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Strapping Flaps on Maps
06:16
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High stepping patterns merge, and Arabic phrases swing. The arpeggio rusts, notes succeed one another reluctantly, and arpeggiates on and on. Building with air and membrane, it ends sweetly.
3m. The rattling ball bearing of infinitely smallish size bounces in warped orbits around the tin-metal machine.
4m. The free-form currents surface. A pause, then the aspirations to form emerge from turgid depths. It keens up to end.
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Knee Free Dancing
13:04
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The shuffle of the patella reverberates under smoke signals and industrial warning drones, and a haphazardly hit hard rock tone splits the sonic seas. Striking high tones off hollow strings, until it gets real riff-like, and the blessings rain down like manna on stricken strings.
4m. The dancing rain jerky-jerks through the humid growths, organic gears grind green leaves fitting like keys, splashing dew into droplet shining rainbows. The cool young beat of excitement comes winding up the drenched forest path.
7m. The thinking gets exciting and the going goes for enticement, entrapped in invites, welcomed into sin, decadent and lazy. This won’t hurt a bit, just sit back and listen!
9m. Deliberate jumps into thumping pumps as crickets chirp their song of long ago. A cry into the night peals forth, tinkling tubes descend, and the scene resolves into sci-fi.
11m. The limitations of abstraction force a coalescence of symphonic chords, then release the raft on the old green pond. Underwater tones hum through the scum, thick with life and spoiled victuals.
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Locked in catalogs, organized with rigidity, with seeming superfluity. The undertow is everywhere, notes following patterns of the missing, of notes strangely absent, needed and lusted after with hunger and moist desire. The melody follows and builds around these unknowable missing notes.
3m. The shades fall back, the unbroken arpeggio finishes, halts, pauses and goes ever on. A dizzy whirl comes out of the fog, pulling everything inexorably into its orbital flow. The insistence caps the flood. The tinkle peeps back in, then the trickle turns to flood.
6m. The arpeggio flows further and further, undertow be damned or unsubstantiated by fate. The mood lifts, we dare to hope, every category seems decently filled, all twelve tones seen to appropriately, to each according to need. The undertow winds on organic ebbs and flows. It lifts up, then holds to the rattling end.
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Rattling Strains
02:33
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Rather than starting, the silence before the piece collapses into sparkling shards falling in slow motion through the crisp late summer air. An underwater maelstrom churns turgid depths from cold to gassy hot. It descends to fuzz.
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History books open to page one million a-b-c, the melody arrives, with pomp and seriousness, and then goes off into the ultra-new mode of questioning everything and knowing nothing, ascending sweetly upwards against the melody as it retreats in solemn splendor. Urgent wildlife calls teem over the last of the melody and become pulsing onward-marching dots.
3m. Dead serious melodies renew their acquaintance, while hooting synth critters converse in flowing, riverlike patterns of sinuousness. The frequency dips, the flow retreats to the lowest depths, and out of the unthinkable darkness, warning melodies give us incomprehensible advice, melting down to a single lick of flame, then back up into the serious world of actual notes in sequences, never before imagined in song.
6m. It starts to come back up, pressures lift, light begins to glow, and all the millions of microbes, plankton, algae, protoplasmic blobs, and other lifeforms make their busy crowded sounds, indifferent to the unending series of notes that dips into and out of melody.
9m It builds to a peak of watery amalgam, the current grows stronger, the crazy mid-oceanic waves whip this way and that, distraught, and a nursery rhyme melody spins and flutters, goes road-show, and becomes the standard horror house whine, up and up.
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Describing the shine, the soft, succulent shine. The shine of lubricity has a concupiscent shine, as you might expect. That impudent tendency, when around men, to shine mercilessly. Shiny sounds abound. That’s what the birds of sunset like. Flocks ascend in ragged waves across the horizon. Dog barks. The people of the shore trudge through their daily work, looking up into a sunlit cloud.
3m. A whirling intro, then majestic chords, with whipping trajectories swirling upwards, blending with the chick-chicks of bird call. Skittering strings swim the watery atmosphere, storms a-coming. The flight fades out.
5m. Roaring muscle cars loom over the last remaining swamp of heat in the whole lower valley. The future keens high above the murky mess, delivering nothing but promises that will never come to be kept, clutched to the sobbing chest, under the covers, under the quilt, under the prairie stars.
8m. Auroras blend down, in and out of existence, as particles rain. A statement is made, soprano with urgency, and the particles rain down as never they have before or since, as the old dog refuses to agree with all this.
10m. All kinds of extraterrestrials keep landing and leaving, the universe is huge again, the Earth is one big happy party among many, technology solves everything, hope has been fulfilled, expectations exceeded, and the frost is yet to come.
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The Change Music Variety Show St Louis, Missouri
Performing and recording Change Music in Saint Louis since 1977.
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