I'm archiving here all my Village Voice articles I can find (1986-2005) except for the ninety-one republished in my book Music Downtown (2006, University of California Press). You'll notice that my word counts decreased in the mid-1990s, and then again and even more around 1999, as the paper shrank. I think it will be evident, though, how much my writing style improved through 19 years of being extremely well edited. For a complete list of all 525 articles (with bibliographic citations), look here. To see what articles are in Music Downtown, go here. [I myself hold the copyright to all my writings in the Village Voice.]

1986:
"Show of Hands" - pianist Rebecca LaBreque, the NY Philharmonic faking Xenakis, December 2, 1986 - my first Voice article
"The Moment Recaptured" - Philip Glass, December 9, 1986
"In from the Outback" - John J. Becker, December 16, 1986
"Ironywares" - Frankie Mann, David Garland, December 23, 1986
"The Third World" - Shelley Hirsch, Glen Velez, December 30, 1986

1987:
"Paris and Pink Sunsets" - Daniel Lentz, Elodie Lauten, Steve Gorn, January 13, 1987
"Contoured Sheets" - Penderecki, Tower, Perle, March 3, 1987
"Getting Into Trouble" - Peter Van Riper, March 10, 1987
"Sho Tunes" - Mayumi Miyata, Carman Moore, Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, Leslie Adams, March 17, 1987
"Camping Out" - McLean Mix, March 24, 1987
"Body Language" - Fast Forward, David First, April 7, 1987
"8178-Chord Wonder" - Tom Johnson, Phill Niblock, April 14, 1987
"Alien" - "Blue" Gene Tyranny, April 21, 1987
"Revolution Now" - the Bowery Ensemble playing Cage, Feldman, Wolff, and Brown, April 28, 1987 - I here called Feldman "the greatest composer living," and I'm told he read it before he died a few months later
"Sleight of Hands" - Michel Waisvisz, Ellen Fullman, May 26, 1987
"Atomic Energy" - Parnassus playing Blaustein, Davidovsky, Wheeler, Wolpe, June 16, 1987
"Musica Telephonica" - The Hub, June 23, 1987
"Scoring the Street" - William Ortiz, June 30, 1987
"Group Photos" - S.E.M. Ensemble, Downtown Ensemble, North/South Consonance Ensemble, July 7, 1987
"Trap Sets" - the Knitting Factory's improvisation festival, July 14, 1987
"Yearning for Ismism - the dearth of ideas in recent music, August 4, 1987
"Rising to the Surface" - Milton Babbitt's Words about Music, August 11, 1987
"Seriously, Just Kidding" - Scott Johnson, David Van Tieghem, August 18, 1987
"Winding Down the Avant-Garde" - musical postmodernism, August 25, 1987; my thinking about postmodernism evolved after this, and I would no longer agree with the article, but I remember the world looking this way in 1987.
"Ear and Mind" - international minimalism on recordings, September 8, 1987
"Godzilla Loves 4/4" - new music from Japan: Sato Michihiro, Kunimoto Takeharu, Poppo, October 13, 1987
"Gray Matter" - Philip Glass's Satyagraha, October 20, 1987
"Medium Rare" - Kit Fitzgerald and Peter Gordon, Ed Tannenbaum and Maggi Payne, October 27, 1987
"Quiet Heroics" - New Music America 1987, November 10, 1987
"I-80 Avant-Garde" - Salvatore Martirano, November 17, 1987
"Sticking It" - S.E.M. Ensemble, November 24, 1987
"Beyond the Unmasterpiece" - Steve Reich, December 1, 1987
"The Risks of R & D" - Alvin Lucier, December 22, 1987

1988:
"Poles Apart" - John Zorn, Bobby Previte, February 2, 1988
"Waiting for the Piano" - Richard Teitelbaum, Gordon Monahan, February 9, 1988
"Fear of Symmetry" - Boston Composers Quartet and Kronos Quartet, February 23, 1988
"The Rising Yin" - Elodie Lauten, March 8, 1988
"Lone Star Voodoo" - Jerry Hunt, March 15, 1988
"Shaking the Kitchen" - Imaginary Landscapes: Maryanne Amacher, Mark Trayle, Ron Kuivila, Lois V VierkClarence Barlow, March 22, 1988
"Toys Are Not Us" - The Kitchen's "Imaginary Landscapes" festival (Tyranny, Lucier, Hirsch, Collins, Weinstein), March 29, 1988
"Mottos and Models" - Morton Feldman, Rhys Chatham, Anthony Coleman, April 19, 1988
"A Neat Little House" - Carman Moore, May 17, 1988
"Free Samples" - Carl Stone, Neil Rolnick, May 24, 1988
"The Missing Center" - Bang on a Can festival: Glass, Michael Gordon, Pianoduo, Marclay, Anthony Coleman, Torke, Riley, Tom Johnson, Martland, Lang, Cage, Klucevsek, May 31, 1988
"Don't Speak Up" - Arthur Russell, Yoshi Wada, June 14, 1988
"Loving / Hating Downtown" - the Downtown Ensemble, Sibyl Madrigal, Marianne Schroeder, American Festival of microtonal Music, Tom Guralnick, June 28, 1988
"Tune of the Decade" - Daniel Goode, July 5, 1988
"Without a Hammer" - Pierre Boulez, July 12, 1988
"Squeezed to Meetcha" - Guy Klucevsek and accordions in general, August 9, 1988
"Are We Having Fun Yet?" - Michael Nyman, Rhys Chatham, Laurie Anderson, William Duckworth, August 23, 1988
"Gann's Consumer Guide" - Barraque, Austin, Winsor, Chowning, Glass, Lou Harrison, Henry, Klucevsek, Lauten, Roscoe Mitchell, Previte, Rouse, Schanzer, Shapey, Sinopoli, Stockhausen, Tiensuu, Xenakis, September 6, 1988
"Ideas Out of Thin Air" - Telluride Composer-to-Composer festival, September 20, 1988
"Time Out of Joint" - Peter Garland and Soundings, September 27, 1988
"Hear America First" - Pianorama: Geri Allen, Anthony Davis, Frederic Rzewski, Ursula Oppens, Margaret Leng Tan, October 4, 1988
"Bar Art" - Ben Neill, October 11, 1988
"Making Music Useful" - Scott Johnson, Glass's 1000 Airplanes on the Roof, November 1, 1988
"Card-Carrying Minimalist" - Ramon Farran, November 8, 1988
"When Memory Fails" - Jin Hi Kim and Elliott Sharp, Malcolm Goldstein, November 15, 1988
"Calm Within Chaos" - Dary John Mizelle, Robert Ashley, November 22, 1988
"Jamming the Status Quo" - women improvisers: Jenoure, Burton, Myra Melford, Jin Hi Kim, November 29, 1988
"Where's the Beer?" - Guy Klucevsek's polka project, Peter Gordon, December 13, 1988
"Ancient Lullabies" - Meredith Monk, December 27, 1988

