Ron Drummond

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Ronald N. Drummond (born 1959 in Seattle, Washington) is a writer, editor, and independent scholar.

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Career

Writer

Drummond is the author of The Sonic Rituals of Pauline Oliveros ; [1] The Frequency of Liberation, [2] a critical fiction about the novels of Steve Erickson; Ducré in Euphonia: Ideal and Influence in Berlioz ; [3] Broken Seashells, [4] an essay/meditation on ancestral memory and the music of Jethro Tull; the introductory essays for the 8-volume edition in score and parts of The Vienna String Quartets of Anton Reicha. [5] Other publications include the short story, "Troll", [6] published in Black Clock , and a performance essay on the Tokyo String Quartet. [7]

Editor

As an editor, Drummond worked with Samuel R. Delany on the essay collections The Straits of Messina (1989), [8] Longer Views (1996), [9] the novel They Fly at Çiron (1993), [10] collection Atlantis: Three Tales (1995), [11] a novel-in-progress, Shoat Rumblin (2002), and Dark Reflections (2007). He was the publisher of Çiron and Atlantis. He is a proofreader and editorial redactor of Delany's most famous novel, Dhalgren . Delany wrote, "Ron's editorial acumen is the highest I have encountered in a professional writing career of more than thirty years." [12] In March 2006, Drummond gave a talk on "Editing Samuel R. Delany" at an international academic conference on Delany's life and work held at SUNY Buffalo. [13]

Drummond also worked with novelist John Crowley, publishing Crowley's short story collection Antiquities (1993), [14] editing the novels Dæmonomania (2000) [15] and Endless Things (2007), and the electronic versions of Ægypt and Love & Sleep (2002). He sold subscriptions for a deluxe 25th anniversary edition of Crowley's 1981 novel Little, Big , slated for publication in 2007, and finally published in October 2022. [16]

Designer

From September 2002 through June 2003, Drummond created an original design for the World Trade Center Memorial called 'A Garden Stepping into the Sky'. The design was the focus of a documentary by independent filmmaker Gregg Lachow [17] and was featured on CNN.com and Seattle's KOMO-TV News.

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References

  1. ↑ Classical Net - The Sonic Rituals of Pauline Oliveros by Ron Drummond Uncle Jam and The Music Paper of New York, 1986).
  2. ↑ Science Fiction Eye , 1993.
  3. ↑ 2003 Cambridge Music Festival Programme, Cambridge UK, 2003.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 2, 2006. Retrieved November 11, 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Black Clock #4, Fall Winter 2005-06.
  5. ↑ Merton Music , (London, 2006).
  6. ↑ Black Clock #11, Fall 2009/Winter 2010
  7. ↑ "The Tokyo String Quartet Performs, Classical.Net, March 2011
  8. ↑ Delany, Samuel R. (1989). The Straits of Messina. Serconia Press.
  9. ↑ Delany, Samuel R. (March 15, 2016). Longer Views: Extended Essays. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN   978-0-8195-7194-6.
  10. ↑ Delany, Samuel R. (February 15, 1996). They Fly At Ciron. Tom Doherty Associates. pp. vii, 176. ISBN   978-0-8125-4317-9.
  11. ↑ Delany, Samuel R. (July 28, 1995). Atlantis: Three Tales. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN   978-0-8195-5283-9.
  12. ↑ As per Drummond's on-line c.v. See also Delany's comment on Drummond in About Writing (Wesleyan University Press, 2005), p. 279.
  13. ↑ See L. Timmel Duchamp's Delany Conference review.
  14. ↑ Crowley, John, Antiquities (Incunabula, Seattle, 1993): see publisher's note (p. 103).
  15. ↑ Crowley, John, Dæmonomania (Bantam Books, New York, 2000): see "Author's Note" (p. 453).
  16. ↑ "The 25th Anniversary Edition of Little, Big, by John Crowley". littlebig25.com.
  17. ↑ A brief review was published in Seattle's independent weekly newspaper The Stranger.
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