My upcoming book, Music From Elsewhere, contains a chapter on music that doesn’t exist: lost, mythological, fictional, and silent music. This sparked the urge to contribute to the genre, so I wrote “Eleven Silent Études.” They appear in the seventh issue of TYPO, and are dedicated to Kyle Gann, since he wrote the definitive work […]
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Eleven Silent Études
May 23rd, 2024 · No Comments
The Sasquatch and the Jackalope
May 12th, 2024 · 2 Comments
From The Potato Farm, here are the first four stanzas of “The Sasquatch and the Jackalope.” As astute readers will notice, it’s about photography, and is written in embraced quatrains (ABBA), with the stanzas alternating masculine and feminine rhymes. THE SASQUATCH AND THE JACKALOPE We have a stirring tale to tell, Of how two creatures, […]