1989:
"Like Veal, Only Chewier" - New Music America '88 in Miami, January 3, 1989
"BYOB" - Experimental Intermedia's 15th anniversary, January 10, 1989
"Out of Your Mind-Set" - George Rochberg's Aesthetics of Survival, January 24, 1989
"A Cooler Beat" - Bernadette Speach, February 7, 1989
"In the Loops" - Joshua Fried, Aki Takahashi, February 14, 1989
"God on a Compact Disc" - Oliveros, Hovhaness, Giteck, February 28, 1989
"The Yoruban Moon" - Tania Leon, Borah Bergman, March 14, 1989
"Paradigms Lost" - John Zorn, Rhys Chatham, March 28, 1989
"A Feast of 16 Strings" - Arditti Quartet, Nancarrow, Scelsi, April 4, 1989
"Fundamentalism" - La Monte Young's Romantic Symmetry, April 11, 1989
"The Roar of All Things" - Essential Music, Rhys Chatham, April 18, 1989
"Know Your Limits" - Stephen Scott, Todd Winkler, April 25, 1989
"A Bad Connection" - New York/Cologne: Manos Tsangaris, Freseric Rzewski, Nicholas Huber, Walter Zimmermann, Carola Bauckholt, Mauricio Kagel, Clarence Barlow, May 16, 1989
"Out of the Din" - Bang on a Can festival May 23, 1989
"Heavy Metal Thunder" - Glenn Branca's 6th, David Rosenbloom, May 30, 1989
"Notes from the Underground" - American Festival of Microtonal Music, June 6, 1989
"A Cosmic Crowd Pleaser" - Wendy Chambers, Carman Moore, June 20, 1989
"Les Tapes Perdu" - Richard Maxfield, Angus MacLise, Terry Jennings, June 27, 1989
"A Mouse that Roars" - Laurie Spiegel, July 4, 1989
"Your Time or Mine?" - Jonathan Kramer's The Time of Music, July 11, 1989
"Opera Glasses" - Sorrel Hays, Philip Glass, August 22, 1989
"Wind-Breaking Suite" - Charles Amirkhanian, August 29, 1989
"Consumer Guide" - Braxton, Collins, Teitelbaum, Rolnick, Feldman, Lou Harrison, Goldberg, Gyuto Monks, Hykes, Lockwood, Marimolin, McNabb, Meredith Monk, Nakai, Oliveros, Dempster, Pousseur, Soldier Quartet, Vivier, Garland, September 19, 1989
"Out of the Ruts" - Schanzer and Speach Duo, David First, Jill Burton, October 10, 1989
"Playing the Numbers" - Glen Velez, Brian Eno, October 24, 1989
"Roars from Ruhr" - Aktive Music's German concert: Staebler, N. Huber, Abbinanti, Ott, Hufschmidt, October 31, 1989
"Run that By Me Again" - Diana Meckley, Eric Mandat, David Myers, Gen Ken Montgomery, November 7, 1989
"Private Bells" - Nancarrow, Moondog, November 14, 1989
"Frame of Silence" - First Avenue, Marimolin playing Wheeler, Scott Adams, Mays, Andrew Thomas, November 14, 1989
"Sound of Silence" - Anthony Coleman, November 21, 1989
"Drips and Chocolate" - New Music America '89: Trimpin, Hunt, Holcomb, Anthony Coleman, Rzewski, Frith, December 12, 1989
"Prayer Wheels into Turbines" - William Harper's Snow Leopard, December 19, 1989
"Jokes and Metaphysics" - minimalism from Paris: Rhys Chatham, Gavin Bryars, Michael Nyman, Ladislav Kupkovich, Henryk Gorecki, December 26, 1989

