sedation vacation by brainwaiver

This session began in the summer of 2024 after a long hiatus. Chicago-based non-profit, Sana Healing Collective asked us to take part in a community collaboration. Reflective and responsive music to be used in a healing space. Sana advocates the use of psychedelic-assisted therapies in clinical settings. Themes we understood to emphasize in this process were; dissociation, repetition and resolution. To help patients disconnect and perhaps gain a different perspective. The final track, "Moment and Pause" was eventually contributed to their collaboration.

https://sanahealingcollective.org/soundsofsana

Throughout this session and the production afterward, we focused on the idea of disassociation. We created long loops of sounds, abstract at times, to create loose sound collages. Especially tracks 1,4 and 5 are built around the idea of loops that sometimes resolve themselves, and sometimes do not.

It is important to once again say that this was recorded in July 2024. The feelings of that summer are so vastly different from where we are now (April 2025). Lurking beneath these recordings is resonant sense of hope and potential optimism. Maybe even, the idea that things could be better than they are now. That optimism might be naive, or foolish or unrealistic. Either way. This is the world we have. So it goes.

-brainwaiver

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