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"Third Mind Experience is like being submerged in an isolation tank -- it's enveloping, subverting the senses with surreal visions we'd swear were our own, cleverly jarring and disorienting consciousness beyond any footing in reality.

These are artists who feel the fires of inspiration to create sound art or music that is original, emotional and epic whether it is ambient soundscapes, rock based music, drone or anything else under the sun. Music that crosses boundaries while celebrating expression rather than glamour.

Third Mind refers to a writing style (and eventually cinematic style), popularized by William Burroughs, which involves combining and re-arranging unrelated texts or film scenes to form new narratives and often-surreal images. It's a metaphor for different bands doing their own thing but having a similar ideology or dedication to creating sound art that ties to them to the larger picture.

The series of gigs will cover a broad a range of sound art as possible. With the belief thatif it comes from inside you, it is automatically valid and that music is never wrong, this is the Third Mind Experience. Come join us this April the 10th at Blackhole. It starts at 7pm."

Sounds interesting ya? Right, when we first received the event introduction, we were very curious about it and decided to check it out.

Looking for the place was the start man; the front entrance with the shutters down looked like some vacant shop and I thought, "what"?? Then we were told to enter from the back alley through its back door, nicely building up the suspense.

We had 5 very competent bands for the night.

Air Traffic Control started the night, a solo performance, there wasn't any instruments, just his Mac laptop and all the gadgets on the table, good stuff. Couldnt quite comprehend the music initially with all kinds of sound projected into the studio-like room. Then I saw some people closing their eyes, as if soaking in the full essence of the music. Ya so I tried closing my eyes too and the feeling was indeed very different. I started to immerse into this virtual, scenic setting and after a while I was beginning to appreciate the uniqueness of the music. It is very illustrative, your mind freely wanders to whatever you make out of it, so this is what they call artistic music.
 





By the time Overhaul in Damnation, the 2nd band, came on, I was totally enjoying the "Third Mind" experience, ha, I found it rather therapeutic actually. Overhaul in Damnation's music had this very suspense-inducing kind of effect and its perfected with the lights off, enjoy the thriller.
 




Next we had Dulcinea, something which we were more familiar with, a full band, the only band with a vocalist that night. Yeah, but you got to check out their very own creations, nicely blending the special sound effects with their very sound musicianship.
 




The band of few words, "This is Atlantis" was next, charming the crowd with just their instruments, no vocals at all. A very humble band, thanking the organisers at every interval. To the very kind organisers, it was most wise of you to have invited them, their very fast tempo music was a sheer enjoyment.
 



 

The closing band, "Great Empty" took on the stage with their supporters populating the cozy room. The smooth and suave band entertained the crowd beautifully with their very pleasant tunes.