# outsider music?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outsider-music/193932>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 8, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outsider-music/193932 "2003-08-08T23:22:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outsider-music/193932/1 "2003-08-08T23:22:28Z")

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A few years ago, Chicago’s WMFT played a piece of music that was, in my vague memory, dictated to its a composer (a nun? a shut-in?) by–angels on the moon?–or something. I think it was a piece of choral music. Anyway, it struck as roughly the musical equivalent of one of those religious visionaries who builds a house out of bottle caps because the angel of the lord tells them too.

In any case, I would dearly love it if this rang a bell to someone here; I’d like to try to track down this music again.

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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outsider-music/193932/2 "2003-08-11T19:12:58Z")

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Sorry for the bump, but I thought I’d give it one more try.

Any clues of where to search would also be appreciated; no one at FMT remembers the specific piece of music, though a couple of people there vaguely remember something of that nature.

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**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outsider-music/193932/3 "2003-08-12T01:22:37Z")

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Try shooting an email to [The American Song Poem Music Archive](http://www.aspma.com/index.htm). If that doesn’t work I’d try the folks at WFMU’s [Incorrect Music.](http://www.incorrectmusic.com/)

Tim