Michael Plater
The Dreams in the Witch House

"The creaking of the hidden beams of the ancient house gave him the sensation of a shrill pandemonium.
The darkness always teemed with indescribable sounds."
(The Dreams in the Witch House, H.P. Lovecraft)

When the thick cloak descends upon the dying ruins of the day, a dense soundscape sharpens in the darkness.
The noises of the shadows are an untamed music, primordial sounds, simulacra of the far-distant
past. Nietzsche claims that noise kills thoughts. In some cases, it inspires them, as it happened
to Michael Plater in "The Dreams in the Witch House". This work, evidently inspired by the renowned
story by Lovecraft, harbors a considerable range of sound frighteners intertwined with chilling
synthesizer tracks. Asynchronous dissonances produce a spectral lullaby that echoes in the
garden of the child that went with the fairies ("The Child That Went With the Fairies"), while in the house at
the end of the avenue, the pendulum chimes mark the hour of the specters' symposium ("Where Ghosts Gather")
Wandering devils roam through empty rooms, cross the crackling fireplace, and, up the chimney,
get lost in the nocturnal vault towards the unknown. Before dawn conquers the dark, there is time for one last dance
("The Dance of the Mermaids"), moving uncertain steps to the beat of a cold melody, spat out from the
depths of time.

"The dreams consisted mostly of dizzying falls into bottomless abysses illuminated by a faint
unexplainably colored light and suffused with unsettling and chaotic sounds."
(The Dreams in the Witch House, H.P. Lovecraft)

The unknown darkness is around us, inside us, and the light beyond the forest is reachable by traveling
a rugged path that cuts through inscrutable chasms, in an infinity that lasts only ten minutes.

Yes, indeed, this EP does not go beyond ten minutes, but the experimental soundscapes (as the author
himself describes) within it, create time windows wide open towards infinity. All of Plater's works
seem to hide a secret, a dark enigma that materializes with each listening.