Every full moon, Will
ingest a good quantity
of mushroom and play
electronic music for
hours. This full moon
he decided to invite
me to partake in his
ritual.
Theatre is done for
the season so I had
nothing planned, and
I really liked the idea
to have a music focused
mushroom trip. Will and
I have always had a good
time playing electronic
music improvisation in
the past so I felt
fairly comfortable with
my limited skill.
I still plugged in the
Digitone during the day
to see how 'fluid' I
was with the interface.
I've only had the DO
for a few months and I
feel like I'm still exploring
a lot of it's intricacy.
I decided on only bringing
the one synth so that I
don't get lost into too
many machines and settings.
I arrived there on time,
as usual, and we walked
around the land, before
preparing some tea. 1 gram
each of shroom. I've had
so many different type of
shroom, sometime 1 gram
can last all night, but
in a tea format it will
be a tad shorter.
We drank around 6:30 pm,
and then started on the
synth. It was still light
out and Will put a incense
stick by the bay door
which gave into a view
of the mountain. That
incense, with the wind
and the backdrop of nature
and mountain became instrumental
to my tripping.
I wasn't sure I would be able
to sustain a high dose of
shroom while playing synth.
I was worried I would
crumble in the corner
and want to cry all night.
I was worried I would get
overwhelm with my healing
process. But since we were
playing music, it kept
me on track, gently forcing
myself to stay on track.
I've know the elektron workflow
for a while now. I started on the
Digitakt a few years back,
then moved to the Octatrack,
and now I've finally added
the Digitone. I mention this
because I was really surprise
that I could still make
'coherent' music throughout
the trip. It sounded pretty
crazy, I mean we didn't
recorded anything which
was probably wise, but
it was such a trip.
To be in a mushroom trip,
and playing trippy music, I
was both transported into
a crazy realm and creating
that realm at the same time.
At one point I dissociated
completely from my playing,
my mind was tripping around,
exploring internal realities,
wavering and following the
music. The music was not
only forming my thoughts,
they were responding to my
emotions, it was as if I
was creating that music.
I then realized that I
was indeed creating that
music, without thinking
about it, it was coming out
of me without consciously
planning for it.
For a while I was in outer
space, but slowly reality
came back in. The judgmental
part of the shroom was to kick
in. All my life came back to
the surface, but not a lot
was to be healed. Only a few
bad habits, a bit too much
news, a bit too much tv show
was on my mind, but apart from
that it wasn't too bad.
In some mushroom exploration,
there is so much that need
change in my life that I get
to a place where I need to
start 'cleaning up my act'.
I'm not there anymore. This
feels good. This meant
that I could continue
playing music, without
running away from my
problem, because there
wasn't much to run away from.
We played for over 5 hours,
went for a couple walks. I
drank some coconut pineapple
juice, didn't smoke, which
made the evening quite healing.
I went back home around 1am,
feeling good and satisfied.
I haven't had such a positive
mushroom trip in a while.
I can't wait to get back
on the Digitone to see if it
will be as fluid as last
night experience!
