Check out Proteus. It takes a minute to load the tracks but they're well worth it:

www.pr0teus.com/music.html

Don't get me started on the layers of psytrance and the mind...lol

My roommate and I produce intentional events and original music.

Check out cymatics being applied to psytrance. I found a couple links the other day but dont have them handy. I also have done some research on the 144 bpm based music. Seems like a lot of tribes have been using percussion at approximately 144 BMP to help induce alpha states.

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Hello there,
I'd love to read your paper, sound very interesting.
L.
Flow

That dropping out the higher bmp beats works when you are dancing to it too. (hi, I'm new...)

Well... they are actually very simple.

When using a filter on Logic pro, you are given parametric options on a knob to twist. This knob controls how long or short the effect takes to run it's course.

It can read

1/8, 1/2, 2/1 bars etc etc --- many different time signatures.

Let's say you make a psytrance synth line -- I'll draw it out for you.

*** * *** ****** * *** ****** *** * *** ******

See the pattern? Good. Imagine what it sounds like.

Now... you take that synth channel and you add a filter effect. Let's say you set the parameter to '2/1' bars

This is where it get's confusing:

The filter is a slowly changing effect that is now slowly changing the way the pattern sounds as time goes on. A 2/1 setting would imply that the pattern of the filter will go full circle every 2 bars... you can easily hear this in psytrance all the time... but commonly it will be 8/1 bars.

Then, you can take some of the hi-hat drumming samles and give it a 4/1 setting. That way it will run on a similar pattern and line up to the synth line... however, it will follow a shorter range and create a smaller radius of change... not unlike 'sacred geometry.'

This is all fine and good -- if this fascinates somebody sober or on acid, have fun with it. I was into psytrance for a good two or three years and it was fun to dance to until it got completely predictable and repetative for me.

Thing is this:

Although psytrance might incorporate elements of sacred geometry, that merely makes it a very confined genre. Sacred geometry is cool, but it IS the building blocks of all of the universe and therefore isn't necessarily too interesting on a fundemental level once you embrace these concepts.

Personally, I'm far beyond psytrance and hope others will evolve to a point where this type of thing no longer really interests them. However, if you're still into it who am I to say to stop listening...

... just don't go off the deep end -- that's all I ask.

I really don't find it likely... I think I've listened to enought psytrance for an entire life-time and I doubt location changes will make much difference to me.

I view music very spiritually and it is fairly far removed from the more 'sacred geometry' because I have accepted sacred geometry as a reality in all things...

All music carries out patterns of emotions and logic... psytrance can be easily decoded because of it's clear basis in sacred geometry. Techo/house as well -- that's why these are good 'dance-floor' genres because they unite crowds under a common wavelength.

However, other music works in more mysterious ways to me and really -- I like that. *shrug*