• Two talks at the Ostrava Music Days, August, 2011. About: for jim, ben and lou; tooaytoods; 3 New Hampshire Songs; "the world's longest melody"; rounds; other ideas
  
• "Optimal Well-Temperaments,"  Dartmouth Innovators Series, August, 2009. powerpoint presentation
• "Three Excellent Ideas," talk given at Drums Along the Pacific Festival, Cornish Institute for the Arts, Seattle, March 27, 2009
• Examples  Tenney's "dissonant counterpoint" idea, NYC, 2008 (first given in Phoenix, AZ, 2007)
  
• Two talks, Santa Fe Institute, June, 2006 (examples, notes)
• Two talk on experimental independent music publishing (and Frog Peak)
• "If we can make it we can print it, and if we can print it we can give it away: experimental independent music publishing in the United States" or "Beyond Imprimatur."
  
• Outline and handout for a talk on experimental  independent publishing given by Jody Diamond and me at the Music Library Association meeting, NYC, in 1992.
• "No Room in the garage,"
• An update  to the 1992 talk, focussing on Frog Peak, MLA conference, Las Vegas in 2002.
  
• The first version of these talks was given at the California Library Association conference, the mid-late-1980s.

• Music and Shoah talks
• Rough notes fon Music and Shoah given several times (Dartmouth, Melbourne Jewish Museum, Dartmouth Roth Center for Jewish Life, etc.). First solicited for a class by  Dartmouth colleagues Leo Spitzer and Marianne Hirsch. Musical and visual examples not included, nor are Hebrew fonts.
• Handout materials for Music and Shoah talk, Humanities Forum, Dartmouth, 5/95. Includes written out versions of the Sh'ma (including the one from Survivor from Warsaw)
  
• Envisioning Ruth Crawford Seeger's Piano Study in Mixed Accents,  given first at the Society for Music Theory as a "response" to a presentation by Joseph Strauss on atonal analysis of RCS' work. Later expanded this 10-minute visual presentation into a longer talk, still unpublished. This link contains further details. This work became the basis for the piece The Casten Variation.
• Talks at WACM (Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music) 2014 (methods, morphology) (PowerPoint presentations) (iPython notebook examples)
• Music Department Commencement Speech, UCSC, 6/2017
  

• Optimal Well Temperament Supplementary Materials.
• project with Kimo Johnson, Dan Rockmore, Douglas Repetto, Wei Pan
  
• Three Essays on American Sign Language Poetry (2013)
• PAH!: A Quiet Suggestion for the Next Inaugural ("op-ed" style piece, suggesting an ASL poet for the next inauguration)
• The Best American Poetry You'll Never Read (longer essay on ASL poetry, with a focus on the problems of translation into English)
• Sound Without Meaning, Meaning Without Sound (description of class on ASL poetry and performance, Dartmouth College, 2011)
• Harmony Primer (updated 11/11/13). Pedagogical introduction to basic tuning theory
  
• Indonesian commissioning. Unpublished paper, co-authored with Jody Diamond, presented at a UC Berkeley conference on cross-cultural composition. This paper documents the commissioning project in Indonesia which resulted in the three Lyrichord cds called New Music Indonesia, as well as some other recording releases. Some reviews of the three cds at the Lyrichord site.
  
• miscellaneous small writings on johanna magdalena beyer: program notes, brief bios, etc. for more information see the Musical Quarterly article, or the frog peak score editions.
• article on intellectual property, digital sound, and the fp collaborations project (among other things) in Open Space web-journal: "Singing Together, Hacking Together..." ( reconstructed, and now on my publications page, and the Open Space page, thanks to Dean Rosenthal)
• notes on the Three Monk Tunes, written for the Percussive Arts Society Journal, 1984 (not sure if published...)
  

• short answers to questions by paul doornbusch "about mapping" (algorithmic composing, sonification)
• morphological metrics/mutation functions "FAQ" (references, articles, ideas, pieces)
• short essay, called "Shemot," about my piece titles, in response to some questions from Bob Gilmore (2010)
  
• responses to questions about Ensembles of Note, from Camille Chitwood (2010)
• email interview with by Matteo Marchisano-Adamo, for Italian magazine (2010)
• Gaburo panel at the Issue Project Room (June 22, 2010)
• Questionaire (and answers) sent by Darmstädter Ferienkurse (2012)

Materials by or about other people 

James Tenney

• scores: notes and errata  
• Spanish translation of "John Cage and the Theory of Harmony" by Juan Sebastián Lach.