 Musicologist Douglas Alton Smith perceived these works as malicious hoaxes and forgeries because of their ostensibly baroque or earlier styles.The controversy in 2000 over what some considered an outright hoax led to coinage of a new German word, "Sautscheckerei", which denoted a musical or literary hoax.Turovsky published "Mikrokosmos", a collection of nearly 800 Renaissance-styled pieces based on Ukrainian folk melodies under the pseudonyms "Ioannes Leopolita" and "Jacobus Olevsiensis"..

Turovsky's poetry translations (from Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and other languages) have appeared in the literary almanacs Cardinal Points, "The Germ", and various web publications.