In 2017, artist James Brindle created a photo piece, ‘Autonomous Trap 001’. This consisted of creating a salt circle around his self driving car, a familiar magical technique to contain summoned spirits. The vehicles’ software, interpreting the salt as a circle of No Entry signs, was unable to move the vehicle from the circle. Any familiar with the Loa spirits currently manifesting as autonomous AIs on the web will not have been surprised at this early proof of their existence, nor their vulnerability to the oldest of reality hacks.

Machine Spirits

Made a few evenings ago while messing around with a patch I created in Vital. Additional bass sounds from TAL-Mod.

The track contains some samples from the Kenopsia pack by Emtpyvessel

The witches' path: Three cauldrons

Three Ghosts, One Forest  by Petri Lahtinen / Paul Mimlitsch / Martin Hoogeboom

https://petrilahtinen.bandcamp.com/album/three-ghosts-one-forest

Ghost in the Forest Act 2  /// Petri Lahtinen / Paul Mimlitsch / Martin Hoogeboom

Eternight tranquilitude

2024-07-03

Time After Midnight

If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.  ~ Alan Moore

Track list and start times:
00:00  Dan Romer – He's Going to Kill the Traveling Symphony
03:06  Santucci Scoppa – Jook
06:03  Michael Wahlquist – Hypercanon for D.C..
11:06  Alan Courtis – Los Galpones
15:37  DarkSonicTales – Ellipsis
25:20  Fabio Keiner – Succubus
29:03  Grzegorz Bojanek – Unstable Reality
34:34  Orbital – Doctor Who
39:59  Message To The Machine – Violent Breathes
42:19  Ennio Morricone – Filastrocca Per Cretini
44:55  Comfort Link – Essential Fluff
51:31  Ralf Wehowsky & Anla Courtis – Angurnor Pa Gombtem
54:56  øjeRum – Untitled 3
59:35  Tuonela – The bell of life passing [naviarhaiku332]
1:06:27  Stan Magendanz – Sakenesigurea
1:09:55  Pete Moore Orchestra – Catwalk
1:12:47  Sebby Kowal – Wasabi
1:14:19  Bypass – somekindofhole
1:23:22  Heavy Cloud – Her Voice Has Life
1:33:17  Mini-Mutations – Night Time Control
1:36:12  Grzegorz Bojanek – every sound is a mystery
1:39:38  Unstern – Malign Star
1:47:12  Stuart Chalmers & Alan Courtis – THREE
1:56:33  Dan Romer – It's Not About You
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Eclectic current – Madness is the emergency exit

Inundated

Ripcurl

Moor Kinder

251221 - Winter Solstice

air. light. echo of her story . air light. 

ECHOS of AIR (Deep Soundscape).m4a

UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

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Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...