Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on April 27, 2010
Listen to this sound collage…
About the Bipolarcoaster
Imagine a roller coaster ride that you could never get off of – everything you do has to be done while the roller coaster goes round and round again… that’s how I live my life.
The cycles I experience living with bipolar disorder (what used to be called manic depression) range from highs called hypo-mania to very deep lows of depression.
These cycles can happen very quickly for me - from low to high and back to low again in a week or so. But these cycles happen inside other cycles which happen inside other cycles, and so on – so I can have low/high/lows or low/low/highs or any other combination of lows and highs.
Even though bipolar disorder is called a mood disorder, I think of it as a mind/thought wave frequency phenomenon of some kind based on my on experience. Imagine it a constantly changing radio dial picking up different intuitive frequencies that causes the brain to process information from different perspectives.
Instead of having your brain working steady on a regular frequency – what we call normal – creating a rather homogeneous personal identity, the bipolar mind has to encompass a larger range of experiences into a single personal identity.
This sound collage tries to capture a small bit of the larger, nonstop, relentless nature of this experience which dominates my life in many ways…
Something I’ve been thinking a lot this last week while going through a very bad depression and working on this collage – “Making art is easy, it’s being an artist that’s hard…”
Source Material
This sound collage includes samples and loops from John Lennon, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Daniel Lanois, along with various roller coaster sounds…
- John Lennon – Watching The Wheels
- Bob Dylan – Up To Me, If Not for You
- The Beatles – Helter Skelter
- Jimi Hendrix – Manic Depression
- Daniel Lanois – I Love You
Note: As soon as I can find the information I had about the roller coaster sounds, I’ll post those here too…
Until next time, best of health…
Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on April 20, 2010
Here is 11 tracks with over a half-hour of marijuana culture in one delicious, fat, blunt-sized mix…
Listen To This Sound Collage
How Long? Not Long!
As someone who’s watched the long drama of the drug war for over 27 years, I can’t help but feel the time is getting near… the end of this fiasco is in sight.
The last push to end this unjust, immoral and racist prohibition of marijuana is upon us, and I hear the voice of freedom saying “How Long? Not Long!” I hope I’m not too optimistic in saying, “This is the year we legalize it…”
This sound collage is dedicated to three medical marijuana activists – Charles “Chuck” Witt, Jack Herer and Josh Howard (the heart and soul of our medical marijuana collective – AAC, Apothecary’s Assistant’s Collective in Long Beach, California)
Who’s In This Mix?
In this mix you’ll hear expert advice on the meaning of 420, how to smoke a joint, get a lesson in marijuana etiquette, listen to some great marijuana stories along with various other entertaining sound clips…
For Track Information, Click Here: http://ufoverdriver.onehumanbeing.com/free-downloads/how-long-not-long-the-4-20-10-mix/
FREE MP3 Download
Click below to download a Zip file containing all separate 11 Tracks from this sound collage.
Unzip the files on your hard drive and add the tracks to your iPod or other portable audio device. You can also burn your own CD if you like – all tracks are high quality 320 kbs MP3s.
Enjoy, reflect and pass it on – do not Bogart this mix…
Right Click Here : How-Long_Not-Long-The-4.20.10.-Mix.zip | 72 Mb
Happy 420 from UFOverdriver
Enjoy!
Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on April 4, 2010
Listen to this sound collage
Length: 30:55
Song List
1. Intro – Fishing with Jon – 1:20 – NEW on 4.4.2010
2. Dream Leaver – Instant Karma Mix – 5:06 – Released 3.30.2010
3. Dance Upon injustice – The Calling Down Mix – 8:56 – Released 4.2.2010
4. These Songs of Freedom – The King Mix – 6:02 – Released 4.3.2010
5. Fearless In My Own Way – The How Long? Mix – 6:46 – NEW on 4.4.2010
6. Bonus Track – Good Morning John by Kris Kristofferson – 2:50
Download All Tracks
68mb zip file containing MP3 files all 6 tracks – http://ufoverdriver.onehumanbeing.com/wp-content/uploads/GoodMorningJon.zip
About the song “Good Morning John”
My friend Pete included this song (Good Morning John by Kris Kristofferson) on a music playlist a couple of months ago, and it really got under my skin – in a good way – and during this last month it evolved into this sound collage – Thanks Pete!
Kris Kristofferson originally wrote this song about Johnny Cash’s struggles with addiction for a sobriety party in the 1970s. He explained to Billboard magazine: “Everyone was supposed to say something inspirational, so I wrote a song. I tried to record this once before with Willie Nelson and my band. When I sang the chorus, they echoed me when I would sing ‘Good morning John.’ When I got to the line that said ‘I love you John,’ Willie said ‘He loves you John’ and we all cracked up laughing. We never finished it, so I finished it myself.”
source: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=17092
Enjoy, reflect and pass it on!
