Bibliography, Musical/Technical:
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- Desert island book 1, universality of music and possibilities of theory:
- Sonic Design, Robert Cogan and Pozzi Escot
- Desert island book 2, hearing tonality and graphing thereof:
- Structural Hearing, Felix Salzer
- Desert island book 3, loosening and tightening of the binds:
- Tradition and Experiment in the New Music,
Charles Seeger (with help from Ruth Crawford Seeger
- Tradition and Experiment in the New Music,
- Desert island book 4, a manual and a novel:
- Gradus ad Parnassum, J.J. Fux, as trans by Alfred Mann
- Desert island book 5, the modernist’s modernist, and his web:
- Edgard Varese: Composer, Sounds Sculptor, Visionary
- Desert island book 6, further more, and such possibilities
- The Music of John Cage, James Pritchett
- New Images of Musical Sound, Robert Cogan
- Poetry of Simple Mathematics in Music, Pozzi Escot
- Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer’s Search for American Music, Judith Tick
- Our Singing Country, Ruth Crawford Seeger—music editor
- The European Musical Heritage, 800-1750, Sarah Fuller
- Plunderphonics, ‘Pataphonics and Pop Mechanics, Andrew Jones
- The New Music: The Sense Behind the Sound, Joan Peyser
- Anthony Philip Heinrich, William Treat Upton
- Forces In Motion: The Music And Thoughts Of Anthony Braxton, Graham Lock
- The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, by Prof. Peter Schickele
- Free Jazz – Ekkehard Jost
- Micrologus – Guido d’Arezzo
- The Music of Conlon Nancarrow – Kyle Gann
- Miles Beyond – Paul Tingen
- Led Zeppelin: The Definitive Biography – Ritchie Yorke
- Led Zeppelin: The Concert File – Dave Lewis with Simon Pallett
- Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage
- Concert Music, Rock and Jazz since 1945 – Marvin and Hermann, eds
- Bach, Beethoven and the Boys – David W. Barbers
- The Structure of Atonal Music – Allen Forte
- The Real Frank Zappa Book
- American Hardcore, Steven Blush
- Louie, Louie, Dave Marsh
- Blue, The Murder of Jazz, Eric Nisenson
- Desert island book 1, universality of music and possibilities of theory:
Cartographical:
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- Maps of the Imagination, Peter Turchi
- How to Lie with Maps, Mark Monmonier
- a thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia
gilles delezue and felix guatari - Mark Lombardi: Global Networks
Non-Fiction:
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- Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, Richard Kostelanetz
- Lynch on Lynch, ed. Chris Rodley
- The I-Ching
- Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
- The Theatre of the Absurd, Martin Esslin
- Chinese Poetic Writing, Francois Cheng
Fiction & Poetry:
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- House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski
- Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabakov
- Ubik, Philip K. Dick
- No Thanks, e. e. cumming
- Anthology of Concrete Poetry, Emmett Williams
- Dada: Art and Anti-Art, Hans Richter
- Darkman, Nicola Barker
- Billy and the Boingers Bootleg – Berkeley Breathed