Publications

Articles

“Portmantonality and Babbitt’s Poetics of Double Entendre” Music Theory Online(the online journal of the Society for Music Theory) v. 26.2, 2020
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“Babbitt’s Beguiling Surfaces, Improvised Inside” SMT-V (Society for Music Theory: Videocast Journal) v. 5.1-3, 2019
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“Cybernetic Phenomenology of Music, Embodied Speculative Realism, and Aesthetics Driven Techné for Spontaneous Audio-visual Expression” Perspectives of New Music v. 54/1, 2016
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“Schoenberg’s Chordal Experimentalism Revealed Through Representational Hierarchy Association (RHA), Contour Motives, and Binary State Switching” Music Theory Spectrum v. 37/2, 2015
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“The Time and Space of Boretz’s string quartet Qixingshan” Open Space, v. 19, 2016

“Trajectory, Material, Process, and Flow in Robert Morris’s String Quartet Arc” Perspectives of New Music v. 52/2, 2014

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“Improvising Synesthesia: Comprovisation of Generative Graphics and Music” Leonardo Electronic Almanac v. 19/3, 2013, special issue on Live Visuals
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“Seven Metaphors for (Music) Listening: DRAMaTIC” Journal of Sonic Studies v. 2/1, 2012, and republished in The Open Space Magazine 15, 2013
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Middlebury College blogs about this (four from 2015) Chamorro, Jason,  Response #2  Benoit
Other blogs/articles about this: Nicole Cheng (sound artist), Kate Fagan, in Austral. J. of Ecopoetry

“An Imagined Drama of Competitive Opposition in Carter’s Scrivo in Vento (with Notes on Narrative, Symmetry, Quantitative Flux, and Heraclitus),”  Music Analysis v. 28, 2-3, 2009 (Winner: 25th Anniversary Competition)
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Book Chapters

“Pragmatist Ironist Analysis and Embodied Interactivity: Experimental Approaches to Sensor-Based Interactive Music Systems inspired by Music Analysis”) in Music, Analysis, and the Body: Experiments, Explorations and Embodiments, series: Analysis in Context, Nicholas Reyland and Rebecca Thumpston, (Eds.), Peeters/Leuven Studies in Musicology, 2018, pp.295-330.

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“Renewing the Riverbed: Critical Aesthetic and Epistemological Purposes for Analysis, Fueled by Performative Theory” (published in French translation: “Pour un renouvellement à la source : visées critique-esthétique et épistémologique de l’analyse, fondées sur la théorie performative”) in Musiques électroacoustiques / Analyses <-> Ecoutes, Nicolas Marty, ed. (Eds.), Delatour Press, 2015, pp.33-57.

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“Agency, Determinism, Focal Time Frames, and Processive Minimalist Music,” chapter 6 in Music and Narrative After 1900, Michael Klein and Nicholas Reyland (Eds.), Indiana University Press, 2013, pp.125-43.

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“Continuous Movement, Fluid Music, and Expressive Immersive Interactive Technology: The Sound and Touch of Ether’s Flux” (co-authored with Sofia Paraskeva), chapter 5 in Sound, Music and the Moving-Thinking Body, Marilyn Wyers and Osvaldo Glieca (Eds.), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp.35-51

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Published Proceedings (peer-reviewed)

“Interactive Computer Simulation for Kinesthetic Learning to Perceive Unconventional Emergent Form-bearing Qualities in Music by Crawford Seeger, Carter, Ligeti, and Others”  Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) and European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Thessaloniki, Greece, 2012
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“The Fluxations Stochastic Interactive Algorithmic Music Engine (SIAME) and iPhone App,”  Proceedings of the 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2012
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Other Publications

“Upon the Occasion of the Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) Centenary: An Interview with Benjamin Boretz”, Tempo, v. 278, October 2016
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Crash and getting me started: How Robert Ashley changed my mind, Open Space magazine, 17-18, 2015,
and Tempo, v. 279, December 2016

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Interview with the JACK Quartet (co-author) Perspectives of New Music 52/2, 2014

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“Curious Music In The Great Outdoors: Robert Morris’s Coming Down To Earth In Webster Park” Perspectives of New Music 52/2, 2014

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Interview of Joshua B. Mailman, by Rachel Vandagriff, Perspectives of New Music50/1, 2012

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Review Article on Repetition in Music: Theoretical and Metatheoretical Perspectivesby Adam Ockelford.  Psychology of Music 35 (2) 2007   (citations of this on the web: 1, 2)
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Introduction to a forum of reviews of Nicholas Cook’s Analysing Musical Multimediain Integral v 16/17, 2002/2003
    
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“The Aims of Music Theory and Neurath’s Boat: A Reply to Jonathan Walker and Matthew Brown” Music Theory Online 2.4, 1996   (citations of this on the web: 1 2 3 4)
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