1990:
"Death, Cartoons, a New Decade" - Annea Lockwood, Linda Fisher, Brenda Hutchinson, Lois V Vierk, David First, January 9, 1990
"Rehearsal Pays" - Philip Glass, Toby Twining, February 20, 1990
"Sound and Let Sound" - Alvin Curran, Gordon Monahan, February 27, 1990
"Shifting the Scales" - Michael Harrison, Bernadette Speach, Alvin Singelton, Louise Talma, March 6, 1990
"Jailhouse Scholar" - George Lewis, Barbara Held, William Russell, March 27, 1990
"Downtown, Pennsylvania" - Relache playing Previte, Childs, Anthony Coleman, Duckworth, April 3, 1990
"Caught by the Undertow" - William Duckworth, April 10, 1990
"P.D.Q. Stockhausen" - [THE], April 17, 1990
"Let There Be Noise" - David Rosenboom, Trichy Sankaran, May 8, 1990 - the word "Messiah" was supposed to be Messiaen
"A Revolution in 53 Melodies" - Terry Riley, May 15, 1990
"Hobo Saint" - Harry Partch, May 22, 1990
"Iso-Rock" - Mikel Rouse, Mark Lampariello [Lambert], May 29, 1990
"Spring of Dissonance" - Bang on a Can: Zuidam, Van Norden, Martland, Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, Tenney, Lansky, Linda Fisher, Bresnick, Lang, Childs, June 5, 1990
"Voice of the New" - vocalist Thomas Buckner singing Jon Gibson, Peter Gena, Annea Lockwood, Nils Vigeland, June 19, 1990
"Black Holes and Other Composers" - Terry Riley, Elodie Lauten, Joshua Fried, Linda Fisher, Richard Lerman, Conrad Cummings, July 3, 1990
"The Kids Are All Right" - S.E.M. Ensemble playing Neill, Maclow, Wolff, July 10, 1990
"Music in Time of War" - Telluride Composers Festival, August 7, 1990
"A Liberal Balance" - Composer-to-Composer: Gerhard Staebler, Ge Gan Ru, I Wayan Sadra, Roger Reynolds, August 14, 1990
"Old and New Consumer Guide" - John Adams, Arditti String Quartet, Feldman, Perotin, Balinese Monkey Chant, Kronos Quartet, Marshall, Mennin, Messiaen, Oppens playing Nancarrow, Carter, and Adams, Singleton, P.A.N. Ensemble, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Zimmermann, September 4, 1990
"New Music Man" - Tom Johnson as critic, September 25, 1990
"Consumer Guide" - Riddell, Burt, Hopkins, Borden, Church of Betty, Curran, Fast Forward, David Moss, Hirsch, Santos, Lamb, The Hub, Sonami, Tyranny, Korf, Davidovsky, Wright, Kosugi, Lucier, Machover, Martland, October 2, 1990
"Split the Stick and There Is Cage" - John Cage October 9, 1990
"Moses's Brain" - Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, October 23, 1990
"In the Saddle" - Dora Ohrenstein performs Johnston, LeBaron, Bouchard, Distler, October 30, 1989
"Electric Games" - Tom Hamilton, J.D. Parran, Loren Mazzacane, Jon Rose, November 6, 1990
"Classical Clash" - two articles: interview with Rhys Chatham, and review of Robert Ashley's Morton Feldman Says, November 27, 1990
"The Primitive Within" - Raphael Mostel and the Tibetan Singing Bowl Ensemble, Sussan Deihim and Richard Horowitz, Pamela Z, December 4, 1990
"An Excess of Riches" - "Blue" Gene Tyranny's The Driver's Son, December 11, 1990
"Yin/Yang Raga" - Pauline Oliveros, Rhys Chatham, December 18, 1990
"Doing Windows" - Laetitia Sonami, Richard Zvonar, December 25, 1990

1991:
"America the Callous" - Brenda Hutchinson, Charles Wood, January 1, 1991
"CaveMystics" - Jin Hi Kim, Annea Lockwood, January 8, 1991
"Friends, Romans, Minimalists" - new music in Italy: Einaudi, Battiato, Cardini, February 12, 1991
"Crunch and Counterpoint" - Henry Gwiazda, Loren Mazzacane, Evan Gallagher, Denman Maroney, February 19, 1991
"Honesty before Weirdness" - Peter Garland, March 5, 1991
"Listening for Peace" - Pauline Oliveros, March 12, 1991
"Slowing the Connections" - the Kitchen's MUSIC/text festival: Ashley, Soldier, Linda Fisher, Ikue Mori, John King, March 19, 1991
"In Praise of Noncomposers" - pianists Lois Svard and Joe Kubera playing Otte, Tyranny, Ligeti, First, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Coleman, Kievman, Peter Gena, La Monte Young, Julius Eastman, April 2, 1991
"Just a Headline" - Experimental Intermedia festival: Sorrel Hays, Eliane Radigue, Nic Collins, Ben Neill, Neil Rolnick, April 9, 1991
"Stretch and Fold" - Diana Meckley, Guy Klucevsek, April 16, 1991
"Cage's Choice" - James Tenney, May 7, 1991
"Musica Negativa" - Theodore Adorno's music, May 14, 1991
"Ouija Songs" - Nic Collins, Elodie Lauten, James Tenney, May 21, 1991
"Alive At Zero" - Bang on a Can festival: Andriessen, Nyman, Paul Reller, Stephen Montague, Scott Lindroth, Julia Wolfe, Conrad Cummings, June 4, 1991
"Hobos and Hurricanes" - Bang on a Can festival: Maguire, Ashley, Branca, Evangelista, Newband playing Partch, June 11, 1991
"Tune Up and Drop Out" - American Festival of Microtonal Music: Michael Harrison, Wyschnegradsky, Sharp, Ives, Bach, July 2, 1991
"Un-Opera" - Michael Gordon's Van Gogh Opera, July 9, 1991
"Kaddish from Queens" - Morton Feldman July 16, 1991
"Consumer Guide" - Ferrari, Klucevsek, Lansky, Newband, Niblock, Relache playing Epstein, Albert, and Tenney, Erling Wold, August 6, 1991
"Fraction Frontier" - Drummond, Johnston, Erling Wold, La Monte Young, August 13, 1991
"Consumer Guide" - Andriessen, Dresher, Rothenberg, Goldberg, Marshall, Polansky, ROVA Sax Quartet, La Monte Young, Zelenka and Mills, August 27, 1991
"Boundary Busters" - differences among genres, September 3, 1991
"Rep on a Roll" - Conlon Nancarrow, September 10, 1991
"The Party's Over" - I'm not really sure what the first half of this one's about, but it ends with a celebration of the retirement of Donal Henahan, the NY Times's worst music critic, September 17, 1991
"Hello, Dalai Lama" - Linda Fisher, Glenn Branca, October 1, 1991
"Whiz, Bang, Tzinng!" - Yvar Mikhashoff, Anthony de Mare, Ursula Oppens playing Curran, Rzewski, Nancarrow, October 15, 1991
"Finnegans Opera" - Robert Ashley's Improvement, eL/Aficionado, October 29, 1991
"An African Trinity" - Leroy Jenkins's Mother of Three Sons, November 5, 1991
"On the Strings" - Margaret Leng Tan, Gordon Monahan, David Meyers, Ron Kuivila, November 12, 1991
"Nerves and Blood" - Elodie Lauten, Charles Wood, Dary John Mizelle, November 19, 1991
"Here Today, Canada Tomorrow" - Tim Brady, December 3, 1991
"Un-Oriented" - Gamelan Son of Lion with I Wayan Sadra and Rahayu Supanggah, December 24, 1991
"Ideas in the Raw" - Larry Polansky, David First, December 31, 1991

