Category Musicology

On being asked: why Uspud?

Yesterday I gave a paper at the conference Music and the Arts in France – 1925: Anniversaries and Confluences at the University of Leeds. My paper was on Erik Satie’s Uspud, and was basically a shortened version of the article I published in the Journal of…

The Precisions of Absurdity

“The precisions of absurdity align with the adaptations necessary for autistic survival”. I wrote this sentence at the end of a paragraph in a draft of an article I am preparing about Erik Satie. Readers familiar with Satie’s writings may…