Jack M. Booth

Booth is an Irish-Australian writer, artist, composer, and musician. Booth was the principal songwriter in a duo with Eleni Poulou (The Fall, Mark E. Smith) and the violist in Berlin based band The Midnight Audience. Raised in Perth, Western Australia, he holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Liverpool, focusing his research on Nietzsche and Paul Klee. He was formerly a PhD candidate and lecturer in art history at Humboldt Universität Berlin, where he taught on Nietzsche’s relevance for 20th-century art.

Booth relocated to the forests of Western Massachusetts in 2025 from Berlin. He now lives a secluded life in the woods, splitting his time between family, spiritual practice, and artistic work.

His works draw on Orthodox Christian teachings, Thai Forest and Japanese Buddhist teachings, German and English Romanticism, and the philosophies of Nietzsche, Spengler, Hölderlin, Weil, and Guénon, being shaped by a spirit of aristocratic radicalism. Musically, he is inspired by Ruaidri Dáll Ó Catháin, Schubert, Arvo Pärt, Rautavaara, John Fahey, Jackson C. Frank, Roy Harper, Bert Jansch and Anne Briggs. He primarily plays 6 and 12 string guitar, viola, organ, and shakuhachi.

Booth’s Home Recordings series of 13 albums and studio album EINZELNE are shaped by solitude, offering a clear challenge to the distractions of late modernity—and serve as an essential response to spectacle culture through tradition.

DREAM + DEED
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