Cthonicist

On The Hill Of Roses is the title story of a collection of short tales by Stefan Grabinski, a Polish contemporary of H.P. Lovecraft, who offers a unique macabre sensual twist on the kind of overwrought synaesthetes most often encountered in the works of Edgar Allan Poe, or HPLs own Dreamlands pieces. Worth checking out

…is how Guardian columnist Jan Werner Muller described American ‘Secretary of War’ Pete Hegseth’s recent video glorifications of remote control push button destruction . Started in Ableton Note, finished in AUM on iPad . Etherpad for voice, some loops, Decent Sampler pianos and cellos.

“Some might believe also in people who *do* care. I can’t count myself amongst that happy band, I’m afraid, Ms. Petworth. Not after all I have seen of humanity’s indifference to its own inflicted cruelties.” - The Colonel. Made in AUM on IPad with multiple instances of the following apps: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/055u4ry/id6789734684 https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mntrp/id6800424988

“Yes, there’s a hotel in Innsmouth—called the Gilman House—but I don't believe it can amount to much. I wouldn't advise you to try it.” - Trustpilot, probably

“The worst thing about the abomination wasn’t its bite. At least, not at first. It was the sight of that second face, that second mouth, upon its ghastly back.” - Professor Challenor. Quick try out of a free drum machine app, a recreation of a rare Soviet era machine, the Pulsar ES. Heavily affected and messed with in AUM on iPad. Get the app here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pulsar-es-drum-mach...

Power electronics, aka Dark Noise, but for old folks.. That is: some of the sonically abrasive edges, and all the teenage edgelord sentiments sanded off. One instance of noise app Wail,manipulated live, variously effected in AUM on iPad. No sequencers, no AI, just restless fingers. Get Wail here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/wail/id6786723124

In the alchemical practice of the ‘solve et coagula’ The Sun (Sol) represents the masculine, active, fixed, and drying principle (often associated with Gold and Sulfur), while the Moon (Luna) represents the feminine, passive, volatile, and moist principle (associated with Silver and Mercury). The ‘Solve et Coagula’ is the interaction between Sun and Moon that drives the alchemical process of disso...

“Despite her youth, Sister Mary had long been our order’s most expert exorcist. But whatever it was she encountered in the catacombs of the ruined Abbaye de Mortemer, the Abbey of the Dead Sea in Normandy, it was no spirit susceptible to faith. And it… changed her.” -The Abbess.

“Quantum-based magical theory views the reality in which we live as coextensive with a malleable virtual reality. Thus, the computer provides an excellent locus for magical experimentation.” - ‘ Collins, S, ‘Technology and Magick’, Scan, journal of media and culture: http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=35

“There are two schools of thought regarding the effects of the drug Axplakadine. Those that haven’t taken it believe it can extend life, by centuries. Then there are those who have taken it. And they are all dead. Or mad.” - Dr. Festin. Multiple Strange Loops and AD202s in AUM on iPad.

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” - Carl Jung. Created live in AUM on iPad on a base of two instances of the new Strange Loop chaos theory based generative MIDI app: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/strange-loop/id6795408783

“That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.” - H.P. Lovecraft, ‘The Nameless City’. Link to full story here: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/nc.aspx Made entirely with Diego Capoccitti’s superb line of hands on synth apps - DroneDie, OktaDie (Lyra 8 clone), AlchemDie (Strega clone) and SwarmaDie (Dewanatron Swarmatron clone). All beautiful...

“There is in the land of Mnar a vast still lake that is fed by no stream and out of which no stream flows” - ‘The Doom That Came To Sarnath’, H.P. `Lovecraft. A friend of mine is a scientist who models water flows through landscapes. He gave me some of his raw data to see if I could ‘sonify’ it. His data provides the core electronic sounds here, which I have augmented with real found sounds and sy...

“The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.” - William Gibson. Neon sunsets lambent in the smeared smog of the Sprawl have a kind of malformed beauty, a freakshow fascination. We are all dying here, but sometimes in the slaughterhouse, even the sheep look up. Just to take in the view.

Kozyrev Mirrors are experimental devices consisting of spiral or cylindrical chambers made of polished aluminum, designed to reflect and concentrate what theorists call "time energy" or torsion fields. Originally based on the work of Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Kozyrev, who proposed that time is a physical energy interacting with matter, these mirrors were later developed in the 1980s and 1990s...

Non Mutual (You Are Not One Of Us).wav by Svetlovska

I do like me some epistemological uncertainty. Are you a blue pill or a red pill sort of person? Composed mixed and recorded with apps directly on iPad.

Everything is possible for one who believes. And isn’t that just the problem?

“How do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you're at war? Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not your first day.” One of the best post Lovecraftian, SCP adjacent sci fi horror concepts to have emerged recently. Check out the book, and the brilliant short mo...

Saṃsāra is the concept of all beings experiencing an ongoing cycle of life, death, and rebirth. iPad improv using new app 16 Drones into AUM: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/16-drones/id6761003327

Casadastrophobia is the very specific fear, not to be confused with agoraphobia, of falling into the sky. It may be triggered by landscapes of vast open spaces, unbordered fields, unbroken views to the horizon and wide featureless skies. Sufferers experience panic attacks, vertigo, dizziness, and even collapse. In the UK, the flat, marshy terrain known as the Fenlands of East Anglia, remote, rural...

Sonder : The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, includiing strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it. First spin with excellent cheap drone/ambiemt app Dark Park https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/dark-park-cinematic-synth/id6760255481

“At the climax of the movie, the entranced and drugged acolyte begins her slow climb up the temple steps toward the ravening cold flame of the sacrificial altar. It will consume not just her body, but her soul. And she wants this. Will our hero arrive in time?” Created in AUM on iPad using the new groovebox app Snorkel Synth: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/snorkel-synth/id6759827999

But… who was that extra mourner? Or rather - *what* was he? Hey, it’s Monday. So sue me. Recorded and mixed live into AUM on iPad. No actual keyboards harmed during the making of this. And -NO AI!

DM10 drum app, recorded live into AUM on iPad. Piano: BS16 app.