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Entries from July 2011

Comic Strip Serenade

July 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Comic Strip Serenade

Bill Kartalopoulos and Mark Newgarden organized a program of songs about comic strips, back in June 2009. I sang several of them, some in duet with Peter Stampfel, which was a treat.

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Tags: *Music · C

Zapp Magazine

July 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Zapp Magazine

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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Tags: *Other · Z

You’re Only As Good As Your Microphone

July 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on You’re Only As Good As Your Microphone

The microphone is such an essential part of music-making that I thought it needed a song of its own. Here’s the first bit of it.

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Tags: *Music · Y

Xavier Forneret: The Dark Man’s Dreams

July 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Xavier Forneret: The Dark Man’s Dreams

This article on Xavier Forneret, “the Unknown Romantic,” appeared in the third issue of Strange Attractor Journal (2006), edited by Mark Pilkington. I translated two of Forneret’s transcriptions of his dreams, for which Betsy Heistand provided illustrations. Here’s the first page:

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Tags: *Words · X