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Don't know if it's strictly relevant to this discussion, but I came across this:

http://rhythmcoglab.coursepress.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2013/07/Escoffieral_2010_Unattended-musical-beats-enhance-visual-processing-copy.pdf

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Kat Agres <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi everyone,

Thanks, Krisztian, for starting this discussion of how aspects of trance music affect cognitive states - a topic I find quite fascinating! (This question is actually quite related to a book chapter my collaborators and I are currently revising for Music and Consciousness II..)

The first paper that came to mind is Hove et al's 'Brain network reconfiguration' paper, but I see you've already discovered that one.
The following paper is more from the perspective of rhythm and entrainment, but perhaps it would be of interest as well:

Fachner, J. (2011). “Time is the key–music and altered states of consciousness,” in Altering Consciousness: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, Vol. 1, eds E. Cardeña and M. Winkelman (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Publishing Group), 355–376.
You can find it here.

Many thanks also for your interest in the Harmonic Structure and UT paper. :-)

All the best,
Kat

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Bannister, Claire R <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hello friends!


Kristián (and others who might be interested), I once came across this book whilst researching and it has been on my wishlist ever since ;)


Rouget, Gilbert (1986). Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations between Music and Posession.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Trance-Relations-Between-Possession/dp/0226730050/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0

I have not read it so cannot comment on it critically, but thought it sounded super interesting.


Apologies for the Amazon link, this is just what I had bookmarked, I'm not saying it's unavailable elsewhere. Also don't be alarmed at the £243 price -- you can buy used copies for around £30!


I'll have a think about other sources as well :)


Love and psychedelic blessings!




Claire Rebecca Bannister
Postgraduate Researcher
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Kingston University London

From: Discussion list for Musedelica (psychedelic music research) <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Krisztian Hofstadter <00000aec4bed6d18-dmarc-reques[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 28 February 2017 14:35:02

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Hi Gemma,

Thank you.

No, my university doesn't have the books, nor available e-copies :(

Thanks for the link below (downloaded).

The Morales book is now expensive on amazon and ebay. :(
I have only found a very short version of it on academia.edu (link).

The Becker book is cheaper on amazon.

I asked our librarian to order the, hopefully they will :)

Thanks!

Everyone, anything else that comes to your minds, let me know.

Best wishes,

k


Krisztián Hofstädter | tEdör | http://tedor.info
On 28/02/2017 14:09, Gemma Farrell wrote:
Hi,

I'm not sure you will find digital versions of the Becker and Morelos as they are books - unless your university library has them, or has access to digital versions? If not, maybe your library could request copies be transferred from another university's library? Sussex has the Morelos and I bought the Becker on Amazon - it was not expensive.

G
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Hello,

Thank you Gemma for posting this here and on Facebook.

I have only found:

Agres, et al. 2017. Harmonic Structure Predicts the Enjoyment of Uplifting Trance Music.
Peres, et al. 2012. Neuroimaging during trance state: a contribution to the study of dissociation.

Does anyone have digital copies of the others?

Many thanks!

k

Krisztián Hofstädter | tEdör | http://tedor.info
On 23/02/2017 12:38, Gemma Farrell wrote:
Dear all, 

Krisztián has posed a question I thought would be interesting to open up to the group - see his message below and my response underneath that.

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From: Hofstadter, Krisztian [[log in to unmask]c.uk]
Sent: 21 February 2017 15:52
To: Gemma Farrell
Subject: How does trance music change the our mind?

Hello Gemma,

Hope all is well with you in Sussex. How is your PhD going? Have you
finished?

Are you aware of any research on how trance music affects the mind?
Perhaps how trance music producers use certain compositional techniques
i.e. chord progressions to create a desired effect?

Any help appreciated!

Best wishes,

k


My response is that I haven't found any research which is that specific. I have been researching this for my PhD by interviewing psytrance producers and otherwise drawing from existing work in related fields, for e.g.

-Becker, J. O. (2004). Deep listeners: Music, emotion, and trancing (Vol. 1): Indiana University Press.

-Morelos, R. (2009). Trance Forms: Ronaldo Morelos.

-Peres, J. F., Moreira-Almeida, A., Caixeta, L., Leao, F., & Newberg, A. (2012). Neuroimaging during trance state: a contribution to the study of dissociation. PloS one, 7(11), e49360. 

-Stelzer, J., Hove, M. J., Nierhaus, T., Thiel, S., Gundlach, C., Margulies, D. S., . . . Merker, B. (2012). Shamanic journeys and rhythmic induced trance: A simultaneous fMRI & EEG study of altered states of consciousness. Paper presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.

Also, I am not sure if you heard Kat Agres from Queen Mary, University of London speak at Musedelica '16? A recording of her talk is available at www.musedelica.co.uk  (click on 'audio' on the top right of the page). An extract from her talk abstract:

"Currently, my collaborators and I have been working to understand the interplay between repetition/complexity and enjoyment/altered states during trance music listening. While our interests extend to different types of trance music heard around the globe, we have taken specific interest in uplifting trance (UT), a sub-genre of Electronic Dance Music (EDM). Because research has already examined the impact of repetitive rhythmic and percussive elements on trance states, we decided to investigate a hitherto unexplored aspect of this genre – harmonic repetition. Altered states, such as audience flow state and the feeling of being "lost" in the music, are sought after by listeners, and have been identified as one of the highest forms of enjoyment of this genre by trance enthusiasts. Whereas variation plays a prominent role in the majority of Western tonal music, we argue that the enjoyment of UT is rooted in balance between variety and musical repetition, with the later aspect tied to altered states of consciousness. A robust account of the particular repeated elements that influence affective response in listeners remains to be seen. Therefore, to elucidate the connection between harmonic structure and subjective enjoyment, we conducted a behavioural experiment in which listeners provided enjoyment ratings for UT excerpts varying in harmonic repetitiveness (i.e., repetitions of the underlying chords). "





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Kat Agres, PhD
Cognitive Science & Computational Creativity
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary, University of London