Sound for the
long inward hour.
Music and art composed for the arc of a psychedelic or ketamine session: something to hold on the way in, nothing to resolve at the bottom, and a familiar line to follow back.
Quiet. Waiting.
One session, four rooms.
Every piece on this site belongs to a phase of the journey. Choose a phase and the field tunes itself to it: a different root, a different breath, a different amount of ground under your feet. Played live in the browser, slightly different every time.
The same chair, four floors.
A person under a blanket, eye mask on, headphones on, in a plain room with one lamp. What changes is what the floor is doing. Painted in the Neural Folklore manner: matte oil and gouache, networks as roots and woven cloth, nothing that glows.
Threshold · Lamplight
Something to rest the eyes on.
Slow, luminous geometry for a screen in the treatment room or at home. Nothing flashes and nothing resolves. Open any piece full-screen and leave it running; it drifts for hours without repeating.
Breath
Rings · six a minuteLattice
Geometry · turning slowlyTide
Waves · no shoreWhy it sounds the way it does.
The music follows the body, not the clock.
Guided-session music has a tradition behind it: a long preparation, a rise, a wordless stretch at the top, and a gentle return. The pieces here keep that shape but drop the drama. The pulse, where there is one, sits near a resting breath. Chords move by the smallest step available. There are no lyrics, no sudden entrances, and no ending that asks for applause.
Everything is tuned around a single root that holds for the whole phase, so there is always a note to come home to, even at the bottom of the hour.
What each phase asks for.
- I · Threshold. Warm, close, grounded. A slow swell at breathing pace. Something to hold.
- II · Opening. The pulse dissolves. Tones widen and lift. Less to track, more to notice.
- III · Depth. No meter, long overtones, a wide quiet space. Nothing to resolve.
- IV · Return. A simple melody comes back on familiar intervals. The room returns with it.
Use it with headphones or a room speaker, at a volume you could speak over. Let the person, not the playlist, decide when the eye mask comes off.
The music is not the point. The point is what the music lets happen.
Threshold · study · Neural FolklorePsycheSound is a working project by Adam Hart, MD, a psychiatrist who treats with ketamine and neuromodulation and spends the rest of his time on art, sound and odd ways of thinking about the mind. It is the night-side companion to two paper-coloured sites: one on how these treatments actually work, one on what psychiatry might become.
Everything here is original and free to use in a clinic, a study or at home. If you use it in a session, tell me how it went.
A written walk-through of one dosing session, stage by stage, with the evidence attached.
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