Ended Tuesday and welcomed Wednesday after my swim with Lost Futures a studio album by American guitarists Marisa Anderson and William Tyler, released August 27, 2021, via Thrill Jockey...

The album is inspired by, and named in reference to, Jacques Derrida's philosophical concept hauntology, and particularly Mark Fisher's writing on the subject in his work Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures....Tyler said that, having read the book subsequently, he found Fisher to be "not a very hopeful person in his writing", and that the pair "wanted to re-contextualize something about the concept of lost futures. There's an opening there rather than a closed door."

https://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/album/lost-futures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRZ96GAk8xs&list=OLAK5uy_m7W6sAS8cu5lHoZwt_UDW0MrKcNEKGIcU

#MarisaAnderson #WilliamTyler #AmericanPrimitiveGuitar #LostFutures #Hauntology #americana #folkmusic

Another wonderful interview by @savetz, this time with Tom Zimmerman, part of the four-person team at Atari that worked on the never-released AMY sound chip: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_AMY

Tom comes across as an absolute gentleman.

His description of what the AMY could do is terrific. It synthesised audio using up to 16 oscillators for the fundamental and harmonics to build rich, complex sounds. It could also be run "in reverse"; quoting Wikipedia:

An input sample could be run through a Fast Fourier transform to extract the spectral pattern, and then that pattern could be input to the AMY to set up the oscillators.

Tom contrasts the AMY's design against FM synths like the #YamahaDX7 and sample-based synthesizers.

Tom's words of wisdom at the end of the interview are wonderful too. A recommended listen, even if #Atari isn't your thing.

https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-431-tom-zimmerman-amy-chip

#RetroComputing #SoundSynthesis #LostFutures

Remembering a time that never quite was? Take note: it's just 3 days until we talk about such feelings as part of Writing the Occult: Hauntology.

Tickets now on sale for £40+bf. Head to writingtheoccult.carrd.co for full details, or go straight to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-the-occult-hauntology-tickets-1065892807079 to grab your ticket.

#writersofmastodon #hauntology #lostfutures #horror #darkfantasy #nostalgia

Got a hankering for some eerie nostalgia? It's just 5 days until we gather to talk haunted spaces, ideas, emotions, and more as part of Writing the Occult: Hauntology.

Tickets now on sale for £40+bf. Head to writingtheoccult.carrd.co for full details, or go straight to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-the-occult-hauntology-tickets-1065892807079 to grab your ticket.

#writersofmastodon #hauntology #haunting #horror #supernatural #lostfutures

Less than a week until we gather for Writing the Occult: Hauntology. We'll hear from Evelyn Hollow, Professor Robert Edgar, Icy Sedgwick, Adam S Leslie, Sarah Jackson, Lindz McLeod, Robert P Ottone & Mina Ikemoto Ghosh. Head to writingtheoccult.carrd.co for full details & tix.

#writersofmastodon #hauntology #haunted #hauntings #uncanny #nostalgia #lostfutures

We're very lucky to have such talented folks join us for Writing the Occult: Hauntology - including the fabulous @IcySedgwick

You likely know the good Dr Icy though her folklore work, especially the Fabulous Folklore podcast or the book Rebel Folklore. But did you know Icy is also a prolific writer of weird, gothic & dark fantasy tales? Head over to her website to explore: icysedgwick.com

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#writersofmastodon #folklore #hauntology #lostfutures #hauntedspaces #horror #darkfantasy

Tickets are now on sale for the next edition of Writing the Occult, my virtual event series bringing together writers, academics, folklorists & practitioners to share wisdom.

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Early bird prices end on Friday! Head to writingtheoccult.carrd.co for full details.

#writersofmastodon #hauntology #horror #darkfantasy #speculativefiction #writers #folklore #lostfutures

I asked Prof Robert Edgar of the Hauntology & Spectrality Research Group for recommendations to get in a hauntological mood ahead of Writing the Occult: Hauntology. He had loads, obvs. I'll share them individually. 1st: the Scarred for Life books by Stephen Brotherstone & David Lawrence. 🧵⬇️

#writersofmastodon #hauntology #lostfutures #horror #darkfiction #speculativefiction

@bkahn Man, you have to read #LisaTuttle’s #LostFutures.

It’s a novel based on that premise