Multimedia Books (Film + Music + Book)
Almanac 2026: Yearly Guide of Music, Film, Books and Artist Interviews. Seven chapters, nearly 300 pages of new sounds, images, words and ideas. Guest contributors from Tokyo, NYC, Osaka, Mexico City, Berlin and Singapore. 7 chapters: interview magazine, 2 albums, 1 film, 1 bilingual book of poetry, calendar, online poetry/word game. Interviews with Stephen Byram, Coppé, Guadalupe Galván, Jerry Gordon, Allen Lowe, Hiro Masuko, Reuben Radding, Dirk Stromberg, Carolyn Swan, Craig Taborn, Yumiko Tanaka, Paul Venet, Hearty White, Nate Wooley, Kaori Yoshikawa. Calendar contributions from Aarón Cruz, Maria Cruz, Tom Kessler, Miriam Leo, Akira Saito. Back cover art by Steve Byram. All other text, art, film, design and music by BA.
Almanac 2022: Music, art, words, interviews, film, books inside books, bad puns, star charts and more, made by hand. 7 Chapters: interview magazine, two albums, film, calendar, collage, music, art, text, photography and more.
Tal Vez Soy Yo la Sílaba (Maybe I Am the Syllable) – Short Film/Pop-up Book
LYRA (2022) 2 albums on 1 cd, film/game on 1 dvd, drawings, games, instrument and other tactile delights. Very limited handmade edition.
Sycamore (2020) Film on DVD and booklet of drawings and text
After An Ocean (2018) Trilogy in Four Parts (4 films, albums and books all in one)
“Periphorous” (2018) Preview. Film/Album/Book, part III of “After an Ocean”
“Piano Bop” Video Course features over 600 animated videos, along with 3 books and accompanying play-along CDs. Produced, illustrated, animared, designed, edited and recorded by BA. Co-authored with Jacob Koller (2020).
other select publications
“Creative Engagements with Ecologies of Place: Geopoetics, Deep Mapping and Slow Residen- cies” (Routledge) by Modeen and Biggs 2021. Photo, Butoh dancer & Osaka musician, Chap. 5.
“New Waltz” CD by Tom Kessler. Liner notes essay and photographs. Unit Records 2019
“Vals” with Guadalupe Galván. Published by Editorial Praxis 2012
2013 Calendar with Guadalupe Galván. Design by Brian. Daily phrases and drawings by both.
2012 Calendar with Guadalupe Galván. Design by Brian. Daily phrases and drawings by both.
“of Ports and Pambazos” by Brian, published in Musicians in Mexico City. English and Spanish, translated by Guadalupe.
“Downbeat Magazine” transcription/analysis of Slide Hampton trombone solo, December 2002.
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