An argument with Arguments: The Persistence Of Memory

Svetlovska

I never expected to miss you…

…but I do.

Checked myself on the Death Clock app recently, https://www.death-clock.org/ something I like to do once in a while. Updated it with my accurate med stats and current conditions. Just a bit of fun, like.

It has me dead in two years from now, give or take. Cause of death: dementia. The date I take with a pinch of salt. Que sera sera, etc. The cause gives me pause.

Losing my… self, in pieces, is truly my greatest fear, one which in the event of receiving such a diagnosis of, I would give serious consideration to pre empting while I was still ‘I’. Hey Ho. You gotta laugh, right? Hence, some solipsism in sound.

Basically, Hainbach’s Arguments is all over this live AUM File Player jam, from the ‘drum’ sound, to the vocal processing of my voice, to the f*ed up treatment of the Steel Guitar Pro and and Ring Fx which provide the, er, ‘melody’ and bassline, such as they are. More an exercise in sound processing than a (cough) ‘song’, really… Still more for me to do integrating it adequately into the hauntology, I think, but as a first go… eh, it is what it is!

sevenape

This is a great!!! Really haunting and maybe even a bit reminiscent of some 70s BBC supernatural drama.

Svetlovska

Thank you! 70s BBC supernatural dramas - things like Penda’s Fen, or Robin Redbreast - are both major obsessions of mine, and foundation stones for the whole hauntology thing which is one of my aspirations/inspirations. I keep worrying at the edges of static, LoFi, Boards of Canada, wobbliness, with my limited artistic toolbox. My dream would be to have the talent to carve out the precise Venn diagram where folk horror, dark ambient and hauntology overlap. Rumble of ancient times, indeed.

sevenape

They were very interesting times! Low budget, but dark and thought provoking with an incredibly British feel. I am a bit young for being able to watch them when they were on, but I have been trying to make up, and I do have very fond memories of chocky, box of delights, the triffids, the stone tapes and of course the most famous, tales of the unexpected! So not that young I guess. I feel that everything kind of stopped after Ghostwatch in 92. I don’t know if viewers tastes changed, or it became too expensive or what, but there was a good 20 years when it felt like auntie beeb was consciously trying to make us shit our pants!

Gavinski

@sevenape said:
They were very interesting times! Low budget, but dark and thought provoking with an incredibly British feel. I am a bit young for being able to watch them when they were on, but I have been trying to make up, and I do have very fond memories of chocky, box of delights, the triffids, the stone tapes and of course the most famous, tales of the unexpected! So not that young I guess. I feel that everything kind of stopped after Ghostwatch in 92. I don’t know if viewers tastes changed, or it became too expensive or what, but there was a good 20 years when it felt like auntie beeb was consciously trying to make us shit our pants!

There was some great stuff made then it seems! @Svetlovska I hadn't even heard of those 2, they're both on YouTube I see, happy day! (you might get that reference!)

Svetlovska

@sevenape, @Gavinski : check them out, I think you’ll like them. Robin Redbreast still has some genuinely scary moments, up there in my book with Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape (also available in full on YouTube) , while Penda’s Fen is deep, a meditation on what Alan Garner of Redshift and The Weirdstone of Brisingamen fame calls Deep Time… British mysticism at its finest, a lineage which Ben Wheatley, with Kill List, and, more directly A Field In England:

And Alan Moore, inter alia, now carries forward. Check out for example Moore’s hallucinatory psychogeographic film about the mentally ill poetic genius John Clare:

And happy day to you too, Gav! I’ll meet you in Milbury at the next conjunction. Just stay out of the circle. (Yes, I do )

Sidenote: what a fantastic theme that show had!

Remember, folks… this was a kids tv show!