As the title indicates, this song laments life’s disappointments.

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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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TYPO 13 is now available from Black Scat Books! For this one, I contributed translations of a story by Tristan Bernard (“The Collector”), an essay by Gabriel de Lautrec (“Latin Symbolism”), and two short pieces by Alfred Jarry (“Explanatory Memorandum on the Terrible Accident of February 30, 1891” and “The Fiancé in Spite of Himself”), […]

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Every year, Meg Reichardt assembles musicians in Brooklyn for a Holiday Recording Party. This year, I contributed a song that I sent in from upstate. It’s called “Here’s to the Longest Night,” and it celebrates the solstice. You can listen to the whole album on Bandcamp.

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

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I appeared on Dean Bertram’s podcast Talking Weird to discuss my book Music From Elsewhere. You can see and/or hear it here.

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A drinking song by Thomas Chatterton, from his play The Revenge, set here for SATB. This is the first page.

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