And sometimes it's unapologetically meandering: the dreamlike "Migration," with Mr. Frisell constructing digital loops and Mr. Hall playing droning noises or blues phrases over the shimmering backdrops, doesn't need to be 15 minutes long.
There was also a vibrating glove that simulated a tremor in my hand, a neck brace, some headphones playing droning bleeps to distract me, and, the pièce de résistance, the crowning glory: the rave specs.
"If you stick around until midnight, I'm going to read the whole issue while someone plays drone music," he said.
Maybe the baby mostly plays drone music in heroin dens.
Oran Coltrane, Ravi's brother, joined for an alto sax solo in "Acknowledgment," and he played droning patterns, focusing on small areas of pitch.
He gathered a group of local musicians, whom he called the Black Monks of Mississippi, and they played droning music while he sang mournful cadences that evoked slave spirituals and Zen chants.
Could it have been anything to do with the impressive light show and the rock band, who played drone-lite guitar music with lyrics consisting of: "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!"?
In the background, he plays droning massage music for 20 minutes, until the active brain waves of the alert mind calm down to that tranquil moment just before sleep.
On Sunday, participants will form small groups charged with "programming and playing with" toy drones.
"I remember we were hit by a hiss of static, then a drum pattern and two lines played on some kind of reed instrument, one playing a drone, the other playing complex runs and trills that had a hard, squeaky edge — they sounded almost overdriven.
