<3 lian isaac erica ryan max cj July 25 2009 Amherst, MA
Glitching.
Have you ever tried this?
You basically listen to the natural sounds around you through an effects processor.
It's amazing.
All you need is a microphone, ear phones, laptop, and a backpack. Run the mic through the laptop, filter it through some effects, and listen to it through the ear phones.
It's portable. You can walk around like this. You can meditate like this. Parties. It's really synergistic.
I use Ableton Live. Any VST host will do. A battery-powered effects pedal works too. You might be able to do this with a PDA or smartphone.
You can customize the world to sound like anything you want. The supply of VST plugins out there is limitless.
Favorite is Glitch (it's where the name comes from:)
http://illformed.org/plugins/glitch/
Delay is awesome. And pitch manipulation. Harmonies. Autotune. Sending Beethoven through a vocoder. It's a new way to experience music. If your mic is sensitive enough, drumming on your body is really amazing.
It's awesome to do with multiple people. Like, one mic broadcasting to several ear phones (splitter or FM transmitter or bluetooth? or wifi?). Get the delay looping and you can have a collective musical experience.
It's the most fun thing in the world.
You can try this right now. (let me know if you need any help setting it up.)
But it's missing a step. Feedback. Direct mental feedback. If there was a way for your mental state to feed back into the effects, back into the experience, you would have some serious mind-manifestation.
That's where EEGs come in. Combine it with data from an EEG (waiting for the emotiv epoc) and you can get yourself into incredible feedback loops. Set the effects to shift along with your mental state. Emotions manifesting themselves in sound. Perhaps good moods give you harmonious sounds, else dissonant. Neurofeedback. Perhaps focused thought gives you sharper hearing, while relaxation reverbs and everything into the distance. Perhaps moments of heightened excitability in a conversation repeat on delay.
If the experience could evolve while leaving traces of the past.. what would that do to short term memory?
With a camera and video goggles you could do visual glitching. (wrap920av looks cool) Imagine a visual manifestation of your mind right in front of you. Imagine PhotoBooth-like effects. Imagine talking to people with their face all warped LMAO. Imagine your mind being able to manipulate it. Imagine seeing a big :| in place of everyone's head.
But that's just the beginning.
Even more incredible things happen when you network multiple people ogether. Imagine, one's mental state directly effecting the sensory perception of another. Or you could average people's minds together to create a shared perceptual experience.
And you could connect it with the Internet. Augmented Reality. Zombie games and floating tweets is just the beginning. We'll be having Massively Multiplayer Mind-Manifesting. World-wide psychedelic experiences.
