Here’s another page of my musical instrument drawings. They’re appearing every month in Le Scat Noir, available for no money from Black Scat Books. The next issue is due out April 1. Watch this space!
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Musical Instruments (2)
March 12th, 2017 · Comments Off on Musical Instruments (2)
Mazagran
January 29th, 2017 · Comments Off on Mazagran
A set of variations on a vigorous tune, named after iced coffee with rum.
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.
Musical Instruments (1)
September 7th, 2016 · 1 Comment
I’ve drawn imaginary musical instruments for years. Here are a few.
My Head Cool-Bedded in the Flowery Grass
May 16th, 2016 · 1 Comment
A drowsy little piece for piano, recommended for nap time. The title comes from Keats. Thanks, Keats.
Milt
January 20th, 2016 · 1 Comment
This little verse can be found in The Doug Skinner Dossier, available from Black Scat Books. Poor Milt! MILT Milt wandered down the dusty street, And felt his life was incomplete. He lifted up his troubled gaze From all the city’s bustling ways, Its squalid fights and sordid trysts, And saw a mountain in the […]
Music for Viola and Keyboard
December 14th, 2015 · Comments Off on Music for Viola and Keyboard
I’ve written a number of pieces for viola and keyboard, mostly because the violist David Gold is willing to play them. I plan to write one for each letter of the alphabet (“A Grim Reckoning” doesn’t count). So far, these are the titles: A Grim Reckoning Doze Kibosh Lullabilious Nocebo Onus Parget Qualm Respite Stint […]
Masks
May 7th, 2015 · 4 Comments
In 2012, Norman Conquest kicked off the Absurdist Texts and Documents series at Black Scat Books with his illustrated adaptation of Alphonse Allais’s story Un drame bien parisien. The original limited edition is now out of print. He has just republished a new expanded edition, with an introduction and notes by Doug Skinner. You can […]
More Happy Readers
March 24th, 2015 · Comments Off on More Happy Readers
My translation of Alphonse Allais’s book The Squadron’s Umbrella is available from Black Scat Books.
Merde à la Belle Époque
February 4th, 2014 · Comments Off on Merde à la Belle Époque
Merde à la Belle Époque is now available from Black Scat Books! Doug Skinner has chosen, translated, and annotated a choice selection of scatological texts from Paris’s Bohemian heyday. The texts range from 1883 to 1902, and include poems, stories, a play, a rebus and a letter. You will find Alphonse Allais, George Auriol, Georges […]