American Museum of Paramusicology
www.mattmarble.net/amp
The American Museum of of Paramusicology (AMP) is home to a unique physical and multimedia archive exploring spiritual imagination and esoteric tradition through American music history. Directed by Matt Marble, the AMP synthesizes a network of media (audio documentaries, essays, books, interviews) which explores this history and archive as well as contemporary perspectives. While physical exhibitions and related materializations are on the horizon, the AMP now offers a digital journal with audio supplements. The AMP Journal features original essays, poetry, and visual art, exclusive archival content and interviews. Subscribers also gain exclusive access to the Secret Sound podcast (45 episodes). Subscribe to the AMP today to explore and support this extraordinary perspective on American music history and spiritual imagination.
"I Hear Strange Music" | AMP archival exhibition / Occult Humanities Conference / NYU
"Consolation" (1977) by Count Carnette (guided by the spirit of Franz Liszt), Psychic Piano Music...
"Aunt Shirley in the Blue Beyond" | Matt Marble | Improvisation July 26, 2025
"Work Song" feat. Don Lewis
"You've Got a Friend [edit]" feat. Don Lewis
"Twelve Gates to the City [edit]" feat. Don Lewis
"Summertime" feat. Don Lewis
"Watermelon Man" feat. Don Lewis
"Hill Street Blues" feat. Don Lewis
"Sweatin'" by Don Lewis
"The Mass" (Live, 1976) • Don Lewis
"Parapsychology Congress Stomp & Romp" (1974) by Herbie Angell (song by David Savage)
Jonas Salk on Intuition / excerpted from a CUNY TV interview hosted by James Day / April 4 1974
"The Canticle of the Sun" XI Laudate et benedicete mi Signore [AMP Extended Mix] • Sofia Gubaidulina
"The Sound of the Genuine" | Howard Thurman | from the 1980 Commencement Speech at Spelman College
"Heart of Handala" | from "Arising Eyes" (2024) by Matt Marble
AMP Journal • Issue 20 | Dec/2024 • "Correspondences" | No Land, Katherine Heyman, Ronnie Pontiac
AMP Journal • Issue 19 | Nov/2024 • "Sounding Sufism" | LuFuki Ismaeel, Yusef Lateef, Robbie Basho
"Interlude V: Dream Talk at The Invisible Lounge with Sackbut & Bass Duet" / Matt Marble
AMP Journal • Issue 18 | Oct/2024 • "Psychedelic Sound" | Psychedelic Sangha, Coltrane, Stravinsky..
AMP Journal • Issue 17 | Sept/2024 • "A Cosmic Ear" | The Cosmic Tones Research Trio / W.W. Harmon
AMP 14 ∞ Interview excerpt feat. Ka Baird w/Matt Marble ∞ On death, music, Buddhism, and "Bearings"
"Sinner Man" by the Los Angeles Jubilee Singers directed by Albert J. McNeil