Lyrics:

Let's take it all and not give it back
Then stake it all for what comes around next, it's cyclical
And it's hard so don't ever drop your guard

Who knows what waits behind the door, there's no sense in guessing
You wanna know, it's more interesting when you don't
In the dark you'll have a bone to pick

In that dusty soil where nothing grows,
That barren place where you're feeling dumb
For ever making your feelings known
We depart like ghosts from the ruined wastes of their haunted home

Can you recall that time you said
If we were still alone at forty six we'd tie the knot?
What a crime to bask in such a jest at twenty one

Mr. Bluebird

Pass The Torch

This piece, written for solo piano, is about symmetrical auditory reflections and playing with their sound.

I got the pitch material in this piece from a palindromic, 7-note scale. This scale is used in two specific transpositions at the piano (key centers D and G#), both of which have visual palindromic symmetry to match their auditory symmetry. The melodic motifs in this piece were written in accord with this concept and are often mirror images of one another. The overall structure/form of the piece also conforms to this theme, as it too is roughly palindromic. 

Performers:
Piano - Spencer Channell

Scales used:
[D, Eb, F#, G, A, Bb, C#]
[G#, A, B#, C#, D#, E, F𝄪]

FUN FACT: The combined pitches of these two scales—the tonics of which are a tritone apart—only comprise 10 out of the 12 total chromatic pitches. The residual two pitches, F and B natural (also a tritone apart), appear in the penultimate rising phrase of the piece, completing the aggregate of all 12.

[Written summer of 2016, performed December of 2016]

Mirrors

"Big One" is taken from Madeline Kenney's forthcoming debut, "Night Night At The First Landing," out September 1st on Company Records.

Pre-orders available here:
Company shop - http://smarturl.it/nnatfl_company
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/nnatfl_itunes

Tour Dates:
August 23rd - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop 
September 2nd - Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot
September 9th - Portland, OR - House Show
September 13th - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge 
September 15th - Minneapolis, MN - The Entry
September 17th - Chicago, IL - Schubas 
September 19th - Queens, NY - Trans Pecos
September 23rd - Durham, NC - Duke Coffeehouse
September 25th - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa 
September 27th - Austin, TX - Sidewinder 
September 29th - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar 
September 30th - San Diego, CA - Soda Bar

Madeline Kenney - Big One

Fab Collabs

Oxygen  (ft. Souri)

6 - 24 - 19 DEMO

Cover of Lou Reed's - Walk on the Wild Side

Walk On The Wild Side (Lou Reed)

Lyrics:

I’m dreaming of getting out of this place
Not that there’s anything wrong
I just get restless thinking there’s more than this

But lately I’ve been feeling hopeless
This dope has got me moping around
With little room for progress, just the occasional song

And as I’m singing I close my eyes seeing
There’s all these people standing around
Intently listening, I’ve gotta laugh it off

But then you say it’s not as crazy as you make it out to be (whoa)
And as I hang on these words I can’t help fall in love and feel your warm embrace
Don’t you know you are my saving grace

But there’s something, something buried deep in my chest
Pumping faster wondering if it’s all wrong
To dream so profoundly, ambitions failing now

I’m kneading this clay hoping it might take shape
My old man gave me his two cents
That I’d make a good teacher, some lessons can’t be taught

So I’m dreaming of getting out of this place
Not that there’s anything wrong
I just get restless thinking there’s more to this

Because you said it’s not as crazy as I make it out to be (whoa)
And I still hang on these words and can’t help fall in love with every thought it creates
Don’t you know you are my saving grace

Saving Grace

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