Tinnitus

My poem “Tinnitus” was published in the annual Limerick city poetry anthology The Stony Thursday Book. Paddy Bushe was the graceful editor.

The Invisible Viola Project

The Invisible Viola Project was my experiment in anti-virtuosity, conducted by approaching an instrument I had not played in three decades. The performances included a collaboration with Ed Devane and a solo venture with video backing.

Making Noise and Reading Noise

Review of Making Noise by Hillel Schwartz in the special “Noise” issue of Interference: A Journal of Audio Culture.

This large volume convinces that noise has always been a hot topic, from the very birth of the universe, through the gestation of human culture, right on down the line to the present. But what Schwartz omits is as telling as what he includes.