Ghostlore Sonic Mapping Project
Click on the blue markers to engage with ghostloristic soundscape compositions. These compositions are mixed in a binaural format: recommended for headphone listening.
This is a Ghostlore Map of soundscape compositions featuring standout sites of paranormal sonic activity in the North of Scotland.
The compositions are created using sounds derived from field recordings of places associated with paranormal, mystical and folkloristic phenomena, such as Fyvie Castle, Slains Castle, Loch Ness, St Drostan’s Well, Mormond Hill, Ben Macdui, and other sites of supernatural interest.
Each blue marker is a sonic portal into the unexplained depths of the weird and the eerie brought to the surface as audible sounds.
Project Overview
Sounding out the unexplained...
Ghostloristics is an ongoing series of soundscape compositions that use sonic materials derived from verified topographical and architectural sites of ghosts, cryptids, folkloristic oddities, strange events, superstitious anomalies, and documented sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (commonly known as UFOs).
It adapts a variety of recording techniques to create sonic representations of the atmospheric and auratic conditions of featured places, using digital recorders, wide band and VLF radio receivers, a galvanometer, and a ghostbox.
Ghostloristics is an online portal that uses modern technologies to reimagine and convey the folkloristic and paranormal legacies of Northern Scotland and to provide an alternative mode of storytelling to traditional modes of writing, music, visual art and orality. Ultimately, it allows us to experience the ancient unfamiliar spaces of the sonic weird in the familiar spaces of our own homes.
Experience the sonic weird at your fingertips…
