Watts writing about sound, here connected to one writer's attempt to transcribe Jimi Hendrix counting off the title track to his ineffable "Are You Experienced?"

X---X-X----X-X-X-X---X-X-X-----X-X-X-X-X---X-X-X-X----X-X-X

X---X-X----X-X-X-X---X-X-X-----X-X-X-X-X---X-X-X-X----X-X-X

X---X-X----X-X-X-X---X-X-X-----X-X-X-X-X---X-X-X-X----X-X-X

X---X-X----X-X-X-X---X-X-X-----X-X-X-X-X---X-X-X-X----X-X-X

X---X-X----X-X-X-X---X-X-X-----X-X-X-X-X---X-X-X-X----X-X-X

X---X-X----X-X-X-X---X-X-X-----X-X-X-X-X---X-X-X-X----X-X-X

Repeat

on his guitar: the strings are muted, but processed, effected--troped. With tape technology, engineers and artists need only flip the reels on the decks and press play to enact one of the oldest and most effective tropes we have, reversal. This is only the beginning of the endless variations resonance technologies like phonographs, tape players, and even wikis, which can help us write with sound, all facilitate. In the mix, Hendrix pulls the fader up and down on this reversed click track, and the effects, while indexical to some extent, are, in the poststructural discourse preferred by sociologists of science and technology, inexhaustible (Woolgar 32).

silence, mystery, and instructions.

"All mystical writing really is instructions. It is not an attempt to describe the universe, to describe God, to describe ultimate reality. Every mystic knows that cannot possibly be done. The very word mysticism is from the Greek word myein which means keeping silence" (Watts 1980, page 78).

guitar tabulature as instructions.

guitaretab's version of the 4 count that tips us into "AreYou Experienced?":

Backwards echo;you need many effects.

X---X-X----X-X-X-X---X-X-X-----X-X-X-X-X---X-X-X-X----X-X-X

X---X-X----X-X-X-X---X-X-X-----X-X-X-X-X---X-X-X-X----X-X-X

X---X-X----X-X-X-X---X-X-X-----X-X-X-X-X---X-X-X-X----X-X-X

X---X-X----X-X-X-X---X-X-X-----X-X-X-X-X---X-X-X-X----X-X-X

X---X-X----X-X-X-X---X-X-X-----X-X-X-X-X---X-X-X-X----X-X-X

X---X-X----X-X-X-X---X-X-X-----X-X-X-X-X---X-X-X-X----X-X-X

emphasis added on "you need many effects"

Back to Watts:

"There are certain things of which one cannot speak. For example, you cannot describe music. That is why most reports of music critics in the newspaper seem completely absurd. When they are trying to convey in words how a certain artist performs, they borrow words from all other kinds of art and try to make some show of being clever about it. But there is no way in which the music critic can, through words, make you hear the sounds of the concert.

However, by writing certain instructions on paper, telling you certain things to do, those sounds can be reproduced. Musical notation is essentially a set of instructions (just like "scribe a circle" or "drop a perpendicular"). And so, if you follow the instructions, then you will understand the things that cannot be described. That is what yoga is all about.

All mystical writing really is instructions. It is not an attempt to describe the universe, to describe God, to describe ultimate reality. Every mystic knows that cannot possibly be done. The very word mysticism is from the Greek word myein which means keeping silence" (Om 78).