Psychonaut music...

This is just a quicky seeing as I have an idea in my head and need to get it out.

So basically my idea is about how to link the slow and fast sections of the song. What I will do is have one speed say something like 100 bmp, or something, and at the end have a snare drum fill, playing something like quater notes to start with and then moving onto eighth notes and then onto sixteenth notes, and possibly onto thirty-second notes, and then keeping the same note length write another bar of the same drum fill but make it 1 or 2 bmp faster, and then keep repeating this until I get to my next speed; possibly 170 bmp.

I'm not too sure what speeds my three sections are going to be, but that is the way to link them.

I will have to write the three sections first, before I write the joining bits, but I needed to get that idea down somewhere first. This seemed the best place.

*Edit* I must also see if I can find a way to use those weird white-noise sounds things on wikipedia. I know the one's I mean, search psychonauts and it's in the "other" or "see also" section and it's on that page they're called something like "Binural Beats" or something. The problem is that I need two stereo speakers from one computer, to put on either side of the room. It might work, it might not.

*Edit2* Whilst I am speeding up the drums and the snare-drum fill, I should also speed up the rest of the music, keeping it the same, just speeding it up by 1 bmp every bar (or every time it repeats)

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The Psychonaut; a continuation of my delving into the soul...

So this is less about psychonautical behaviour than it is about my talk for Pagan Soc. entitled The Psychonaut; a journey into the soul. This is just an update for myself really, just because I feel the inexplicable need to blog on the subject.

So I am going to stuff the remixes for now and write an epic song. It will be epic to the degree of having a slow, dancy, build-up, taking about to 10 minutes, then slowly progressing into a faster, more epic and weirded out part where the main kinda of "trip" should be happening. I'm thinking having this continue for about 10/20 minutes and then having a kindof cool-down section for maybe five minutes and then just slowly fading the music out, until it stops and then just letting people come back round for another five minutes. Hopefully It'll work. I'm hoping it does. I'm planning to start writing it tonight. When I get home. As soon as. Hopefully I won't have too much to do, like ferrying people about in my car, or other such stuff that would take up my time.

I can see that if I take my time with this epic song, it will be good. I'm hoping that it'll not only be awesome but that I'll finish it ages before the start of my 2nd year at uni so I can use it, and try it and write notes on the song and change bits here and there, and edit it to the max, so that it ends up being really cool.

After some thought I've realised that as much as I'd like to get it out of the way and as much as I like to be one of the first doing my talks/presentations (in anything) I'd better not do it before week five because I don't want to scare away the freshers.

I'm also thinking that I might just do it during the Monday session like when Paul did his House Trance. Just because it'd be easier that way and I wouldn't have people pulling out of doing it because it sounded scary or whatever. At least I think I'll do it like that. I'm going to have to talk with Paul G or Foo or somebody before I do it though. But that comes later. Much later.

On another note i'm thinking I might see if I an get some visuals going on the projector, depending on Frankie, I'll have to speak to her, seeing as she is epileptic. I'm thinking that I probably won't have time to do much more than just put the music up in wondows media player on the projector and have those weird sound-scape things (the ones that beat in time with the music) full-screen, and just let that be the visuals for the visual people. But I'll see what Frankie's like and ask her about her epilepsy and see if I've got time to work on something that's more epic than windows media player. But that comes as a second to the actual music itself. That's the main part.

Erm... that's all I have to say right now. Well I mean I could ramble for a lot longer, but I have to get back to work. So yeah. I shall blog again soon with more updates.

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The Psychonaut; a journey into the soul

I am going to give my Pagan Soc. talk on Psychonautical behaviour. I have decided. I was unsure, but now it seems clear to me that that's what I want to do it on. So here is my rough outline that I will work on over the summer.

1. Define Psychonaut.
2. Explain theories.
3. Explain concepts.
4. Explain different techniques.
5. Discourage drugs.
6. Cast circle with "continuous time" (think that's the right phrase) outside. (If people don't feel good, or something goes not too right then they can just step out of the circle and it'll all be over.)
7. Do some music and sensory deprevation style psychonautical behaviour.
8. Let people "trip" (in a non-drug related way).
9. Sit back and watch just to see if people need help or need to stop.
10. Bring people down and have paper and pens/pencils ready to hand so that people can record thoughts/feelings/emotions and experiences. *Edit* Bring stuff so people can scry at the end.
11. Give people food to ground them.
12. Share experiences (if people want)

That's all I have for now. But it'll do. I can expand up on it.

I need to:

• Ask Mr. Slee about bringing people down from "trips"
• Ask Foo where he got his black isis bands (ribbon) from
• *Edit* Discuss scrying techniques
• Ask how many people would be interested and whether it's something I should just do during the Monday session or at a later date.

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I'm bored at work so I'm going to blog.

Last night my mother and I got around to talking about my religion. I am Wiccan. She was telling me how she understood that nature was beautiful and worth being looked after and revered, but she didn't see why I had to deify it. For me the sun actually IS The Horned God and the moon actually is The Triple Goddess. I did not have an answer, except that I felt the need to, I felt moved to. Then she persisted with a "But why?" and I got angry inside, gave her the same answer and steered the conversation elsewhere.

But it got me to thinking. Why do I deify nature? It is definitely more than because I feel moved to. I can't just quite put my finger on it. I think it may be because everything is too perfect to be a conincidence.

Take Phi. 1.618 0339 887.

Phi appears in:
The proportions of the human body
The proportions of many other animals
Plants
DNA
The solar system
Art and architecture
Music
Population growth
The stock market
The Bible and in theology

If I have understood right, Phi is the number which dictates that the length between your upper arm and your lower arm are the same and that the length between your upper leg and lower leg are the same. This is of course assuming that there will be anomalies in everything.

I think the world is too perfect for anything to be conincidence.

But that's not my answer.

I also think that nature is the be all and end all of existance. Well when I say that I mean nature began aeons before man, and will survive aeons after us. Therefore life/existance started with nature and will end with nature. I think it fascinating that society may have actually been through millions of these cycles from cave-men to futuristic sci-fi lifestyles.

But still I haven't come to a conclusion. Do I really need to?

I don't think so. I deify nature for a reason. A reason that I cannot explain. But I do. Simple.

Blessed Be.

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Electronic Book of Shadows...

So this is my electronic book of shadows. It's mainly for me, but if people happen to read it and take inspiration then feel free. I am not responsible for anything you do that either goes wrong, or not as intended etc.

That's all for now.

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