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First go with Moog Model 15 - beautiful synth even if I did buy it the day before it went free!
So I suppose this is the sound of buyers’ remorse, or the smell of burning gift cards set to music, or something...
But seriously: what an amazing synth app! I already loved the Model D, and now this. My timing was terrible (hey - I used to get told that all the time back when I played drums, so no change there), but still, got to say (through gritted teeth) that it was still worth it. Model 15 is awesome.
I used 4 iterations of it here, recorded and layered wavs direct using it’s own recorder for one loop, and the usual AUM file players, multispeeded and bussed together for the rest. Reverbs courtesy of Zero, Alteza and Mangleverb. Sequencing by Atom 2 off patterns I actually played (well, drew) in myself. Drums and cymbals sounds by Drum Computer and ID700, reversed sounds courtesy of YaleD, my favourite delay app. Recorded in AUM, arranged in Audio Evolution, uploaded in AudioShare.
The ‘whistle’ voice I was messing about first with put me in mind of the brilliant 1968 Jonathon Miller directed ghost story ‘O Whistle And I’ll Come To You’ based on the classic M.R. James piece, starring the late Michael Hordern. Still authentically creepy, all the more so for the restraint, and the lack of explanation (almost like a Japanese ghost story in that way), and the unusual use of sound and framing used throughout. Very atmospheric . You can watch the whole thing here:
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My title is the English translation of the first part of the Latin phrase Hordern’s classics professor sees inscribed on the ancient whistle he finds:
“quis est qui venit”
Just remember kids: if you find a whistle on the beach - don’t play it!
Comments
Very creative. Love it!
@Pxlhg : Hey, thanks for the listen, and the comment
I still can’t quite believe that I waited, what? - six years? - to buy Model 15, hoping through multiple Black Fridays for at least a half price sale - only to plonk down the full price literally the day before they give it away!
Still - it is truly superb, and might even play a part in hastening my retiring my ancient MBP in favour of an M1 Mac Mini so I can integrate it more easily with my desktop set up. The apps are amazing ambassadors for the hardware. Animoog was literally the first app I ever bought for my first iPad, and there’s still nothing else like it. I got Model D for free, and that has made me want to get at least the Behringer knock off hardware. And then there’s Dfam, and a Subharmonicon... Damn but these free apps can work out expensive...
That was outstanding! 👍
Wow, @Svetlovska. That is seriously good. I’ve always loved your stuff but it’s getting easier to love it (I think that’s what I mean anyway!). There’s definitely mastery of your métier showing here.
This is excellent!!!!!
@wim, @qryss @sevenape : thanks all for the listens, and those kind words.
Knowing someone has heard it and maybe even liked it is the validation that makes doing it in the first place worthwhile. Unheard trees falling in a forest and all that... You only have yourselves to blame for encouraging me! 
Sounds great. This could be a soundtrack for a movie.
Wow, what a great piece of music + bonus story and your inspiration explained. Very nice package.
Nice dark, spooky track - and great to see some AB cultural cross-pollination at work. I love MR James, and Jonathan Miller's adaptation of 'Whistle' has given me the creeps since the first time I saw it many years ago.
Great stuff, dark, deep and evocative 👌
Amazing work, my friend. As always.
It's funny to think it took you time to get Model 15. It's so up your alley
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Don’t know how I missed this as I just had to buy a new car and the buyers remorse was getting better until I heard this!! 😂
No really nice stuff!!!
Inspiring!
Really REALLY GOOD! Love the ghost stories and you definitely nailed the vibe! Excellent work!
@Svetlovska Two things:
-Well done.
-Do more.
@Svetlovska love it
Wow! People- @cyberheater @Richtowns @iansainsbury @Krupa @senhorlampada @onerez @Stochastically @Edward_Alexander @JohnnyGoodyear @monch1962 - thank you all for those kind words, and the listens!
Glad to see some fellow ghost story fans in there too
M.R. James was my first and most enduring love in that regard, my respect and liking for Mark Gatiss went up a lot when I saw his lovely and perceptive documentary on him:
and realised he too was a fellow fan. I think the influence shows in his own work, The League of Gentlemen most obviously.
I find something uniquely unsettling and authentically, existentially scary in James’ stories, prefiguring my later love of H P Lovecraft, what old HP speaks of in his own great and very readable essay/credo, on the topic, ‘Supernatural Horror in Literature’, https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx when he makes the crucial distinction between the merely horrific and the truly weird:
“ The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain—a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space.”
It’s definitely there in Horderns’ performance, and in the motiveless, inexplicable weirdness of Miller’s take on ‘O whistle...’ I aspire to it in my own occasional fiction dabblings the way an all-thumbs novice guitarist might dream one day of becoming a Hendrix.
Anyone who thinks M R James is all quaint spooky stories of a Victorian cleric and academic Don written only as Christmas baubles to entertain his students (which they were!) should check out, for example, his lesser known story Lost Hearts, https://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/lost-hearts-m-r-james/, a dark, dark tale of black magic and child murder...
Anyway, I ‘m going on, so, just - thanks!
And @JohnnyGoodyear : the world shall hear from me again! 
Excellent work. Extra points for putting a new toy to good use and making a track with it. That just doesn't happen with freebies!
@soundtemple : thank you!
I make it a personal rule to use each new app, free or purchased, in a track as soon as possible after I get it. I often like the results most when I know least how to work a thing. 
@Svetlovska good rule to have. I'm guilty of forever searching for the perfect setup without making music. I've made a resolution to change that in the second half of this year.
This is sick!
This reminds me of something Ennio Morricone would've composed for a movie such as The Thing or maybe a Western meets horror where a duo of cowboys have to lay over for the night in a ghost town. Maybe I'm off base in that observation, but at least I can say that this is cinematic.
Wow... awesome piece... loved the dark mood and cinematic quality. Truly inspiring! Really great example of the power of the iPad. Thank you!