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Profane Illuminations
I’ll be part of the lineup for Profane Illuminations, a day of talks at NYU organized by Mark Pilkington of Strange Attractor Press. I’ll present my talk “Music from Elsewhere,” discussing and playing...
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A Combinatorial Psalter
The Psalter in Metre and Church Hymnary, was “prepared by a Committee consisting of representatives of the Church of Scotland, the Free Church of Scotland, the United Presbyterian Church, and the...
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It All Went Pfft
My new album, It All Went Pfft, is now available on Bandcamp! It includes 20 songs, plus the eponymous piano piece. The selections are: 1. Oh Dear, Oh Dear 2. Let’s Not Leave the House Anymore 3....
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The Art of Noises
My translation of The Art of Noises is now available from Black Scat Books! Luigi Russolo’s treatise on enriching music with noises was published in Milan in 1916. It contains his 1913 Futurist...
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An Afternoon in the Arboretum
An Afternoon in the Arboretum is now available on Bandcamp! This album contains solely instrumental music, mostly for keyboard, from as early as 1976 to as late as 2022. All selections were composed...
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TYPO 7
TYPO 7 is now available from Black Scat Books! I contributed a set of silent pieces (“Eleven Silent Études”); translations of two stories by Alphonse Allais (“Gaudissart Has Fun” and “The Theater of...
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Music by Writers (1): Edward Lear
Many composers have also been excellent writers: Charles Ives, Erik Satie, Virgil Thomson, and George Antheil, for example. And some writers have pursued ambitious careers in music that rivaled their...
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Music by Writers (2): Edna St. Vincent Millay
I wasn’t surprised to learn that Edna St. Vincent Millay was musical, but I didn’t expect to find that she actually composed something. Here, though, is a “Resurrection Hymn” written for a performance...
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Music by Writers (3): H. L. Mencken
The journalist, critic, and peerless prose stylist was also a pianist. He regularly played chamber music with his friends in Baltimore. And in his youth, he had aspirations as a composer. Isaac...
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Music by Writers (4): Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll wrote two pieces of music that I know of. One was printed in his 1889 book Sylvie and Bruno; it was sung by Bruno in the 15th chapter. The other was a medley of tunes called “Miss Jones,”...
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