Wrapping it all UP...INTO GLORY RIDE!!!

Earlier this week, on Tuesday to be exact, I witnissed something few survive on planet earth.  This is the phenomenon known as MANOWAR.  For those of you who are not aware of these KINGS OF METAL...WARRIORS OF STEEL, it is too late, you will die by their mighty blow.  

You may be wondering, how is in the lord are these gorgeous lads even slightly related to my sonic endeavors? Well, they just so happen to be the loudest band in the world.  They have broken the Guinness World record multiple times.  They never use the House P.A. system when on tour, that is not good enough for Manowar.  They bring their own.  I saw them at the Ogden and the entire balcony was closed off and covered in special acoustic enhancing curtains.  Here is a great video showing what goes into the Manowar live rig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJEasKYBoGo .  This shit aint for FALSE METAL WIMPS.  It sounds fucking unbelievable and is literally bone rattling at lighting speeds.  I experienced a high like no other simply from the whirlwind of the air pumped out of the the speakers.  Such a magical, life changing event.  There were probably only 250 people there, where in Europe they play to 250,000.  So, yes, that was quite a dose of sound therapy.

Now to my plan for the development of my sonic prescription for the remainder of the quarter.

Next Week: Have 3 new audio tracks completed and listen in 3 different environments.

Following Week: Have 3 new audio tracks completed and listen in 3 different environments. Also, during listening exercises make visual responsive drawings in dark.

Following Week: Complete last 3 audio tracks for sonic prescription, continue fleshing out drawings. 

Following Week: Master all audio tracks in some interesting way, possibly through a combination of optical and tape compression.  In addition, figure out some way to have lightning component to exhibition.  Most likely utilizing a slow, color changing LED plate.

!!!PREPARE FOR SONIC MIND-TRANSFER EXPLOSIVE IMPLOSION!!!

Shot out of the Sonic Spiral

This week was pretty intense.  I decided to do an exercise where I would synthesize what I felt to be a extremely powerful drone and go to sleep with it on. The idea was that my dream state would be severely altered...and indeed that is what happened...to say the least.

I set up the studio with an air mattress...very cozy.  When you lay down your ears are perfectly alligned with the studio monitors.  This makes the binaural beat experience a little bit TOO comfortable.  After settling down for bed I went in and out of sleep for the next 4-5 hours.  At about what seemed at two or three in the morning and woke up and the entire room seemed to be spinning and the room was illuminated in blue (from the LEDs) completely fractal.  I was hallucinating uncontrollably and did not feel all too attached to my human form.  So bizarre.  At that point I had to shut down the synthesizer.  It simply could not go on anymore.  For the next two days I felt extremely out of it.

I felt like I was tingling from the after effects are an extremely potent psychedelic voyage.  My brain felt like it was pulsating and being squeezed to the point where the entire organ was vibrating.  I did not feel effects I would describe as overly negative, such as anxiety, or headache.  I just felt very odd.  The following morning after the experiment I went to my intro to cognitive neuroscience class.  I sat in the front row and did not comprehend one single thing during the almost two hour lecture.  I have realized these binaural beat things are astoundingly powerful and should be taken with utmost caution.  Nevertheless, my relationship with sound has been reinforced once again!