When Niagara Falls plays a song, the intent is to transport the listener to another environment completely.

This is an environment where people can take a break from everyday life and exist in the "sound world" momentarily, said Norman Fetter, percussionist and keyboardist for the band.

State College residents will have the chance to experience this for themselves at the psychedelic band's performance at 7 Sunday night in the community room of Schlow Centre Region Library.

Joining the band for this show will be local band Evening Fires and supporting act Italian & U.S. trio.

Fetter said Niagara Falls' music merely tries to open people up to different experiences.

"It's kind of about total freedom," he said. "We're not trying to push any specific ideology."

Niagara Falls has been mislabeled as part of a recent psychedelic folk resurgence, Fetter said. He added while the band may share some influences with the members of this resurgence group, what these musicians do is "wildly different" than the sounds of Niagara Falls.

"They take more American and British folk from the '60s and add a psych element to it," he said. "We're definitely not folk based, not at all."

Fetter considers the band's music perfect for "yoga and baby making," he said. The sound is centered on what he describes as a "soothing drone" sound -- different from the type of drone you would hear from bagpipes or Indian music.

"For us, it's more of an electronic drone as opposed to an acoustic drone," Fetter said.

The band makes such electronic sounds using a method called "circuit bending," in which the band takes things with electronic components, such as old toys or keyboards -- things that most don't think could be used as an instrument -- and rewires them.

"It adds electronic flourishes to our kind of base tribal pulse," Fetter said.

The band's most used circuit bending instrument is called "Mr. Wiggles."

Fetter described it as a metal top to a tin candy tray that the instrumentalist has attached a contact microphone to. He then runs it through a synthesizer, which when he puts it up to his mouth and sings into it, makes a kind of "electronic warbling" sound.

"People freak out when they hear it," Fetter said.

With these different forms of instrumentation, the band used to base its live performance completely around improvisation.

This means that the band would have no set song list to play, but instead Fetter said the band would "basically just set up, plug in and go."

"Sometimes it can be complete s---," he said. "But when all of the band members come together as one organism, it can be pretty amazing."

After the release of the band's most recent album, Sequence of Prophets, Fetter said Niagara Falls is experimenting more with composing music in ways that still leave room for this type of improvisation.

"You really have to tune into each other when it's four people thinking and acting as one," he said.

Nathaniel Rasmussen, who plays flute and synthesizer for Evening Fires and is a promoter for the show, said Niagara Falls has a small local following, but that the band's music can be enjoyed by any listener.

"I would say their music is very accessible and often quite beautiful," he said. "They use a lot of electronics, but it is not the type of electronics that are hard to get or understand."