Audio
Tuesday, 14th June, 2016
SESSION 1
Grumbly Grimblies, Frozen Dogs and other Boojums: Eccentricity from Chaucer to Carroll in English Psychedelia
The Musical Characteristics of 1960s Psychedelic Music and Their Cultural Meaning
Craig Morrison
Peter Grant
Ian Lowey
Our Music is Red With Purple Flashes: The Visual Representation of Psychedelia
SESSION 2
Anatomy of A Psychedelic Track
Psychedelic Substances and Creativity in Music
Alain Pire
David Badger
Neil Burns
Something in the water: Psychedelia through the prism of song. An examination of psychedelic thought outside of its traditional sphere of influence, in my practice as a songwriter, producer and composer
SESSION 3
Ed Spencer
‘Come Meditate on Bass Weight’: UK dubstep, the rhetoric of affect, and the rise of the grotesque
Chris Charles
The Use of Delay in Psychedelic Dance Music
Kathleen Agres
Harmonic Repetition as a Mechanism for Enjoyment and Altered States in Uplifting Trance Music
SESSION 4
Brain-Computer Music Interfacing Software Development
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Krisztián Hofstädter
Musical Listening as Psychedelic Experience
Alexander Harden
Thomas Johnson
Correlates of Spiritual and Transcendent Experiences Among Participants in the Electronic Dance Music (EDM) Scene
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Round Table Discussion
Wednesday, 15th June, 2016
SESSION 1
From Soul to Psychedelic Soul: sonic experience and sound experimentations
Come on everybody – get up on your feet it won’t hurt ya!
Peter Smith
Guillaume Dupetit
Anthony Meynell
Re-creation of The Byrds “Eight Miles High”. Using re-enactment to recapture historical recording practices.
SESSION 2
To fathom Hell or soar angelic: psychedelic music and the liminal space of the Goth subculture
‘When I Was 12 I Had an E’: Negotiating MCing and DJing in an Inner-City Classroom
Pete Dale
Claire R Bannister
Tanya Harris
Marosa
SESSION 3
Twisted Things: Psychedelic Sonorous Objects in Psytrance
Gemma Farrell
Duck
Richard Duckworth
Botond Vitos
An Analysis of Getting ‘Wasted’ or ‘Trashed’ on Psychedelics at Psytrance Festivals
Round Table Discussion