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WFMU Literary Guild Reading
KGB Bar  - 85 E. 4th St. NYC

I'll be one of a half dozen or so WFMU DJs reading works of prose and poetry. I'm either reading an excerpt from a Christmas story or found punk haiku. 

12/13

Very pleased to announce that rosenberg 3.0: Not Violin Music is availble for order as of today. It's a collection of, shall we say, speculative musicology? I was quite flattered to be asked by the brilliant violinist / provocateur Jon Rose to contribute a chapter.

 

rosenberg 3.0 is a pseudonymous violin arcana compiled by Jon Rose from an extremely diverse array of musicians, fans and eccentrics, all deriving from the activities of the late lamented virtuoso Dr Johannes Rosenberg. The great man's suicide in Australia's Tanami Desert in 1992 has not stopped the torrent of all things Rosenberg, and the new volume draws upon the archives of the Rosenberg Museum in the town of Violin (in Slovakia) to offer the reader a compendium of artefact, irony, and dysfunction including: a single-use computer made of stone, the Islamic violin, an investigation into the genre of Violin Metal, a warning to the world about the Learned Elders of Viol, a photo essay of inappropriate and iconic violin usage from the museum archives, a tour through the Sydney suburb of Roselands in search of live music, a high tech breakthrough used in recordings of violin music from the 16th century, the exercise of power and plagiarism through music, the decline of the jazz venue, the rise of bio-technology and the violin, the transgressions of contemporary composers, extensive definitions of music in the 21st century, and various other musicological diversions (such as the origin of the wheeling goat) accompanied by a huge cast of Dr Rosenberg's extended family, many of whom bear the same initial, J.

 

11/4

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(More info coming soon.)

12/17

Excited to DJ a night with Nels Cline, Ava Mendoza and more at Trans-Pecos. 

There's always more at the blog.

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