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A Concise Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality

July 13th, 2023 · 2 Comments

A Concise Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality is now out from Black Scat Books and available on Amazon! I was one of many scholars who contributed to this essential reference work. Here’s Black Scat’s description: First came the groundbreaking Le Scat Noir Encyclopaedia in 2017. Three years later we launched the pataphysical classic Le Scat Noir […]

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Le Chat Noir Exposed

November 1st, 2022 · Comments Off on Le Chat Noir Exposed

In this brief video, Caroline Crépiat describes her book Le Chat Noir Exposed, which I had the honor of translating last year. Watch Caroline! Read her book!

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Crimp

July 5th, 2022 · Comments Off on Crimp

A piece for two melody instruments and keyboard.

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Casting Pearls Before Oysters

June 20th, 2022 · Comments Off on Casting Pearls Before Oysters

A brooding piece for bass recorder and piano.

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Caroline Crépiat with “Le Chat Noir Exposed”

May 5th, 2022 · Comments Off on Caroline Crépiat with “Le Chat Noir Exposed”

Caroline Crépiat holds up my translation of her book Le Chat Noir Exposed, at an art show in Paris. If you haven’t read it yet, this may remind you that you’ve been meaning to.

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Le Chat Noir Exposed

June 30th, 2021 · Comments Off on Le Chat Noir Exposed

Le Chat Noir Exposed is now available from Black Scat Books! This extraordinary work of scholarship exposes the liveliest fin-de-siècle bohemian cabaret and paper in Paris. Le Chat Noir was a playground for painters, writers, poets, pranksters, and musicians, all gleefully demolishing the standards of art and good taste. Caroline Crépiat examines such eccentric personalities […]

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The Cinematographer and the Megachiropteran

April 20th, 2021 · Comments Off on The Cinematographer and the Megachiropteran

“The Cinematographer and the Megachiropteran” was written for Le Scat Noir 227, devoted to formal constraints. You can find it in my collection The Snowman Three Doors Down. I devised a technique similar to Raymond Roussel’s famed process, which used puns and homonyms to generate ideas. I used anagrams instead; the longest anagram pair in […]

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Careers

November 26th, 2020 · Comments Off on Careers

A brief song about the many careers a child might aspire to. This too can be found on That Regrettable Weekend and in The Doug Skinner Songbook.

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Cries of Vendors

September 17th, 2020 · 2 Comments

A keyboard version of a bit of my String Quartet 15: harmonizations of two street vendors’ cries notated by Friedrich Weber in 1887.

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Can You Wait…

January 20th, 2020 · Comments Off on Can You Wait…

One of my student pieces, a brief song with ‘cello and piano, on a text from an English-Chinese reader. Here’s the beginning.

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