Waiting Room 3: "I Curse You"

An audio essay about horror, ritual, chanting, corrupted audio files, basso profondo, “the hum”, jump scares, spells, noise, scream protests, deconstructed club and piseógs

Samples used:

Faust - Was Is Hier Los? / Arthur Russell - The Name Of The Next Song / Alex G - Blessing / audio sample from “The Curse” [TV Series] / Merzbow - Woodpecker No. 1 / The Residents - The Walrus Hunt / John Bence - Kill/Aftermath / Elaine Mitchener - The Sleepening / Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music / Scott Walker - Psoriatic / Grouper - Made Of Metal / Jane - It’s A Fine Day / LOFT - Oh Well, We’re All Fucked Now / Can - Aumgn / White Noise - Black Mass: An Electric Storm In Hell / Moor Mother - By The Light / Can - Peking O / Holly Herndon - DAO / Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte / Edgard Varèse - Poème Électronique / The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Blue Veils And Golden Sands / RTÉ Archives - “Haunted House In Longford” [1985] / Aphex Twin - #10 / The Haxan Cloak - Consumed / LEYA - Eden Of Haze / Luke screaming / Moor Mother - Liverpool Wins / Thom Yorke - A Light Green / Karl’s eerie tape recording / Бојан Даковић - “Basso Profondo From Russia” / Inside Edition - “The Source Behind a Mystery Sound Heard Around the World” / Bernard Parmegiani - De Natura Sonorum: Matière Induites / Tsembla - Gravitating Bones / XUNT - 1ff8b9e5 / Lucrecia Dalt - Coatlicue S. / Windsor Hum - “Windsor Hum Recorded August 24, 2011 @11:12pm EST” / Throbbing Gristle - Beachy Head / Beak> - Ham Green / Ben Frost - Chimera / Al Jazeera - “Scream Protest At Columbia University President’s House” / Pharmakon - Body Betrays Itself / RTÉ Archives - “Piseógs And Spells [1980]” / The Knife - A Cherry On Top / LEYA - Eden Of Haze / LEYA & Eartheater - Must Have Been Good / Ruhail Qaisar - Namgang / Diva Cruz & Olaf Dreijer - Brujas / Arca - Bruja / audio sample from Charmed [TV Series] - “Escucha Las Palabras De Las Brujas” [Spanish dubbed version] / aya - off to the ESSO / Lauren Bousfield - Mansions No One Wants To Buy For Any Price / Buffy Sainte-Marie - Poppies

Community contributions by:

Luke Godfrey [screams and cat pic] / Karl Maxwell [samples and haunted tape recording] / Luke Hosford [samples]