“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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The podcast “Weird Studies” taped its latest episode at Shannon Taggart‘s annual symposium at Lily Dale, the Spiritualist village in upstate New York. Hosts Phil Ford and Erik Davis discussed that curious character John Keel; I joined them in the second half to offer some personal anecdotes, since we were friends for many years. You […]

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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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