Ron Drummond

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

Writer[edit]

Ron 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; and the introductory essays for the 8-volume edition in score and parts of The Vienna String Quartets of Anton Reicha;[5] and other essays, fictions, poems, reviews, and interviews. More recent publications include a short story, "Troll,"[6] published in Black Clock, and a performance essay on the Tokyo String Quartet.[7]

Editor[edit]

As an editor, Drummond worked with the novelist and critic 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. Drummond is also a proofreader and editorial redactor of Delany's most famous novel, Dhalgren (Bantam Books, 1974; Wesleyan University Press, 1996; Vintage Books, 2001). 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 (ElectricStory.com, 2002). He sold subscriptions for a deluxe 25th anniversary edition [5] of Crowley's 1981 novel Little, Big , slated for publication in 2007, and finally published in October 2022.

Designer[edit]

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[16] and was featured on CNN.com and Seattle's KOMO-TV News.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ [1] Uncle Jam and The Music Paper of New York, 1986).
  2. ^ [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 [3], (London, 2006).
  6. ^ Black Clock #11, Fall 2009/Winter 2010
  7. ^ [4] "The Tokyo String Quartet Performs," Classical.Net, March 2011
  8. ^ Samuel R. Delany, The Straits of Messina (Serconia Press, Seattle, 1989): see dedication page (p. v) and publisher's note (p. iv).
  9. ^ Samuel R. Delany, Longer Views (Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New England, Lebanon NH, 1996): see author's "Preface" (p. x).
  10. ^ Samuel R. Delany, They Fly at Çiron (Incunabula, Seattle, 1993): see author's "Note" (p. vii) and publisher's note (p. 173).
  11. ^ Samuel R. Delany, Atlantis: Three Tales (Incunabula, Seattle, 1995; Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New England, Lebanon NH, 1995): author's note (p. iv).
  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. ^ John Crowley, Antiquities (Incunabula, Seattle, 1993): see publisher's note (p. 103).
  15. ^ John Crowley, Dæmonomania (Bantam Books, New York, 2000): see "Author's Note" (p. 453).
  16. ^ A brief review was published in Seattle's independent weekly newspaper The Stranger.

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