Cthonicist

In the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck, The High Priestess represents secrets, mystery, the future unrevealed. Reversed: Passion, conceit, superficial knowledge. Meng Qi Wingie Mk II resonator hardware, recorded live into AUM on iPad via Arc Evo 4 interface, extensively manipulated via FX apps.

‘We’ve found it, Carter! The gateway to another universe!” ‘Wait, you fool! That’s not a portal. It’s a mouth!” But Carter’s warning came too late. And now he was alone in the ancient ruined temple. Alone with that hideous, hungry thing… All apps. Live performance mix in AUM on iPad Pro, captured in Atom clips, using multiple Sunrizer instances, Hammerhead drums, Model 15 bass.

"I think someone is trying to drive you crazy before finally killing you." A tribute to an early work by the master of Giallo, Dario Argento. Long on style, short on logic, the movie is a twisted tale of murder. The original score by Morricone naturally sets a very high bar, and I am confident I might, with luck, one day manage to limbo under it. In the meantime: my own poor alternative take… Made...

“ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn: "* *In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming - H.P. Lovecraft, The Call Of Cthulhu. Made in AUM on iPad, apps inc. Hilda, Broohahaizer, Models D & 15

Ars Goetia, compiled in the 17th Century from material centuries older, is one of five books of the Lemegeton, The Lesser Key Of Solomon, an occult text filled with hermetic secrets. Ostensibly, the book details the true names of 72 demons. ‘Goetia’ is Latin for witchcraft, or a charm: specifically, for the summoning of demons. Deliberate Mis-spellings ensure the text, if used, is very much at the...

An invocation to be uttered whilst walking anti clockwise around a church. Cthonicist assumes no responsibility for what might be conjured thereby. In the popular fairytale, one such inadvertent ‘walking widdershins’ leads to a kidnap by the King of Elfland, but as Browning in his famous poem hinted, worse things perhaps awaited Childe Roland when he to the Dark Tower came, in an attempt to sort o...

“Keep the Americans out!” - excerpt from the text of decrypted secret memo concerning the ‘ghost rocket’ phenomena of the late 1940s. Before there were flying saucers, ufos or unidentified aerial phenomena, there were ‘ghost rockets’, numbers of which entered Swedish airspace in the years following WWII. The photo shows Swedish Air Force scientific officer Karl-Gösta Bartoll searching for one such...

"It is really quite simple. We have been compiling a list which shall contain all the possible names of God" - Arthur C. Clarke Created entirely with apps in AUM on iPad. No keyboards were harmed in the making of this piece. Read the story here: https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.html

“When the sun stops shining, the earth grows cold / And the stars fall from the sky / Our love will burn with passion still / Like the fire in your eye.” - ‘When Death Comes Like A Long Lost Friend’, Matthew Buchwald. Hold my hand. It’s getting dark. Created entirely in apps on iPad.

In 2015, astronaut Andreas Mogensen captured the first video of Pixies, Sprites, and Jets - strange, coloured electrical discharges in the upper atmosphere. Believed linked to the electromagnetic Schumann Resonances at the Earth’s core, and, possibly, to earthquakes, what exactly they are and how they are formed currently is a mystery. Track created live on Behringer ARP 2600 and Lyra 8 hardware.

“The Universe is constantly speaking to us, and as soon as we learn to understand that language, life blossoms like the most exquisite flower.” ― Katherine Plant. Near Death Experiences (NDEs) are rare, but a recent textual analysis by Belgian researchers of descriptions given by survivors of such suggests that whilst a minority experienced darkness and fear, many found the experience calm, peacef...

A T.I.A. (Transient Ischaemic Attack), or ‘mini stroke’ is caused by a temporary disruption in the blood supply to part of the brain, resulting in a lack of oxygen . This causes symptoms similar to a stroke, such as speech and visual disturbance, and numbness or weakness in the face, arms or legs. In my case, last Friday morning, it paralysed my face for an hour. I felt I needed to mark the event...

“I wrecked trains because I like to see people die. I like to hear them scream.” - Szilveszter Matuschka In September 1931 Matuschka was apprehended at the scene of the wreck of the Vienna Budapest Express, in which 24 people died and over 100 were severely injured. He had engineered the wreck, and others before that. The all too perverse motive for his bizarre crime soiled the front of his trouse...

“You can’t keep running away from love. Eventually, it will catch up to you.” Created solely in apps on iPad. No keyboards, guitars, drums or human vocalists harmed in the making of this piece. Trigger warning re theme of stalking.

“Ganzfeld: imposing a uniform space over the entire visual field. By altering your sense of sight you deprive your brain of sensory input. It begins to improvise. This may produce disturbing hallucinations. Some researchers also believe it also enables extra sensory perception.” Made in AUM on IPad. No keyboards harmed in the making of this piece.

“The object was some fifty feet in length, of roughly cylindrical shape, and about ten feet in diameter. It was unmistakably a gilled fish in its major affiliations; but with certain curious modifications…” - Lovecraft & Greene, ‘The Horror At Martin’s Beach.’ Created with apps in AUM on IPad

“Spirits of Destruction, Speed of Grief, I command you: come out of her now!” - extract from an exorcism. In Greek mythology, the Erinyes, aka The Furies, were female chthonic deities of vengeance, born of the union of Night and the Earth, dedicated to the destruction of any who broke a sacred oath. People called them The Kindly Ones, in hope of avoiding their attentions. Created from an original...

“Deep in my dream the great bird whispered queerly Of the black cone amid the polar waste…” H.P. Lovecraft, The Fungi from Yuggoth Created using multiple instances of Fluss, the new granular audio mangler app from Hainbach and Bram Bos for the ipad

“Old! Old! Old!” he would moan over and over again, “great God, they are older than the earth, and came here from somewhere else.” - H.P. Lovecraft, The Mound. Created live on Moog Sound Studio 3 (Mother 32, DFAM, Subharmonicon), recorded and edited in Wavebox on IPad