There is no such thing as a ghost. And, one day, quite soon really, there will be no such thing as you either. Or me. Maybe, WE are the ghosts.

A little Koala action, with live melodica overdub. Recorded on iPad into AUM.

You probably think this song is about you…

Ideas of reference are a symptom of certain mental illnesses, in which the patient believes that strangers’ conversations, tv and radio broadcasts and so on are conveying special messages for the patient solely and directly.

Created entirely in apps and recorded to AUM on iPad.

“If you take Joe’s bus to that damnable place, buy a single. You won’t need no return.”

A hardware jam: all sounds from a Stylophone (!) CPM dual oscillator/filter into Zoom Multistomp pedal. No sequencing, no keyboards, no patching, just live tweaking and looping straight into Alteza reverb in AUM on the iPad.

Took delivery of my Behringer Syncussion SY-1 today. It’s a cheap, Eurorackable twin channel percussion synth cloned from the Pearl original which despite its simplicity, is very tweakable for usage beyond percussion. This whole track was sequenced from Beatstep Pro, multitracked in AUM on iPad… and used the Syncussion as the only instrument.

And as an ache in your soul.

In peace or in blood, we will all go down to Sheol

“Now that we who survived have reconstructed a civilization on a rational basis, we want to preserve for future generations as many accounts as possible by the actual witnesses of the catastrophe that overtook the world” - from ‘When The Moon Fell’ by Morrison Colladay, first published 1929.

An experiment in semi generative composition in AUM on iPad, with multiple sequencers working from an initial live input, driving the BS16 SoundFont player ‘Grand Piano’ preset. Hilda synth on quasi-guitar backing. No actual keyboards were harmed in the making of this noise.

“It is said that there is a border between our reality and those… other… realities which press upon it. And that there is a house there, a house of refuge for travellers in the Dark Ways, a place of respite from the impossible horrors which await. But the house itself is impossible, and the refuge it offers comes at a terrible price.” - The Seer

The question “Are you a travelling man?” and the response : “I travel from the West to the East” is said to be a way for Freemasons to covertly identify each other. Of course, there are those who suggest the Travelling Man referred to is not a Freemason at all…