Maximal Listening: Experiencing Music With The Entire Body
“Maximum volume yields maximum results.” -Sunn O)))
Listen deeply.
There is a long history of cultures all around the world creating rituals of challenge. Sweat lodges, cold exposure, firewalking, tattooing, kambo…although the spiritual purposes may differ, they do share a function in strengthening will, reshaping habits, opening a participant to memories, visions, and insights, and accessing transformational states of consciousness by challenging the nervous system in a safe, contained, and voluntary way.
Maximal Listening is the practice of experiencing music with the entire body. We use digital sound technologies combined with psychedelic guidance and experimental music to take you on a deep emotional journey of exploration, healing and growth. In this practice, you will be guided into and out of an intense experimental music experience in the complete darkness, which will transition you into a psychedelic state of consciousness without the use of any substances.
Disclaimer: Maximal Listening involves hearing and feeling very intense, confrontational, and loud instrumental music, and at times might make you feel difficult emotions and varying levels of discomfort. However, when you choose to be present with this discomfort voluntarily, it can be very beneficial to you, because you are consciously rather than unconsciously accessing the fight or flight response in your sympathetic nervous system. Maximal Listening is a safe ritualistic container for your process of exploration, healing, and growth.
What to bring: a water bottle, blanket, and eye mask. We will be providing ear plugs, and you are welcome to bring your own as well.
We will be there to support you throughout your experience, no matter where it takes you.