I write speculative fiction and make electronic music inspired by nature around Cape Town. In to: hauntology, alternate history, eco-horror.
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined December 2015
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BOOK REVEAL
This is 'End of the Continent', a choose-your-path novel set in an alternate history of Cape Town.
All illustrations by Shannon van Schalkwyk – at Cape Town, South Africa
This Tuesday at Ganesh in Obz, @Stanley_Sibande and I will perform with tape machines – at Cape Town, South Africa
No one has ever suggested Eve (of paradise / Eden) was hot.
Must be a reason for that? – at Cape Town, South Africa
Tomorrow at Entanglements in Observatory, me and Stanley will perform 3 improvised songs using a small synth, lots of reverb + delay, and some field recordings on a tape loop. This is a clip of an early practice session.
Audience will get to pick the chords randomly from a bag. – at Cape Town, South Africa
Marlene van Wyk talks about documenting old storytellers in the Brandvlei area of the Northern Cape.
📍 @Suidoosterfees in Cape Town, presented by @ATKVSA and @JakesGerwel – at Cape Town, South Africa
By die @Suidoosterfees praat @CrystalOrderson oor die launch vannie Kaaps dictionary wat laas maand by die Kasteel gebeur het – at Cape Town, South Africa
M.H. Bottils retweeted
There I saw one I knew, and called him, crying:
Stetson! You who were with me in the ships at Mylae.
That corpse you planted last year in your garden:
Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
Oh, keep the dog far hence, that's friend to men,
Or with his nails, he'll dig it up again.
You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!
The statement "Nothing is owned by the people" is not accurate. Public land such as Table Mountain, West Coast National Park, Groot Winterhoek Wilderness are owned by the people. Government is the custodian of the land, with a responsibility to manage it in the public interest. – at Cape Town, South Africa
I've started a Substack that's about the intersection of mountain lore, history, ambient music and plot points from 'End of the Continent'. The first one one is titled 'Where does the Palmiet River begin?'
open.substack.com/pub/endoft… – at Grabouw, South Africa
I wrote an Afrikaans short story for LitNet. Placing the eerie in the northern suburbs' empty spaces.
🪶🔦😵 – at Cape Town, South Africa
Bottils: "Maar die tarentale was steeds daar êrens. Ek kon hulle hoor, maar nie sien nie."
litnet.co.za/trimpark/
I heard Rantjie Kakker's track called 'Hoof Gebou' today and it's like some sort of Dadaist art. Just a series of niche Afrikaans words strung together through non-rational association. It's like nothing I've ever heard before. Possibly one of the 20 greatest Afrikaans songs ever – at Langa, South Africa
"los ecos de vidas pasadas que habitan los espacios públicos"
= "the echoes of past lives that inhabit public spaces"
Roberto García of @Rmaspodcast 🇲🇽 has written a lovely short description of 'Dolfie', the jazztronica track I made with Emilie Kate and Kyhle Hendricks. – at Cape Town, South Africa
👻 Memoria espectral: "Dolfie" de @bottils es un viaje instrumental de Cape Jazz y ambient sobre fantasmas urbanos y nostalgia. Lee la reseña: rmas.mx/2025/11/05/bottils-d… P.S. An English version is available at the link!
Jax names some South African cryptids in this post-punk rap track we released today ampl.ink/monsterlover – at Cape Town, South Africa
ALT Cover art for Monster Lover
Oh so this line in the novel I wrote is rather prescient then – at Cape Town, South Africa
In a new quantum experiment, scientists saw something that challenges everything we think we know about time. Instead of flowing forward like a river, time seemed to loop and fold back on itself. Particles behaved as if their future could affect their past, blurring the line between cause and effect in ways that defy ordinary understanding.
This strange behavior was observed through quantum entanglement a phenomenon where two particles remain mysteriously linked, no matter how far apart they are. When scientists changed how they measured one particle, it seemed to alter the history of its partner retroactively. It’s as if “now” and “then” exist together, constantly reshaping each other in a single, connected moment.
The findings hint that time may not be a one-way path but a flexible structure that bends and connects distant events. Your choices don’t rewrite your past, but on a quantum level, the universe might not follow the rules of linear order at all. Reality could be stranger than we’ve ever imagined.
ALT In a new quantum experiment, scientists saw something that challenges everything we think we know about time. Instead of flowing forward like a river, time seemed to loop and fold back on itself. Particles behaved as if their future could affect their past, blurring the line between cause and effect in ways that defy ordinary understanding. This strange behavior was observed through quantum entanglement a phenomenon where two particles remain mysteriously linked, no matter how far apart they are. When scientists changed how they measured one particle, it seemed to alter the history of its partner retroactively. It’s as if “now” and “then” exist together, constantly reshaping each other in a single, connected moment. The findings hint that time may not be a one-way path but a flexible structure that bends and connects distant events. Your choices don’t rewrite your past, but on a quantum level, the universe might not follow the rules of linear order at all.
In this second video clip for 'Monster Lover' you'll see me creepin behind a tree 🌳🦉 – at Cape Town, South Africa
Here's a new Cape Jazz track called 'Dolfie' I made with Emilie Kate on sax and Kyhle Hendricks on drums. – at Cape Town, South Africa
