A grim little poem by that master of pessimism, Thomas Hardy, set here for three voices and bass instrument.

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I appeared on Dean Bertram’s podcast Talking Weird to discuss my book Music From Elsewhere. You can see and/or hear it here.

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A drinking song by Thomas Chatterton, from his play The Revenge, set here for SATB. This is the first page.

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My friend Don Jolly once remarked that in this society we’re just a tube for money. With his permission, I turned the idea into a song. Here’s the first page.

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There are many songs praising sports, but few expressing disinterest in them. This song fills that need.

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For many years, Meg Reichardt has invited musicians to contribute a song to her annual Holiday Recording Party. Thanks to her, I’ve written more holiday songs than I would have imagined. My latest one is about that hapless trio, the Three Wise Men. You can listen to it here, and here’s the first page.

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You can now listen to selections from “Music From Elsewhere” on Bandcamp. I recorded 32 brief pieces from the book, with voice, piano, electronic keyboard, psaltery, sopranino recorder, and chord zither. Brian Dewan was the engineer. Here it is!

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Greetings, music lovers! I’ll give a Zoom talk/concert about my book Music From Elsewhere in Shannon Taggart’s Supernatural Mystery Symposium, through the Viktor Wynd Museum in London on October 22, at 8:00 pm. I’ll play music attributed to fairies, trolls, trows, angels, aliens, time slips, and other unlikely sources, and suggest possible explanations. POSTSCRIPT: The […]

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If you happen to be in Salem, Massachusetts, do visit the current show in the Peabody Essex Museum, “Conjuring the Spirit World.” My recording of one of the pieces from “Music From Elsewhere,” a song by those original Spiritualists the Fox Sisters, will be wafting through the air. You can find more info here. And […]

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Music From Elsewhere is now available from Strange Attractor Press! This book collects and discusses music derived from unusual sources, including music attributed to fairies, trolls, trowies, banshees, aliens, angels, spirits, time slips, and dreams. You’ll also find chapters on speculative and cryptographic music, and on music from birds and other natural sounds. It’s 272 […]

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