1992:
"Bitter Chords" - avoiding bitterness, January 28, 1992
"The Pierless Partch" - a rant about Harry Partch, February 18, 1992
"Reshaped-note Singing" - William Duckworth's Southern Harmony, February 25, 1992
"Painting the Devil" - Diamanda Galas, March 10, 1992
"Consumer Guide" - Lili Boulanger, Neely Bruce, Dolden, Robert Erickson, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Harvey Goldman and Warren Lehrer, Malcolm Goldstein, Barbara Held playing Vigeland, Juilliard String Quartet playing Wolpe, Babbitt, and Sessions, Kramer, Lentz, Tibetan Singing Bowl Ensemble, Isang Yun, March 17, 1992
"Virtuosi di CD" - Impossible Music, Duckworth, Leach, S.E.M. playing Kotik, April 7, 1992
"Rip! Woof! Bang! (Ouch!)" - The S.E.M. Ensemble plays Fluxus, April 14, 1992
"Square Rhythms" - Earle Brown and Mikel Rouse as Schillinger technique composers; Arthur Russell obituary, April 28, 1992
"Genius Flops" - Essential Music plays early Cage, Continuum plays Wolpe, May 19, 1992
"Soundscapes R Us" - Bill and Mary Buchen, May 26, 1992
"Vision in a Can" - Bang on a Can festival, June 2, 1992
"Life After Minimalism" - Bang on a Can festival: Lentz, di Pietro, Kazue Sawai, Piano Duo, Cameron, June 9, 1992
"Political Intercourse" - Conrad Cummings, June 30, 1992
"How to Defy Dead Germans" - alternative tuning technology, July 7, 1992
"The Future of Listening" - Morton Feldman's For Philip Guston, August 18, 1992
"Consumer Guide" - Wendy Carlos, Dodge, Duchamp, Nietzsche, Peter Garland, Gorecki, Kronos Quartet, Lang, Martland, Nono, Rihm, Vierk, Volans, September 1, 1992
"Grecian Formulas" - Christodolous Halaris's reconstructions of ancient Greek music, September 8, 1992
"As Chance Has It" - John Cage and Marie Louise von Franz's psychology of chance, September 22, 1992
"Bleeding the Edge" - decreases in New Music funding, October 6, 1992
"Notes from Nowhere" - New Music Across America: Terry Riley, Alvin Singleton, Tayloe Harding, James Oliverio, November 3, 1992
"Labor Mortis" - Ben Neill, David Lopato, November 10, 1992
"Film for Music" - Todd Levin, Cagemusicircus!, November 17, 1992
"Beyond the Climax" - Margaret Leng Tan plays Cage, Hovhanness, Satie, John Adams, Meredith Monk, Duckworth, Matsudaira, November 24, 1992
"Whiplash!" - Soldier String Quartet playing Seaton and Soldier, December 29, 1992

1993:
"Let Sounds Be Sounds" - Tom Hamilton, Ben Manley, Essential Music playing Cardew, January 5, 1993
"Metallica and Ives" - Cage and Ives in the classroom, January 19, 1993
"Improv Questions" - Doctor Nerve, Blast, January 26, 1993
"Well-Tuned Blues" - La Monte Young's Forever Bad Blues Band, February 2, 1993
"Faster Than the Ear" - Mikel Rouse, Michael Gordon, Virgil Moorefield, February 16, 1993
"Consumer Guide" - Ashley, Jody Diamond, Creshevsky, de Alvear, Double Edge playing Tenney and Tyranny, Giteck, Iconoclast, Ives songs, Mowitz, Scelsi, Carl Stone, Tenney, March 2, 1993
"Rousing Euro-Rabble" - Luciano Berio and new Italian music, March 9, 1993
"Dads Versus Shadows" - James Hillman's creative archetypes, March 16, 1993
"12-Step Programs" - Philip Bush and alternative tunings: David First, Sorrel Hays, Ben Johnston, Beethoven, Sweelinck, March 30, 1993
"Downtown Threshold" - Off the Wall to Wall Festival: David Shea, David Weinstein, April 6, 1993
"Heavenly Buzz" - David First's Jade Screen Test Dreams of Renting Wings, Lois Vierk, and Essential Music playing Duckworth, Ashley, Sorrel Hays, April 13, 1993
"Space Challengers" - Trimpin, Tod Machover, May 4, 1993
"In Uptown's Face" - Thomas Buckner, Lois Svard playing Ashley, Soldier, and Tom Johnson, Joe Kubera playing La Monte Young, Jon Gibson, Gerhard Ruhm, and Henry Cowell, May 11, 1993
"Shooting Stars" - Ron Kuivila, Chris Newman, Laurie Anderson, May 25, 1993
"After Ugly Music" - interview with the Bang on a Can curators, June 1, 1993
"Politics in a Can" - Bang on a Can festival: Daugherty, Wolff, Rzewski, Oliver Lake, Ben Neill, June 22, 1993
"Death Stings" - Wendy Mae Chambers, Thomas Buckner, July 6, 1993
"Jupiter's Tunes" - Gary Tomlinson's Music in Renaissance Magic, July 27, 1993
"Frankly, My Dear..." - the death of orchestras, August 3, 1993
"Eurhythmics" - Wim Mertens, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, S.E.M. Ensemble, August 17, 1993
"Local Boy Makes Polyrhythms" - Charles Ives's birthplace, August 24, 1993
"Consumer Guide" - Collins, Dunn, P. Garland, Glass, Hunt, Ketting, Oswald, Rouse, Stuart Smith, Soldier, Johnston, Wes York, La Monte Young, Ziporyn, August 31, 1993
"Dysfunctional Harmony" - creativity and its suppression, September 14, 1993
"Conlon Nancarrow's Tempo Tornadoes" - Nancarrow and totalism (first paragraph: 45, not 15), October 5, 1993
"Dad Was an Old Master" - William Harper's opera El Greco, October 12, 1993
"Audible Numbers" - Glenn Branca's symphonies on disc, October 26, 1993
"Inside-Out Opera" - Steve Reich's The Cave, November 2, 1993
"Handmade in Holland" - new music at Amsterdam's Steim, November 30, 1993
"Hot Tub Angst" - Morton Subotnick, Maria de Alvear, December 7, 1993
"Noise Is Not Enough" - Yoshiaki Ochi and Visual Sonic, Ben Neill, December 14, 1993
"Jerry Hunt, 1943-1993" - obituary, December 21, 1993

