Forever Young - Bob Dylan and The Band [collected from Neal Kosály-Meyer's A Miscellaneous Miscellany]

big bright neon pointer
at the hook
can't miss it

Banned Rehearsal 346 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [December 7, 1993]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 346 931203

fill ears with synthetic sound
sustaining without effort
shrill fill
J pounds back and forth (ritual) 

once a sound gets involved with a figure
it loses its immediate sense 

uh oh
we made J cry
prevented from some dangerous or damaging activity no doubt
standing on ukuleles 

sounds like a siren
the larger room
tempts to shout
and shriek
to be heard 

once the amplified sounds are put away
it settle down

Bickleton's Market Street Cafe & Grocery

Wicked Eye - Goodness [from Goodness 1995-1998]

negotiating personal strength
from inside and outside

Gradus 45 - Neal Kosály-Meyer - Neal Kosály-Meyer [June 9, 2003]

a one and a five
[make(s) six
(or five)
(or minus four)
(or point two)] 

design a puzzle
not
to be solved
but
to be experienced 

dynamic encryption
(would likely
leave an energy use trace)
encryption
consumes
openness
leaves less trace 

declaration of so
doth not create so 

cosmic translation
of protocosmic

Candy Shop - Madonna [from Hard Candy]

leaves a hollowness unfilled
at the middle of its sound
as though
there were no space
where this ever was

Gradus 229 - Neal Kosály-Meyer - Neal Kosály-Meyer [July 1, 2013]

brick (unsupported)
ancient astrodoodle
tome
time
rocker propelled
woowoo pedal 

pitches cannot be reconciled
they are irreducible
but not eternal 

a pitch without instance
and other clever imponderables

2nd & Virginia - Arbor Towers [from Old]

in deep focus
black and white
camera at knee level
drizzle incessant
protective depression

Banned Rehearsal 1074 - Jennifer Chung, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [April 10, 2023]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 1074 230407 - 10

from the various telepaths 100
we
are the wonderful rattle
mixing
is the activity
of adjusting balances
so that
the sounds
talk to each other
in spite of their non-co-concurrence 

tuning in
to the voices
occasions 

a chorus of frogs
must be unrelenting 

must be
that nearly 10%
of Banned Rehearsals
are constructed
from telepaths
imagine that!

In Session at The Tintinabulary

April 20, 2025

Cambridge - Keith Eisenbrey

Keith Eisenbrey · 94 Cambridge 250420 [250420]

April 21, 2025

Banned Rehearsal 1124 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 1124 250421

April 22, 2025

Lament for Sarah - Benjamin Boretz

nailed it

April 24, 2025

O - Benjamin Boretz

this one too

Postscripts

Drops

One of the shining lights of the local music scene during the pandemic lockdown was Nonsequitur's Wayward in Limbo series: 134 commissioned recordings of new work by local musicians. I was honored to be asked for a contribution. The essential intimacy of the clavichord seemed fitting for the occasion, and I offer this series of short improvisations for your enjoyment.

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

Playlist

dabbling - Seward Park, Seattle

Preface

"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began."

Herman Melville, from "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale."

Texts

Recorded

April 12, 2025

Handle With Care - Traveling Wilburys [from Traveling Wilburys]

(we're old)

Nocturnes or Discourses (mix) - Keith Eisenbrey [recorded by Tom Stiles, December 2, 1993]

Keith Eisenbrey · Nocturnes or Discourses Mix 931202

thinking elaborationally 

a piano

is a vast enclosed space

explorable by hand

of

operationally infinite

quasi-linguistic

resources 

the presence of two sessions in the mix
with their separate pedalings
and separate actions
and weight shifts
tests our counting of the scrim layers
it opens up their rhyming 

listen to the time of the moment

Wear a Red Rose - James King [from Bed By The Window]

sociability on stage
to model sociability in the hall
id est
we're all one of y'all

skunk cabbage - Seward Park, Seattle

April 13, 2025

Psalm 133 (A) - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey, Karen Eisenbrey [recorded at Jack Straw Cultural Center, May 17, 2025]

finding a path to setting text
that doesn't get in the text's way
by goosing its imagery

