Ritual # 1.

"It happens. It has happened. It will happen again. The West has its spaces -- wide-open spaces. The fuzz can't be everywhere. The nearest police station could be a hundred miles away. A fire only shows for a few miles. Sound only travels a short distance before erasing itself in the atmosphere. […] Across the canyon, in the other hills, another group played out the last rites of a witchcraft ceremony -- and the orgy prepared to cut loose." 

- 'Satan's Slaves and the Bizarre Underground Cults of California', by James Taylor (New English Library, 1970), p. 126

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Most sound sources taped in Southern California and Nevada, 1968-72.
Augmented and repurposed in secret, 2013-16.

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(I hope that Found Objects readers won't begrudge me a quick plug for a music/recycled sound-based endeavour I put online a few months back; I'll try to ensure it doesn't stay at the top of the page for too long.)