Some fairly lush piano music, based on the major sixth chord (or minor seventh chord) in various inversions. According to the composer and music historian Alec Wilder, the major sixth chord has a “compelling power,” so here’s a string of them.

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A piece for viola and piano; an octatonic theme harmonized and turned into a canon.

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The Zombie of Great Peru, or the Countess of Cocagne, by Pierre-Corneille Blessebois, rises from the grave in its first English edition, translated by Doug Skinner! It’s available now from Black Scat Books. This bizarre novel, written in 1697, marks the first mention of the word “zombie” in world literature. It is a wicked tale […]

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Two of the puppet-centric videos I made with Michael Smith, “Shane and Cory” and “Mr. Woodie’s Goodies,” were included in the second issue of the Dutch VHS anthology, Zapp Magazine, in 1994.

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