From a listing for the Good Press bookstore in Glasgow, here’s a photo of Music From Elsewhere. Apparently Scots are painting their nails to match the ink: And here’s the book displayed in After 8 Books in Paris, on the rue Jarry. As a staunch ‘pataphysician, I am, of course, delighted. (Thanks to Sarah Walker […]

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“Music for Two Monochords” generates bracing dissonances by using sets of numbers divorced from the harmonic series. Here’s the first page and the first piece. I have no intention of recording them (although I do own two monochords); they might be better imagined than heard.

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Artpix, in collaboration with Moikai/Drag City, has released Mike’s Box, a boxed set of eight DVDs of the performance and video work of Michael Smith. The eighth disc is devoted to the puppet shows we did together in the 90s. It includes a full show from Dixon Place, excerpts from other shows, and all the […]

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I’m pleased to report that my book Music From Elsewhere is now available at Watkins Books, London’s oldest esoteric bookstore. You can see it here. You can also pick up a copy at San Francisco’s fabled bookstore City Lights. And you can see it here.

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Thanks to Winston Hunter, here’s a photo of Music From Elsewhere in the Juilliard Store in NYC. Read and learn, students!

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Tyler Maxin snapped this photo of Music From Elsewhere in the Community Bookstore in Brooklyn. Thanks, Tyler! And I’m glad you enjoy it, Patrick!

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My friend Don Jolly once remarked that in this society we’re just a tube for money. With his permission, I turned the idea into a song. Here’s the first page.

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You can now listen to selections from “Music From Elsewhere” on Bandcamp. I recorded 32 brief pieces from the book, with voice, piano, electronic keyboard, psaltery, sopranino recorder, and chord zither. Brian Dewan was the engineer. Here it is!

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Music From Elsewhere is now available from Strange Attractor Press! This book collects and discusses music derived from unusual sources, including music attributed to fairies, trolls, trowies, banshees, aliens, angels, spirits, time slips, and dreams. You’ll also find chapters on speculative and cryptographic music, and on music from birds and other natural sounds. It’s 272 […]

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I’m happy to announce that my translation of Alphonse Allais’s My Rent Is Due! is now available from Black Scat Books. This collection, originally published in 1899, includes delightful stories about tapeworms, phantom limbs, floating brothels, and other interesting things. André Breton saluted Allais’s “terrorist activity of the mind”; maybe you will too.

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