1994:
"Bop a Dop Bop" - Mikel Rouse, Machine for Making Sense, Meredith Monk, January 4, 1994; I mistakenly thought that Rouse's songs were from his upcoming opera Failing Kansas, and they were actually from an album called Living Inside Design, but he never corrected me afterward, and I found out months later.
"Sample Questions" - Neil Rolnick, January 11, 1994
"Don't Wannabes" - Toby Twining, February 8, 1994
"Spin It Around" - Trimpin and the NEA controversy, February 22, 1994
"The Bali Bug" - Barbara Benary, March 1, 1994
"Consumer Guide" - J.L. Adams, Arraymusic - Michael Baker, Rudolf Komorous, Terry Riley - John Cage Tribute, Qube Chix, Elise Kermani, Christine Baczewska, Leach, Tom Johnson, Sasha Matson, Meredith Monk, Nancarrow, Nyman, Ostertag, Shields, Spahlinger, Stabler, March 22, 1994
"Tyrannize Me" - Michael Gordon Philharmonic playing Gordon and Ziporyn, March 29, 1994
"Sewing Up Downtown" - Norman Yamada, Mark Degliantoni, Jerry Hunt's memorial concert, April 12, 1994
"Ain't Misbehavin'" - Bang on a Can festival: Louis Andriessen, Rzewski, Alison Cameron, Scelsi, Lang, Mary Wright; American Festival of Microtonal Music: Richard Stein, Ivor Darreg, la Monte Young, April 26, 1994
"Italo-Afro Music - Bernadette Speach, Jonathan Kramer, May 3, 1994
"Lost in Time - Peter Gordon's The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, May 17, 1994
"When in Rome - Bang on a Can: Meyering, Didkovsky, Gosfield, Kancheli, Alvarez, Le Gassick, May 24, 1994
"Un-Control Freak - Cage's Rolywholyover A Circus, John Mizelle, May 31, 1994
"Same to You, Martini - the New York Philharmonic audience, June 21, 1994
"Woofs of Passion - Dogs of Desire playing Todd Levin, Torke, Braxton, Rolnick, June 28, 1994
"It's a Jungle - Ben Neill, Common Sense: Melissa Hui, Ed Harsh, Belinda Reynolds, John Halle, Mark Mellits, Carolyn Yarnell, Dan Becker, July 12, 1994
"Gold in That Thar Vacuum - Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Torke, Neil Haverstick, July 19, 1994
"The Devil, He Is Us" - Carman Moore's Mass for the 21st Century, August 30, 1994
"All Chance Is not Alike" - James Pritchett's The Music of John Cage, September 6, 1994
"Consumer Guide" - Andriessen, Borden, Bryars, Budd, Curran, Martland, Riley, Robinson, Rouse, Arthur Russell, William Russell, Twining, Tyranny, Volans, September 20, 1994
"No Generic Substitutions" - Nick Didkovsky, October 11, 1994
"Chant Chic" - for a classical music supplement, the Voice asked me to write a long wrap-up of Gregorian chant recordings, and I obliged, October 18, 1994
"Whom Bomb?" - Jerome Kitzke, the Brooklyn Philharmonic playing Zorn, Glass, and Chen Yi, November 1, 1994
"The Tao of Acoustics" - Alvin Lucier, November 8, 1994
"Real-Life Ring" - Robert Ashley, November 15, 1994
"Soundtracks to Live By" - Ambient festival at the Kitchen: Zoar, Terre Thaemlitz, DJ Spooky, Marclay, Niblock, November 29, 1994
"Angels Online" - Morton Subotnick, Annie Gosfield, December 6, 1994

1995:
"Homebodies" - First Avenue: Bryan Rulon, Matt Sullivan, William Kannar, January 3, 1995
"Unsilent Night" - Phil Kline, Essential Music playing Cardew, January 10, 1995
"Words, Words" - Mikel Rouse, Robert Ashley, February 21, 1995
"Suspended in Time" - Glen Velez, Robert Een, Eleanor Hovda, Dary John Mizelle, February 28, 1995
"Wearing the Pants" - Elise Kermani, Kronos Quartet playing La Monte Young, March 15, 1995
"The Rhythms of Power" - Susan Parenti, Lisa Fay, April 4, 1995
"Different Drummers" - Ives's Universe Symphony as completed by Larry Austin and Johnny Reinhard, April 11, 1995
"Ego Threats" - the Kitchen's Feminine Instincts festival: Beglarian, Speach, Mooke, April 18, 1995
"Glimpses of a Theme" - Larry Polansky, S.E.M. Ensemble, Phil Kline, April 25, 1995
"The Uptown Continent" - Juilliard Ensemble playing Nancarrow, Virko Baley, Jan Morthenson, Manuel Sosa, Osvaldo Golijov; Double Edge playing Volans, May 16, 1995
"Drone On - Please" - David First's Manhattan Book of the Dead, Elodie Lauten, May 23, 1995
"Dumbing Down DG" - Todd Levin, May 30, 1995
"Anxieties of Influence" - Crosstown Ensemble playing Anthony Coleman, June 13, 1995
"Ballad of Lincoln Center" - Bang on a Can festival, June 20, 1995
"Legacy of the Green Screen" - Neil Rolnick, Twisted Tutu, July 11, 1995
"End of the Paper Trail" -the increasing irrelevance of notation, July 25, 1995
"Consumer Guide" - Act of Finding, J.L. Adams, Ashley, Branca, Didkovsky, Dolden, Fang, Jenkins, Lentz, Neill, Polansky, Rzewski, Sound Pressure, Tudor, August 1, 1995
"Pop! Goes the Music" - Judy Dunaway, John Kennedy, Don Malone and Elise Kermani, August 8, 1995
"Space Master" - Henry Brant, August 15, 1995
"An End to Theory" - John Ralston Saul, September 5, 1995
"Horses' Mouths" - William Duckworth's Talking Music, September 26, 1995
"'Til the Fat Lady Clicks" - Tod Machover's Brain Opera, Henry Gwiazda, October 3, 1995
"Getting Physical" - New York Guitars: Loren Mazzacane Connors, Didkovsky, Phil Kline, John King, Judy Dunaway, October 10, 1995
"Tones of Atonement" - Jerome Kitzke, October 17, 1995
"Downtown on a Shtick" - Soho Arts Festival: Mikel Rouse, Ben Neill, Frankie Mann, Joshua Fried, Christina Wheeler, Nina Mankin, October 31, 1995
"The Choreography of Noise" - Henry Gwiazda, Jerome Kitzke, November 7, 1995
"Singing in Tongues" - Joshua Fried, November 14, 1995
"Duet for Soloist" - David Hykes, November 28, 1995
"Cold Fusion" - David First, Mikel Rouse, Joshua Fried, Robert Ashley, December 5, 1995
"Improper Ladies" - Women Composers, Sal Martirano, December 12, 1995
"Orchestral Maneuvers" - Eve Beglarian, Annie Gosfield, December 26, 1995

