This photocopied dossier collects 49 pages of my music for keyboard. Let me know if you want one. The pieces are: The Muscatel Suite Pay Attention Gilding the Pyrite The Guidonian Hand Applied to a Tracing of a Plaster Cast of a Yeti Footprint This Honeycomb Matrix of Atoms Known as the Material World Bill […]
Entries from February 2012
Keyboard Music 3
February 27th, 2012 · 4 Comments
The Fun Song
February 24th, 2012 · Comments Off on The Fun Song
Michael Smith and I used to open every performance of “Doug & Mike’s Adult Entertainment” with this little ditty. Mike was on pocket trumpet, and I played banjo uke. We also made a karaoke tape, now included on our DVD.
Quest For Lost Time
February 24th, 2012 · 4 Comments
Back in the early ’90s, I used to do a ventriloquism routine about alien abductions, called “Quest for Lost Time.” The subject was then just crossing over into popular culture, due to the efforts of Strieber, Hopkins, et al. I performed it at Caroline’s, and, most memorably, on a Martin Mull Cinemax special, where I […]
Roller-Sheep
February 15th, 2012 · Comments Off on Roller-Sheep
They’re Roller-Sheep! They’re here! They’re everywhere! They’re coming to your town!
The Parliament of Fowls
February 15th, 2012 · 1 Comment
From 1976, a sketch for “The Parliament of Fowls,” a proposed installation in collaboration with Doug Winter. We often discussed it, but it never went beyond a few sketches.
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Lest We Forget
February 14th, 2012 · Comments Off on Lest We Forget
This little reminder appeared in the INFO Journal.
String Quartet 3: Aretino in Solrésol
February 14th, 2012 · 1 Comment
The third string quartet consists of five of the erotic sonnets of Piero Aretino, translated into Solrésol. (There’s a preparatory sketch here.) In the first movement, the first four sonnets are offered simultaneously, each played by a different instrument. The translation is isorhythmic, with one beat of rest between words, two between lines, and four […]
The King of Ukuleleland
February 7th, 2012 · Comments Off on The King of Ukuleleland
In 2001, White Knuckle Sandwich — Jennifer Duffy (now Perez), Anne Shapiro, and myself — contributed to a program of 10-minute musicals under development at New York Theatre Workshop. Our selection, “The King of Ukuleleland,” was inspired by the island musicals that proliferated in the early 1900s; it featured my dummy, Eddie Gray, in the […]
We Need More Art
February 6th, 2012 · Comments Off on We Need More Art
We need more art! I only performed this anti-art tirade once, in a performance at Dance Theater Workshop. Maybe I’ll revive it.
Sentimental Doofus
February 1st, 2012 · Comments Off on Sentimental Doofus
Poor sentimental doofus! The arrangement was really meant for violin and cello, but I recorded it with keyboard.