Cthonicist

Anyone who saw the brilliant meta horror movie The Cabin In The Woods knows the role of the Harbinger… it’s the local who warns the stupid college kids not to take that back road/stay in that house/mess with that book, foreshadowing made flesh, the calm before the storm… here it’s a sequenced and overdubbed jam with live improv made on the marvellous, mutable M-Vave FM1 hardware mini synth. It’s as cheap as chips, and here is running one of its many, many alternative firmwares, Cranky Man’s Nachtfahrt - Night Travel. Audio & Midi both via a single USB C direct from the FM1 into AUM on my iPad, me noodling with its knobs and rubbery keyboard. Very simple.

“The roses are going mad, those crimson roses…”

On The Hill Of Roses is the title story of a collection of short horror tales by Stefan Grabinski, a Polish contemporary of H.P. Lovecraft, who offers a unique macabre and sensual twist on the kind of overwrought synaesthetes most often encountered in the works of Edgar Allan Poe, or HPLs own Dreamlands pieces. Worth checking out. Track made in AUM on IPad with 3 TestFlight instances of Ink, a soon to be released software clone of the Plinky hardware synth/sampler/sequencer.

…is how Guardian columnist Jan Werner Muller described American ‘Secretary of War’ Pete Hegseth’s recent video glorifications of remote control push button destruction .

Started in Ableton Note, finished in AUM on iPad . Etherpad for voice, some loops, Decent Sampler pianos and cellos.

“Some might believe also in people who *do* care. I can’t count myself amongst that happy band, I’m afraid, Ms. Petworth. Not after all I have seen of humanity’s indifference to its own inflicted cruelties.” - The Colonel.

Made in AUM on IPad with multiple instances of the following apps: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/055u4ry/id6789734684

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mntrp/id6800424988

“Yes, there’s a hotel in Innsmouth—called the Gilman House—but I don't believe it can amount to much. I wouldn't advise you to try it.” - Trustpilot, probably

“The worst thing about the abomination wasn’t its bite. At least, not at first. It was the sight of that second face, that second mouth, upon its ghastly back.” - Professor Challenor.

Quick try out of a free drum machine app, a recreation of a rare Soviet era machine, the Pulsar ES. Heavily affected and messed with in AUM on iPad. Get the app here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pulsar-es-drum-machine/id1661825756

Power electronics, aka Dark Noise, but for old folks.. That is: some of the sonically abrasive edges, and all the teenage edgelord sentiments sanded off.

One instance of noise app Wail,manipulated live, variously effected in AUM on iPad. No sequencers, no AI, just restless fingers. Get Wail here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/wail/id6786723124

In the alchemical practice of the ‘solve et coagula’ The Sun (Sol) represents the masculine, active, fixed, and drying principle (often associated with Gold and Sulfur), while the Moon (Luna) represents the feminine, passive, volatile, and moist principle (associated with Silver and Mercury). The ‘Solve et Coagula’ is the interaction between Sun and Moon that drives the alchemical process of dissolution and coagulation, leading to the Chemical Wedding, or union of opposites. A powerful metaphor…

“Despite her youth, Sister Mary had long been our order’s most expert exorcist. But whatever it was she encountered in the catacombs of the ruined Abbaye de Mortemer, the Abbey of the Dead Sea in Normandy, it was no spirit susceptible to faith. And it… changed her.” -The Abbess.

“Quantum-based magical theory views the reality in which we live as coextensive with a malleable virtual reality. Thus, the computer provides an excellent locus for magical experimentation.” - ‘ Collins, S, ‘Technology and Magick’, Scan, journal of media and culture: http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=35