…Or is it me?

From a Lyra 8: no other instrument was used in this hardware jam/improv, combining Soma Labs great weirdness machine with their equally weird ‘drifting memory station’ looper, the Cosmos. (I admit it, I love Soma Labs gear.) Outboard limited to just Alteza reverb on the iPad, the piece recorded live in three overdubs to AUM.

Final Girl: the character that continues to survive.

For Halloween 2023: An, ahem, ‘exclusive preview’ of my contribution to an AudioBus Forum challenge being wrangled by @sevenape: to produce a compilation album of seasonally appropriate tracks by forum members (IOS music makers all), in time for Halloween. For sale on Bandcamp. All proceeds to the international medical relief charity MSF, buy link to follow when the album is released

“Uncertainty management is the process by which individuals create meaning or understanding in situations in which something unpredictable, unusual, unexpected, or out of the ordinary occurs and when there is a need to determine the appropriate meaning.” - management textbook.

Made with a single instrument: a £10 electric kazoo (!), from the bass drone to the ‘guitar’ stabs. Yes, really. Recorded live and effected with apps in AUM on iPad. No other instruments used.

Transgress. Transcend. Transfer.

Effected loops played live from a 3 string cigar box guitar, into AUM on iPad.

Unexpectedly, I saw a photo of my long ago ex. He has grown old. As have I.

A brief meditation on the transitory nature of all things.

Created entirely in AUM on iPad using a combination of manipulated vocal samples and instrument apps.

A piece built using samples of ancient Northern European instruments : the Celtic Carnyx war horn, the skin drum of the Sami tribes of Scandinavia, and the Norse Tagelharpa three string bowed lyre, augmented with a totally ahistorical gong (a Far Eastern instrument, it didn’t reach Europe until the 1600s) and vocals somewhat reminiscent of the ancient Kulning style of Scandinavian cattle-calling. All samples arranged in Koala and recorded live into AUM on iPad.

“If a mirage cannot be traced to the known upon this earth, one supposes that it is either a derivation from the unknown upon this earth, or from the unknown somewhere else.” - Charles Fort

Another noise/ambient experiment . The only instrument used is the noise app Giant Isopod, variously filtered and effected, plus a found sound wav of valve distortion made by Chris Krupa: https://on.soundcloud.com/WdmwY Made in AUM on IPad.

Mysterium: The hypothetical source of a galactic radio transmission at 1665 megahertz; in alchemy, an elemental or pure form of something else.

The purest of all sounds, its elemental form, the sum of all sounds is - noise.

Created with Giant Isopod and NoInputMixer in AUM on iPad

An exercise in actual unaided live composition, played and recorded into AUM on iPad from a MIDI piano.

It sounds kind of… horrible, actually, and not necessarily in a good way. Sick, infected, somehow. Discordant. But my, for want of a better word, aesthetic, is that I am driven by random processes, and must commit wholly to them once begun. The process, the music, took me in this direction today. So here we are.

Browning Hi-Power sidearm. Single action. Double stack. 13 rounds 9mm Parabellum.

There are many tracks on SoundCloud, but this is mine. Vocals by Elevenlabs AI. Noises by Arpie and Koala. Recorded live on iPad into AUM and mixed to AudioShare