Chris Smith

@ChrisSmithMuso
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Teacher, author, musician, conductor, arranger, mythographer, activist.

All in the game, yo.

VMCwww.vernacularmusiccenter.org
Authorhttps://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p084188
Substack SFFwww.smithscribe.substack.com
Bandleader & architect of the Bassanda Metaversewww.elegantsavagesorchestra.com
Chris SmithDec 15, 2023
COME WORK WITH US AT TEXAS TECH!
The School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Texas Tech University invites applications for a full-time, 9-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Musicology to begin in fall 2024.
Position Number: T96642
Appointment: Tenure track, beginning fall 2024 Application Deadline: Applications are due on January 21, 2024. Review of applicants will begin on January 22, 2024.
Chris SmithDec 3, 2023

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

The Bassanda Podcast, Ep 8

Expositions, Electromagnetism, the Orient Express, and THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

Smith Scribe
Chris SmithNov 26, 2023

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

Bassanda Podcast Ep 7

THE GREAT TRAIN RIDE FOR BASSANDA, Ch. 13-14

Smith Scribe
Chris SmithNov 19, 2023

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

Bassanda Podcast Ep 6

THE GREAT TRAIN RIDE FOR BASSANDA Ch 10-11

Smith Scribe
Chris SmithNov 12, 2023

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

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.

Smith Scribe
Chris SmithNov 5, 2023

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

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.

Smith Scribe
Chris SmithOct 29, 2023

The Bassanda Podcast Ep 3:

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-3

Bassanda Podcast Ep 3

Character, POV, voice, and THE GREAT TRAIN RIDE FOR BASSANDA

Smith Scribe
Chris SmithOct 23, 2023

Re-up for the Monday morning crowd:

New from the Multiverse!

The Bassanda Podcast:

Alternate history, speculative fiction, immersive creativity

www.smithscribe.substack.com
https://open.substack.com/pub/smithscribe/p/bassanda-podcast-ep-02

Bassanda Podcast Ep 02!

Introducing Cecile Lapin, and, THE GREAT TRAIN RIDE FOR BASSANDA

Smith Scribe
Chris SmithOct 22, 2023

New from the Multiverse!

The Bassanda Podcast:

Stories, music, history, and conversation about the "mysterious nation of Bassanda" and the Bassanda Multiverse: alternate history, speculative fiction, immersive creativity

www.smithscribe.substack.com

https://open.substack.com/pub/smithscribe/p/bassanda-podcast-ep-02

Bassanda Podcast Ep 02!

Introducing Cecile Lapin, and, THE GREAT TRAIN RIDE FOR BASSANDA

Smith Scribe
Chris SmithOct 9, 2023

Re-up for the Monday morning crowd:
The Final chapter of NEW WORLD A-COMING:
January 1979: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

https://open.substack.com/pub/smithscribe/p/new-world-a-coming-ch-63

See also this, about what's coming next: https://smithscribe.substack.com/p/looking-ahead-the-bassanda-podcast

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