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A darkly humorous novel with
accompanying soundtrack, The Lake in
Winter consists chiefly of the bitter memoirs and bleak ruminations of
Ziggurat Vitruvius Wolcott, a recently widowed and not particularly
successful composer with a penchant for pouring vitriol upon his enemies
and encomiums upon his own neglected genius. Following its narrator’s
journey from lonely child to rueful septuagenarian, this chronicle of
misanthropy, self-laceration, and perennially thwarted ambition is a
shameless homage to the cantankerous tradition of Elias Canetti, Thomas
Bernhard, and Dostoevsky’s Underground Man.
The companion recording provides an
alternately sympathetic and ironic musical counterpoint to the novel’s
central themes.
The Lake in Winter (novel): 228 pp
The Lake in Winter (soundtrack): 33’02”
Mastered by Tomas Korber
This is Suppedaneum
no. 28
Joseph Clayton Mills is an
artist, composer, and performer working at the intersection of language,
composition, and archival practice. A former Chicagoan, he remains an
active participant in the improvised and experimental music community
there, where his collaborators have included Adam Sonderberg
and Steven Hess (as Haptic), Michael Vallera (as Maar), Noé
Cuéllar (as Partial), Jason Stein, Michael Pisaro, and Olivia Block, among many others. His
recordings have appeared on numerous labels, including Another Timbre, FSS,
and Entr’acte. In 2013, in collaboration with Noé
Cuéllar, he launched the label Suppedaneum to focus on releasing scores and their
realizations. He has received commissions and grants from the Chicago Film
Archive, Black Cinema House (Rebuild Foundation), the Illinois Arts
Council, the Experimental Sound Studio, and, in 2016, was artist in
residence at the Sonic Arts Research Unit at Oxford Brookes University, UK.
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