My writing has appeared in newspapers, magazines and journals such as The Tentacle, Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture (USA), Resonance (UK), Leonardo Music Journal, Signal to Noise, e|i, The Believer, Earshot Jazz, and 21st Century Music.

I write to clarify as well as question my beliefs about performing, composing, and listening. I hope my words advocate for adventurous musics and musicians.

Below, you’ll find a representative collection of my writing, including favorite columns of “The Score,” where I covered classical, jazz, and their respective as well as collective experimental progeny for The Stranger, a Seattle-based alt-weekly from 2002 to 2010.

 

A Cosmic Portrait of the American West (2022) get the pdf

Imperfect Sound Forever: A Letter to a Young Phonographer (2021) get the pdf

Making Activist Sound (2015) get the pdf

Towards Activist Sound (2014) (opens another tab on The Wire website; see activist sound for the sound examples).

On Phonography: A Response to Michael Rüsenberg (2005)

Favorite columns from “The Score”

Intermissions with the Orchestra

My Sonorous Mirage: Ruminations on Radio and Radical Music (2005)

The New Chamber Music

When The Muse is a Harsh Mistress

What is an aural safari? (2000)

The Door