music affecting the trip

[st.bot.32]

The title may sound vague and general but I'm interested in something very specific here.

Music even by itself has certain psychedelic properties in that it can alter your state of consciousness, put you into a trance, bring back distant memories, change your perception of time.. even the way you react to new kinds of music reveals a lot about one's personality.

So instead of just asking what you like to trip to, I'm going to ask why. I guess I mean actively listening to music while tripping. What does it do for you? How does it affect your senses on a trip? Minimalist music, trance music, compared to prog rock or baroque fugues or classical? Or are there kinds of music that are just too challenging or too affective to listen to on a trip?

Ive definitely had moments where certain kinds of experimental music have completely shredded my sense of time, time grinding to a halt, breaking apart, granulating..

 

[Nomada]

I think twas Terence's brother who said that as the volume of knowledge sphere inflates, the area of contact with the unknown as well. Contact with the unknwon is a magnificent espectrum of rainbow supernovas, culturally courted as fear--contact with the unknown produces fear, the other, the transcendental other--the face of God is most incredible to witness, this is why "don't panic" roams about much in psychonaut.com.

Continuing now with the geometric metaphor, fear then, in this sense I'm producing, is the gradient function of the knowledge function--the vector orthogonal in every circumstance of the body's border--fear is the classical reaction to the unknown. This is a compass instrument I often use to navigate myself out of myself, search for the wicked titanic bestiary of horrible fanged eternals of wrath waiting just behind the corner of your senses. Look for them, meet them, dissolve in them vibrating at supersonic, become them.

For this sometimes I listen to fucking dark uber-psychedelic psytrance. Fractal Cowboys, Isentropic, Kindzadza, Tutankhamon 9000, Wooden Monsters, Karmageddon and Worldbridger from Goa Gil, and the likes. :twisted:

This can get easily out of control and sometimes I really freak and have payed some consequences. But then I laugh until I cry.

I have other geometrical dances for you. But right now I have to finish my essay. Later then. :wink:

 

[st.bot.32]

Agreed, music has definitely sent me to some fairly dark places as well during trips (closed eye in particular), but honestly I never regret exploring that part of my psyche..

"don't panic"

If GOD ever finishes his psychonautic bible (the holy church of psychonautism), it needs a snug plastic cover with those words printed on it in large friendly letters.

 

[Nomada]

Blessed harmonics of blood vessels, digestive system, fire breath respiratory system, electric playfulness through dendrites, and bubbles of air above the beat of heart and the rest of the sacred body brigade is entheogen incarnate. Your body suddenly the size of the unknown universe. Organic music of yourself.

One more there is still, the unfathomable:
Silence, quintessence sevenfold distilled.
Unbeatable.

 

[Caduceus Mercurius]

I've had ecstatic experiences listening to late 70's Genesis on shrooms, and when I was younger Blood Sugar Sex Magic on acid. Also, Monster Magnet, Hawkwind and the Grateful Dead. I've done a silent 5 gram and a Shpongled 5 gram. Yesterday we mostly listened to psych rock: Steve Hillage, Hawkwind and Ozric Tentacles. With a short interlude of some new age crystal bowls music, which were nice too, for a while.

I've thought about preparing long sets for individuals tripping in a dark room, with carefully selected music of all kinds: classical, psychedelic, ambient, as well as fragments from lectures and audiobooks. Different themes could be created, so people could go either for a meditative set, relaxation set, mystical set, or just a fun freak-out set etc.

 

[Nomada]

I've thought about preparing long sets for individuals tripping in a dark room, with carefully selected music of all kinds: classical, psychedelic, ambient, as well as fragments from lectures and audiobooks. Different themes could be created, so people could go either for a meditative set, relaxation set, mystical set, or just a fun freak-out set etc.

Wauw Caduceus, you could learn a lot by this. It must be very interesting. Learning a bit how the variable music interacts, by experience.

 

[St.Stephen]

I am marveled by the late John Fahey's ability with a guitar. The melodies he produces while maintaining the bass just baffles me. His music is very easy to get into a deep, trance-like state, which is why I like to listen.

 

[st.bot.32]

Wauw Caduceus, you could learn a lot by this. It must be very interesting. Learning a bit how the variable music interacts, by experience.

Yes.

When reading about huxley's maiden voyage, the thing that popped into my head the whole time he was talking about his experience with music was, too bad they played him such a limited set of genres

 

[magickmumu]

When the trip is strong and the music is good, the music drives the visions. Sometimes I try to sing and make music with simple instruments. When the dose is high it's easier to make music, and you can get into a trance state.


