For my essay I have been doing research into sound within the psychedelic experience, from this I have also been looking into audio therapy, audio hallucinations and indigenous shamanic rituals/ceremonies. I want to delve into further research of Mazatec mushroom ceremonies and how sound played a role within them. This also could be compared to the 60s-70s psychedelic era and how drugs played a role in events such as Woodstock. Another area for research is how music can be used as a therapeutic non conventional drug that can alter the mind and change neurochemistry within the brain.There are many interesting studies at universities such as John Hopkins that have done research into these subjects and there is a lot of research for me to do for the essay.
https://www.beautifulspace.uk/blog/psychedelic-music-therapy
Reading –
‘art, like religion, is one of the ways we digest what is happening to us, make the sense out of it that proceeds to action’ (McKibben 2005)
1992 exhibition Fragile Ecologies
Barbara C. Matilsky observed, ‘critics and curators often lumped dissimilar artists together, which resulted in a confusion of different sensibilities and tendencies that continues to this day’
‘not all environmental art is environmentally sound nor does it carry an eco- logical message’ (Matilsky 1992: 43)