Writings

Manuscripts

Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains. Duke University Press, 2022.

Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and The Aesthetics of Failure.
Bloomsbury, 2013.

Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture.
(co-authored w/David Cecchetto, Marc Couroux, Ted Hiebert) (Bloomsbury 2017)

• “Absolute Ventriloquy (or, Earing the Senses)“

• “Imaginary Magnitudes and the Anoriginal Hypocrisy that Vanishes in the Meantime“

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Melodies, Moods, and the Zone as a Hole,
AM: Journal of Art and Media Studies 23, (2020): 45-66

“Earworms, Daydreams, and Cognitive Capitalism,”
Theory, Culture and Society 35, no.1 (2018): 141–162.

“Obscurity and the Poetics of Non/Sense in the Writings of Raymond Roussel and Fernando Pessoa.”
Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature 45.2.

“Listening to Nothing in Particular in Contemporary Experimental Music.” Postmodern Culture 21.2.

“A Sprawling Mess: The Poetics of Musica Residua.” Radical Musicology 4.

Chapters in Edited Books

“Thinking Non/Humanly with Susanne K. Langer. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Susanne K. Langer. Edited by Lona Gaikis. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

“Auditory Hallucination,” and “The Sonic Egregor.” Unsound: Undead, edited by Toby Heys, Steven Goodman, and Eleni Ikonaidou (Falmouth: Urbanomic, March 2019)
—Co-written w/ David Cecchetto, Marc Couroux, and Ted Hiebert.

“Something from Nothing,” Introduction to Music for Listen/Space, vol. 1, Frog Peak Music (2018).

“Felt as Thought (or, musical abstraction and the semblance of affect).”
In Sound, Music, Affect: Theorizing Sonic Experience. Edited by Marie Thompson and Ian Biddle. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.

“Listening Aside: Noise and the Aesthetics of Distraction.”
In Resonances: Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music.
Edited by Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan, and Nicola Spelman. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. (Co-authored with David Cecchetto)