Cthonicist

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