In the Ancient Egyptian Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld the symbol of the serpent swallowing its tail represented the beginning and end of time, and the formless disorder which surrounds the orderly world. In Norse culture it was Jörmungandr, the world-serpent. In the 15th century alchemical text the Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra, it represents balance of opposites. For Jung, the embrace of the shadow self. And what does it represent for you?

Follow Opequon Creek to the village of Middleway, West Virginia, at the foot of the brooding Appalachians, and you will encounter The Wizard Clip - the legend of a Protestant man who in 1794 denied a sick Catholic stranger the services of a priest for his last rites. After the stranger died, it is said that candles would not stay lit in the room his corpse was, sounds of horses galloping and crockery breaking were heard, and burning embers jumped from the fireplace hearth. Sounds of heavy shears making clipping noises were heard and fabric, sheets, and boots were clipped with half-moon shapes and other figures. These phenomena are said to persist to this day.

Chris Marker’s 1962 La Jetée, inspiration for Terry Gilliam’s later 12 Monkeys, is an astonishing tour de force, a sci fi time travel movie told entirely in still images. Except, that is, for one quietly startling moment when the unnamed protagonists’ present day girlfriend opens her eyes, in live action. Never has such a small motion felt so… momentous.

Mixed and recorded live into AUM on iPad.

“ I see earthquakes and lightnin' / I see bad times today” -Creedence Clearwater Revival

Demoing the great, free AudioThing / Hainbach collab app Moon Echo, which uses the actual freakin’ moon as a kind of plate echo. Get it here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/moon-echo/id6503342104

“In ancient times it was believed that the delineation between worlds was more permeable in certain anomalous areas in a landscape; these areas were known as ‘thin places’, and were sometimes signified by burial mounds or standing stones.” - Ciara Healy, University of the West of England.

“My child... the hour draws near. Soon you will join the great embrace. You've known for some time that this world is just a game…” - Saint Maud.

All instruments and FX played live and recorded direct from Roland S1 to AUM in iPad. No other instruments or apps used.

In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh oversaw the first British foothold in America, the Roanoke Colony. Five years later, a resupply mission found the fortified colony barricaded, abandoned, and the cryptic word ‘Croatoan’ carved into the palisade. A possible reference to a nearby island, or to the local indigenous peoples, further enquiries into the meaning of the carving were thwarted by a storm which threatened the relief expedition. The true fate of the ‘Lost Colony’ remains unknown to this day.

Created in apps on iPad.

“After four decades Freeman had personally performed possibly as many as 4,000 lobotomy surgeries in 23 states, of which 2,500 used his ice-pick procedure, despite the fact that he had no formal surgical training. His patients often had to be retaught how to eat and use the bathroom. Relapses were common, some never recovered, and about 15% died from the procedure… Freeman usually wore neither gloves nor mask... He lobotomized 19 minors, including a four-year-old child.”

A setting of lines spoken by Matt Dillon, as Jack, from Lars Von Trier’s disturbing and controversial horror thriller The House That Jack Built.

“ They cannot scare me with their empty spaces

Between stars — on stars where no human race is.

I have it in me so much nearer home

To scare myself with my own desert places.” - Robert Frost

Created with apps on iPad