ACL 2020 ~ Music for Haunted Houses

In 2020, the entire world became a haunted house.  Buildings were deserted, town squares were emptied, and a million people died of a new virus.  We became terrified of an unseen enemy.  Any person could be an asymptomatic carrier.  On

ACL 2019 ~ Top Ten Drone

Drone music doesn’t need to be scary; there’s nothing inherently frightening about elongated tones.  Yet the drone genre does seem predisposed toward darkness.  Just look at the cover art for Black to Comm; or the compositional corpses found in the BABEL hardback

Michael Bonaventure ~ In Tenebris Ratione Organi

Pipe organs are custom built for one space, which forms part of the instrument. Anyone nosing around a cathedral and beholding the towering walls of pipes will suspect as much. Unfortunately, leftfield musicians may struggle to access these instruments. Conservatism

ACL 2018 ~ Music for Haunted Houses

In 2018, the world reached a tipping point in which scary music is no longer scarier than real life.  The old monsters are disappointed; they just can’t compete with the news.  This being said, it’s one of our favorite times