Extreme Experiences of Time and No Time – Session 7

Is the perception of time variable? And if so what happens to time if we are subjected to extreme circumstances. Will it cease to exist? Does it become an illusion? A discussion and analysis of such circumstances – environmental or musical.

With John Geiger (US), Catherine Christer Hennix (US/SE) and Bill Dietz (US).

John Geiger
Far Continents of the Mind

A lecture about brain responses to extreme physical and psychological stress and sensory inputs such as stroboscopic light, and the resulting displacement of time/space, including a discussion of Brion Gysin’s Dreamachine.

Catherine Christer Hennix & Bill Dietz
Round table

The composer Bill Dietz in conversation with Catherine Christer Hennix about her ideas relating to composition, music and time. The post-minimal compositions of mathematician and composer Catherine Christer Hennix elaborate on La Monte Young’s concepts. It could be said that they attempt to halt the listener’s experience of time. She sees her music as having no time at all.