GitP/Vibe

• Ghost in the Patch Vibe

  • what is the style of Ghost in the Patch, and where does it apply?

    • This page describes a resonant set of feelings and associations that Ghost in the Patch should stir in its GitP/Participants.

    • when the ghost in the patch appears, it should evoke a coherent vibe in all mediums

      • the written word

        • the description that GitP/Participants read on the website and in their Podcast/Catcher
        • the voice of the Ceremonial Annotations on a Ghost in the Patch episode page

      • the spoken word and sounds

        • of the podcast

      • the visual artifacts

        • illustrations on episode pages, e.g.
        • any visualizations on episode pages
    • The deliberately chosen set of feelings and associations are elaborated below.

  • faraway magic voices arriving in the dark via mysterious signals

    • Picture a kid that just finished building a shortwave radio from a general purpose electronics kit.
      • It's late at night, and they pop the screen out their window and drive a screwdriver into the ground encircled with a grounding wire, then put a single earpiece in their ear, tuning into stations from across the world in the middle of the night.
      • Ghost in the Patch should evoke that kid's feeling of faraway magic sounds arriving in the dark, the weirdness and diversity of the varieties of experience in the universe.

  • space exploration

    • the original logo of ghost in the patch is a ghost whose body is subsumed into a flying synthesizer space ship, flying above a forest. picture this being traveling from planet to planet, gathering signals.
    • ghost in the patch is about exploring the contours of the hardware and what's possible.

  • ritual musical offerings

    • Ghost in the Patch should carry a seance-adjacent valence that descends from the original power of myth making and ritual gatherings
      • the quiet, extended, improvisatory drone, channeling of the organ in a chapel during communion
      • the musical offerings of Tibetan Dzogchen
      • it doesn't have to be a musical offering that's well known or established. the weirdly specific "we do this here" vibe is, in some ways, more original.
        • picture a kid that reads Person/Carlos Castaneda's books and convinces some friends to do some power stalking with Instrument/Djembes in a snowy winter field beneath the stars

  • the original steampunk

    • the vibe should be strangely familiar, if one is a fan of makers such as
      • Person/Charles Babbage and Person/Ada Lovelace and the Analytical/Engine from 18/3/7
        • 
      • Person/Jules Verne
      • Person/H.G. Wells
      • Person/H. P. Lovecraft
      • Person/Robert A. Heinlein

    • hand-crafted aesthetic

      • the authentic steampunk is corkscrewed and nerdy, built around private obsession and exploring multidimensional space. it's a DIY aesthetic, taken to the extreme

  • gathering a type of witchy knowledge

    • the ghosts live in a particular type of garden patch - in a Knowledge Garden. the vibe here is conducive to building up vast, ancient libraries of powerful spells.

  • collaborative, shared performance notes

    • Practical, respectful technical notes that let another performer find the sound:
      • which preset, which control, which gesture, at what moment.
    • Controls are named and richly linked to the context of their Microfreak, Launchpad, Ableton/Live and other Knowledge Garden pages.

  • musicological, theosophical musings

    • Intervals, textures, forms and lineages heard in the performance, such as the minor seventh as a bass interval.

  • receiving poetic signals

    • pseudo-cryptic, poetic and animistic:
      • the patch as a spirit, the loops as voices that answer. My Notes in GitP/A/Session/26/11/01-Sun include "the long sky's cloud, the hair's blown face".

    • Example

      • The hand-annotated chapter 00:00 enter Microfreak/Preset/016 Voidom in GitP/A/Session/26/10/29-Thu shows the voice: "a 2nd thing appears above the forest", "Strange Word Emergence".