I have returned to my senses
Apr. 29th, 2006 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxgrrlI have returned home from the Shpongle/Hallucinogen concert. I am more awake right now than I have been in years. I still hear the music playing in my head. 
Mere human language can not express the experience.
I became intimately spiritually connected with everyone in the building. (And the building itself.)
I wonder how you, the reader who was also there with me, experienced the event. How did you feel? Were you happy, very happy, or did you experience a several hour long orgasm? I want to hear some objective confirmation of the woo-woo-mystical stuff I noticed.
Postscript:
Look! Shinny Things!
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And there's plenty more where that came from...
Why no, my camera doesn't do video; I shot 1047 pictures before its batteries died.
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Date: 2006-04-30 06:01 pm (UTC)It was amazing beyond words for me. But then again, Mr Posford is by far my favorite modern muscian. His composition follows a lot of the same rules that old music theory follows, and everything always falls in just the perfect order. He starts with the story, builds to an intense peak, and slams you in the face with mindblowing climax and conclusion. I've seen worlds not of this earth with eyes closed, headphones tucked lovingly around my earts, to the sultry driving beats that have poured from this man's brain.
My only regret is that in the US we will never see his music done as it is in Europe. Over here he only does sets and only has himself with him. However... If we were in europe we would get to see the crazy stage prescense with an entire ensemble. Cello players, several percussionists, Raja Ram on flute, Turkish singers, dancers... God what I wouldn't give to be part of -that- vibe.
So yes... you felt what everyone else felt. The vibe in the middle of the room was different than the one around the wall. Just being in the middle where all the sound collected made my skin tingle. I couldn't hear anything but the music. And once my goggles were secured firmly over my eyes I could close them and just wallow in the sound, the feeling of those around me, and scream at the top of my lungs when something in the music touched in my brain just right. It was like I was swimming in a thick, hot soup of orgamic climax.
Indescribable. But then again, I've been waiting for this very show for about a year and a half now. One day I will see him across seas.
thanks for grabbing these pictures =) I was the dancy girl in the large white skirt that had red hearts all over it. I want you to knwo that I LOVE simon posford! And You grabbed some great pictures of him!
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Date: 2006-05-01 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-02 12:20 am (UTC)Thanks, this is exactly what I wanted confirmed. I was just wondering if it was only something in my head...
(I'll explain why later, not much time right now.)
Postscript:
Is this you?
http://flickr.com/photos/earlyadopter/137247794/
I didn't take that, nor any of these: http://flickr.com/photos/earlyadopter/tags/posford/
I think that was the guy up on the front of the stage taking pictures. (And also why I don't use a flash.)
It seems like everyone there had their eyes closed... which is a strange coincidence, as I had my eyes closed the entire time too.
Hmm, I think that's me in the background on this one:
http://flickr.com/photos/earlyadopter/137240710/
This is an awesome photo of
http://flickr.com/photos/earlyadopter/137230634/in/set-72057594120486229/
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Date: 2006-05-02 01:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-02 01:07 am (UTC)Persay, do you listen to much Shpongle?
and if you enjoyed that feeling, there's other things that we go to that you may enjoy. Symbiosis is amazing. It's a small, spiritual outdoor gathering done by some of the same folks that did this show. Maybe we should look you up for other things like this! But this kind of vibe can usually only be felt at this guy's shows. People really amp up for him.
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Date: 2006-05-02 06:24 am (UTC)I only have about five Shpongle and Hallucinogen albums. I mostly listen to Psytrance/Goa these days, and Dead Can Dance. (But when I was younger, I used to listen to alot of goth and industrial stuff, and alternative music from back when it really was alternative. (Has anyone here heard of "This Picture" or "Recoil" or "Kitchens Of Distinction" or "Robyn Hitchcock" or "Hunters & Collectors" or ...)
Anyway, stuff like Shpongle, Astral Projection, and Dead Can Dance, is mostly what paints pictures in my brain.
This Symbiosis http://www.symbiosisgathering.com/ on Sep 21-25, 2006?
That looks like fun, I wanna go.
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Date: 2006-05-02 04:36 pm (UTC)As for Shpongle, Yay1 I'm glad you enjoy their music. I dig the same music for the same reason. It seems to artistically inspire me with a flood of images more than anything else. And the energy that it moves is almost breathtaking to me.
Wow! Nice to meet you Julia! You seem coolio :D
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Date: 2006-05-02 03:38 am (UTC)> I think that was the guy up on the front of the stage taking pictures.
Those are mine.
I also don't like flash at all, but this day I felt it's better to use it. It's more for the history. :)
Although -- no doubt -- yours show how it really looked like much much better.
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Date: 2006-05-02 05:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-02 05:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-02 05:48 am (UTC)(I remember, for a few shots, lengthening my shutter speed to a second or two, to try to use your flash for illumination. The results were overexposed, and I didn't bother to change f-stop since I was mostly tring to capture motion, and I needed a fast shutter speed to do that.)
(Since I switched to digital, I have been using a flash a little bit. Mostly I turn the power way down, do rear-curtain sync on long exposures, or bounce it far away/move the flash itself far away from the camera.)
I was not planning on taking any pictures at all, so I left all of my other longer and faster lenses out in the car (with my spare battery). In hindsight, my f1.8 50mm would have come in handy. The lens I was using (the D50's 18-55mm kit lens) is f5.6 at 55mm. (The 210mm also, for getting the opposite stage earlier.) I didn't get any pictures of the parrot, because by the time it was next to me, I had discharged my batteries.
A VR lens probably would have help too, I was holding my camera against the posts on the side of the stage (since my tripod was out in the car too.) And the bass from the music/speakers was making everything vibrate noticeably. (I don't actually own any VR lenses, but they're on my wish-list.)
I dug up some of the images with your flash going off:
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5910.jpg (You can see one of the other camera girls in this one.)
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5896.jpg
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5840.jpg
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5887.jpg
There was someone else at the other corner of the stage (stage right?) and their flash added a nice effect:
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5917.jpg (I like this one.) (Apparently they have red-eye reduction on, or their point and shoot fires the flash to focus/meter before opening the shutter.)
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5918.jpg
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5890.jpg (Compare this one to http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5887.jpg above)
More contrasting examples:
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5787.jpg
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5788.jpg
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5789.jpg
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Date: 2006-05-02 06:38 am (UTC)Sorry I was blocking you the view.
Next time don't be shy, just move the bastard (no matter will that be me or whoever else) out of your of sight. :)
By the way -- few good pictures (http://www.zvuk.nnov.ru/photo/thumbnails.php?album=427&page=10) from Moscow (http://www.zvuk.nnov.ru/photo/thumbnails.php?album=427&page=11) where Simon was playing (http://www.zvuk.nnov.ru/photo/thumbnails.php?album=427&page=12) a week before he stopped by San Franciso. Looks like they've got pretty good time there too.
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Date: 2006-05-02 04:43 pm (UTC)Damnit... I didn't have enough room in the venue to do light poi!
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Date: 2006-05-02 05:28 pm (UTC)The guy next to me in line at the entrance did light poi outside while we were waiting to be searched, and then I saw him on the opposite to Simon stage during Posford's performance spinning lights.