The first musical instrument of Faerie was the seismic reverberations in the tectonic grinding of earth. The second musical instrument was the sough of the wind in the trees, which describes Faerie with a detail outside words and which, in fact, is the breath of life of Faerie.

The two principle characteristics of the music inside Faerie are, first, that precisely the same music is never played twice and, second, that the music cannot be recalled. This elusiveness is not a fault of the listener but a trait of the music itself, for the music of Faerie eschews idioms and is always improvised in the moment. Evolution has endowed the human brain with physiological pattern recognition capabilities, tools that are useless to characterize and store the information in a music that lacks rhythm, melody, and harmony. The absence or intentional distortion of these characteristics perverts the brain's best efforts to assess this music. Due to the incompatibilities between the structure of the music and expectations of the brain, the music is either lost or at least not easily retrievable. Therefore, each listening to the music of Faerie is as if one is hearing it for the first time.