Livestream today at 12:30 pm PDT (Pacific/California/LA time) via YouTube! I'll be covering the "how it's made" for "A Journey With the Plant Spirits" from my recent album:

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/the-mechanics-of-mysticism

See you at my YouTube channel!
https://www.youtube.com/@etherdiver

The video will be available after as VOD on my YouTube channel. Here's the link to the previous one, which covered "A Hidden Room in My Mind Palace," the first track off of the album: https://www.youtube.com/live/vKGpSEXprS0

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The Mechanics of Mysticism, by Ether Diver

12 track album

Ether Diver

This coming Wednesday, September 3 at 12:30 PDT I'll be streaming a "how it's made" for this track from my recent album:

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/track/a-journey-with-the-plant-spirits

You can follow me over there so you won't miss it: https://www.youtube.com/@etherdiver

It'll also be available as a VOD

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A Journey with the Plant Spirits, by Ether Diver

from the album The Mechanics of Mysticism

Ether Diver

Did you miss my stream yesterday? Well, it lives on as VOD, which I have embedded on my website (because why drive traffic to YouTube when I can drive it to myself?). Catch up on the making of "A Hidden Room in My Mind Palace" from my recent album:

https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/08/28/production-diary-mom-a-hidden-room-video-breakdown/

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@ashnoodle Interesting. I am not sure there are notes on there regarding PGS. I *did* do a series of extensive threads here on Mastodon that I intend to make into a page over there, but I haven't gotten to it.

The best way to find it is to search the #PsychedelicGhostStories hashtag here and then scroll down until you find the posts also tagged with #ProductionDiary -- sadly, afaik, there's no way to limit the search to posts that have both.

I will make a page at some point, just haven't yet.

Just published a new production diary for The Mechanics of Mysticism! Go read it:

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/07/22/production-diary-mom-progress-in-3-oblique-strategies/

(Or TL;DR is I will complete production on July 31 and move on to mixing, but there's a lot more to it for the curious.)

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If you're up in the middle of the night (or it's early where you are) and looking for something to read, here's a brand new production diary on my latest completed phase of production for The Mechanics of Mysticism: instrument days!

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/06/16/production-diary-instrument-days-for-mechanics-of-mysticism/

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Production Diary: Instrument Days for Mechanics of Mysticism – Ether Diver

Well, my *incredibly* long-winded production diary covering the completion of writing on my next album is done. If you want way too much info on why it took me so damn long to finish writing this batch of tracks, it's here:

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/06/06/production-diary-mom-writing-is-done/

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Production Diary: MoM Writing Is Done! – Ether Diver

Here's an update on my upcoming album The Mechanics of Mysticism, wherein I discuss why it's taken me more than a year, where I'm at and some of what's left before it's finished.

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/05/22/production-diary-mechanics-of-mysticism-progress-report/

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Production Diary: Mechanics of Mysticism Progress Report – Ether Diver

Last night I loaded up a track, and instead of playing it a few times, making a few notes and then staring into the abyss waiting for inspiration, I just got cracking on it. In the course of three or four hours I added a new section, implemented a new harmonic idea I've wanted to explore in that section, added a couple layers of percussion to the whole track, and did a bunch of cleanup/organizing on it to get it ready to do the final production push.

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Haven't had a #production update for the Mechanics of Mysticism in a while... because I haven't had much to report. It's been a period of mostly laying fallow, thinking about the tracks and occasionally poking at them with a stick while saying "c'mon, do something" and doing nothing...

But NOW! Now we're cooking again! A couple of months of mostly being distant and working on other stuff musically had broken something loose at last, and we're once again cooking with gas!

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