VTM archive
the music of Vanessa Rose Marcussen Meier 1987 · 2007

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

11 tracks · 44:48
More of what we have

9 other albums, partially recovered.

See all 86 tracks →
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 singles →
Run Away (Hardcore RMX)
4:56 · 2007
Familiar Feelings
4:49 · 2005
It's Not the End
4:37 · 2005
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 by the time she was 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 out there

She wrote 695 songs.
86 are here so far, and counting.

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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