Writing while high is a bit like trying to describe a sense beyond words. One would need formal devices — spinning Hypno Disks, entrancing patterns and rhythms. One could soundtrack one’s walk beside a curved, moss-covered wall with Equal, a cassette-sized aggregate of “electro-acoustic clicks, knocks and bumps” by Ecto Mist, released this past summer on Genot Centre.
Ecstatic, transcendental and magickal bliss. Or one can feel real awe tinged with fear by walking outdoors listening to Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka. Defy western culture’s ban on new ontologies. Fashion for oneself a homemade version of Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville’s Dreamachine. For more on this device, see John Geiger’s book Chapel of Extreme Experience.
Reading David Toop’s ‘Oceans of Sound’ at present. Do you know it?
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Wow, this is too funny! I’m reading the same book! Currently on p. 105, in the midst of a section on Hendrix, Stockhausen, and Cornelius Cardew.
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That really is wild. I’m on p.90, just coming up to perennial Vinyl Connection favourites Tangerine Dream.
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Playing Ecto Mist and Joujouka simultaneously. Now that’s wild.
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