The third of my four essays on music for silent film is now up at NewMusicBox! In this essay, I discuss how music influences the perception of film. As an example, I use a scene from Buster Keaton’s 1927 film The General, which has been scored by multiple performers and groups and thus offers a great selection of different approaches. This essay is condensed and extracted from a larger article I’m working on in which I examine the visual and aural aspects of Civil War nostalgia both during the 1920s and today in relation to the film’s scoring and marketing.
On cue sheets for early film
My second in a series of four articles on music for silent film at NewMusicBox is up! Read about cue sheets, their uses, and how they were adapted at “Taking a Cue: Accompanying Early Film“.
New published poem: “Invasive Species”
My poem “Invasive Species” is out now in Infinite Rust‘s Fall 2018 issue at http://infiniterust.com/current-issue/ (issu version) or http://infiniterust.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Infinite-Rust-Fall-2018-1.pdf (PDF version). It’s on page 30 in both.