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---- "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