Ever wonder what 85,000 watts looks like? Fear not, above is a handy visual aid.
This is the Robot Heart, which drove every night onto the deep playa at Burning Man and filled the desert with the cleanest, most powerful sound system I had ever heard. It was love at first beat — you can feel the bass in your chest from over a hundred meters away, and it sounds fabulous close-up. And the desert being a near-ideal infinite baffle, there are no reflections or echos to diminish the soundfield; you can still hear the clear and pure sound of the Robot Heart from almost a kilometer away. The best part is the whole thing is on wheels — it’s a rather surreal sight to see hundreds of people clad in fuzzy hats, LEDs, and EL-wire dance-walking along side the Robot Heart as it slowly migrates into the deep desert.
There’s nothing like watching the sunrise to the beats of the Robot Heart.
Shout-out to the Phage for being such an awesome and kind group of people to camp with. :) There’s no better way to spend a week camping in the desert than learning from a bunch of interesting and intelligent people.
Yeah, this is the downside of off-shoring myself – don’t get to go to the burn any more – I’ve made it twice in the 8 years since I left – but as I’m sure you know it’s hard without the infrastructure I had when I lived in the US …. still there are other reasons to go to the playa, and I will be in the SF Bay area for the next two weeks and the real reason I love the playa – rockets (http://aeropac.org/) – there’s a big launch next weekend – I have to see if I can sneak out and sleep in the back of the rental car
You should have mentioned in advance you were going! I was right down the street at The Hive, at 2:30 & Esplanade. Next year?
Also, going to Hong Kong for xmas — would a day trip to Shenzen be worth it for entertainment? I’ll contact you out-of-band.
Totally, absolutely worth it to take the trip to SZ. Do contact me. I may be near that area around Xmas en route to CCC.
And yes, hopefully next year, if I can pull off the logistics again. :) it was a lot of fun. Quite a haul from Singapore, but in many ways I enjoyed the contrast.
Wow, I didn’t really regret not going till I read that you camped with my homies at The Phage. :D
Bummer! would have been fun hanging out.
sounds awesome
Ooooh this song is finally up:
http://soundcloud.com/robscott/time-on-the-fucking-moon
Played during sun-up by Lee Burridge on Saturday morning…unbelievable set, unbelievable song, with this poem dubbed over it:
Goodness yes the RH sound system was just /astonishing/. It has to be up there as one of the finest mobile sound systems in the world; not just forceful but perfectly balanced.
A tiny bit of speaker-building-pr0n from the know:audio guys here https://www.facebook.com/knowaudio/photos_stream but I’d love to see more photos of their system/bus construction. Hell I just want to hear it again.
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