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drone as meditation
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:00 pm
by spacefuzz
If you make drone/sound scapes,why do you do it? Just for fun,as meditation, etc? I find sitting on the floor of my garage by myself with a drone box and my amp on 10 as a almost religious experience. I totaly lose myself. It helps me deal with the stress of daily/modern life. It's a form of meditation.
Re: drone as meditation
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:05 pm
by skullservant
Yep, I do it all the time. Also do it with loud static noise as well. Totally gets out of body calming
Re: drone as meditation
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:08 pm
by sonidero
Well the name I use for Drone stuff is Metaphysic Sound Ascension, so yeah...
Re: drone as meditation
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:18 pm
by D.o.S.
To get laid.
Re: drone as meditation
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 9:17 pm
by 01010111
Yup, if I'm in a shitty mood the motto is: turn up and drone out. Guaranteed bad mood cure

Re: drone as meditation
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 9:31 pm
by hollowhero
I find myself doing this a lot as well. Get some looper/reverb action going and let your mind drift....
Re: drone as meditation
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 9:53 pm
by Seizurema
A vessel for anger / guilt / sorrow / frustration . After playing (droning) hard those things tend to leave me (thankfully) for a feeling of empty calm.
It also seems to be one of the most expressive and emotional things I can feed to a listener's ear/mind as well.
(Hopefully they feel that way and not wtf is this noise shit I paid for mediocre blues rock/indie pop

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Re: drone as meditation
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:10 pm
by dubkitty
i love doing loops that develop to a point where i can leave the loop going for hours nd never get tired of it. the looper is superb for drones...i stack single notes into architectural shapes. i really dig the idea of creating audio environments.
Re: drone as meditation
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 12:56 am
by Helter
I love looping feedbacking out of control delay over and over and then unplugging my guitar and getting that weird percussion-like noise and looping that and then sprawling out on my floor and thinking... or doodling over it at lower volumes, but this is a drone thread so the first one!
Re: drone as meditation
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:53 am
by AxAxSxS
dubkitty wrote:i love doing loops that develop to a point where i can leave the loop going for hours nd never get tired of it. the looper is superb for drones...i stack single notes into architectural shapes. i really dig the idea of creating audio environments.
This is good. I'll sometimes loop a conventional riff and then add to it, and add to it, and add to it etc. till its totally different, then continue to add loops till it comes back to something that makes sense. I'll do this for myself, by myself and it is definitely something that leaves me with a sense of peace.
Re: drone as meditation
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 6:36 am
by Big Mon
I'm not much of a "drone" player necessarily. I do create (mostly) loop-based music, but keep the loops relatively short so as to create "chapters" within the framework of a greater whole. However, there have been times when I'd loop something, then keep the amp on and go be contemplative. As far as meditative, droning awesomeness goes, I really, really like what Blackened-Soul does, and Bassus' more drone-y stuff, too. So much so that I felt kinda funny after I listened to the works of each in succession.
Re: drone as meditation
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 7:34 am
by alexa.
yes. tuned in A=432 adds too it somehow as well.
Re: drone as meditation
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 2:25 am
by Eric!
alexa. wrote:yes. tuned in A=432 adds too it somehow as well.
Dooood. YES.
I'm meaning to make a pedal for binaural beats
Re: drone as meditation
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 2:29 am
by Blackened Soul
does sitting on the floor and spacing out long periods while your bass is feeding back count?
Re: drone as meditation
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 3:35 am
by Eric!
Blackened Soul wrote:does sitting on the floor and spacing out long periods while your bass is feeding back count?
YUP.