My 19th string quartet is subtitled “Cold Nights,” because the nights were cold when I wrote it. You don’t have to play it on cold nights, though. Here, as usual, is the first page.

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My 14th string quartet is for four ‘cellos, sawing industriously away on diatonic tone clusters and polyrhythms.

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A grim little poem by that master of pessimism, Thomas Hardy, set here for three voices and bass instrument.

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Le Scat Noir’s Museum of the Inane is now available from Black Scat Books! This anthology of fiction, drawings, collages, and, above all, nonsense, was edited by Norman Conquest and features a glittering array of nonpareils: Rhys Hughes, Lono Taggers, Phil Demise Smith, T. Motley, Catulle Mendès, R J Dent, Boris Glikman, David Paddy, David […]

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From The Potato Farm, here are the first four stanzas of “The Sasquatch and the Jackalope.” As astute readers will notice, it’s about photography, and is written in embraced quatrains (ABBA), with the stanzas alternating masculine and feminine rhymes. THE SASQUATCH AND THE JACKALOPE We have a stirring tale to tell, Of how two creatures, […]

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I’m writing some interstitial music for a projected album of readings. I plan to use a variety of instruments when I record it, but I tarried on the way to arrange it for string quartet as well. Here’s the first page:

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My translation of Charles Cros’s prose works, The Science of Love, is now available from Wakefield Press. From the publisher: The Science of Love and Other Writings brings together for the first time in English all the literary prose of Charles Cros. An indefinable polymath of fin-de-siécle Paris, Cros’s imagination had one foot in the […]

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I’ll perform some historical musical oddities, drawn from my upcoming book Music from Elsewhere, at the symposium at Lily Dale, NY, July 27-29. The conference is organized by Shannon Taggart, and includes presentations on art, the paranormal, and the history of Spiritualism by Phil Ford, J. F. Martel, Amy Hale, Emily Hanger, Charles and Penelope […]

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For the first issue of Typo, a stereoscopic word ladder.

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This is the centennial of the death of Marcel Proust (November 18, 1922). Here, then, is my version of In Search of Lost Time, from Shorten the Classics. It saves Marcel a lot of work.

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