The history of the uncanny recounts rare experiences of ineffable music.
Whatever its reality, the sounds heard by percipients of the extraordinary are extremely difficult to remember and virtually impossible to articulate. I am not referencing the airs and reels of the Celtic "good folk", or the singing of Sirens, although these evoke common ideas of the supernatural, but rather a number of instances out of legend, some of which are said to have occurred within living memory. Notable episodes of this "music that is not music", of sounds that can neither be recreated nor their impressions forgotten, may be traced to Scotland, Eastern Europe, and, in the USA, North Carolina and Arizona. But having no occasion of moment to share the details of my investigations into these peculiar areas, I can say that they inform, and continue, by continuing explorations to inform, all my own "music that is not music" whether these compositions suggest the classical tone poems or the ambient atmospherics of a more modest, if modern, nature.
Whatever its reality, the sounds heard by percipients of the extraordinary are extremely difficult to remember and virtually impossible to articulate. I am not referencing the airs and reels of the Celtic "good folk", or the singing of Sirens, although these evoke common ideas of the supernatural, but rather a number of instances out of legend, some of which are said to have occurred within living memory. Notable episodes of this "music that is not music", of sounds that can neither be recreated nor their impressions forgotten, may be traced to Scotland, Eastern Europe, and, in the USA, North Carolina and Arizona. But having no occasion of moment to share the details of my investigations into these peculiar areas, I can say that they inform, and continue, by continuing explorations to inform, all my own "music that is not music" whether these compositions suggest the classical tone poems or the ambient atmospherics of a more modest, if modern, nature.
