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Entries from January 2017

Le Scat Noir 220

January 31st, 2017 · Comments Off on Le Scat Noir 220

The 220th issue of Le Scat Noir is now available! You can get it free, in that handy PDF format, here. This issue contains my short story Selby Yarrow’s Private Diary and another page of my musical instrument drawings. There’s a lot of other stuff too, by many fine writers and artists. Go look!

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Mazagran

January 29th, 2017 · Comments Off on Mazagran

A set of variations on a vigorous tune, named after iced coffee with rum.

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Little Flower

January 22nd, 2017 · 2 Comments

A delicate little song about negative thinking. This is how it begins.

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Music for Six Game Calls and Buzzer

January 15th, 2017 · Comments Off on Music for Six Game Calls and Buzzer

The “Music for Six Game Calls and Buzzer” has never been performed, but I hope it would make a cheerful racket.

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John Dee’s Dreams

January 11th, 2017 · Comments Off on John Dee’s Dreams

A setting of the dreams of the Elizabethan polymath John Dee, as noted in his diaries. I originally performed this with viola and glockenspiel; here it is for voice and piano (the first page only).

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Black Scat Review 17

January 8th, 2017 · Comments Off on Black Scat Review 17

The 17th issue of Black Scat Review is now out, subtitled “Dada Forgery.” I contributed a piece on Tristan Tzara’s final book, Le Secret de Villon, in which he searched for “discontinuous anagrams” in the works of Villon and Rabelais. Other contributors include Captain Anonymous, David Moscovich, Anna Keeler, Christy Sheffield Sanford, Karl Waldmann, Ruth […]

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Le Scat Noir 219

January 2nd, 2017 · Comments Off on Le Scat Noir 219

The 219th issue of Le Scat Noir is now available, ready to be read or downloaded, free, over here. It contains another page of my musical instrument drawings, as well as my translation of Alphonse Allais’s story “Comfort.” The Bohemian spirit is alive!

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