thanksgiving came early

thanksgiving to came early last night at t's. those of you who made it, great frakkin show!!!!

after a good show that probably shouldn't have come off we should give thanks. so round the horn here it goes:

thanks to all the great bands. when i grow up i want to be all of you! pour gasoline in my ass? i cannot wait!!

thanks to ing who closed the place down, you are the first guys to sound check a typewriter at t's. the first!!! great show!!!

thanks to the evangenitals (see you soon!) who write such great lyrics that make smile, laugh and sing all night!

thanks to artichoke who somehow lost the female part of their group during the evening and on an inspired male testosterone fueled show that had everybody dancing!

thanks to the sirens who made us remember what it was like to be young and fun!!! (really their combined ages equaled 21)

thanks to the cat-hair ensemble for showing the softer, ironic and non car burning side of franco-american inspired salon music.

thanks to my own pbe for sticking around afterwards to plan world domination over the ever growing alternative classical garage band consumer market.

thanks to arlo for being the best sound guy i know who always finds something exciting about each evening and letting me leave early to take my drunk sister home

thanks to the artists, members and arroyo arts artists collective tour participants who braved all the gossip and actually came down the hill and found our club. it was great seeing so many of you who live in nela come by and enjoy a great night of music!

$20 dinners

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one of the best things about technology is the ability to give people the right to use your work for a variety of purposes. today i found that my piece boundary violations was being used for episode one of an indie online cooking show called 20 dollar dinners. i'm sure they were just trying to find something online that was free to fit their project, but it does serve the diy purpose i intended by setting up a flexible copyright. at least they gave me credit for it instead of stealing it. btw the music comes in around 4:00, near the end of the segment.


by the way what is up with being twenty years old and eating $20 dinners. in college i remember $2 dinners of cheap hotdogs and mac and cheese. they must have parents sending them money.

lloyd rodgers group at occca, fri nov 18th-arroyo arts collective music festival and discovery tour, sunday nov 20th

the lloyd rodgers group is performing their new video/music theater spectacle this friday at the orange county center for contemporary art (occca) at 9pm.

guns into mexico is a reworking of catastrophe of meaning, (2001) a collaboration of lloyd rodgers and video artist paul greenhaw. mp3s can be found on the website.

the pbe is playing (and hosting) the first annual arroyo arts collective music festival this sunday at mr. t's bowl. show starts at 6pm. each bands is scheduled to perform on the hour.

6pm start

paul bailey ensemble
cat hair ensemble
the sirens
artichoke
the evangenitals
ing

the show part of the collective's highly successful artists discovery tour/open house in highland park (northeast los angeles)
this year over 100 artists open up their studios to show their paintings and sculptures, ceramics, collage, computer graphics, screen-printed clothing, photography, letterpress, printmaking, installation pieces, fiber arts, gourd art, plein air painting, spray can art, interactive sound and visual performances, and a woman blacksmith.

The music festival is free (it serves as a wrap party for all the artists to hang after the tour)

Advance tickets for the discovery tour are $12 (day of tour $17): Order online at www.arroyoartscollective.org, or in person at Galco's Soda Pop Stop (5702 York Boulevard, Highland Park).

Tour day check-in at the Lummis Home (200 E. Avenue 43, Highland Park). See examples of artists' work, pick up a map with detailed information

monday morning todo list 11/14/05

monday morning todo list

send out emails for this sunday's gig
send out final email confirming tonights rehearsal 10pm @csuf (tomorrow mornings classes should be sooo fun)
make breakfast, play ball with javi
buy amtrack ticket for tues+thurs
practice
practice/organize sightsinging/solfege/eartrain for tomorrows lecture
edit musiced lecture on teaching strategies
(teaching pre-service teachers strategies about teaching is surreal
finish cd's for sunday's gig
edit presspack for spring gigs
gym
email vocalists about upcoming recording session
walk javi
make lunch for tomorrow
10pm pbe rehearsal -finally the cheese
no cheese


ever feel like a mouse in a maze?


p.s. can't stop looking into the light... can't turn away...the spectacle consumes all

Some things never change

The old musicians side more with Reason, but the new with the Ear...

Musicians of the past, we know, chose two judges in music: Reason and the Ear.

The choice would be correct since both are indispensable to music; yet, because of the use of these two concomitants, the present cannot reconcile with the past, and in this the past is blamed for two errors.

First, it wrongly classed the two judges and placed the Ear, the sovereign of music, below the rank of Reason or would divide its commanding authority with the latter. Whereupon the blameless Ear must immediately cede half of its monarchical domain...

In those innocent times (in which one knew nothing of present-day good taste and brilliance in music, and every simple harmony seemed beautiful) they thought Reason could be put to no better use than the creation of supposedly learned and speculative artificialities of note writing.

Therefore, they began on the one hand to measure out theoretically innocent notes according to mathematical scales and with the help of the proportioned yardstick, and on the other hand, to place these notes in musical practice on the staves (almost as if they were on a rack) and to pull and stretch them, to turn them upside down, to repeat and to change their positions, until finally from the latter resulted a practice with an overwhelming number of unnecessary instances of contrapuntal eye-music and from the former resulted a theory with amassed metaphysical contemplations of emotion and Reason.

Thus, one no longer had cause to ask if music sounded well or pleased the listener, but rather if it looked good on paper. In this way, the visual imperceptibly gained the most in music and used the authority of imprudent reason only to cover its own lust for power. Consequently, the suppressed Ear was tyrannized so long that finally it hid behind table and chairs to await from the distance the condescending, merciful glance of its usurpatores regmi (ratio and visus).

This grave injustice to the musical sovereign, the Ear, has been reprehended more by present-day musicians than by those of the past. They have begun vigorously to understand the many absurd and preposterous principles of the past and to form completely new ideas about the noble art of music unlike those of the learned ignoramuses. Above all, they return to the oppressed Ear the sovereignty of its realm; they displace reason from its judicial duties and give it to the Ear, no as Domino or co-regent, but as an intelligent minister and counselor with the absolute mandate to warn its master (the occasionally deceived Ear, if indeed deceived can be spoken of) of every false step; but otherwise, Reason differs in opinion, it must serve (the Ear) with complete obedience and employ all of its skill, not for the visual appearance on paper, but to give the Ear the satisfaction of an absolute ruler...

The (art of) painting is for the eye, music, however for the ear. Similarly, food is for the taste and flowers for the smell. Would it not be ridiculous to say the dinner was especially good because it smelled good, even though it was disagreeable to the taste and stomach?...

As we must now admit unanimously that our Finis musices is to stir the affections and to delight the ear, the true Objectum musices, it follows that we must establish all our musical rules according to the Ear. And in this Frau Vernunfft (that superintelligent ratio) will have her hands full, even more than we can imagine in our times...

Johann David Heinichen, Der General-Bass in der Composition (Dresden, 1728)