![]() It has nothing to do with religion or spirituality in a defined sense, but just a certain inarticulate feeling.” You know that feeling-where you’re drifting in and out of being conscious, that you’re hearing something really special and a part of a community, a special subset, a moment in time, a place, something shared. “I use it to describe that certain feeling you get from hearing a group of musicians completely engaged in what they’re doing, whether it’s music openly trying to reach a feeling of transcendence-like religious drone music, free jazz, noise-or is simply a finely tuned string quartet. “I’m not sure where I got it from, but it somehow works in my mind,” he says, musing on his coinage. He even coined a word for that special sense of ecstasy as ideology and technique: ecstaticism. He took inspiration from Christian mysticism and esoteric Buddhism and began to apply it-literally reading texts through his trumpet and combining them with the sounds of his house. ![]() To approach Wooley’s work, you need to consider his reading list. ![]()
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