Showing posts with label Altered States. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Altered States. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 21, 2015


''In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied...''


''If we are to discuss the limitations of simulation, we must define what simulation is. The literature in the field is of limited usefulness in tying down exactly what the term describes. The more recent the document, the more likely it is that the author will quote several alternate definitions, reject them all and proceed to develop his own definition which is more general and less restricting than any of those given. The use of the term "simulation" seems to outgrow even the broadest definition. I will not attempt a precise definition, but as an alternate will suggest that the history of the development of simulation as we know it today may be a less rigorous, but more satisfying way to describe simulation. The origins of simulation are generally traced to the work of Von Neuman and Ulman in the late 1940's. They coined the term "Monte Carlo Analysis" to describe a technique whereby essentially deterministic problems, too expensive or complex to solve analytically, could be solved by treating them as stochastic problems.''

The trend in simulation (Computers and Automation- January 1968, page 44)

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_computersA_9729690


Friday, July 10, 2015


''Virtual vertigo''


''This Thesis was aimed at studying the effects of time delay in the visual feedback loop of a man-machine system. A one-dimensional, step-type input, pursuit tracking experiment was developed to study these effects with transmission-type delays of zero to ten seconds. Thirty-six subjects participated in a series of tests that covered: seven different delays, two different levels of course complexity for each delay, learning, and open-loop conditions. It was found that tracking performance deteriorates non-linearly with increases in delay and that the magnitude of this performance degradation is a function of course complexity.'' 

Effects of time delay in the visual feedback loop of a human-machine system (1966)


Thursday, June 18, 2015



''Is there any escape from noise?''



''BASIC CONCEPTS AND QUESTIONS ABOUT NOISE, WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO A PROPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHARACTERISTIC OF INDUSTRIAL NOISE AS WELL AS AN EXPERIMENTAL ACOUSTICAL COMPLEX FOR THE STUDY OF THE NOISE FACTOR, ARE EXAMINED. SPECIAL ATTENTION HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE EFFECT OF NOISE ON THE ORGAN OF HEARING. IMPORTANT DATA PERTAIN TO PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH, INCLUDING THE QUESTIONS OF ADAPTATION AND FATIGUE. CHANGES IN OCCUPATIONAL HEARING LOSSES, CAUSED BY THE PROLONGED EFFECT OF NOISE, ARE DISCUSSED. DATA ARE GIVEN ON THE EFFECT OF AN ACOUSTIC STIMULUS ON THE EYE, MOTOR ANALYZE, ON VIBRATION SENSITIVITY AND THE FUNCTIONAL STATE OF THE VESTIBULAR ANALYZE, INVOLUNTARY FUNCTIONS, AND THE CARDIO-VASCULAR SYSTEM. DATA ABOUT THE EFFECT OF NOISE ON THE FUNCTIONAL STATE OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ARE PRESENTED. IT IS CONCLUDED THAT BOTH REACTIVITY AND LABILITY OF THE CORTEX AND SUBCORTICAL STRUCTURES ARE REDUCED, EVIDENTLY IN PROPORTION TO THE NOISE EFFECT. THE DEGREE OF THESE EFFECTS IS DETERMINED BY THE FORCE OF THE NOISE.''

Noise and noise sickness (U.S.S.R., 1973)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19730019203

Thursday, March 26, 2015


"On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a 
throne of blood! 
What was will be! What is will be no moreNow is 
the season of EVIL!"




''Essays and documents related to Hideous Gnosis, a symposium on black metal theory, which took place on December 12, 2009 in Brooklyn, NY.''

Hideous Gnosis-Proceedings of the First Black Metal Theory Symposium (Brooklyn, 2009)

https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_GCM2MFeJwfMC

Sunday, March 22, 2015

''It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back''




''We estimated lifetime prevalence of psychedelic use (lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin (magic mushrooms), mescaline, and peyote) by age category using data from a 2010 US population survey of 57,873 individuals aged 12 years and older. There were approximately 32 million lifetime psychedelic users in the US in 2010; including 17% of people aged 21 to 64 years (22% of males and 12% of females). Rate of lifetime psychedelic use was greatest among people aged 30 to 34 (total 20%, including 26% of males and 15% of females).''
''...(A)pproximately 32 million lifetime psychedelic users in the US...'' - That is about 7 million more people than the current population of Australia, 24 million.

Over 30 million psychedelic users in the United States. (F1000 Research, 2013)

https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3917651

Friday, February 27, 2015


''Lately it occurs to me...
What a long strange trip it has been''




''The aim of this study was to summarize the scientific evidence on the prevalence of psychoactive substance use and on the factors associated with their intake among truck drivers.''

Psychoactive substance use by truck drivers: A systematic review. (2013)

https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3888602

Saturday, February 14, 2015


''No wonder they called it ''The Nazi Party''...''



''Pervitin, a stimulant commonly known as speed today, was the German army's -- the Wehrmacht's -- wonder drug.''

Hitler's Drugged Soldiers (Andreas Ulrich, Spiegel 2005)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-nazi-death-machine-hitler-s-drugged-soldiers-a-354606.html

Saturday, February 7, 2015


''I've got a silver machine / It flies side ways thru' time...''



''As we experience a temporal flux of events our expectations of future events change. Such expectations seem to be central to our perception of affect in music, but we have little understanding of how expectations change as recent information is integrated. When music establishes a pitch centre (tonality), we rapidly learn to anticipate its continuation. What happens when anticipations are challenged by new events?''

Music Cognition as Mental Time Travel. (2013)

https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3776194

Monday, January 26, 2015


''In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side...''


''Music is known to alter people's ordinary experience of space and time. Not only does this challenge the concept of invariant space and time tacitly assumed in psychology but it may also help us understand how music works and how music can be understood as an embodied experience. Yet research about these alterations is in its infancy. This review is intended to delineate a future research agenda.''

Changes in the representation of space and time while listening to music (2013).

https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC373437

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Wednesday, January 21, 2015


''Freak out in a moon-age daydream...''



''THE EMOTIONAL STRESS OF COSMONAUTS DURING SPACE FLIGHT ARE EXAMINED.''

COSMONAUT'S EMOTIONAL STRESS IN SPACE FLIGHT (1972)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19730003386

Tuesday, January 20, 2015


''All good clean fun. Have another stick of gum...''







Amphetamine, past and present - a pharmacological and clinical perspective (2013).

https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3666194

Friday, January 16, 2015


''It's like,the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible.''



''The most extensive use of dream imagery in popular culture occurs in the visual arts, and in the past five years it has become evident that music video (a semi-narrative hybrid of film and television) is the most dreamlike media product of all. The rampant depiction and implication of dreams and media fantasies in music video are often strongly encouraged by the lyrics and soundtrack, formal requirements''

Dreams and Mediation in Music Video (1986).

https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED284312

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

''Whisky Tango Romeo veintiuno...'' 

                                       


''Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. Spies located anywhere in the world can be communicated to by their masters via small, locally available, and unmodified Shortwave receivers. The encryption system used by Numbers Stations, known as a one time pad is unbreakable. Combine this with the fact that it is almost impossible to track down the message recipients once they are inserted into the enemy country, it becomes clear just how powerful the Numbers Station system is.''



The Conet Project (IRDIAL Records, 1997)

https://archive.org/details/ird059