Ron Drummond

Ronald Norman Drummond (born 17 October 1959, in Seattle) is an American writer, editor, and independent scholar.

Writer

Ron Drummond is the author of "The Sonic Rituals of Pauline Oliveros" [http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/articles/oliveros/sonicrituals1.html ] ("Uncle Jam" and "The Music Paper of New York", 1986); a critical fiction about the novels of Steve Erickson, "The Frequency of Liberation" [http://www.steveerickson.org/articles/frequencyofliberation2.html ] ("Science Fiction Eye", 1993); "Ducré in Euphonia: Ideal and Influence in Berlioz" ("2003 Cambridge Music Festival Programme", Cambridge UK, 2003); "Broken Seashells," [http://www.jethrotull.com/news/BC4D4.pdf ] an essay/meditation on ancestral memory and the music of Jethro Tull ("Black Clock" #4, Fall Winter 2005-06); and the introductory essays for the 8-volume edition in score and parts of "The Vienna String Quartets of Anton Reicha" (Merton Music [http://www.classical.net/music/links/commercial/publisher/merton/ ] , London, 2006), among numerous other essays, fictions, reviews, and interviews.

Editor

As an editor, Drummond has worked extensively with the novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany, most notably on the essay collections "The Straits of Messina" (1989), [Samuel R. Delany, "The Straits of Messina" (Serconia Press, Seattle, 1989): see dedication page (p. v) and publisher's note (p. iv).] "Longer Views" (1996), [Samuel R. Delany, "Longer Views" (Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New England, Lebanon NH, 1996): see author's "Preface" (p. x).] the novel "They Fly at Çiron" (1993), [Samuel R. Delany, "They Fly at Çiron" (Incunabula, Seattle, 1993): see author's "Note" (p. vii) and publisher's note (p. 173).] collection "Atlantis: Three Tales" (1995), [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).] a novel-in-progress, "Shoat Rumblin" (2002), and "Dark Reflections" (2007); he was the publisher of "Çiron" and "Atlantis". Drummond is also a four-time proofreader and editorial redactor of Delany's most famous novel, "Dhalgren" (Bantam Books, 1974; Wesleyan University Press, 1996; Vintage Books, 2001); because of his work, the Third and later printings of the Vintage edition of this typographically complex novel are considered by the author to be the most accurate rendering of the text ever published. Delany writes, "Ron's editorial acumen is the highest I have encountered in a professional writing career of more than thirty years." [As per Drummond's [http://www.littlebig25.com/Drummond/drummond.pdf on-line c.v.] .] In March 2006, Drummond gave a talk on "Editing Samuel R. Delany" at a two-day international academic conference on Delany's life and work held at SUNY Buffalo. [See conference schedule on SUNY Buffalo [http://www.english.buffalo.edu/delany/schedule4.doc English Department website] ]

Drummond has also worked extensively with novelist John Crowley, publishing Crowley's short story collection "Antiquities" (1993), [John Crowley, "Antiquities" (Incunabula, Seattle, 1993): see publisher's note (p. 103).] editing the novels "Dæmonomania" (2000) [John Crowley, "Dæmonomania" (Bantam Books, New York, 2000): see "Author's Note" (p. 453).] and "Endless Things" (2007), and the electronic versions of "Ægypt" and "Love & Sleep" (ElectricStory.com, 2002). He is currently preparing a 25th anniversary edition [http://www.littlebig25.com ] of Crowley's 1981 novel "Little, Big", featuring the art of Peter Milton, an essay by Harold Bloom, and the typographical design of John D. Berry. Crowley writes, "Ron's work [on "Dæmonomania"] was at one end meticulous and painstaking, and at the other large-spirited and helpful with the biggest questions of the book."

cholar

An independent scholar, Drummond is an excavator and advocate of the music of several Czech composers of the Classical Era, especially Anton Reicha (1770-1836) and Pavel Vranický (1756-1808). He spearheaded the movement to restore Reicha's string quartets to the repertoire, co-editing (with Henrik Löwenmark) the first edition in 200 years of the eight Vienna quartets, and facilitating several modern Reicha premieres by string quartets in the U.S. and Europe, most notably of the G major quartet Opus 48 No. 2 in a concert by the Coull Quartet at the 2003 Cambridge [UK] Music Festival. In the 1970s, Drummond collaborated with his father, physicist James E. Drummond, on a system for satellite-based solar power collection and transmission; their papers on the topic were included in several conference proceedings and in the published committee hearings of the Space Science and Technology Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives (1976).

Designer

From September 2002 through June 2003, Drummond created an original design for the World Trade Center Memorial called [http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/ent/entI=832166.html "A Garden Stepping into the Sky"] . The design was the focus of a documentary by the award-winning independent filmmaker Gregg Lachow [A brief [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Listings?oid=16880 review] was published in Seattle's independent weekly newspaper "The Stranger".] and was featured on [http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/wtc.ideas/designs/page.105/ CNN.com] and Seattle's [http://www.komotv.com/news/story.asp?ID=22853 KOMO-TV News] . Drummond submitted the Garden Steps to the official international design competition for the WTC Memorial in June 2003; it was among the 5,200 submissions not chosen.

Ron Drummond currently lives in Troy, New York.

References

External links

* [http://www.littlebig25.com/drummond/cv.html On-line resume with links]
* [http://ron-drummond.livejournal.com/ Dreaming of Dao Gaia]
* [http://www.jethrotull.com/news/BC4D4.pdf Broken Seashells]
* [http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/articles/oliveros/sonicrituals1.html The Sonic Rituals of Pauline Oliveros]
* [http://www.steveerickson.org/articles/frequencyofliberation2.html The Frequency of Liberation]
* [http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/ent/entI=832166.html A Garden Stepping into the Sky]
* [http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/articles/haydnfj/noroyal.html No Royal Directive: Joseph Haydn and the String Quartet]
* [http://www.nwsinfonietta.com/notes8Nov02.htm Jupiter in the Age of Enlightenment]
* [http://www.nwsinfonietta.com/notes3Oct03.htm Aperçu of Apotheosis] Beethoven dancing
* [http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/articles/reicha/quartets/appendixc.html Czech Classicism: The Sweat of the Brow]
* [http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/articles/reicha/quartets/index.html The String Quartets of Anton Reicha]
* [http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/articles/reicha/bio.html Anton Reicha: A Biographical Sketch]
* [http://www.tentacle.org/archives/articles1000.html#scholz On First Hearing the Stochastic Kaleidophon of Carter Scholz]
* [http://www.tentacle.org/archives/articles0600.html#dumpster The Dumpster Concerto]
* [http://www.classical.net/music/links/commercial/publisher/merton/ Merton Music String Chamber Music Catalog 2006/2007]
* [http://www.littlebig25.com The 25th Anniversary Edition of John Crowley's "Little, Big"]