1996:
"Take the E Train" - Tom Hamilton, January 2, 1996
"Sex, Politics, Gazpacho" - Barbara Golden, William Duckworth, January 9, 1996
"Queen of the Nightmare" - Diamanda Galas, January 23, 1996
"Music Writ Large" - Wharton Tiers, Blastula, Phil Kline, January 30, 1996
"Cage Upstaged" - the Kitchen's TONE: unCAGED festival, February 6, 1996
"Chops to Spare" - Anthony de Mare playing Rzewski, Speach, Moravec, Sharman, Gordon, Matamoros, February 20, 1996
"Reich On" - Steve Reich, February 27, 1996
"Now in Technicolor" - Henry Brant's Concord Symphony, March 12, 1996
"Yokology" - Dialogue with Ann Powers about Yoko Ono, March 19, 1996
"Enigma Revived" - Johanna Beyer, April 2, 1996
"Sweet Dreams" - Virko Baley, April 16, 1996
"Good Twin, Evil Twin" - Steve Reich vs. Philip Glass, Skip LaPlante, April 23, 1996
"Portrait of a Magus" - Shelley Hirsch performs Jerry Hunt, May 14, 1996
"Master of the Universe" - Johnny Reinhard's reconstruction of Ives's "Universe" Symphony, Czech postminimalism, June 4, 1996
"http://stravinsky.minsky.bach" - Tod Machover's Brain Opera, June 25, 1996
"In the Lines of Fire" - Fred Ho, Dogs of Desire, Ives's Universe Symphony, August 20, 1996
"David Tudor, 1926-1996" - obituary, September 3, 1996
"Consumer Guide" - Adams, Amirkhanian, Creshevsky, Branca, Cameron, Chadabe, Conrad, Ferrari, First, Lentz, Mooke, Rouse, Stone, Takahashi, Volans, September 17, 1996
"Ambient Lives!/Stinks!" - new ambient music, October 1, 1996
"Composer at Last" - interview with Meredith Monk, October 15, 1996
"Bang! Crunch! Who's on First?" - Twisted Tutu, Meredith Monk, October 29, 1996
"To Dream the Postmodernist Dream" - DJ Spooky meets Xenakis, November 12, 1996
"Sell Out!" - Mikel Rouse's Dennis Cleveland, Anthony Braxton's Shala Fears for the Poor, November 19, 1996
"Echoing the Gods" - Joshua Fried, Philip Glass, December 10, 1996
"On Second Thought" - Steve Reich, the Mythic Theater's Electra Fugues, music by Matthew Pierce, December 31, 1996

1997:
"Weirdos Like Me" - new music online in the early days of the internet, February 4, 1997
"Gentrification" - Common Sense:Dan Becker, Belinda Reynolds, John Halle, Ed Harsh, Randall Wolff, Carolyn Yarnell; Derriere Guard: Ken Lampl, Ed Green, Stefania DeKenessey, Charles Coleman, Bernadette Speach, April 8, 1997
"Consumer Guide" - Appleton, Blastula, Gloria Coates, Common Sense, Feldman, Sorrel Hays, Sasha Matson, Meredith Monk, Ben Neill, Neil Rolnick, David Rosenboom, Anthony Braxton, Tenney, Lenore Von Stein, April 29, 1997
"Bang Out an Old Soft-Shoe" - Bang on a Can, Maria de Alvear, June 3, 1997
"Any Similarity Purely Coincidental" - ambient and techno in relation to new music: Thaemlitz, Aphex Twin, Paul D. Miller, Beck, the Orb, June 24, 1997
"The Poetry of Technology" - Morton Subotmick's Intimate Immensity, July 29, 1997
"Classical Sleaze" - Norman Lebrecht's Who Killed Classical Music?, August 19, 1997
"Piano Rolls and Fresh Mangos" - an obituary for Conlon Nancarrow, September 2, 1997; this is cut off, I'm afraid. For the rest of the text, see the reprint in my blog
"Consumer Guide" - Bleckmann and Monder, Bryars, Tan Dun, Michael Gordon, Lou Harrison, Johnston, Jordanova, Marshall, Rzewski, Schanzer, Stuart Smith, Yasunao Tone, September 16, 1997
"Frying the Trout" - Downtown Schubertiade, September 30, 1997
"Suite Emotion" - Elodie Lauten, October 28, 1997
"Are Notes Enough?" - Continuum's Nancarrow retrospective, December 2, 1997
"A for Annoying" - Robert Ashley's Famous Last Words, December 23, 1997 - Ashley later told me that this was a dismal performance because the conductor wouldn't follow his directions

