Riffs

For my submission to Riffs Journal, I created a graphic music score for solo voice, using fragments from 12 different pop songs, ranging …

Many beloved or obscure psychedelic songs seem to adopt the image of a bicycle, silently yet persistently recurrent, as a …

The prompt for the second issue of Riffs declares that a song can be about anything. I agree. But should …

For a response to this brief I have composed this short work with three parts. Rather than exploring and extrapolating …

A song can be about anything, and a single song can be about (can mean) many different things to many …

The second issue of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music is out tomorrow – but here’s our front cover to keep you …

Journalistic coverage of music relies not only upon evocative and descriptive copy, but also on photographs which ideally capture the …

Drawing on my own personal memories of being involved in the British punk/anarcho-punk scene in the UK, in the late …

I was privileged to meet Robert Ashley at his TriBeCa apartment in May    2010. Over afternoon margaritas, we talked …