| 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) |
| 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 | Book: In the Margins of Composition Vision Edition. www.visionedition.com |
| 2021 | Melodies (genesis and analysis) CD booklet essay, another timbre: at203x2 |
