The "Adventures from a mythic shore" area of my website just got a major update (because, whenever I'm a bit ill - and thats what I'm atm -, I use the time to curate my pictures :D).
Nearly 2000 CC-BY-SA low-res photos for you to discover. Now with random function.
We have a dark electronica double whammy this week, with the arrival of Pye Corner Audio's 'The Endless Echo' from Ghost Box, and The Night Monitor's 'Horror of the Hexham Heads' from Library of the Occult.
Nightmares on wax...👀
The Polyend Tracker Mini is a magical little device that’s forcing me to approach music in a different way. Typically it uses very short samples in an almost multisampling context, but here I’ve pushed it to use longer voice samples from my ever-growing library of 70s TV commercial snippets that I’m preparing for my hauntology project.
The ‘Uh huh!’/’Cool clean taste’ bit is from a 1971 Certs commercial, and it’s deliciously mangled using the PT Mini’s granular engine. ‘Purely For Pleasure’, believe it or not, is taken from a 1971 Butterfinger commercial! The laugh you hear was from a CB radio transmission I captured over the holidays. The broken melody is just a Euclidean sequence I used to fill out the bar.
Anyway, it’s a fun little track that is a harbinger of weirder stuff to come. Stay tuned, space cadets!
Sitting with the realization that many now use the phrase "the pandemic" in the same way that the term "capitalism" is bandied about:
As a hauntological signification, naming not an object in the world, with a history and a consequence, but rather gesturing over one's shoulder to the vague vicinity wherein spectres of that which one is unprepared to speak, unequipped to name, are commonly said to have been sighted.
Sitting now with the further realization that "a cold" has always been hauntological:
Referring not to any of hundreds of infectious types, but rather to the unwelcome unease of one's unwilling awareness of an inescapably bodily response to the unseen.
Not a disease but a discomfiture, a preference for absence of awareness of that which is absent from awareness.
Reading Bret Easton-Ellis again, who obsesses over early 80s chart music, reminded me of one of my mixtapes, circa 1983. I was 12 or so. Pretty mainstream fare, much of it distinctly 'uncool'. Some of this stuff is by now unlistenable, or rather I'd be extremely unlikely to listen to it again. #80smixtape
As much as songs evoke the period, for me it's the sounds you take in passively that really give those Proustian rushes: Low-budget TV ad music; straight-to-video synth ident jingles on video rental shop tapes (&, yes, the fuzzy porn tapes that got passed around at school). Tangerine Dream is all that. #Nowplaying#vinyl#vaporwave#hauntology
Wishing all our fellow Mastodonians a happy Winter Solstice and a very Merry Christmas. The latest blog post, 'New Towns, Mountains and Other Moons', is a whistle stop tour of our favourite words & music from 2023. You can read it, and listen to some musical highlights, here...
Today's music: some classical (Debussy) but mostly I woke up with St. Vincent in my head so I listened to her 2015 album on the commute and later while working. Then segued into Father John Misty. Good times.
Visited new-to-me pokestops and a good gym battle after my afternoon trip to the pharmacy!
Started prep on the #hauntology paper I swore I wasn't going to present on Tuesday and am now quite academically pleased with myself.
Further Report now in...
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, 'Interim Report, March 1979' limited edition re-pressing on white vinyl. Available here.... https://www.logofiasco.com/🦉🎶
"We live in a world marked by the dead...
The #dead don’t walk among us, for there is no need for that.
We walk to them, bearing gifts of flowers.
We are haunted, haunting ourselves with our imaginations and our memories"
(To make, just add a #Horse's severed head, a pole and some #Runes. Not to be confused with the #Vindgapi, which uses a #Ling#Fish head instead, and which is used to summon storms.)
And then there's this 1977 report on the #EnfieldPoltergeist, made all the more eerie with the use of scratchy 35mm film, the utter mundanity and creepiness of the setting, and some child-scaring renactments of the evil spirit (or was it?) doing its thang. #Hauntology aplenty.
No evil nuns appear at any point. Anyone for #Ghostwatch?
Remembering the time when I discovered that I had, without realising it, once sat on the wall on the cover of Music Has the Right to Children. (Just outside Banff, Canada) #hauntology#electronica#IDM#boardsofcanada
A fascinating #BBC compilation of clips from the 1960s onwards. Expect some cool #Music, fascinating traditions, #Swords, #Vikings, #Magic, #Hauntology, #Occultism, and a bit of nudity! Guest starring the #MariLwyd, and what can be best described as a ritual punch-up between two villages.
"Delusional isn't quite the word to describe the characters of On The Beach—they often recognize that their behavior is irrational. Instead, I think Shute makes clear that they simply don't know how else to act."
Un o’r pethau newydd (er mai ail-ryddhad yw hwn) ges i o @LogoFiasco yr wythnos diwetha, a dim ond nawr yn setlo lawr i'w wrando. Swnio'n wych ar y stereo mawr. Ces i'r fersiwn “Cymylau Duon”, sy'n bert iawn.
I need to get into the right headspace for work: Dreamy music which unlocks slightly unsettling, wistful, anti-nostalgic, threadbare memories of a past, the truth of which I can no longer be sure of... Well, that's what I asked for at the records & tapes counter at Boots The Chemist.
"File under POPULAR." #hauntology#music#vinyl
New in - Belbury Poly. A departure for Jim Jupp, The Path features a full band and the poetic writings of Justin Hopper, and the result is an album that takes the familar hauntological soundscapes deep into the realms of psych-rock and acid folk.