1998:
"Beethoven: Now in Color" - Enid Katahn plays Beethoven in historical temperaments, January 20, 1998
"Freeze, Symphony!" - William Duckworth's Cathedral, February 3, 1998
"Consumer Guide" - J.L.Adams, Azarm, Feldman, Patrick Grant, Hovda, Lansky, David Mahler, Oliveros, Roberts, Volans, Youngs, February 24, 1998
"Framing Wallpaper" - Bang on a Can plays Eno, Terre Thaemlitz, March 24, 1998
"Roll Over, Liszt" - Frederic Rzewski, May 5, 1998
"Gang Bang" - Bang on a Can playing Pamela Z, Phil Kline, Richard Teitelbaum, June 2, 1998
"Drunk Rat Melodies" - Petr Kotik, Roscoe Mitchell, Feldman, June 9, 1998
"Going Native" - Judith Saint Croix, June 30, 1998
"Scream of the Crop" - Yoko Ono on CD, July 14, 1998
"Virtue Squad" - Hildegard of Bingen, performed by Sequentia and Hildegurls, July 28, 1998
"Everything Is a Loudspeaker" - David Tudor's Rainforest, August 18, 1998
"Consumer Guide" - Amirkhanian, Galas, Hamilton, Lentz, Chris Newman, Jack Smith, Bathory-Kitsz, Chambers, Goode, Lauten, Leach, Lockwood, Radigue, Skempton, Tsontakis, September 1, 1998
"Uptown Dropout" - Joan Tower, September 22, 1998
"Between Propeller Blades" - Music at the Anthology: Ernesto Martinez and Eduardo Gonzalez, Lois V Vierk, Lukas Ligeti, Anna Weesner, October 6, 1998
"Symphony in Beef Major" - Herman Nitsch, October 13, 1998
"Drip, Drip, Drip" - Michael Gordon, November 10, 1998

1999:
"When 2+2 Isn't 4" - Philip Glass's Monsters of Grace, January 5, 1999
"Classical Trash" - P.D.Q Bach, January 26, 1999
"Words Set, Not Sung" - Melody Sumner Carnahan and her composers, February 16, 1999
"Music! It's Better When Personal!" - Fred Ho, April 1, 1999 - this column seems to have been cut from the print edition for space, although perhaps it appeared on the internet? I know Fred Ho responded to me about it, so it was public.
"Micro-Breweries" - American Festival of Microtonal Music: Adam Silverman, Skip LaPlante, Patrick Grant, Harry Partch, Paul Erlich, Joe Monzo, June 8, 1999
"Sound Bytes of Truth" - Jeff Harrington, Kalvos and Damian, July 13, 1999
"Grand Old Youngster" - Steve Reich at Lincoln Center, July 20, 1999
"Orpheus Meets Isolde, with Ducks" - Chinese opera: The Peony Pavilion, August 3, 1999
"Consumer Guide" - Amacher, Barker, Clementi, Doty, Een, D. Garland, Gosfield, Jarvinen, Kline, Micro-ritmia, Partch, Rochberg, Sainte Croix, August 10, 1999
"It's Not Just for Aliens Anymore" - thereminists Lydia Kavina and Pamelia Kurstin, August 31, 1999
"Balancing the Audio and Visual" - Non-Sequitur Festival: Molly Thompson, David First, Elaine Kaplinky, September 7, 1999
"Getting Your Two Senses' Worth" - Non-Sequitur Festival: Kaplinsky, Distler, Chiu, Molly Thompson, First, September 14, 1999
"To Groove or Not to Groove" - John Adams, September 21, 1999
"Music Turned Inside Out" - Borbetomagus, October 19, 1999
"God Is Not in the Details" - Gordon, Wolfe, and Lang's Carbon Copy Building, October 26, 1999
"Master of the Slow Surprise" - Phill Niblock, November 9, 1999
"In the Realm of the Senses" - Nic Collins, November 23, 1999
"The Wolf Within" - Maria DeAlvear, December 7, 1999
"Roots in Outer Space" - Sonic Youth playing Wolff, Tenney, Ono, Oliveros, Cage Reich, December 28, 1999

2000:
"How to Hear a Face" - Clarence Barlow, January 11, 2000
"How Do I Quantize Thee" - Paul Lansky, February 8, 2000
"Master of Mugham" - Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, February 22, 2000
"Rihm, on the Other Hand" - Wolfgang Rihm, March 7, 2000
"Opera Rad" - Robert Ashley's Dust, April 4, 2000
"Streamlining Chaos" - William Duckworth's Cathedral, April 18, 2000
"The Key to Letting Go" - Morton Feldman's Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, April 25, 2000
"The Right Two Notes" - Bernadette Speach, May 16, 2000
"The St. Tom Passion" - Tom Johnson's Bonhoeffer Oratorio, June 6, 2000
"Hendrix from Heaven" - Trimpin's self-playing guitars, June 13, 2000
"Words Belied by Music" - Rob Reich, Corey Dargel, Martha Mooke, July 4, 2000
"One-Man Opera Machine" - new Mikel Rouse discs, July 25, 2000
"D'Dark Eyes" - D'Divaz, August 8, 2000
"Rattling the Stones" - Annie Gosfield, Phil Kline, Glenn Branca's 12th, September 12, 2000
"Lost Treasures" - Theatre of Eternal Music, September 26, 2000
"Blast from the Past" - Charlemagne Palestine, October 10, 2000
"I'll Take Paradise" - Philip Glass's 5th Symphony, October 24, 2000
"Sawing Through Italy" - Giovanni Sollima, November 7, 2000
"Eggs and Elephants" - Henry Gwiazda's video installations, November 21, 2000
"Resignating with the Audience" - Kathleen Supove, Randall Woolf, Nick Didkovsky, December 5, 2000
"Tri-Century Man" - Sarah Cahill plays Ornstein and Antheil, December 19, 2000

