Malcolm Strange, a freelance writer and composer from New York, currently working for MTV Networks. I've written about music for various Web publications and have been known to pen scholarly essays for Encyclopedia Americana and poetry for PoetryMagazine.com.

When not writing short stories and screenplays, I score music for Off-Broadway productions in NYC. Most recently, I composed songs and music and helped create sound effects for The Blue Bird at Urban Stages. I also composed several songs for the Urban Stages' production The Magical Forest of Baba Yaga. Past productions include Ah, My Dear Andersen and Seven Rabbits on a Pole. Under the moniker of Malcolm Strange, I've written and recorded a truckload of basement demos. Some of those tracks are above. 

Since forming in early 1999, Malcolm Strange has featured a revolving cast of characters built around the axis of its eponymous founder and sidekick Sonia Kozlova. In early performances, the group shook up suburban audiences in Strange's native Long Island with audacious acts of androgyny. A typical concert featured band members switching instruments onstage! It was later revealed that, offstage, they engaged in flagrant acts of reading each others mail. In June 2000, Malcolm Strange shocked New York City's jaded jet set (not to mention local florists) by appearing at local clubs wearing nothing but carefully arranged begonias. Later that year, they turned the scene on its ear again when they appeared at The Spiral dressed as characters from the animated series, The Flintstones. This last stunt ended in a firestorm of controversy when bassist Vegas Berlin, trapped in his Dino costume, was arrested for impersonating a dinosaur with "intent to cause a riot." Personnel changes in late '00 saw the band disappear from the scene for several months. In early 2002, Strange and Kozlova emerged with a new look and sound. Sporting long white beards and carrying stone tablets with cryptic etchings, the pair unveiled a curious mix of bird noises, Yiddish insults and hip-hop beats. 45 seconds into their debut at The Pyramid, the duo re-considered their new image, ducked behind a curtain, and emerged with yet another look and feel. It is this latest incarnation a beguiling mix of post-punk glamadelica that can be heard on their latest record, The Curious World of Malcolm Strange. Look