Alden Phelps is an artist, songwriter, and musician with over 20 years years of experience performing for audiences of all kinds across the region. Alden’s zany songs, zippy guitar-ifications, and sing-along choruses delight folks of all ages, and his arts-integrated interactive workshops inspire a love of language and the joy of playing with words.
From the last pages of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, A Wish.
This mini crankie, 6" wide, I made for the Mini Crankie Festival in February 2021, hosted by The Western Mass Puppet Guild. The song, I took from the last pages of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. If you don't manage to make it to the light and indeed fall back to earth to be born again, may you be born remembering, so you don't repeat your mistakes and you more fully understand yourself and your actions.
Medium: crankie, a scrolling panorama of images
Year: 2021
Details: 6" wide, 60"long
Homebodies
Homebodies is an object performance that explores the concepts of house and home. Centered on a 30 cubic inch puzzle box that has trick doors and amenities, Alex & Olmsted combine physical comedy and puppetry to unlock the house of the imagination. All ages.
Medium: live theater
Year: 2018
Details: 90 minutes
Milo the Magnificent
The Jim Henson Foundation Grant awarded Milo the Magnificent is a highly engaging puppet show about an aspiring magician. Using stunningly innovative puppetry, Milo presents a variety of magic tricks which don’t always go as planned.
Medium: live puppet theater
Year: 2017
Details: 40 minutes
Marianne's Onion
“Marianne’s Onion” is a true story from the pandemic in which Marianne Ross, in need of an onion, finds one miraculously in the woods and muses on the meaning of unexpectedly receiving a seemingly mundane gift.
Medium: film
Year: 2020
Details: full film: 8 minutes
The Fisherman at The Chimes School
See more information about The Fisherman at The Chimes SchoolMedium: Play
Year: 2018
Brahms // Trio in A Minor, Op. 114
Details: 8'
Beethoven // Gassenhauer Trio
Medium: Classical Music
Year: 2019