Category: Fiction & poetry

  • I just finished my latest project, which has been occupying me since January: the text for a new piece by Frances called “The third night”. It’s been an adventure and a discovery, my first text written specifically for video.

  • I’ve posted another piece of “non-non-fiction” here: As night falls, which is a kind of sequel to my earlier The old rose reader. Frances has composed a new work using this text and it will be premiered in Seattle later this month. For those not familiar with The old rose reader, here’s the story of…

  • The garden was hers and hers alone, like everything in her life. There was a loneliness about it, and she had come to take this completely for granted.

  • As night falls is a text written for Frances White’s composition of the same name, for violin, viola, narrator, and electronic sound.  It can be downloaded in PDF or Microsoft Word format.

  • I don’t usually talk or write much about my non-musical writing. One reason for this is that I don’t really know what I’m doing when I write what I call “non-nonfiction” (is it fiction? poetry? I have no idea). That world has become more important to me over the past few years, however, and thought…

    Lost in a fairy tale

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