Those of you who enjoyed Bill Irwin’s show The Regard of Flight may be interested in this antique document. This was the first stirring of it, back in 1977 in San Francisco.  At this point, it was only Bill and me, but Michael had a piece on the other half of the program. As usual, […]

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These are four brief pieces written for the piano-zither, a 3/15 diatonic chord zither with a simple keyboard mechanism — a sort of miniature table-top piano.  They can also be played on other keyboard instruments, of course.  Here’s a sample of the first piece.

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In the early ’80s, Bill Irwin, Michael O’Connor and I sometimes worked together under the name “Murdoch.” I don’t remember where the name came from; I think Bill may have dreamed it. In 1981, Bill and I played a run at the Mickery theater in Amsterdam under that name. The photos were by Bob van […]

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I have a nice old-fashioned monochord that I often use to teach music theory. Contemplation of the relationship between number and pitch led me to write this little piece, based on the primes between 1 and 100. It’s delightfully grating.

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The movie based on John A. Keel’s book The Mothman Prophecies was released in 2002; the Fortean Times marked the occasion with a special issue. I contributed a biography and bibliography of Keel, and an interview conducted with the assistance of George Kuchar and Dr. Mamie Caton.

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In 2007, I was an artist in residence at NYC’s venerable downtown theater Dixon Place. I put together a program of musical curiosities, based on similar shows I’d done for the INFO FortFest and the Fortean Times UnConvention. The program included music by Rameau’s Nephew, Lewis Carroll, and the Count of Saint-Germain; an odd tune […]

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“The Muscatel Suite,” three movements of it, often showed up in my shows in the ’80s. Here’s the beginning.

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This realization of Mozart’s “Musical Game in C” (K.516f) was written for an evening organized by the Cannery Works on Mozart’s birthday, January 27, 2005. Mozart’s piece gave the materials to construct minuets on the names of his friends; I applied it to “Cannery Works,” and harmonized the result.

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