Liner notes, Forget the Pixel (MD Trio, Clean Feed Records, 2011)
Program notes, Jazz Telemotions: A Networked Trio Concert (with Mark Dresser, Myra Melford, John Crawford and Victoria Petrovich, May 12, 2010.)
Liner notes, Between Shadow and Space (MD Trio, Clean Feed Records, 2008)
Program notes, "Transcontinental Circuits: A Multi-Site Networked Concert" (April 3, 2009)
Liner notes, Eyes In The Back Of My Head (Cosmologic, Cuneiform Records, 2008)
"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." Musicworks magazine, Fall 1998.
Interview (in Spanish) with Michael Dessen, by Sergio Piccirilli. El Intruso magazine.
"Decolonizing art music: Scenes from the late twentieth-century United States." Ph.D. dissertation (Music: Emphasis in Critical Studies and Experimental Practices). Dissertation advisor: George Lewis. University of California, San Diego, 2003.