Over the years I have fallen in love with Indian Raga.
Most raga's are very long. Some are over 30 minutes. It's the perfect music for a trip.

I also love ambient music and electronic stuff.
I would like to recommend: Alio Die.

http://www.aliodie.com/

He makes strange earthly ambient.
He's got a album out called Password for a entheogenic experience

I would also like to point out Kiva By Steve roach, Micheal Stearns and Ronsunsinger.
http://www.steveroach.com/Music/discogr ... albumID=36

 

[magickmumu]

At the last ayahuasca ceremony I visited in the Netherlands the music was very good.
At the end of the night we where all singing and making music together. People where still playing when I fell asleep. When I woke up there where still people playing.
There was a lot of feeling in the music and a lot of love. It was great.

:heart: :rock:

 

[Psychoid]

Agreed, music has definitely sent me to some fairly dark places as well during trips (closed eye in particular), but honestly I never regret exploring that part of my psyche...

Velvet Acid Christ

One must not limit himself to the exploration of the light only...

 

[magickpencil]

Over the years I have fallen in love with Indian Raga.
Most raga's are very long. Some are over 30 minutes. It's the perfect music for a trip.

for you, Pandit Pran Nath

slightly relatedly, and mostly because i love this music, Yoshi Wada

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[magickmumu]

thanx magickpencil

 

[Caduceus Mercurius]

Wauw Caduceus, you could learn a lot by this. It must be very interesting. Learning a bit how the variable music interacts, by experience.

Can anyone recommend good free software for this purpose (mixing music with spoken word, using fade in and fade out etc.)? I read something about Fruity Loops today, but haven't found a place to download it yet (will try finding a torrent later).

 

[magickmumu]

Fruity loops is a music program for making music, not for mixing.
You need to look for a good MP3 mixer.
Maybe you can check out this.

http://www.djmixpro.com/djmixlite/ne/djmixlite.html

I never used it, but it looks okay.

 

[Caduceus Mercurius]

Ah, that's what I was looking for. Thanks!

 

[VerusDeus]

I've had some fairly deep experience partially due to the music I listened to during tripping. It's also a lifesaver when one starts to panic, even though that means you might be surpressing what the trip is trying to teach you.

All in all, the best music I heard during a trip was that which came from within. It was one of my first mushroom expeditions when I started hearing this didgeridoo-like frequency, which came in waves ebbing in and then out of my consciousness.

I started humming along to that, and it deepened the experience thricefold. Which is rather similar to what shaman's do during aya-ceremonies.

At st.stephens: If you're into acoustic solo-guitarists, you should really try Michael Hedges, it's basically the same story you told about John Fahey, except that I personally appreciate Hedges far more.

Peace.

 

[magickpencil]

Can anyone recommend good free software for this purpose (mixing music with spoken word, using fade in and fade out etc.)? I read something about Fruity Loops today, but haven't found a place to download it yet (will try finding a torrent later).

i've been using Fruity Loops (now FL Studio) for years now and my recommendation is FIND A NOTHER PROGRAM
FLs sonic palette is retarded

Sound Forge is probably more along the lines of what you're looking for
i've gotten ringing endorsements for Ableton Live, but i've not used it
neither of these programs is supposed to be free but warez blogs exist nonetheless
example: Sound Forge
(google search = "sound forge" site:blogspot.com)

 

[st.bot.32]

Yeah, I love it when music just comes to you during a trip.. I also love it when that is combined with audio distortions/audio hallucinations..

Some of my favorite moments on blotters have been while listening to drumming (or drumming) and your senses sort of fuse, you start hearing voices, chanting, singing, sounds of nature, children laughing... all coming out of the instruments

 

[Brugmansia]

Music is like 25 % of my trip. Depending on which psychedelic I use.

It can alter the trip in a very powerful way. I have always enjoyed progressive and goa. Progressive is dreamy and cloudy like to me. A great style for the stability of the trip.

Goa can be either euphoric or very confrontating. Infected Mushroom typically got Acid tracks, and shrooms tracks. Which you'll notice if you listen to them. 1200 micrograms got some awesome tracks as well.

The song used by Caduceus, Ott smoking glass and chrome was the one I listened to during my break-trough on DMT. Goddamn.

On high doses of shrooms, I tend to leave the headphones away for almost the entire trip.