Cthonicist

“When you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonise you.” - Jeff Vandermeer Played live on Thereminator 2 https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/thereminator-2/id6736556748 using Loopy Pro in AUM on iPad, no other instruments used.

“All kinds. Some good. Some bad. And some… well, that’d be telling.” - The Old Woman.

In theoretical physics, quantum nonlocality refers to the phenomenon by which the measurement statistics of a multipartite quantum system do not allow an interpretation with local realism. Obviously. A.k.a: “You’re not from around here, are you son?”

It will surprise no-one who knows me that I, too, was born on a Wednesday. Korg Volca Modular, multitracked in AUM on IPad. No other instruments used.

All sounds: Roland Aira System 1 synth recorded live into AUM on iPad.

“A secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government.” Created entirely with apps on IPad.

“The hungry ghosts, along with animals and hell beings, occupy one of the three realms of existence no one desires. In these realms it is extremely difficult to be reborn in a better realm (i.e. the realm of humans, asura or deva) because it is nearly impossible to perform deeds that cultivate good karma.”

“Now it is raining, but we don't know what will happen in the next moment. By the time we go out it may be a beautiful day, or a stormy day. Since we don't know, let's appreciate the sound of the rain now.” ― Shunryu Suzuki Live improvisation using Cigar box guitar, electric bass, mountain dulcimer, Roland S1 synth, Cloudbusting electronics, looped in AUM by someone who can’t play any of these ins...

If attempting Real Sleep, looking at the Moon in Local 58 is a very bad idea. The Kleitman Map will not help you. Essential safety tips: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgHTax5GWgz0PBBig8y0tU4vBqhqBjCge&si=7Fj2xrnVY32356DK

“Since we are all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.” -Albert Camus, killed in a car crash, aged 46.

With thanks to Duncan Bell, who permitted me to mangle a little of his masterwork: https://soundcloud.com/user-154254/the-coronation?si=010e482dc50e47ad88fed9068f1ed7ad&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

“They used to call us witches, because we knew shit. We still do.” - Carole Cadwalladr A track made on iPad in AUM using only multiple iterations of the excellent Luapsel ambient guitar sample app: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/luapsel/id6569224196

In the Ancient Egyptian Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld the symbol of the serpent swallowing its tail represented the beginning and end of time, and the formless disorder which surrounds the orderly world. In Norse culture it was Jörmungandr, the world-serpent. In the 15th century alchemical text the Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra, it represents balance of opposites. For Jung, the embrace of the shado...

Chris Marker’s 1962 La Jetée, inspiration for Terry Gilliam’s later 12 Monkeys, is an astonishing tour de force, a sci fi time travel movie told entirely in still images. Except, that is, for one quietly startling moment when the unnamed protagonists’ present day girlfriend opens her eyes, in live action. Never has such a small motion felt so… momentous. Mixed and recorded live into AUM on iPad.

Follow Opequon Creek to the village of Middleway, West Virginia, at the foot of the brooding Appalachians, and you will encounter The Wizard Clip - the legend of a Protestant man who in 1794 denied a sick Catholic stranger the services of a priest for his last rites. After the stranger died, it is said that candles would not stay lit in the room his corpse was, sounds of horses galloping and crock...

“ I see earthquakes and lightnin' / I see bad times today” -Creedence Clearwater Revival Demoing the great, free AudioThing / Hainbach collab app Moon Echo, which uses the actual freakin’ moon as a kind of plate echo. Get it here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/moon-echo/id6503342104

“In ancient times it was believed that the delineation between worlds was more permeable in certain anomalous areas in a landscape; these areas were known as ‘thin places’, and were sometimes signified by burial mounds or standing stones.” - Ciara Healy, University of the West of England.

“My child... the hour draws near. Soon you will join the great embrace. You've known for some time that this world is just a game…” - Saint Maud. All instruments and FX played live and recorded direct from Roland S1 to AUM in iPad. No other instruments or apps used.

In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh oversaw the first British foothold in America, the Roanoke Colony. Five years later, a resupply mission found the fortified colony barricaded, abandoned, and the cryptic word ‘Croatoan’ carved into the palisade. A possible reference to a nearby island, or to the local indigenous peoples, further enquiries into the meaning of the carving were thwarted by a storm which th...

“After four decades Freeman had personally performed possibly as many as 4,000 lobotomy surgeries in 23 states, of which 2,500 used his ice-pick procedure, despite the fact that he had no formal surgical training. His patients often had to be retaught how to eat and use the bathroom. Relapses were common, some never recovered, and about 15% died from the procedure… Freeman usually wore neither glo...

A setting of lines spoken by Matt Dillon, as Jack, from Lars Von Trier’s disturbing and controversial horror thriller The House That Jack Built.

“ They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars — on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.” - Robert Frost Created with apps on iPad

“So: You have chosen the Lament Configuration.” - The Priest My (belated) entry for this year’s drone day: https://droneday.org/ Created entirely in apps on iPad.

You probably think this song is about you, don’t you?

Circle of Blood, a lurid tale of a coven of baby-sacrificing witches in the catacombs of the Vatican City, released to little fanfare at the height of the Giallo craze in 1970s Italy; Luca Vozza’s only, now-lost movie eclipsed by contemporaries Mario Bava and Dario Argento. Yet it acquired a cult reputation, not only for its graphic depictions of torture and murder, but also because, it was rumour...