SITUATIONAL GENIUS: THE PRACTICE OF THE AMERICAN BANDLEADERS.
Full first draft completed, 123,107 words.
12.18.23 1741 EDT.
I bloody well did it.
Teacher, author, musician, conductor, arranger, mythographer, activist.
All in the game, yo.
| VMC | www.vernacularmusiccenter.org |
| Author | https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p084188 |
| Substack SFF | www.smithscribe.substack.com |
| Bandleader & architect of the Bassanda Metaverse | www.elegantsavagesorchestra.com |
SITUATIONAL GENIUS: THE PRACTICE OF THE AMERICAN BANDLEADERS.
Full first draft completed, 123,107 words.
12.18.23 1741 EDT.
I bloody well did it.
The Bassanda Podcast Ep 8:
The Great Train Ride for Bassanda Ch. 15-16
Expositions, Electromagnetism, the Orient Express, and THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
Stories, music, history, and conversation about the "mysterious nation of Bassanda" and its Multiverse: alternate history, speculative fiction, immersive creativity
www.smithscribe.substack.com
https://open.substack.com/pub/smithscribe/p/the-bassanda-podcast-ep-8
re-up for the Monday evening crowd (sorry--long day today):
The Bassanda Podcast Ep 7:
The Great Train Ride for Bassanda Ch. 13-14
Prestige TV, Kin Platt, Roger Landes, Chipper Thompson
Stories, music, history, and conversation about the "mysterious nation of Bassanda" and its Multiverse: alternate history, speculative fiction, immersive creativity
www.smithscribe.substack.com
https://smithscribe.substack.com/p/bassanda-podcast-ep-7
The Bassanda Podcast Ep 7:
The Great Train Ride for Bassanda Ch. 13-14
Prestige TV, Kin Platt, Roger Landes, Chipper Thompson
www.smithscribe.substack.com
https://smithscribe.substack.com/p/bassanda-podcast-ep-7
Re-up for the Monday crowd:
The Bassanda Podcast Ep 6:
Notes on James Lincoln Habjar-Lawrence
Stories, music, history, and conversation about the "mysterious nation of Bassanda" and its Multiverse: alternate history, speculative fiction, immersive creativity
www.smithscribe.substack.com
https://open.substack.com/pub/smithscribe/p/bassanda-podcast-ep-6
The Bassanda Podcast Ep 6:
Notes on James Lincoln Habjar-Lawrence
Stories, music, history, and conversation about the "mysterious nation of Bassanda" and its Multiverse: alternate history, speculative fiction, immersive creativity
www.smithscribe.substack.com
https://open.substack.com/pub/smithscribe/p/bassanda-podcast-ep-6
Re-up for the Monday morning crowd:
The Bassanda Podcast Ep 5:
Stories, music, history, and conversation about the "mysterious nation of Bassanda" and its Multiverse: alternate history, speculative fiction, immersive creativity
www.smithscribe.substack.com
https://open.substack.com/pub/smithscribe/p/bassanda-podcast-ep-5
BP 005 GTR Ch 08-09 [ Welcome to the Bassanda Podcast! I’m Chris Smith. This is a space for riffing upon history and upon speculative fiction, for world-building, for comedy and dialog and badinage, for bad jokes, historical ironies, and the imagination of a kinder, gentler, richer and more creative universe. Bassanda the mythical nation originates in the fertile musical and ancillary imaginations of my friends Roger Landes and Chipper Thompson (find their links in the show notes). When, as a friend of the General and the Reverend, I was first playing with the idea of a fictional alternate-universe identity for my own TTU Celtic Ensemble, I realized that perhaps I didn’t have to invent a world, if the lads were willing to let me borrow Bassanda. They were, and here we are.
The Bassanda Podcast Ep 5:
Stories, music, history, and conversation about the "mysterious nation of Bassanda" and its Multiverse: alternate history, speculative fiction, immersive creativity
www.smithscribe.substack.com
https://open.substack.com/pub/smithscribe/p/bassanda-podcast-ep-5
BP 005 GTR Ch 08-09 [ Welcome to the Bassanda Podcast! I’m Chris Smith. This is a space for riffing upon history and upon speculative fiction, for world-building, for comedy and dialog and badinage, for bad jokes, historical ironies, and the imagination of a kinder, gentler, richer and more creative universe. Bassanda the mythical nation originates in the fertile musical and ancillary imaginations of my friends Roger Landes and Chipper Thompson (find their links in the show notes). When, as a friend of the General and the Reverend, I was first playing with the idea of a fictional alternate-universe identity for my own TTU Celtic Ensemble, I realized that perhaps I didn’t have to invent a world, if the lads were willing to let me borrow Bassanda. They were, and here we are.
re-up for the Monday morning crowd:
The Bassanda Podcast Ep 4:
Stories, music, history, and conversation about the "mysterious nation of Bassanda" and its Multiverse: alternate history, speculative fiction, immersive creativity
www.smithscribe.substack.com
https://open.substack.com/pub/smithscribe/p/bassanda-podcast-ep-4
BP 006 GTR Ch 06-07 [ ] Welcome to the Bassanda Podcast! I’m Chris Smith. This is a space for riffing upon history and upon speculative fiction, for world-building, for comedy and dialog and badinage, for bad jokes, historical ironies, and the imagination of a kinder, gentler, richer and more creative universe. Bassanda the mythical nation originates in the fertile musical and ancillary imaginations of my friends Roger Landes and Chipper Thompson (find their links in the show notes). When, as a friend of the General and the Reverend, I was first playing with the idea of a fictional alternate-universe identity for my own TTU Celtic Ensemble, I realized that perhaps I didn’t have to invent a world, if the lads were willing to let me borrow Bassanda. They were, and here we are.