Cthonicist

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.

Made with B00GA, Hainbach’s new app take on a piece of obsolete lab equipment called a Word Clock Generator, here repurposed as a drum machine/sequencer/glitch thingy. Word! :)

“ mediæval sorcery and witchcraft and black magic, and all of the valiant glamorous things that the modern world has repudiated...” - Frank Belknap Long, ‘The Hounds Of Tindalos.’ Read it for free here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_13/Issue_3/The_Hounds_of_Tindalos

Live jam: four overdubs of Soma Labs’ unruly ‘organismic synthesiser’ via Zoom L6 mixer/interface into AUM on iPad. Alteza reverb, no other fx or instruments used. Was it good for you?

“ Ever wonder how David slew Goliath? Like the insect, he wasn't afraid to die.” - Dr. Nils Hellstrom. An all-Stylophone jam, featuring the CPM DS 2 and new Stylophone Gen X2, live and direct into AUM on ipad via the Zoom multistomp pedal.

If witches did manage to get in the house, sleeping with a Bible, a silver dollar, or a knife beneath your pillow had all been recommended as preventatives. Turning your socks inside out before going to bed was also thought to keep away witches. Mustard seed scattered around the bed was equally effective. Made entirely with the Dexed app in AUM on IPad.

There is no such thing as a ghost. And, one day, quite soon really, there will be no such thing as you either. Or me. Maybe, WE are the ghosts. A little Koala action, with live melodica overdub. Recorded on iPad into AUM.

You probably think this song is about you… Ideas of reference are a symptom of certain mental illnesses, in which the patient believes that strangers’ conversations, tv and radio broadcasts and so on are conveying special messages for the patient solely and directly. Created entirely in apps and recorded to AUM on iPad.

“If you take Joe’s bus to that damnable place, buy a single. You won’t need no return.” A hardware jam: all sounds from a Stylophone (!) CPM dual oscillator/filter into Zoom Multistomp pedal. No sequencing, no keyboards, no patching, just live tweaking and looping straight into Alteza reverb in AUM on the iPad.

Took delivery of my Behringer Syncussion SY-1 today. It’s a cheap, Eurorackable twin channel percussion synth cloned from the Pearl original which despite its simplicity, is very tweakable for usage beyond percussion. This whole track was sequenced from Beatstep Pro, multitracked in AUM on iPad… and used the Syncussion as the only instrument.

And as an ache in your soul.

In peace or in blood, we will all go down to Sheol