Psychedelic Trance and Multimedia Neo-Rituals: The Modern Shamanic Tools?

Psychedelic Neo-Ritualism And The Dj Shaman

The modern technological environment we live in refers us to relations between individuals and systems, previously isolated, which now became part of a whole with common purposes, in this great technological infrastructure called the information society (Castells, 2009). If the creation of synthesizers came to facilitate the composition of electronic music as a result of tone synthesis or from mixing and recycling pre-recorded samples, added to other styles of musical fragments and derivations, the widespread use of the Internet has come to implement these practices on an unparalleled scale.

In the beginning seemed like the electronic musical styles came to cause a break with the past. A new generation of musicians and technicians articulated new ways of making music hand in hand with a cutting edge position compared to traditional concepts, with their new micropolyphonies and dense sonic textures (Ginsburg & Barbosa, 2005). The raw material of electronic music does not necessarily have an initial or final composition, since it is essentially based on a combination of editable and available fragments in gigantic bases of mutant sounds, constantly improving. These kinds of sound databases have an almost self-sustaining existence and are available on the web, from all to all.