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  • Music
    • Guitar
    • Musical Geometry
    • Chamber Music
    • Electronic Meditations
  • Art
    • Wondering Stars - Exhibition (2021)
    • Various Paintings (2022-23)
    • The Living Mirror (2021)
    • Zahar (2022)
    • Scintilla (2022)
    • Starseeds (2020-2021)
    • Graphic Scores (2006-2018)
  • Writings
    • Writings/Books
    • Writings/Articles
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Welcome to the AMP Press, the independent publishing imprint of the American Museum of Paramusicology. Through a combination of acid-free laser printing and hand-printed linocut covers, the AMP Press produces occasional limited-edition saddle-stitched booklets exploring metaphysics, music, and otherwise. Its publications include carefully prepared reissues of neglected historical texts, selections from the AMP Journal, and new original works of an uncertain nature. Beginning July 4th, 2026, new titles will appear every two-three months, so stay tuned. The first month of sales for issue one will be donated to the NorthStar Church, a sanctuary for maringalized creatives and those who bear witness, in Durham, North Carolina. 

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AMP Press No. 2: Solomonic Magic & Sun Ra's Cymbal Symbols by Matt Marble

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SOLD OUT: Stay tuned for a second edition in November! AMP Press No. 2: Solomonic Magic Read more
SOLD OUT: Stay tuned for a second edition in November! AMP Press No. 2: Solomonic Magic & Sun Ra's Cymbal Symbols by Matt Marble Limited First Edition: 25 signed & numbered copies $24 | SHIPPING INCLUDED (US only) After spotting some cymbals "with numerological figures" in the University of Chicago's Alton Abraham Collection of Sun Ra, I had to dig deeper for the AMP Journal. Adapted from that scholarly but accessible essay, this print book explores the Solomonic magic and astrology represented on his cymbal, becoming a portal into Venusian perspectives and Solomonic mythology, including Arkestral lore, Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, magic carpets, an 18th century mystical commune, and more--featuring hand-drawn pentacles and other figures. Each issue includes a rice paper print of a 1920s era Ephrata Cloister printing plate, stapled into the book's interior--featuring the seventh angel of the Apocalypse, blowing the horn that ushers in the Heavenly Kingdom. It's a fitting companion as this book harmonizes Sun Ra's Venusian and Solomonic symbolism with this 18th century mystical community--the first religious refugees in the New World. Released today (9/11/2026) to honor Venus's entrance into Scorpio--our home sign--and to offer this book as a seal of cosmic joy and compassion, a metaphysical counter-force to the weight this date now carries.

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AMP Press No. 1: The Spiritual Declaration of Independence (1851) by Andrew Jackson Davis

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This scarcely-regarded 1851 essay by the Poughkeepsie Seer and Harmonial Read more
This scarcely-regarded 1851 essay by the Poughkeepsie Seer and Harmonial philosopher Andrew Jackson Davis is being reissued to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This essay offers one of the clearest introductions to Davis' "Harmonial" philosophy and an impassioned critique of religious dogma and errant power that still feels fresh today. This is a limited edition, saddle-stapled, laser-printed booklet with a handprinted linocut cover. It also includes a 10-page introduction by AMP director Matt Marble which contextualizes Davis' writing, both defending his work from misplaced maligning while critiquing the racial paradox situated in his Harmonial vision, as well as in the original Declaration of Independence and the American psyche itself. The first ten copies will include an original relief print of the Seventh Angel of the Apocalypse, printed from a rare early twentieth-century reproduction plate after an image in the Ephrata Cloister’s ABC Book (1750). One of the earliest mystical communities in colonial America, the Ephrata press later printed the first German-language edition of the Declaration of Independence. In Revelation, the Seventh Angel heralds not another plague, but the fulfillment of a new divine order. The first month of sales will be donated to the NorthStar Church, a sanctuary for marginalized creatives and those who bear witness, in Durham, North Carolina: https://www.northstardurham.com/ Price includes U.S. shipping PUBLICATION INFO: AMP Press No. 1 Publication date: July 4th, 2026 Original writing ("The Paradox of American Universalism") by Matt Marble CITATION INFO: Davis, Andrew Jackson. The Spiritual Declaration of Independence. 1851. Introduction by Matt Marble, AMP Press, 2026. AMP Press, no. 1. Marble, Matt. “The Paradox of American Universalism.” Introduction to The Spiritual Declaration of Independence, by Andrew Jackson Davis, AMP Press, 2026, pp. [1–11].
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