My slide show on a curious NYC street artist, who called himself Pantuso, appeared on the former webzine “Word.” I also performed it at the Brooklyn Museum, the gallery Four Walls, Dixon Place, and other fine venues. The “Word” version is archived here.

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This rather exuberant waltz was written for a performance with Bob Berky at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC) in 1985. Here’s the way it starts.

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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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My article on the ever mysterious and alluring nobleman appeared in the June 2001 issue of the Fortean Times. (I originally had a link to it here, but it no longer works.)

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Funny Birds Zoo is an early work. I am still fond of its restrained use of color.

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I celebrate the New Year in a bilingual waltz. I had never written a song with French lyrics before; it was a pleasant exercise. I usually perform this song with a viola obbligato; it’s also been covered by one of my favorite bands, Les Chauds Lapins.

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Jason Little invited me to contribute to a show of machines by cartoonists, called “Comix Ex Machina,” at the Flux Gallery in June 2005. My device, “The Skinner Graduated Pictodisc,” set three hand-painted phenakistascopes spinning on record players at 33, 45, and 78 rpm. Here’s my working drawing. I installed the record players in plastic […]

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My fifth string quartet is based on the “trowie tunes” of the Shetland Islands. I set them diatonically, embellishing them with scordatura, hocketing, harmonics, and other techniques. According to tradition, these tunes are to be played only once, out of respect for the trowies; the quartet is therefore brief.  

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“Looking for Lake Monsters” appeared occasionally in the INFO Journal.

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I provided the voice for a disappointed businessman in this industrial cartoon by Mark Newgarden. My fellow actors in this paean to Lucite were Brian Dewan and Russ Reiley. You can watch it here.

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