---- "Listening Aside: Noise and the Aesthetics of Distraction." (forthcoming chapter in a manscusript on noise-music, edited by Michael Goddard and Benjamin Halligan. Oxford, forthcoming)
---- "The Semblance of Affect: Rehabilitating Susanne Langer's Symbolic Vitalism in the 'dark' of Background Music." (Oscillation, Echo, Affect: Sound, Music and the Organisation of Feeling. Edited by Marie Thompson and Ian Biddle. Continuum, forthcoming).
2012 Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and The Aesthetics of Failure (Continuum, forthcoming)
2012 Obscurity and the Poetics of Non/Sense in the Writings of Raymond Roussel and Fernando Pessoa (Mosaic 45.2)
2011 Listening to Nothing in Particular in Contemporary Experimental Music (Postmodern Culture 21.2)
2009 A Sprawling Mess: The Poetics of Musica Residua (Radical Musicology 4, 2009)
2008 Music as a virus (Interview for Monday Magazine)
2007 melodic purpose
2006 towards an aesthetic of obscurity
2005 C(ulture)D-R
2005 This nothing (a letter to Linda Catlin Smith)
2005 Difference & Ambiguity: Stravinsky's three pieces for string quaret three pieces for string quartet
2003 A Response to Kagel’s notes re: 1898
2003 Surface Vexations
2003 notes to a 'pata (meta)Text: liming the wonderful
2002 poetics of ambiguity