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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.

Congratulations, your master is ready. Deron, you got a line on any deep-discount Naugahyde suppliers? Day 1 with new toy, the Synthstrom Deluge. Like, cool, daddy-o.

In ‘The Matter Of Britain’, the body of medieval and legendary tales which describe the foundational myths of King Arthur and the knights of the round table, Ygrane is the mother of Arthur, as initially recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his ‘Historia Regum Britanniae‘.

“Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests. And then we know that we have looked back through the ivory ga...

From Wikipedia: “La Llorona (‘the Crying Woman, the Weeping Woman, the Wailer') is a vengeful ghost in Hispanic American folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her husband was unfaithful to her. Whoever hears her crying either suffers misfortune, death or their life becomes unsuccessful in every field.” A first g...

A striking phrase I recently heard used by a chronic pain sufferer. Composed & performed live into AUM on IPad. Military chatter courtesy pate klankbeeld clips @ Freesound.org

Do you possess, or are you possessed?

“We dance alone. That’s why we only play electronic music.” - The Loner Leader. Created on iPad using Musyc2 physics-based generative composer app.

It was good to get out of the rain. Another single module exercise, a Braids clone sequenced by Behringer 182 and manipulated live into AUM on iPad. Reverb: FAC Alteza. No keyboards were harmed during the making of this noise.

“The past cannot be forgotten, the present cannot be remembered.” - Mark Fisher: hauntologist, scholar, suicide.

The past is immutable. The future unknowable. There is only ever one eternal present. A single-unit modular jam, using the Maneco Labs Grone Dark Drone Machine looped and varispeeded in AUM on iPad. It does exactly what it says on the tin.

“Upon Earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.” Job, 41:34 Manipulated live from the littlest Euro: just two cheap Behringer System 100 modules, in an MMS skiff - the 182 sequencer and the 110 complete synth voice, - via Alm HPO phones out and a ten quid in line audio interface into AUM, on iPad, Tape Player looped, initial recording multitracked and varispeeded. Reverb app: FAC Alte...

“If the crops fail, Summerisle, next year your people will kill *you*…” - Sergeant Howie

A quick spin using only BramBos’ Groovebox Battlestation https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/battlestation-groovebox/id6754467726 Not my usual thing, but hey. It’s Christmas! :)

Because it knows where it isn’t.