Newest Music Video from A Cultivator (The Buddhist Rapper)
Lyrics: when you leave earth, after your time is done + everything that you thought you were starts asking what have i become + as consciousness searches for a sense of identity
until it says im finding some
Indigenous Futurisms Mixtape
Welcome to the sounds of the Indigenous future: a hyperpresent now, melding the worlds within and beyond what we can hear, see and imagine. In collaboration with Kimiwan Zine’s new issue, RPM is proud to bring you the Indigenous Futurisms mixtape.
How playing an instrument benefits your brain
When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What’s going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians’ brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout.
Led Zeppelin’s Dance with the Occult
Led Zeppelin perfectly encapsulates the power of the occult imagination, how it continues to see expression, and how it was able to completely propel rock and roll into electrifying new directions.
Acoustic Memetics: Non-Verbal Musical Meaning Structures
Music influences and organizes the activities of mind, and since the way we organize our thoughts influences the actions we take in the world, it follows that music may be exploited to shape consensus reality.
A Disconcerting Concert: Coniunctio Oppositorum in Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major Op. 73 is the prototype of concerting perfection. The orchestra being the woman; the piano, the man; their music together, lovemaking.
Crowley on the Bowery
The following is excerpted from Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World, published by Tarcher/Penguin. I first came across the name Aleister Crowley, the twentieth century’s most infamous magician and self-styled “Great Beast 666,” in 1975, when I was nineteen and playing in a rock and roll band in […]
Yin the Mix: Astrology and Electronica
A few years ago, I noticed a pattern of individuals born during the sun sign of Capricorn becoming famous DJs, so I immersed myself in an investigation of this curious phenomenon.
Illuminorganica: An Interview with the Desert Dwellers
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing the Desert Dwellers in NYC while they were with Shpongle for the “Museum of Consciousness” tour. We talked about spirituality, psychedelics, music festival culture, and more.
The Message – Sonic Environments for Advanced Psychonauts
The Message is a contemplative sound project created by the Liminal Analytics: Applied Research Collaborative to aid in exploring the outer edges of society and mind.
Deepen your sense of the ‘luminous space’ which surrounds us. Work with these sound environments and enter into states of consciousness transcending habitual personal constructs by accessing the unified perceptual field.
