by the way, dream machine #1 works best in an other wise dark room, playing on loop for 20-45 minutes..feel free to do other things (like work on music or talk to people) while it's running...at some point, your brain syncs properly to the flashing and most people can tell the difference...i didnt put this info in the description when i showed it at a student run gallery during college, gave me a nice test run since people didnt know what they video was supposed to do and came out feeling the effects anyway, at which point i explained to them that it was syncing their brain waves to the different stages of sleep (#1 triggers alpha waves, probably the most interesting to experience fully awake)

I've no doubt that sound and music can affect mood and emotions and even facilitate altered states of consciousness, but I'm not sure about affecting perception for example, which is something that many drugs do. Also, I doubt music can create quite the same 'high' as chemical drugs, but that doesn't mean there is no place for so called digital drugs.

ive already made video pieces that do this, 10 years ago..they arent chip, but ive been known to use them in visuals
http://www.soundcollapse.org/kevinvideo.htm
they are the dream machine pieces, one of which is here: http://www.soundcollapse.org/video/drea … ne%201.wmv
apologies for it being wmv, hope to get to a full overhaul of my website in the next few months at which point, ill have the video stuff on vimeo as well as downloadable versions of some pieces

guys - i can't stop - HELP!

got it, love it. i think it's way more of an experience when you couple it with the visual aspect. (chip visualists, anyone want to try and recreate this in a live setting? please? ) 

you're goddamn fucking right. in the last several years my favorite records have either been the craziest, most violent stuff, or the most beautiful quiet stuff. sotl are winners.
check boxhead ensemble and geotic and keep it going.

mp3s are stupid > get the real thing.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=505049929208

*edit* Personal information. Whoops.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_deprivation

I hear that if you sleep for long enough and then wake up and open your eyes, there's a whole new dimension of sensations! It's extremely clear and lucid, and it will leave everlasting impressions.

If you lie down on a bed and close your eyes for long enough, you can lose consciousness and go into a weird altered state, and at some times you may see images and sounds which are not real (!), and which you will have only a faint memory of after a few minutes of leaving this state. It's a really safe, legal way to get high. I do it every night.

I couldn't think of the name of this, but my friends and I tried it in January.  It didn't work for me but supposedly I didn't do it for long enough.  Some of my friends started seeing things though.

i hear if you do that white noise trick while covering your eyes with ping pong ball halves and lying down, u can get the same feeling as being on lsd. apparently if u eliminate all sensory stimulations, your brain creates it's own aka trips the fuck out.