The music of Vanessa Rose Marcussen Meier · VTM (Vanessa The Musician), 1987 to 2007
Fully recovered · all 11 tracks
One of the albums we've recovered in full. She dated it March 19, 2005. Hear it the way she sequenced it, intro through outro.
Tracklist
More of what we have
9 other albums, partially recovered.
Silence
five tracks still missing
2005
7 / 12
The Way
six tracks still missing
2004
6 / 12
Indifference
seven tracks still missing
2005
3 / 10
Vantastic
earliest surviving album
2004
2 / 11
Vision
cover art designed by her older sister Rachel Marcussen, revealed April 2007
2007
2 / 8
Electronically Challenged
collaborative tracks with John Alan Fessel
2007
2 / 8
Dreamworld
only one track recovered
2007
1 / 6
Genesis
an earlier concept album, lyrics-only — predates her computer-composition era
2003
0 / 10
Simply Nessa
the first album she finished on computer; tracklist never published
2004
0 / ?
Three standout tracks not on any album
See all 52 unassigned tracks →Who made this music
A teenage electronic composer from Virginia, working in happy-hardcore, trance, and Europop. The sounds of Dune, Blümchen, and BT.
She started composing at seven, named herself VTM at eleven, and by sixteen had written six hundred and ninety-five songs. She finished thirty-two albums before she died at twenty. Eighty-six of her tracks have been recovered, nearly all of them shared back by friends and old forum connections who still had the files.
Read her biography, timeline, and interviews →Still searching: songs we haven't found yet
Still searching · 609+ songs unaccounted for
She wrote 695 songs.
We've found 86.
The rest live on CDs in drawers, on hard drives in closets, in forum threads that haven't been read in twenty years. The most recent recovery arrived two decades after she made it. Which is to say, we're still early.
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Further reading
About her
Her life, timeline, and interviews
Biography, musical influences, and her own words from interviews at 16.
Story
Lost on MySpace, found on hard drives
How nearly seven hundred songs were almost erased, and how some came back.
Scene
Happy hardcore, in the bedroom-producer era
The genre she worked in, the artists she listened to, where she fit.