The Lucifer Project - Goat [from Special Agent]

life
in the techno-adventure cinematic universe

Gradus 228 - Neal Kosály-Meyer [June 17, 2013]

what now does silence signify?
it signifies
an intention
to invoke
a mode
of listening 

what one can hear

is trivial

what one listens to

and hears

is all that music is made of 

the notes
say things to each other
passing information packets
the information
changes
with each passing
they compare results 

is the mode of listening

invoked by silence

within music

a separate mode

or a submode

of listening? 

the problem
with metronomic pulse
is that
metronomes
are under the impression
that all seconds
are the same length

Dear Beer - The Bombpops [from Dear Beer]

the engineered sound
is like that of the 80s
in its track discretion
but made of a softer skin

paddling - Seward Park, Seattle

April 14, 2025

Banned Telepath 100 Magnuson Frogs - Jennifer Chung [April 7, 2023]

a liquid sound
fills its container 

croaks in every cranny 

intermittencies
small irregularities
spark language listening mode 

it could all be filtered speech

radio transmissions
picked up
by a froggy evening pond

Madrigals, Book IV: Sí ch'io vorrei morire - Claudio Monteverdi - Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini

music such as this
is
as much
or more
a form of poetry
as/than
a form of music 

provisional thought

as to an experiential basis

for genre in music:

does it seem

primarily

to be

in experience

a poem

a theater

a dance

a conversation

a spectacle

a deliberation

an et cetera

Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, SWV 386 - Heinrich Schütz - Capella Augustana

a solid statement
a mustard seed
illuminates
and reflects
upon all things 

we follow
a selection
of dendritial paths

Fuga in C Major, BuxWV 174 - Dieterich Buxtehude - Simone Stella

butterflies sparkle in the dome

Premier Ordre (sol): La Pastorelle - François Couperin - Kenneth Gilbert

an amusing decorative device

Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Amsterdam Baroque Choir, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman

artistry of the entrance
oboe as voice double 

the word painting
occurs within such a refined rhetorical context
it leaves no lingering patina of cleverness

Sonata in C Major, K. 270 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

the very picture
of a pedant in action 

has a habit
much lampooned
of pounding his finger thrice
for emphasis 

four taps
means
thinking about something

Odd Fellows Cemetery - Bickleton, Washington

Les Boréades, Act V - Jean-Phillip Rameau - Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi, Sabine Devieilhe, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Bendikt Kristjánsson, Philippe Estèphe, Thomas Dolié, Tassis Christoyannis, Gwendoline Blondeel

a master scenery builder
as though conjuring the whole shebang
with nothing but flamboyance 

recitative

is a musically controlled method

of reading lines

a stilted dramatic device 

wears its artifice
on its sleeve 

decorated puppet strings

fancy music
imitating simple music 

these dance interludes

are a whole other way

for segments to join to each other 

this guy wins the melisma contest
hands down

Symphony in G minor, (1st Version) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Academy of Ancient Music, Jaap Schröder, Christopher Hogwood

the tunes
are made
to be a conversation 

repetition

as a stalling tactic 

we must have menuets
to be considered civilized 

ought we not to dance

to hear a dance?

needn't be much 

orchestration
images an arena of voices
moving among each other

it will take some polyphony

but we will compose our way out of this key eventually

bark - Seward Park, Seattle

April 15, 2025

Die Schöpfung: Der Dritte Tag - Franz Joseph Haydn - English Baroque Soloists, The Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner, Sylvia McNair, Donna Brown, Michael Schade, Gerald Finley, Rodney Gilfry

this recitative
is a narration
of the argument 

a picture-book oratorio

Arabesque, Op. 18 - Robert Schumann - Wilhelm Kempff

embedded tales in tapestry

Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op. 55 #2 - Frédéric Chopin - Claudio Arrau

doesn't establish its key
but
as
it is enraptured by it

Cello Concerto in B minor - Antonín Dvořák - Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind, Zara Nelsova

1
folk legend opening
atmosphere of adventure and romance
we meet our hero first
as a horn rumors them
acclamation and fanfare
finally
in the flesh
busy preparations
determination
sets
in their chin
but
they love their mother
as the horn had informed us
the distance homeward
sinks in
but
some lands
are enough like theirs
to encourage 

2
simple bucolic quiet living
were it not for stern necessity 

3
night before action
a heart is stirred
home calls to battle
or
at least
to thrift and hard work
hearts are won
a new home
for our tired hero
a glorious victory