2001:
"Dog Food for Justice" - Bang on a Can, January 2, 2001 - the online headline (and mine) was "Deja Vu Again," and I think "Dog Food for Justice" was a mistake, perhaps intended for another article; the Voice began slipping, quality-wise.
"DeathWish" - Collective Decay or Commercial Suppression?, January 9, 2001
"Songs of the Open Road" - Rich Kassel transcribes Harry Partch, January 30, 2001
"Mistaken Memories" - Tony Conrad, February 13, 2001
"Women on the Verge" - Joshua Fried's Headset Sextet, February 27, 2001
"A Tale of Two Cities" - Neil Rolnick opera, March 6, 2001
"Quite by Chants" - John Tavener, Ivan Moody, Christos Hatzis, March 27, 2001
"Shades of Pretty" - Daniel Lentz's new record label, April 10, 2001
"Credo in Unum Tonum" - religious music by John Luther Adams, Giteck, Wiprud, Tavener, MacMillan, April 24, 2001
"Consumer Guide" - Band, Bresnick, Byron, Collins, D'Divaz, De Alveat, Hasse, Garland, Lansky, Mahler, Sellars, Sturm, Tyranny, Vees, May 29, 2001
"East Village Buddha" - Elodie Lauten's Waking in New York, June 12, 2001
"Dueling with Symphonies" - Glenn Branca's 13th at the WTC, July 3, 2001
"Jumping the Groove" - David First, July 17, 2001
"Music Afraid to Be Heard" - Salvatore Sciarrino, July 31, 2001
"Departing from Recipe" - Philip Glass's Lincoln Center Festival, August 14, 2001
"Everybody Plays" - Downtown orchestration, September 4, 2001
"We Will, We Will Nonpop You" - Kalvos and Damian's Ought One festival, September 18, 2001
"Down but Not Out" - Downtown musicians deal with 9/11, October 2, 2001
"The Uptowners Among Us" - Adam Silverman, Daniel Amada, Dennis DeSantis, Lee Hyla, October 16, 2001
"Musico-Collateral Damage" - Effects of war on the course of music, November 6, 2001
"Hear Me Talkin' to Ya" - Walter Marchetti, Robert Ashley, November 27, 2001
"Quartet 4 the Beginning of Time" - Jerome Kitzke, December 11, 2001

2002:
"Composer, Interrupted" - Downtown homages to Ruth Crawford, January 1, 2002
"He's Always a Pop Star to Me" - Billy Joel's foray into classical composition, January 15, 2002
"Leaving Well Enough Alone" - Stuart Isacoff fawns over equal temperament, February 5, 2002
"Too Filmy to Describe" - Ingram Marshall, February 19, 2002
"Fuzzing the Familiar" - Phil Kline, March 5, 2002
"Moon Rising Fast" - Beata Moon, March 19, 2002
"Shaken, Not Stirred" - Jonathan Kramer, April 2, 2002
"Pop Goes the Composer" - Eve Beglarian, Corey Dargel, April 16, 2002
"Music for Unwinding" - John Morton, Stephen Vitiello, Linda Catlin Smith, May 7, 2002
"For Your Ears Only" - Mikel Rouse's Dennis Cleveland, again, May 21, 2002
"Overtones of Eternity" - Toby Twining's Chrysalid Requiem, June 4, 2002
"Boogying to the Max" - Dafna Naphtali, Bruce Gremo, Hans Tammen, June 18, 2002
"Muscular and Misunderstood" - an obituary for Ralph Shapey, July 16, 2002
"Composing in the Air" - an obituary for Earle Brown, August 6, 2002
"O Fiction, My Love" - Jacqueline Humbert, August 20, 2002
"Simple Things First" - new CDs by Peter Garland, Terry Riley, October 1, 2002
"Unidentified Fretted Object" - David Beardsley, October 15, 2002
"Same World, Different Trips" - Nick Didkovsky, Randall Woolf, Patrick Grant, October 29, 2002
"Are We Experienced Yet?" - flutist Margaret Lancaster, November 26, 2002
"Like Reich on Vodka" - new music in Moscow, December 10, 2002
"The Moving Pencil Writes" - Meredith Monk's Mercy, December 24, 2002

2003:
"How Music Survives Capitalism " - Theodor Adorno's essays on music, January 7, 2003
"Can't Help but CRI" - death of a great new-music record label, January 28, 2003
"Not Gift-Wrapped" - Frederic Rzewski's ten-disc piano set, February 11, 2003
"It's the Tune, Stupid" - an obituary for Lou Harrison, February 25, 2003
"Your Roots Are Showing" - the S.E.M. Ensemble playing Lauten, Roscoe Mitchell, March 11, 2003
"Micro-Monuments" - American Festival of Microtonal Music, March 25, 2003
"Tuning Your Brain" - David First post-9/11, April 15, 2003
"Where the River Ends" - Robert Ashley's Celestial Excursions, April 29, 2003
"Erasing the Lines" - John Luther Adams, June 24, 2003
"Slice 'N' Dice" - Noah Creshevsky, July 6, 2003
"Global Recipe" - William Duckworth's Cathedral, August 26, 2003
"Pinned Down by the Piano" - Young's The Well-Tuned Piano on DVD, September 10, 2003
"A Sonata Obsessed" - Andrew Violette's three-hour piano sonata, September 24, 2003
"Pursued by Chords" - Daniele Lombardi with 21 pianos, October 15, 2003
"Meet Carl Arff" - Kirk Nurock's Natural Sound Ensemble, November 19, 2003
"Once Upon a Time" - the ONCE festival on records, December 17, 2003

2004:
"Norwegian minimalist raises Beethoven molto adagio bar" - Lief Inge's slowed-down Ninth Symphony, February 18, 2004 - Somehow the paper did not even manage to put my byline on this column, nor did they allow me one of my usual pithy headlines
"Let X Not Equal X" - Amy X. Neuburg, Todd Reynolds, March 23, 2004
"Call It Spectral" - Spectral music, May 3, 2004
"Felling the Wall" - an obituary for Jonathan Kramer, June 15, 2004
"Hall of Mirrors" - Anthony De Ritis's DJ Concerto, October 12, 2004
"Extreme Makeover" - Mel Marvin's Buwalski, October 25, 2004
"Voice Geek" - Pamela Z, November 29, 2004

2005:
"200 Billion Years Ago" - Sequitur ensemble playing Beglarian, January 25, 2005
"Disorient Express" - the return of Eric Richards, February 23, 2005
"The World in Little Bits" - Charles Amirkhanian, Paul Epstein, May 24, 2005
"Photographs of Songs" - Corey Dargel, Eve Beglarian, July 12, 2005
"Reconstructing the Universe" - Johnny Reinhard's Ives Universe Symphony, September 9, 2005
"Rock Happens" - Barbara Benary, December 5, 2005 (my final Voice article)

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