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I recommend Kyle Gann’s book No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage’s 4’33”: a thorough and entertaining look at that provocative piece.  I was happy to see that Kyle mentioned the performance he and I did of Cage’s Experiences No. 1, long ago when we were fellow composition students at Oberlin Conservatory.

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A nocebo is a placebo with harmful side effects.  This one is a waltz for viola and piano.

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Life is nasty, it is brutish.  Here’s the first part.

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I do like the rich sound of viola and organ.  Here’s the beginning of a brooding piece for that combination.

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Every show must come to an end.  I wrote this song for that occasion; here’s the first part of it.

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A bilious lullaby, for viola and piano.  It becomes more chromatic in the following pages.

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White Knuckle Sandwich used to sing this uplifting number; nowadays, I perform it alone.  Here’s part of it:

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White Knuckle Sandwich (Jennifer Duffy, Anne Shapiro, and I) recorded this song of mine on our eponymous album.  I also made a semi-animated paper cutout cartoon of it for the old “internet TV station,” pseudo.com, back in 1999.  Anney Bonney was at the camera.  It’s up on YouTube now, and you can watch it if […]

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A short song about the family.  I performed this in a show recently; Angela Alverson posted a video of it here.

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