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I have put up an annotated script of my first opera, How to Look at the Ocean (Now I am a Flower) on my website. This includes mp3’s to all the hits, like The Wrinkler. Here’s a synopsis I wrote up. How to Look at the Ocean (Now I am a Flower) is a multimedia opera […]

Today, I spent my morning experimenting with communication and talked to bros, gals, funny messages, rude people, masturbaters, the lonely, you know, Chat Roulette. I don’t want to talk to a bearded 23-year-old, and of course, nobody else did. So after a few rounds of being “next’ed” by my chat partners, I went into hiding […]

Everyone knows that no other medium has the means of moving through such vast environments or of emulating discovery the way that videogames do. And with all of these promises and this beautiful feeling of exploring a post-apocalyptic wasteland and the years that one hundred people spent planning and developing the game to a perfectly fun experience, and I am still listening to film music.

uploaded the “lost” albums from June 2008: the LP, “the fine flowers in town look fine” and the EP, “THIS WILL BE THE DAY THAT I DIE.” when i released them… i mean, when i burned a few copies and gave them to some friends, I had his awful anxiety about it, so i have […]

Happy New Year three tracks written and recorded on or around January 1st, 2010, all instrumental

album you can listen to. a lot of these tracks have been floating around, and i think i finally got a way of organizing them…. oH YEAH! MERRY CHRISTMAS! http://drop.io/morningcoming

Susie & Mark A new opera-play by Zeke Virant Oh, it ain’t easy, What’s me is me, Brain, rain, rain, brain, Tired. Fancy. Free. —Charlotte Howe Before sleep, with wine, and fine young times in love. Ain’t that a chamber opera, Susie & Mark? Singing and spinning, praying and living. Wine fine, nighttime, I don’t […]

look for “There You Are!” “Two Shits” “Give Me Water, I’m Thirsty” “Short Poems”

called, “Hot Summer.” has three brothers chatting it up

i updated the site again. i am in the middle of working on a new opera to be premiered in december? seems a little fishy to me. maybe we’ll perform some excerpts. Show at the Cake Shop in Manhattan on October 15 with Sam Rosen. until then, here’s the hang over song of the weekend. […]