Painless introduction

Dear visitor,

A koan for your contemplation:

Cultural demographers at Billboard Magazine would categorize the musical content of this web site as

     A. New age
     B. Avant garde
     C. Smoov (i.e. smoother than smooth, downright greasy) jazz
     D. All of the above
     E. None of the above

The correct answer is F.

To help you navigate the murky waters of this Gowanus Canal of genre ambiguity, we've assembled a sampler of mp3 audio nuggets for your elucidation and enjoyment. Select from the following taxonomic tasting menu:

Pop non-standards	Harmless classics	Modernist angst	Willfull perversity
Marriage at work overture		Dance movements (excerpts)	Mon coeur appartient à Dada
Nuclear pigdance		Passacaglia en unisono	Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental
Leila		Plan 9 from outer space	Wittgenstein revisited (excerpt)
Larry, the stooge in the middle	Winter (excerpt)	Effluvia (excerpt)	The Mozart effect
Depilação brasileira (O samba da apropriação cultural)	Three etudes for imaginary harp	Das Lied von der Magnetosphäre	My pickled heart
Disco plotz	Wave dynamics	Suono grafica	Freud in Konzert
Righteous motherfucker	Beat me mama, 29 to the bar	Guernica (excerpt)	Holiday in Manhattan
La mia famiglia	A night in Jakarta	Study no. 1 for 2 Disklaviers	Vex americana

An exhaustive list of compositions by David Jason Snow can be found on the Complete works page. You are welcome to download and share any linked audio, video, and score file on this site, with attribution and without modification, for personal, non-commercial use. If you are interested in obtaining perfomance parts to a score, contact us for price and shipping information.

And for your literary delectation, enjoy a sampler of interesting and eccentric commentary found on this site:

Selected program notes

Catalogue irraisonné

Wittgenstein revisited

Notes from underground

The modern harpsichord

The quantum fields

The sound of one shoe dropping

Deprecatio imperatori

No exit