A ‘Kill Chain’ describes the process by which an individual marked for death is identified, their location established, their movements monitored, an appropriate weapon selected, the victim engaged, and the aftermath reviewed in preparation for the next victim. The idea originated in the military, but it is adaptable to… other contexts.

“These violent delights have violent ends. And in their triumph die like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume.” - The Friar.

“They say it has a horse's head, long legs with hooves, two short front legs, and a bat's wings. No one knows how tall it is. Some people think it's six feet tall, others think it's only three or four feet tall. The Devil has glowing red eyes and makes loud screeching sounds.” - description of the Jersey Devil from the State of New Jersey’s official website.

“Evil wings in ether beating; Vultures at the spirit eating; Things unseen forever fleeting Black against the leering sky.” - H.P. Lovecraft, ‘Despair’.

In time for the best season of the year, my musical setting of one of HPL’s poems, pitch shifted from The Talemaster, a.k.a. G.M. Danielson’s wonderful original reading: https://youtu.be/A7PucGRd96U?si=oM51C88Q--4kNocr.

Read the poem here: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8556785-Despair-by-Howard-Phillips-Lovecraft

“When you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonise you.” - Jeff Vandermeer

Played live on Thereminator 2 https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/thereminator-2/id6736556748 using Loopy Pro in AUM on iPad, no other instruments used.

“All kinds. Some good. Some bad. And some… well, that’d be telling.”

- The Old Woman.

In theoretical physics, quantum nonlocality refers to the phenomenon by which the measurement statistics of a multipartite quantum system do not allow an interpretation with local realism. Obviously.

A.k.a: “You’re not from around here, are you son?”

It will surprise no-one who knows me that I, too, was born on a Wednesday.

Korg Volca Modular, multitracked in AUM on IPad. No other instruments used.

All sounds: Roland Aira System 1 synth recorded live into AUM on iPad.

“A secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government.”

Created entirely with apps on IPad.