Odd Fellows Cemetery - Bickleton, Washington

Etude in F minor, Op. 42 #7 - Alexander Scriabin - Michael Ponti

this music
moves
from space to space on its stage

Henpecked Blues - Charlie Straight [from That Devilin' Tune]

the blues
are not something one can have
in general
the blues
must be
specific
and personal
to be blues
at all 

well I'll be blued

See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson [from Turn Me Loose White Man]

this music is a poetic framework
keeping its lines in their proper relations

I'm Gonna Lock My Heart - Billie Holiday [from Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia]

a taunting tune
seal my windows up in tin

Three Improvisations, No. 1 (1938) - Charles Ives - Charles Ives [from Charles Ives Plays Charles Ives]

meanwhile
harumphing about in the basement
Old Uncle Modernist

Sonatas and Interludes: Third Interlude - John Cage - Adam Tendler

how very Gertrude Steinian
to follow the Second Interlude
directly
with the Third 

the silence

of the elided substance

between two interludes

Things Ain't What They Used To Be - Duke Ellington [from Piano Reflections]

slow and sultry skateboard dance

By The Light Of The Silvery Moon - Little Richard [from Little Richard]

the whole list of {x}oon words
music to enforce the meter

Half A Man - Willie Nelson [from Here's Willie Nelson]

slides into speech
as easily as Billie Holiday does
twist the knife

Ten Feet Off the Ground - Louis Armstrong [from Disney Songs The Satchmo Way]

that's how music's magic is made

Breathe (In The Air) - Pink Floyd [from Dark Side Of The Moon]

patient with itself

That's All I Want From You - Nina Simone [from Baltimore]

intimated stories
this music
is their warm golden glow

Odd Fellows Cemetery - Bickleton, Washington

October Love Song (long vocal) - Chris & Cosey [from October (Love Song)]

I am a heroine
in a bodice ripper
trapped
in a loop
to seep in
more thoroughly
you'll forget
when you are

Improvisation for Organ and Guitar (part 2) - Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [from Wake - Yu Feng - Improvisation]

all the kinds of volumes
that sounds can be
bubbling into each other

Now Those Days Are Done - King's Singers [from Chansons D'Amour]

suburbourgeois sentimentalism
without irony
(scary)

Banned Rehearsal 500 (part 1) - Isaac E, John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Holden K, Aaron Keyt, Kia M, Neal Kosály-Meyer [June 27, 1998]

in celebration
we come apart
at the strum
the time will come
apart
into
our constituent spaces
social cohesion/repulsion
different people
have different tolerances
to group size 

14 years of din 

din

is in

doubt

is out

lists and drones
the listed word sets
that are anagrams
of Banned Rehearsal

bark -Seward Park, Seattle

April 16, 2025

Shouldn't We Talk III - J. K. Randall [from Open Space 19]

within its clock grid tolerance
rhythms and notes
can be produced accurately
as intended
even sampled sound
can only be produced
within
a carapace
of their recorded space
the gathered bodies
of their mutual presence
is absent
from the recorded trace
leaving us
with a question
what
is the social function
of this music?
the sounds produced
don't appear to have one
among theirselves 

objects of discussion

thought provokement

Yu Feng: Seven Fugues for Toy Piano - Aaron Keyt - Aaron Keyt [from Wake - Yu Feng - Improvisation]

each entrance
twists
the prevailing metrical feel
the meter
was bent there
it becomes
a shape
within the meter feel

Not That Far Away - Swamp Meat [from Swamp Meat]

boomy reverb
overpowers its image

Banned Telepath 61 Chignik Lagoon - Aaron Keyt [March 11, 2018]

the action sound
of the spinet
at Chignik Lagoon
echoes
the action sound
of the toy piano
in Yu Feng

