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Oulipo Pornobongo 2

September 16th, 2013 · 1 Comment

Oh boy!  Oulipo Pornobongo 2 is now out, chockablock with smut and recreational linguistics.  This one features work by Opal Louis Nations, Farewell Debut, D.S. Macpherson, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Giovanni Zuniga, Derek Pell, Roger Leatherwood, Eckhard Gerdes and others.  I contribute a song, an acrostic about mating dachshunds, a translation of an 1885 story by Alphonse […]

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Tags: *Cartoons · *Music · *Words · O

Respite

August 23rd, 2013 · Comments Off on Respite

A piece for viola and piano, extracted from the incidental music for The Harlequin Studies.

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A Martyr

July 30th, 2013 · Comments Off on A Martyr

A brief round, featuring a martyr.

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My Face Is in the Sand

July 23rd, 2013 · Comments Off on My Face Is in the Sand

If you draw a picture of yourself in the sand, it probably won’t last.

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People Like You

July 8th, 2013 · 4 Comments

As the chorus explains, “People don’t like people like you, people like people like me.”

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I’m Still Bitter

June 19th, 2013 · 4 Comments

But then, who isn’t?

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The Gypsy

May 30th, 2013 · Comments Off on The Gypsy

I do love Billy Reid’s 1945 song “The Gypsy,” so I wrote this viola part so that I could perform it with David Gold.

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Radio

May 22nd, 2013 · Comments Off on Radio

A song about falling asleep with the radio on.  As the chorus reminds us, You’ve got to wake up to turn the radio off.

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Ding Dong Bell

May 8th, 2013 · Comments Off on Ding Dong Bell

A melancholy scrap of Shelley; it seemed to call for an equally melancholy round in 5/4.

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Get on the Grid

April 29th, 2013 · Comments Off on Get on the Grid

A song about being a productive, obedient member of society.  That’s what you want, isn’t it?

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