This creation is part of a larger body of works conceived around the theme of altered states of consciousness.

For the writing of the piece, I was inspired by an encounter I had in the summer of 2022 with a healer who worked with the sounds of gongs (Tam Tam) to provide her treatments during sound baths called "Bains de gongs". 

The recording of a ceremony I took part in is the starting point for this work and Take me for a ride is modelled on this shaman's healing ritual.

The first part is followed by a sequence with the chacapa, a ritual foliage used by Amazonian tribes that activates and circulates the air around itself, a second phase with a conch shell, used to summon religious assemblies in Buddhist rites, and a sequence played with an Ocean Drum, which imitates waves and whose virtues are to awaken the body and its energetic structures.

The second movement follows directly on from the first. It is a framework evolving from harmonic readings of vibrating gongs.

In December 2023, I presented the recordings to the members of the Quasar saxophone quartet, and, during our work sessions, we recorded improvisations on the proposed material.

Then, in my studio, I cut, transposed, and manipulated these improvisations to construct the work and its electronic parts.