In Hamilton, Ontario I play double bass and co-create music with our ensemble Ghost Variables: Gary Barwin and Connor Bennett reeds, Chris Palmer guitar, David Lee double bass and Mike Hansen percussion. We’re assembling an album: here’s a sample track: Agree/Disagree.
We’re also collaborating with Earth Wind & Choir, the Hamilton ensemble led by Sarah Good and Annie Shaw. Until the end of September 2024 I’m posting this track we did together, Spectralities:
August 15-18 Maureen and I drove down to NecronomiCon Providence, a horror literature and film convention convened in Providence, Rhode Island, where now-famous (in some circles, infamous) author H.P. Lovecraft was born and lived most of his life (1890-1937). Lovecraft’s work is behind my Wolsak & Wynn “Midnight Games” trilogy – he’s even a character in the books.
I was able to sit on the panels It Came from the Frozen North! (see below) and Seething Nuclear Chaos, met some people and even (since I’m working on a project about British television writer Nigel Kneale, a fan of Arthur Machen) was invited to submit to the journal of the Arthur Machen Society.
These photos are merest details of my visit: I should also mention the screening of the gonzo Cthulhu epic Minore, with flying tentacled sea monsters versus male models wielding swords and assault rifle / bouzoukis (the film is Greek), by Konstantinos Koutsoliotas, who lives in Toronto and works on Guillermo del Toro films.
On the It Came from the Frozen North! The Canadian Weird panel, David Lee (left) seems to be making a point, with David Nickel, Simon Strantzas, Tiffany Morris, and Scott Jones.