“Book Descriptions: Ten diversely strange tales, steeped in menace, linked in the most unexpected ways by an auricular theme... These are tales in which music often plays a role: music as ritual, music as language, impossible music, lethal music. But here also are the silences, the stop-gaps between notes, the attempted retreats from the audible world.
The table of contents is as follows:
The True Accompanist Quiet Heaven The Oboists The Missing Part A Gift from the Borders The Festival of Conformity The Harmony of the Stares The Different Chapters Walking in from the West Music in the Age of Sheep” DRIVE