227 - Suburban Transpondency

 


Alice's Psychedelic Adventures in Wonderland


150 years ago, the mathematician Charles Dodgson published
his novel Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland under the pseudonym Lewis
Carroll. Since then, the story of a young English girl following
a white rabbit down a hole to a strange and curious world of
nonsense and fantasy has become a permeating mixture in our
culture.


50 years ago, a strange and curious new drug was making quite a
scene with its potent power to cause both ecstatic hallucinations
and paranoid panic. The drug, Lysergic acid diethylamide,
known as LSD or acid, became popular with the 60s counterculture
and infamous with anti-drug campaigners. The hyperbolic hysteria
surrounding LSD fluctuated from spiritual enlightenment to
DNA shattering insanity.


This audio experiment to synthesize these two
cultural touchstones into one epic all encompassing composition
of a psychedelic trip down the rabbit hole following Alice across
Acidland, through the Looking Glass and passed what drugs
she found there.