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Soundtrack to a hauntological childhood - Station UVB-23
The voice of Donald Pleasance as the ‘spirit of cold and lonely places’ warning us off swimming in reservoirs and bomb craters; breaks in the fencing of old airfields which could time slip you into a Nazi past or an even worse arctic future; standing stones which didn’t always just stand; an evil magician and his ‘Hand of Stabs’… And, late at night, mysterious voices reciting endless streams of numbers through a howl of static on the old valve radio set in the corner of the bedroom, it’s softly glowing dial legended with exotic sounding places like ‘Moscow’ and ‘Hilversum’…
The past really was another country. And it was inevitable I’d do something with Number Stations at some point, I suppose.
Anyone else still find themselves fascinated by those mysterious radio masts you sometimes glimpse on MOD land, by the aura of Quatermass weirdness which attaches to isolated industrial installations, to abandoned bunkers; hatches, and steel doors in smooth grass banks where there shouldn’t be any hatches or doors…?
… I never did find a wardrobe where the crunch of mothballs under foot became the squeak of snow, and the glimpse of a faun under a gas lamp, but I had hopes of something weirder: in that old house; down that weed choked alley; inside that abandoned factory…. My own thin place, my liminal zone, my portal. The landscapes of my hauntological past.
I have grown old in my quest. But I haven’t yet quite given up hope that one day I may still find the right break in the fence, the right hatch in a grass bank to climb through, discovering thereby another world of limitless possibility and real magic.
Realising in that moment that it had always been there, if only I could have looked for it through the eyes of a child again. Beside me the whole time, always just a certain special sideways step away from this workaday world…
Found sound, and Model 15, sequenced by Atom, looped and screwed with through filters and reverbs at various speeds in AUM. Mastered in Bark Filter. Enjoy! Comment, critique…
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This is really quite engaging. I hope this doesn't sound like I'm diminishing it, but I can so hear this as an art piece, say, in an abandoned gallery somewhere. It's at once forbidding and inviting.
I haven’t even listened to it yet and am spooked. Great write up.
Really enjoy your haunting atmospheres, in both text and sound.
Yup, growing up on military bases during the Cold War. Military folks always uptight, constantly in a 'State of Fear', and us kids de-stressing and escaping by exploring old abandoned places.
Have you ever tried FieldScaper, SoundScaper, or SynthScaper? All IAAs, but right up your alley.
@ExAsperis99 : I’ll take ‘really quite engaging’, thanks
It does not diminish it in any way to suggest it might find a home as soundtrack to a gallery installation of some sort. In fact, I’d love any gallery owner, performance space operator, game designer, video maker or virtual macrame influencer to use any of my stuff, for pretty much any purpose. Hell, you wouldn’t even have to buy me a beer. I’m not saying I put out for just anyone, mind. But… I have always depended on the kindness of strangers 
@jebni : ah, my favourite audience! Someone who likes my stuff without even needing to listen to it. Probably for the best…
@ocelot : thank you! Wow - your childhood sounds a lot weirder than mine. That must have been quite the trip back in the days of ‘Protect & Survive’, Mutually Assured Destruction and the like…
Yes, Field, Sound and Synthscaper… have all three. I really like them, I have never understood them, and because they are IAA that and their inherent complexity means they don’t get anywhere near the love they should from me these days. My, er, ‘method’ is to pick a fistful of apps which play nice together in AUM, which tends to mean AUV3s, and which in themselves have fairly clear and easily understandable interfaces, and make all the complexity emerge from the results of mashing them together.
I suspect I lack the patience necessary to learn an idiosyncratic interface each time I want to make a thing. That’s why even very powerful apps like Coldcut’s Jam Pro has had only one run out from me, and that was on the day it released. My method now is pretty much: buy app. Use app. Release track made with app; and: Onward!
I believe that making a thing, and then another thing, and another, is a better way to move forward with my, erm, ‘craft’, rather than polish one thing until it is perfect. Which it never will be. I may of course be wrong about this.
My two angels of inspiration:
Stalin: ‘Quantity has a quality all it’s own.” (Cheap tanks and cheaper lives thrown in huge numbers - successfully - at the Nazi war machine.)
Beckett: “Try. Fail. Try again. Fail better.”
Really like the haunting atmosphere here. I’ve been working on a MiRack generative patch which uses the "hidden" numbers station in the MI Percussive Synth module, having found out about it by accident. There was a thread on here about numbers stations recordings, which piqued my initial interest.
@bygjohn : hey, thanks for the listen, and the comment. Now you’ve got my attention - which MI module are you talking about, and how do you access the numbers station?
You’re very welcome!
In MiRack it’s called Percussive Synth, which in the real world is Peaks.
In MiRack you can turn it on via the pop-up menu for the module - annoyingly this doesn’t stick, so when you reload the patch you have to re-select it.
In the real module, you turn it on with a set of button presses. This handy page tells you what to do to access the hidden Easter eggs in several MI modules, including Peaks:
https://forum.mutable-instruments.net/t/easter-eggs-hidden-modes-in-mutable-instruments-modules/4948
I'm very very very into this and come from a very similar past to yours I think! yes yes yes the past was another country, but I'm convinced it exists somewhere still. Either that or it never existed.
Big love for this new song!
In no way trying to push anything here's a little numbers thing I did too. ( very rudimentary though)
@bygjohn : thanks, you’ve just moved a uPeaks up my modular want list
@sevenape : that’s great, very unsettling and proper creepy - I really like it. 