I’ll perform some historical musical oddities, drawn from my upcoming book Music from Elsewhere, at the symposium at Lily Dale, NY, July 27-29. The conference is organized by Shannon Taggart, and includes presentations on art, the paranormal, and the history of Spiritualism by Phil Ford, J. F. Martel, Amy Hale, Emily Hanger, Charles and Penelope […]
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Symposium at Lily Dale, 2023
July 24th, 2023 · 2 Comments
A Stereoscopic Word Ladder
December 19th, 2022 · Comments Off on A Stereoscopic Word Ladder
For the first issue of Typo, a stereoscopic word ladder.
Shorten the Classics: In Search of Lost Time
November 21st, 2022 · 3 Comments
This is the centennial of the death of Marcel Proust (November 18, 1922). Here, then, is my version of In Search of Lost Time, from Shorten the Classics. It saves Marcel a lot of work.
Study in wet tuning (chromatic)
June 13th, 2022 · Comments Off on Study in wet tuning (chromatic)
Here’s another study in wet tuning, the practice of slightly detuning two pitches to give a richer sound. It’s often used in accordions. Here, I detune double melody strings on a chord zither. As in the diatonic study, I offer two possibilities.
Study in wet tuning (diatonic)
June 6th, 2022 · Comments Off on Study in wet tuning (diatonic)
Wet tuning is the practice of slightly detuning two pitches to give a richer sound. It’s often used in accordions. Here, I detune double melody strings on a chord zither. And I offer two possibilities.
The Somethingization of Something
April 13th, 2022 · Comments Off on The Somethingization of Something
This sad little tale can be found in The Snowman Three Doors Down. The title did, in fact, come from a dream. The constraint (for there is a constraint) is that the text forms an acrostic of the title, and that each sentence contains the number of words corresponding to the initial letter’s place in […]
A Slot Machine for Wooden Nickels
January 10th, 2022 · Comments Off on A Slot Machine for Wooden Nickels
“A Slot Machine for Wooden Nickels” is a set of seven pieces for either keyboard or violin and ‘cello. Each is 49 measures long, divided in different ways; the first is 7 x 7, the second 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10, the third 10 + 10 + […]
Scuttles of Petals
December 28th, 2021 · 2 Comments
“Scuttles of Petals” was written by assigning letters of the alphabet to the top 26 pitches of the keyboard, and then spelling the names of flowers, yielding pitches that follow linguistic, rather than common-practice, patterns. The names go from 13 to 4 letters, a sequence that is repeated three times. The first set is: chrysanthemum, […]
Shorten the Classics
December 14th, 2021 · Comments Off on Shorten the Classics
Shorten the Classics is now available from Black Scat Books! This book reduces 52 great works of literature to one cartoon page apiece: not by summarizing them, but by cutting them off early. See what happens when Helen rejects Paris, the acorn misses Chicken Little, Adam and Eve eat the serpent, Leopold Bloom sleeps in, […]
Shorten the Classics: The Iliad
December 3rd, 2021 · 1 Comment
This, I think, will be the first page of my upcoming comic book Shorten the Classics. I may as well start by aborting the Trojan War. Good riddance!