Writer and musician
Essays
This is What Insanity Sounds Like, on the curiously self-tortured legacy of post-grunge music (The Baffler, 2019)
On the Line, on the prevalence of “dead cat” metaphors (The Smart Set, 2019)
Oh Brother Why Art Thou, on the Snapchat content channel Brother HQ (Hmm Daily, 2019)
Reckoning with Ambiguity, on Yo La Tengo and Gregory Crewdson (Hazlitt, 2017)
Features
Binky Listens, on the classical music roots of an Arthur meme (Van Magazine, 2018)
The Evolution of Hocketing, on the origins of this complex musical technique (Red Bull Music Academy Daily, 2018)
Rage and Cringe, on conservative opera memes (Van Magazine, 2017)
For Our Consideration: New-Age Music, on the history of this genre and its culture of disengagement (AV Club, 2016)
Profiles/Interviews
Studio Metaphors, on electronic music composer Morton Subotnick (Van Magazine, 2018)
Excavated Timbres, on clarinetist/composer John McCowen (Van Magazine, 2018)
Reviews/Misc.