Robin Hoffman attends many performances at Brooklyn’s Jalopy Theater, and sketches what she sees.  She’s posted a picture of me with the tuba player Ralph Hamperian, over here.

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“Prof. Williams’ New System” was the first piece I toured with the Oberlin Dance Collective, back in 1974.  I was 19.  I don’t remember much about the piece, but did keep a rough score/script.  The title was taken from a 19th century manual on the care of horses and cattle, and the text came from […]

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An asemic sound poem, from around 1977.

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A round, on a piquant excerpt from Benjamin De Casseres.

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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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A lilting number for viola and piano, on the outskirts of ambience, with some bitter dissonance to linger on the palate.  “Parget” is ornamental plasterwork; this is the sonic equivalent.

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A trip to Paris in 1993.

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I’ve set a number of proverbs as rounds.  We sang some of these in the Patient Island Singers, after we branched out from only doing material about Roosevelt Island.  Here are a couple of them.

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The pangrams are short piano pieces, each using every key on the keyboard once, on the model of the alphabetic kind that Augustus de Morgan introduced in Budget of Paradoxes, in 1872. The systematic exhaustion of the keyboard gets more complex as the series progresses.

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