• • • "Burden Bangs Joy: The Problem of a Rock and Roll Aesthetic
Delivered as a keynote address at the Sound Art Theories Symposium at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, November 2011.

• • • "Doug Aitken's Sonic Pavilion"
Published in Sound: Documents of Contemporary Art, Caleb Kelly, editor. London and Cambridge, MA: Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press, 2011.

• • • "Before Becoming The Music, The Music Was Just A Word:
Jacques Derrida Interviews Ornette Coleman (remix)"
Published in The More The Merrier, edited by Jens Maier-Rothe and Hong-Kai Wang for Project Fulfill Artspace, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011.

• • • "Guilt and Pleasure: A Conversation"
Published in The Book of Guilty Pleasures, edited by Song-Ming Ang and Kim Cascone for the Singapore Biennale, 2011.

• • • "I Have Something To Say, But I'm Not Saying It"
To be published in the inaugural issue of the journal, TACET, 2011 (pre-review manuscript).

• • • Birdsong 'Zine: "Five On It"
Published in the ‘zine, Birdsong, as part of their “Five On It” column, in which artists respond to five standard questions, 2010.

• • • Ross Parfitt and John Lely, "Realising Seth Kim-Cohen's Forever Got Shorter"
To be published in Word Events: Perspectives on Verbal Notation, James Saunders and John Lely, editors. New York and London: Continuum, 2011.

• • • "How To Write A Text Score About How To Write A Text Score (And Why)"
To be published in Word Events: Perspectives on Verbal Notation, James Saunders and John Lely, editors. New York and London: Continuum, 2011.

• • • "Forever Got Shorter (from a t-shirt of the same name)"
for solo trap kit, dedicated to Michael Lenzi
Text score (2008) for a piece originally performed by Ross Parfitt at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK, 2010.

• • • In The Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art
New York and London: Continuum, 2009 (extract).

• • • "The Hole Truth: Doug Aitken's Sonic Pavilion"
Published in Artforum, November 2009.

• • • "Performance and Impoverishment"
Talk delivered at the NYU Performance Studies program, 2009.

• • • "Brevity is a Sol LeWitt"
Text score commissioned by the New York Miniaturist Ensemble, 2007.

• • • "Worldmaking, Worldmarking, Wordmaking: The Heteromediality of Francis Alÿs"
Talk delivered at the European Summer School in Cultural Studies, Heidelberg, Germany, 2007.

• • • One Reason To Live: Conversations About Music with Julius Nil
Copenhagen and Los Angeles: Errant Bodies, 2006. Excerpt #1: Ken Vandermark on Louis Armstrong's "West End Blues. Excerpt #2: Seth Kim-Cohen on The Birthday Party's "Mutiny in Heaven" (guest host: Drew Morgan). (Julius Nil is a pseudonym I used for a radio show of the same name - and from which these conversations are transcribed - on ResonanceFM, London.)

• • • "'The Artist's Body As Gravity Makes Itself Its Master': Bas Jan Ader's Incompetence"
Talk delivered at the Open Systems symposium, Tate Modern, London, 2005.

• • • "Stephen Vitiello: The Lost Voice"
Published in Art Review, 2005.

• • • "What Counts As True? Pictures and Fiction in W.G. Sebald"
Published in Witness: Witness: Memory, Representation, And The Media In Question, Ulrik Ekman and Frederik Tygstrup (Eds.), Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2008. Adapted from a talk delivered at the European Summer School in Cultural Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark in 2004.

• • • "Cerulean Snot: Abjection as a Posture of Resistance"
Talk delivered at the conference Abject (I) Abject, at the Universtät der Künste, Berlin, 2003.

• • • "Cash and Currency: Requiem for the Man In Black"
Published by Pitchfork (pitchforkmedia.com), 2003.

• • • "How To Reinvent the Station When the Station Won't Stay Put: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry's Strategies of Resistance"
Talk delivered at the Capitalism and Philosophy seminar, Middlesex University, Middlesex, England, 2003.

• • • "The Fiery Furnaces: Gallowsbird Bark"
An unpublished review, 2003.

• • • "On Cats In Bags: Asymmetric Information, The Cohort, and the Discourse of the Magician"
Published as an occasional paper by The Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, 2002.

• • • "Autechre: The Sound of Music"
Published in the Chicago Reader, 2001.

• • • "Prog Will Eat Itself: Yes and Post-Rock"
Published in the Chicago Reader, 2001.

• • • "Apocalypse Now?"
An unpublished piece written in 2001, shortly after 9/11 and the
release of Apocalypse Now Redux.

• • • "Sigur Ros: Agaetis Byrjun"
Published in the Chicago Reader, 1999.

• • • "PJ Harvey at the Vic Theater, Chicago"
Published in the Chicago Reader, 1998.

• • • "Liz Phair at the Vic Theater, Chicago"
Published in the Chicago Reader, 1998.