Snail-shell-rattle
1974 – World Music and Us: a reappraisal of university music curricula, with reference to the integration of non-western musics
Paper read at Wesleyan University, Nov. 1974
1976 – Transvestism and World Music: a behavioural
by-product of non-western music study in America
Paper read at Wesleyan University, Nov. 1976
1978 – Influences of Left-Right Polarity on Musical Performance
Paper read at Queen’s University, Belfast, Feb. 1978
1978 – The Integration of Symbolism into Musical Analysis
Paper read at the International Folk Music Council Conference in Edinburgh,
April 1978
1979 – Some Preliminary Thoughts Concerning Curricula for Music in Kenya
University of Nairobi, Institute of African Studies, Seminar Papers No. 120
1980 – The Lyre amongst the Marakwet and Pokot of the Northern Kerio Valley
University of Nairobi, Institute of African Studies, Seminar Papers no.137
1977/92 – The Sounding Tree: A World-wide Study of Legends and Stories Surrounding the Origins of Musical Instruments (book in manuscript)
1991 – The Shakuhachi and the Contemporary Music Instrumentarium: a Personal View
Contemporary Music Review, 1994, vol.6 no.2
1992 – Zu einer neuen Musik- jenseits der Grenzen westlicher kunstmusik Positionen
Beitrage zur Neuen Musik, vol.11, 1992
1993 – Galina Ustvolskaya: A Cry from the Edge, CD booklet essay, Etcetera KTC 1170
James Fulkerson: A Head above the Parapet, CD booklet essay, Etcetera KTC 1175
1994 – The Shakuhachi and the Contemporary Music Instrumentarium: A Personal View
Contemporary Music Review, vol 8 part 2, 1994
1995 – Galina Ustvolskaya: The Piano Sonatas
CD booklet essay, Conifer Classics 75605 51262 2
1996 – Leaving the Twentieth Century: Ideas and Visions of New Musics
(Issue Editor) Contemporary Music Review, vol.15 nos 3-4
Finding a Voice in an Age of Migration
Contemporary Music Review, vol 15 parts 3 and 4, 1996
1997 – Feldman’s Search for the Ecstasy of the Moment
CD booklet essay, Etcetera KTC 3003 (3-CD set)
1998 – Christian Wolff: A Gentle Radical
CD booklet essay, Mode Records, Mode 69
2002 – Christian Wolff
The Twentieth Century Music Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Handbook ed. Larry Sitsky
Westport CT, Greenwood Publishing
2005 – Alvin Lucier: The Poetry of Acoustic Spaces
(CD booklet essay for Alvin Lucier, Wind Shadows – New World Records 80628-2, 2 CDs)
2009 – Some Thoughts on Microtonality (download pdf)
31: Journal of the Huygens Fokker Foundaton, Amsterdam, summer 2009
2010 – The Musician Myth and The Failed Quest (download pdf)
Arcana 5: Music and Mysticism, ed. John Zorn, New York, Hips Road
2014 – New Music Needs More Than a Get- Well Card
Tempo vol. 68, No. 268, April 2014
2016 – Introduction to ‘Soundings, All Kinds of Music: A 21st Century Musician’s Anthology’ by Sam Richards
University of Plymouth Press, Plymouth 2016
2016 – The Questions that Remain
Tempo vol 70 No 278, October 2016
2017 – Review: The Graph Music of Morton Feldman by David Cline
Tempo vol. 71, No 279, January 2017
2017 – Review Walter Zimmermann Voces Abandonadas Wergo WER7356-2
Tempo vol. 71 No 280, April 2017
2019 – In the Margins of Composition: the Anxieties and Obsessions of a Composer Today
Vision Edition. www.visionedition.com