Writing – Michael Dessen

“On Not Getting Over It,” in The Improviser’s Classroom: Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking, edited by Daniel Fischlin and Mark Lomanno. Temple University Press, 2025.
“Thinking Telematically: Improvising Music Worlds Under COVID and Beyond.” Jazz Perspectives, June 8, 2022.
“Networked music performance: An introduction for musicians and educators,” on Medium.com and also in a shorter version for the SmartMusic.com educators blog, September, 2020.
“New Polyphonies: Score Streams, Improvisation and Telepresence.” Leonardo Music Journal, v.20, November/December 2010.
“Asian Americans and Creative Music Legacies,” Critical Studies in Improvisation / Etudes Critiques en Improvisation, v. 1 n. 3, March 2006.
Preface to Yusef Lateef’s Songbook, 2005, FANA Publications.
“Improvising in a Different Clave: Steve Coleman and AfroCuba de Matanzas.” In The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue, ed. Ajay Heble and Daniel Fischlin. Wesleyan University Press, 2004.
“Taking Chances: The Musical Craft of Yusef Lateef” (essay-interview). Musicworks magazine, Fall 1998.

Liner notes for Circadian Etudes, by the Assembly for Distance Alchemy (Infrequent Seams, 2022)
Liner notes for Digibone Forest, by Michael Dessen (Accretions, 2019)
Liner notes for Resonant Geographies by Jason Robinson’s Janus Ensemble (pfMENTUM, 2018)
Liner notes for Somewhere In The Upstream by the Michael Dessen Trio (Clean Feed, 2018)