Bad Life (with Bree O'C) - Bad Hug [from Dirt Cult Records - Dead Bars- You Don't Have to Be Cool Vol 1]

has that Sound Lab sound to it

Jazzin' Baby Blues - King Oliver [from That Devilin' Tune]

caricature
animation
the musicians impersonate

Yes I Know - Rev. Calbert and Sister Billie Holstein [from Turn Me Loose White Man]

how to learn lessons
repetition by song 

the vilest sinner clean

how Wesleyan 

etern-a-ty 

the higher voice

uses interesting vowels

Alley Woman Blues - Blind John Davis [from That Devilin' Tune]

angles at the beat
form the beat
a rock in the flow

'Deed I Do - Peggy Lee [from Rendezvous with Peggy Lee]

in the mares eat oats school
of lyric production 

greeting card

clever lyric

simple message

classy design 

a vehicle

for design

and illustration

all the fashion 

||stray notes:
look-up-er
arcanologist
arcanian

Odd Fellows Cemetery - Bickleton, Washington

The Story of My Life - Guitar Slim [from Turn Me Loose White Man]

this music
is not a greeting card
it is an event
of telling
the specificity
of any ones
travails
a humor
unacceptable to the proud

Moscow, Cheryomushki, Act 3 - Dmitri Shotakovich - Residentie Orchestra The Hague, Russian State Symphonic Cappella, Gennady Rozhdestvensky

a nice community dance
with stakes
the soloists not singing
shout
over the orchestra 

a bit of Beethoven 

lots of lines in Russian 

Italianate song

I can't imagine Dmitri spent more time on this
than he absolutely had to 

everybody stands and cheers

When You Wish Upon A Star - Stevie Wonder [from With A Song In My Heart]

sings like a horn player
who knows what they're doing

Save The Life Of My Child/Let Us Be Lovers - Simon and Garfunkel [from Bookends]

1
loading lyric
with obvious stakes
the 60s were so ardent 

2
much more human sized song
distinctly more mature

Seward Park, Seattle

April 17, 2025

You've Been Around Too Long - Carole King [from Fantasy]

coming to terms
in a classy lounge
with album filler guitar noodles

Because the Night - Patti Smith Group [from Easter]

a hook
with impaled lines
pounded out equally
at each iteration

<a,b> - Keith Eisenbrey - MFA Composer's Workshop [recorded at Bard College, July 18, 1983]

I don't remember exactly what my score/prompt was for this
something to do with refracted decay patterns I think
an image I had
of a flavor of rhythm 

what comes out on this end

is the sound of multiple agents

making independent rhythm shapes

the whole

is the texture

of those shapes

across their terrain 

lots of great sounding percussion 

in the deep background

the sounds of the café

at the end of the common area 

I might have had us partner up
one agent to initiate
the start of the refracted shape
and other
to enact it
{hence the ordered pair <a,b>}

mournful monochord 

such procedures
succeed at producing things
but
is it a thing
that needs to be produced
by anybody
for their own use? 

to me?:

perhaps

the idea of building textures

from discrete bits

underlies Music as a Film

and the rhythm textures

of the final results

have a family resemblance 

these ducks are getting agitated 

one-trick pony on the bongos

Seward Park, Seattle

April 18, 2025

Rockhouse - Roy Orbison [from For the Lonely: 18 Greatest Hits]

build tension
with bisyllabic lines
comes and goes

Nocturnes or Discourses (Pre-Mix) - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey [recorded by Tom Stiles, December 2, 1993]

triangulating pitch
in its space 

footing

posture

gesture

in terms of the project
this
is the recording of the sounds I made into the room
(Brechemin late at night)
what isn't there
is the score/stimulus
which was
what was playing
in my headphones 

for the first few minutes
this {the score/stimulus}
was silence
after that
what I was responding to
was a playback
of the recording I had just made
the idea being
that the whole
would be
my sequential response
to that initial silence
and then
my response
to that response
the mix
was the score/stimulus
and the response
dubbed together
so that
the final mix
was essentially
what I was hearing
as I was playing
like a long tape loop

In Session at The Tintinabulary

April 11, 2025

Sonatina for Trumpet and Piano, Op. 35 - Lockrem Johnson - Keith Eisenbrey, Peter Nelson-King

April 13, 2025

New York - Keith Eisenbrey

Keith Eisenbrey · 93 New York 250413 [250413]

Postscripts

Drops

One of the shining lights of the local music scene during the pandemic lockdown was Nonsequitur's Wayward in Limbo series: 134 commissioned recordings of new work by local musicians. I was honored to be asked for a contribution. The essential intimacy of the clavichord seemed fitting for the occasion, and I offer this series of short improvisations for your enjoyment.

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