I will be presenting the latest version of my concert/talk on music attributed to fairies, aliens, and other shadowy entities, “Music from Elsewhere,” on March 5 at 7 pm. It’s part of the series Utopia/Dystopia, curated by Morbid Anatomy and Hauser & Wirth. It’s at Hauser & Wirth, 548 W. 22nd St., NYC, and admission is free. You can find more info here. (This event was originally scheduled for November, but canceled due to a blizzard. It’s back!) It’s free, but an RSVP is requested.

I’m currently working on a book, tentatively also entitled Music from Elsewhere, including essays on not only fairy and alien tunes, but music that is lost or imaginary, musical ciphers and constructed languages, occult and hermetic music, music from seances and angels, music from fraternal orders, didactic music, kitchen symphonies and toy instruments, music from dreams, and other departures from standard practice. It’s slated for Strange Attractor Press; it may take me a while…

I’m also working on a translation of the “Upside-Down Stories” of Charles Cros and Émile Goudeau: nine bursts of hilarious and tasteless provocation from the founders of the Hydropathes in fin-de-siècle Paris. They’ve never been available in English, and it’s high time they were.

(Posted by Doug Skinner)