r/hauntology

I love British hauntology deeply, but I’ve been thinking about what an American inner-city version might sound like if it emerged from my actual life instead of imitation.

Not pastoral nostalgia. Not abandoned schools and village greens.

I’m from East Boston/Chelsea working-class density. Triple-deckers. TVs always on. MBTA hum. Weather alerts. Fluorescent laundromats. Pizza shops glowing in rain. HVAC drones. Basketball courts at night. Families layered across generations in crowded apartments. Sports broadcasts bleeding through walls. Maintenance workers keeping the city alive at 3AM.

So I’ve started building a project called Music For A Séance! through my Outer Order Studios thing.

The source material is rehearsal recordings, basement room tone, tape manipulation, MIDI chamber textures, musique concrète, field recordings of family conversations, thunderstorms, household ambience, city noise, and accidental sound. I’m not trying to “clean” recordings. I want to enhance the emotional information already inside them.

A lot of hauntology explores lost futures. I think this is more about preserving warmth inside entropy.

Not ghosts in empty countryside institutions.

Ghosts in crowded apartments. Ghosts in infrastructure. Ghosts in family memory. Ghosts in the city still breathing overnight.

Loud American inner-city hauntology, basically. 🌧️📼🏙️

Cloudwarmer - I Know the World Reasonably Well and Am Right About Everything (Full Album)

Loud American inner-city hauntology

I can't be the only one who noticed the resemblance?

Hauntological electro: 'Land Lines' by Stone Tapes