Recent work includes a study on remuneration practices for streaming media; the dialectics of software; the property concept–its discontents and contents; harmonic patterning and recursion; cultural models of reason underwriting global political economy.
- From Torrent to Stream: Economies of Digital Music—on musical labor degradation in the context of music’s technological prostheses (streaming services, algorithmic aggregators, and the like)
- Software Physiognomics—on the dialectics of software, in the context of algorithms for music information retrieval
- Piano Phase in Global Perspective—on the myths and realities of Reich’s use of African music in Piano Phase
- Piano, Ontological Object—on the piano as a Platonic ideal that enjoys a world monopoly (in conversation with a work by Boretz)
- Musical Property: Widening or Withering?–on the property concept; its discontents and contents
- Fractal Harmonies of Southern Africa–on harmonic patterning and recursion
- The Subtraction of the World: Waste or Resource?–on cultural modes of reason underwriting global political economy
- On Sonotropism–on figures of sound in contemporary philosophy
- Wagner Redux: Badiou on Music of the Future–on the political aspect of Wagner’s forms
- Harmonic Fractals in the Music of the Lamellaphone–on mathematical recursion in African harmonic practice
- Temporal Geometries of an African Music–on ambiguities of meter formation in African music
- Dekonstruktives Denken in Lachenmann’s Musik (‘Kinderspiel’)–on deconstruction in the work of Lachenmann
- Musical Modernism in the Thought of Mille Plateaux, and Its Twofold Politics–on the politics of Deleuze and Guattari’s musical ideas
- Remarks on a Sketch of Gyorgy Ligeti: A Case of African Pianism–on Ligeti’s involvement with Shona music, and with that of Schumann and Chopin
- From Blatant to Latent Protest (And Back Again) (with Steve Smith)–on ambiguities of resistance in Madonna’s wartime music
- György Ligeti and the Aka Pygmy Project–on Ligeti’s discovery and compositional use of African sound
- Music in the Thought of Deconstruction/Deconstruction in the Thought of Music–on the resonance of music with Derrida’s theory of language
- Heideggerian Thought in the Early Music of Paul Hindemith–a revision of the concept of Gebrauchsmusik in context
- Music, Corporate Power, and Unending War–on musical form under conditions of monopoly in the early 21st century
- Negotiating the Music Theory/African Music Nexus–an analysis of mbira dza vadzimu music, with a critical commentary
- Line, Rhythm, and a Motivic Detail in Mozart’s Piano Sonata in F Major (K.280), Adagio–on oscillation and undecidability in Mozart’s work
- Music, Spirit Possession and the Copyright Law–on sacred poetics of copyright law
- The Changing Role of Acoustics and Mathematics in Nineteenth-Century Music Theory–on musical autonomy and mathematics
- Anton Webern and the Concept of Symmetrical Inversion–on the symmetry concept in the late 19th century
- The Rondo-Finale of Gustav Mahler’s Seventh Symphony–a deconstructive reading of Mahler’s work
- Max Black’s ‘Interaction View’ of Metaphor–nudges a common analysis of metaphor toward poststructuralism
- Appropriate Data/Dada: A Partial Reading of a Fragment of Zimbabwean Mbira dza Vadzimu Music–an experimental text in ethnographic surrealism
ONLINE ARTICLES AND PUBLISHED SYMPOSIA
- New Approaches and Interdisciplinary Perspectives in African Music Pedagogy–proceedings of a forum for revitalizing African Music Studies
- Towards a Supplementary Approach to the Study of African Music within Modernity–brief remarks on strategic formalism