BRET SCHNEIDER

Where Are The Music Houses? ~ Essay, Caesura. 10.25
Refining The Third Ear ~ Third Ear Preludes ~ Concert Series, International Museum of Surgical Science. Fall 2025
Voluptuous Music ~ Essay, Caesura. 9.25
New Angels ~ Just-intoned Virtual Piano Album. 6.25
Judgment Days ~ Essay, Caesura. 1.25
Nocturnes ~ Just-intoned Virtual Piano. Album. 11.24
Fantasia #4 ~ Concert, Player Piano & String Quintet. Comfort Station. 11.9.24
The Preparator’s Pet Piano (ppp) ~ Installation w/ Concert Programming, Comfort Station. 10.5 - 11.30.24
Fantasias II ~ Just-intoned Virtual Piano. Album. 9.24
Interview with Michael Harrison ~ Interview, Caesura. Fall 2024
Politicizing Aesthetics ~ Lecture, The St. Louis Symposium on Radicalism in U.S. Arts. 8.24.24
Fantasia #2 ~ Concert, Arts Letters & Numbers. 8.17.24
Narcissus & Echo, w/ Janet Xmas ~ Concert. 6.18.24
Hearing in the Present Tense - On La Monte Young ~ Essay, Caesura. 2024
Hyperacuity - Baudelaire’s Late Fragments ~ Book Review, Caesura. 2022
The 21st-Century Composer ~ Essay, WIP
Fantasias ~ Player Piano Compositions for Art of Music Exhibition at The Red Gate Gallery. Spring 2024
MetaPiano ~ Installation at GCADD. Fall 2023
Drunk Walks O, I, U, E ~ Music, Modern Piano. 2022-24
Nietzsche's Aesthetics ~ Teacher, Philosophy. 2023
The Deserter’s Continuous Music in The Key of The Fields; A Musical Irreverie — Part 1 - 2 - 3 ~ Third Ear, Just Intonation, Piano, 2023
A Musical Irreverie w/ Janet Xmas ~ Irreveries Poetry Reading w/ Just-Intoned Piano @ Montez Press Radio, Summer 2023
The Irreveries ~ Book, Poetry, Allegory, Fragments, Irreveries, 2008-2024
Drunk Walks Live w/ Ensemble ~ Performance, NOTAG, Tritriangle. April 2023
Third Ear Dream House with Janet Xmas ~ Music Installation / Performance at Kerr Foundation
A Dialogue On Music, with Omair Hussain ~ Dialogue, Caesura
Third Ear Nocturnes ~ Compositions, Album, Performance at The Luminary 3.17.23
The Quivering ~ Third Ear, Drone
Evoking Potentials ~ Third Ear, Drone
Endotones in a Minor Mode 3 ~ Music Album, Third Ear, Minor Mode
Endotones in a Minor Mode 2 ~ Music Album, Third Ear, Minor Mode
Endotones in a Minor Mode 1 ~ Music Album, Third Ear, Minor Mode
Disjecta Membra: Satie ~ Caesura, Disjecta Membra
Dream Weeds ~ Music Album, Minor Mode
Selected Spectral Works 1, SSW 2, SSW3, SSW4, SSW5, SSW6, SSW7 , SSW8, SSW9, SSW10 ~ Spectral music, Epic cycle
The Art of Gas ~ Essay, Caesura, 2022
Prostheses ~ Music album. Modern, dissonant, 2019
Poems of The Drone Years  ~ Caesura (selections), Poetry ~2008-2015
The Hack, Holo Songs ~ Music album, Electronic/operatic
The Hack ~ Music album, Electronic/operatic
Trotsky’s Theory of Art ~ Platypus, Art Criticism & History
The Genre of Silence ~ Caesura, Essay, Allegory
Commitment: Fuck History? ~ Caesura issue 0, Essay
Jack & The Beanstalk ~ Caesura, Allegory, in Spanish
Crumb ~ Long-form Poem, TBD
Sound Art, A Historical Miscarriage? ~ Caesura, Essay, 2016
Criticism & Ambivalence ~ Caesura, Essay, Art Criticism, 2016
To Make the Minor Major? ~ Caesura, Art Criticism & History, Review, 2016
The Assassination of Gianni Versace ~ Caesura, Art Criticism, review
Autechre Elseq 1-5 ~ Caesura, Review
The Closed-Eyes Listener ~ Caesura, Art Criticism
The Academic Plague ~ Caesura, Allegory, Essay
Echo & Narcissus ~ Caesura, Allegory, Prose
The Most Constipated Man ~ Caesura, Allegory, Prose
The Collected ~ diSonare, Allegory
Fleshing out Music, Eros, Reason ~ Caesura, Art Criticism & History
EarHeart’s Caesura ~ Caesura *print*, from the book of allegories EarHeart
Critical Art or Kum-ba-ya? ~ Caesura, Art Criticism & History
Interview with Hal Foster ~ Platypus, Art Criticism & History, Interview, 2010
Petrified Unrest ~ Platypus, Art Criticism, 2010
Adorno, Philosophy of New Music — Platypus, Book Review
On Drone Music — Platypus, Music Criticism, Essay
Introspection & Electronic Music — Caesura, Essay
RIP Currents — Caesura, Montez Press Radio, Radio show, Interview
Constellations — Distant Bloom, Music album, ambient
Adorno & Trakl — Caesura, Disjecta Membra
Groundwork for a Study of Maryanne Amacher — Caesura, Music Criticism
Mailer & Miller — Caesura, Disjecta Membra
The Social History of Art — Caesura course, Lecturer on Ancient Greece & Rome
Art in the Age of AI — Caesura, with response from Esther Neff
Notes on Jon Rafman’s Dream Journal — Caesura, Essay
Jon Rafman’s Dream Journal — Panel presentation
The Refracting Eye — Cura, Art Criticism, Essay
RIP The Cultural Turn — Caesura, Essay
Untimely Art Criticism — Caesura, Essay
Art & Class — Presentation, panel, Left Forum
Notes on Dilation, Radiance — The Hypocrite Reader, Essay
Melancholia 1 & 2 — Music album, minimal, Never Anything
Watchfire — Music album, Never Anything
Xilinx — Music album, Phinery
Chronolalia — Music album, minimal, Phinery
Julai — Music album, computer music
Pulsar Zips — Computer music c.2003-2007
Qrxz & Qrxz 2 — Computer music, minimal
Model of a Garden Scene w/ Watering Can — Avant-Archive, Computer music, Surrealist/Musique Concrete
All-Over — Early granular synthesis music

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SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE
Volunteer, employee @ Arcosanti 2001-03,
Greenhouse Manager, Stone Barns 2004-06,
Preparator @ Missouri History Museum 2016-2023,
Curatorial Assistant @ Pulitzer Arts Foundation 2017-18
Resident & Curator @ Mildreds Lane 2009-11,
Co-Founder & Editor @ Caesura 2016-
Editor @ Platypus 2008-2011
Editor @ Chicago Art Criticism 2009-2010
Education: BAVCS @ SAIC
Co-Founder, Curator, MVSEVM