MusQueToe

Fragmentation is a method, not a malfunction.

The writing and the music are not separate practices. They are the same investigation carried out in different materials.

For readers the self-help section failed and academic philosophy talked past.

Selected Work

Writing

Essays, fiction, prose, and poetry at the intersection of philosophy and testimony. No resolution for comfort.

→ Read the published work

Sound

Voice, instrument, and code taken apart and rebuilt into something that accumulates without resolving.

→ Hear the released tracks

Find the work here

About

Bio

MusQueToe is a writer, experimental vocal artist, and composer based in South Carolina. The work spans essays, fiction, poetry, and sound. Four forms, one inquiry. What it costs to remain conscious. What gets built from what breaks.

The essay practice engages absurdism, Jungian depth psychology, and the lived experience of fracture and reconstruction. The fiction moves the same questions into genre and finds different pressure points. The music extends the instinct further: voice as something to fragment and rebuild, subjected to the same editorial rigor as prose, until it tells the truth in ways straight speech won't.

Philosophical grounding in Camus, Jung, Rinzai Zen, and Stoicism runs through all of it, as operative framework, not decoration.

Artist Statement

I work with what breaks. Voice that has been taken apart. Sentences that don't close. Sound that accumulates without resolution.

The music and the writing are not separate practices. They are the same investigation carried out in different materials. The question underneath both: what does it mean to hold something together when the coherence is not given, it has to be made. Every piece is an answer to that question that refuses to settle.

I'm interested in the moment after fragmentation. Not the fragment itself. The reconstruction. The thing that gets built from what's left.

Top

Writing

Essays, fiction, poetry, and prose that work as philosophy and testimony simultaneously. The same questions, carried across different forms.

Essay Collection

Integration in the Absurd In Progress

A collection of essays engaging absurdism, Jungian depth psychology, and the experience of reconstruction after prolonged fracture, working as philosophy and confession simultaneously. Frameworks tested against actual crisis, not applied to it.

Novelette

The Conspirators' Hour In Final Edit

Franco, Batista, and the Beatles walk into a mind control plot. What follows moves between dark comedy and genuine menace. History as farce, power as pathology, and a question underneath the absurdity that refuses to stay funny.

Prose Fiction

The Empty Frame In Final Edit

A work extending the same inquiry through a different material logic across six fixed sections: Perimeter, Grain, Solvent, Mouth, They Don't Get It, Eclipse. Final edit.

Short Story, Unpublished

Signal to Noise

A man tracks his own thoughts in a notebook as the signal degrades and the noise rises, until he can no longer tell which one he is.

Flash Fiction, Unpublished

Wrong Door

A middle-aged man on his way to buy a glazed donut walks through the wrong door and ends up somewhere identifiably hell. Not yet placed. Still looking for the right home.

Flash Fiction, Unpublished

Whispers Between the Walls

A flash fiction about a person that moves into a house and slowly realizes it has a way of making itself hard to leave.

Excerpt

The house wasn't haunted when I moved in. It was just quiet in a way that paid attention.

I moved in with a mattress, two boxes, and a lamp that needed to be tilted to stay on. The agent had mentioned, almost as an aside, that the previous tenant had disappeared. No struggle. No note. Just gone, the way some people leave when they've decided to stop being findable. I told myself she'd run. I recognized the sound of that even from a distance.

Ebook

Theatre without an Audience

A flash fiction work of surreal, gothic horror about ritual, surrender, and the terrible suspicion that we are all rehearsing a play we've mistaken for a life. Available through Books2Read.

→ Books2Read

Substack

Found in the Margin

Dispatches, releases, and fragments that wouldn't stay quiet. Essays, process notes, and work in progress as it surfaces.

Latest from Found in the Margin Fractal Futurist and BANNERS are outJul 26, 2026

Four new tracks landed today on Bandcamp.

→ Subscribe at Substack
Top

Sound

Processed voice, instrument, found sound, and code assembled into something that resists the familiar. The music is made from voice first, not voice as melody, but voice as material, with instrumentation brought in when a piece calls for it. A generative system moves recordings through archetypal states (Shadow, Persona, Anima, Self), fragmenting and reconstructing sound as psychological mapping.

Listen

→ BANNERS on Bandcamp
→ musquetoe.bandcamp.com

Released

More recordings are underway, extending the same practice into new territory: pieces dismantled and rebuilt until they hold a shape different from the one they started in. Nothing named yet. The next release will surface here once it's ready.

Top

Press & Contact

For booking, press, and other inquiries.

theMusQueToe@gmail.com

Themes

Fragmentation and reconstruction as formal and philosophical methods. The absurd as lived condition, not literary posture. Voice as both instrument and evidence. Memory, its distortions, and what survives them. A live set that occupies the space between performance and installation.

Press

MusQueToe writes and records under the imprint MNML/0: essays, fiction, poetry, and processed-voice sound, all working the same question from different angles. The palette draws on Camus, Jung, Rinzai Zen, and Stoicism, used as tools rather than references.

The live set occupies the space between performance and installation: twenty to forty-five minutes, suited to rooms where the audience is close and the amplification is modest.

→ Download the EPK (PDF)
→ Download the one-sheet (PDF)
→ Download logo files (ZIP)

MusQueToe · 2026 MNML/0
↑ Top