A culmination of many years of studying the various techniques and studio methods incorporated in the production of psychedelia, new age, and ambient electronic music during the 1970's.  

To produce this piece, I used the following equipment: 

1) a droning held Cmaj9 chord performed on a Jupiter-8 in stereo, each side flowing into a Roland vintage stereo phaser with incongruent settings, the left channel then downtuned by .01 cent by an Eventide H910, washed in Lexicon 224 giant endless hall reverb, and Space Echo.  

2) A Tonus-era ARP 2600 performs a short three-note down arpeggiation at high speed, fed into an MXR phasor, and a Juno-60 performs the 7 notes of the C major scale in Up-Down across three octaves while automatically sweeping its filter via the LFO, fed into an MXR phasor. 

3) A Minimoog drones on C while the filter is manually swept.  

4) A Fender Telecaster is performed with an E-bow on the fifth string and capo on the third fret, droning a C note. 

5) A Fender Rhodes and Travis Bean TB1000a guitar provide random notation in the C major scale. 

6) an Eventide H910 pitch shifting delayed feedback, resulting in chaotic arpeggios at various speeds

Because the piece is recorded to tape, I am able to pitch shift the entire performance, which I do several times, first rising and then rising again, then descending and descending again, back to C.  I then "melt" the performance as it ends, pitch shifting down.  

There is a great deal of tape hiss due to my disdain for Dolby Noise Reduction. Please pardon the hiss.

Psychedelic Thesis

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