Decomposition: A Music Manifesto

(Pantheon, 2014): A bracing, revisionary, and provocative inquiry into music that explodes the age-old concept of musical composition as the work of individual genius, arguing instead that in both its composition and reception music is fundamentally a collaborative enterprise that comes into being only through mediation. Seattle Weekly’s Gavin Borchert called it “impressive and absorbing,” Matthew Duersten at Los Angeles Magazine included it on his list of the “Best ‘Little’ Music Books of 2014,” and pianist and writer Ethan Iverson called it “fun and provocative.”