he was exonerated. Influence Beginning in the 1970s many of Kharms' children's texts were set to music, and were often played on the radio. Ted Milton staged a performance around Kharms' texts, entitled In Kharms Way (with laptop musician Sam Britton).*The band Esthetic Education composed its poem Juravli I Korabli ("Cranes and Ships"). It appeared on their debut album Face Reading, and on their live album Live at Ring. Composer Hafliði Hallgrímsson has composed music featuring Daniil Kharms writings translated into English. The American writer George Saunders has written that he is partly "inspired by a certain absurdist comic tradition," listing Kharms alongside Mark Twain, Groucho Marx, Monty Python, Steve Martin, and Jack Handey. In 2003 Dutch musical ensemble De Kift recorded an opera based on the play "Elizaveta Bam" (1928) by Daniil Kharms. In 1998 Belgian musician and composer Peter Vermeersch has composed and recorded an album "Charms" based on Daniil Kharms' lyrics, sung in Dutch. The music has been composed for a theatre production by Walpurgis in co-production with the arts centre Vooruit. The American rapper billy woods titled his 2015 LP Today I Wrote Nothing. woods' work frequently touches on the same themes as Kharms', focusing on the absurdity and degradation of poverty. In 2022, the improvisational band The Daniil Kharms recorded Post-Gogol World, a vocal jazz album featuring novel English translations of 8 short texts by Kharms. Works Elizaveta Bam (1928, Елизавета Бам), a play Lapa (1930, Лапа), a play Incidences (1933–1939, Случаи), a short story cycle The Old Woman (1939, Старуха), a novella The Plummeting Old Women (1989) It Happened Like This: Stories and Poems (1998) Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms (2007) A Failed Performance: Short Plays & Scenes by Daniil Kharms (2018) Notes References Kharms, Daniil (2009). Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms. Edited and translated from the Russian by Matvei Yankelevich. New York: Ardis Books. . Kharms, Daniil (2013), I am a Phenomenon Quite out of the Ordinary The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms." Selected, Translated, and Edited by Anthony Anemone and Peter Scotto. Boston: Academic Studies Press. . Kharms, Daniil (2017), Russian Absurd; Daniil Kharms, Selected Writings. Selected, translated, and introduced by Alex Cigale. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. . Kharms, Daniil (2018), A Failed Performance: Short Plays and Scenes. Selected, translated, and introduced by C. Dylan Bassett and Emma Winsor