Music and ayahuasca is something I was thinking a lot in the past days, and especially for the role of harmalas.
First off all I think most people underestimate just how much
THH amplifies music enjoyment on it's own. THH doesn't change the meaning of music, doesn't make you hear it differently. But the pleasure music causes to you is now something else. The song becomes fuller and with more texture. It tickles and sends shivers down your spine with every turn. Since I try to carefully pick my music during dmt+THH journeys, all I can say is the the positive and gentle touches of the tracks I listen to get amplified significantly. Probably any music you like will work under THH, but for me psybient, choral and violins take the cake for me. Especially a good choral or violin section will absolutely make you have tears in your eyes.
If you have THH to splurge as you want then taking 250-300 mg orally just for the music enjoyment is a valid enough effect in itself. You will feel it about an hour after dosing and have another hour to enjoy this effect peaking. I barely hear people talk about THH and music since they probably use doses less than 150 mg most of the times, but I've seen solo THH trip reports with more than 200 mg that specifically mention this music enhancement. I don't know the exact threshold dosage required to elicit this effect from THH but I don't see the point in using low doses of THH. People should go big with it, 250-300 mg of THH provides the most warming body high and enhancement of music. Higher haven't been tested by me.
About
harmine, it also affects music. I know I took too much harmine when music literally starts to sound like it is on 1.25X or 1.5 speed. And it is not just music, it happens with also conversations. The effect is really on the weird side, you can talk with other people and it feels you skip big chunks of letters from their words. Coming back to music, it ruins it IMO, gives it a tiring and fast tempo that overpowers THH. Again not many people mention this because probably not that many use only pure harmine for MAOI inhibition. And it doesn't take much harmine to elicit this effect, probably at 2x the minimum dosage required to inhibit DMT.
Harmaline doesn't seem to have that big of an impact on music. I never used pure harmaline but the delirious mental state it causes (and I am using this term with full intention) will ruin a good listening session.
So when talking about music and ayhuasca, if you don't use pharmahuasca to fine tune your experience how you want, you will basically get the result of these 3 compounds interacting with each other. Syrian rue won't bring the glow of THH, and maybe the caapi tea you cook in your kitchen stove doesn't have enough THH in it. So it will be a wild guess of the exact proportions you will have in your aya drink.
I'm writing this post a day after I took THH+ DMT and just enough harmine as to not interfere. Even now the music I listened during the trip seems to bring back the body high I felt sending waves of chills down the back.
Hightlight tracks for me were
and
Can reccomend the full album for any journey anytime