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Portland Electronic Music Festival
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I have heard rumors about this, and have talked to different producers out there i know about this. I think a electronic music festival in portland would be really successful. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with festivals or had any input about making this possible. | |
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07/17/08
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Highdropod
lol @ minimal scarf.
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+1 on teh forest parties and the return of gasp.
07/19/08
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ignatius
so, audiodamage is going ahead w/a trade show type thing w/performances at a venue as well. sounds interesting.
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10/10/08
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nowhere
I'm a bit late to this stream of thought, but my two cents:
I agree dubstep is doing solid draws consistently at all their nights, but that's because of the recent hype factor (blogs, "underground zines" et al)... that's something that, when it hits, or if you somehow make it hit, you ride for awhile then do what you can with when the hype dies.
With no pre existing hype, you have to build your own. Duh, we all know that. My idea has been to make it more than just the music. Electronic music is better "music" ie frequency shifting in a human ear happy way, but it's boring to watch, and most people are too scared/inexperienced to dance to anything other/in any other way than the obvious.
You may or may not have heard of the "human canvas project" back in august... the way I looked at it was something between a show and a festival, if you will... the bands were all from different scenes that were friendly to each other, for one... so cross crowd hype always helps... but the biggest factor was we gave the folks something to look at; we stimulated another sense. What we did was rather extravagant, and I'm looking at different ways to do this in the future, but we put up to 17 girls nude/semi nude painted white onstage and projected video on them from multiple sources while I (Sad Music for Happy Humans) was playing. Promotion was limited to some fliers and posters (other than the usual internet posts) not put out until a couple of weeks before (internet hype was while we rehearsed/prepared, a few months before), as well as the usual clublisting in the weeklies and I think a couple of blogs.
We got near a couple hundred folks through the door with a 7$ cover (and we realized we could have done 10, but wanted to start low for the first time), folks did the "sit and watch a show" thing until the canvas part was over, then we kept the video going, had more traditionally dancey stuff go forth (traditional in an em411 way of course!) and folks danced till close.
The idea being, have something more than music. People call it going to a "show" for a reason, and a lot of people still look at it that way... as wanting something to be an observer of, rather than a participant (such as rocking out in the corner, dancing, whatevs). Have some performance art, throw some firedancers in, something.
That's for a bigger event of course. For a smaller event just maybe the kind of thing I did... quieter stuff earlier, big show in later night, late late night more dancey types of electronica. Give people an experience, I guess I'm saying, that is thought out in a way to give them a well segued evening of entertainment that is more than just "come listen to this music, it's so good!".
So, take that how you will, it's just a bit of what I think I've learned over the years of playing shows, putting on shows, being a founder of Liberty Hall, event coordinating and so forth.
I'm definitely game to be a part of any group of folks who want to make a concerted effort to get folks excited about non generic electronic music in this town. Probably best idea is start small and work towards a festival when it seems warranted. Anyone else game to spend this grey winter making something happen? I'm thinking someone should start a mailing list to get the ball rolling. I just might....
Nevyn Nowhere
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10/11/08
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nowhere
If anyone is interested, I have started an email list called "PDX Electronic Music" where any folks who are interested in facilitating more exposure to/enjoyment of electronic music can carry this discussion and others further. I'm very interested in working with others with the drive and ability to make things like this happen.
Email pdxelectronicmusic AT NOSPAM googlegroups.com and introduce yourself!
10/11/08
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ignatius
just sent you an message. i think a google group is a good idea to try and keep the conversation going plant the seed etc. i know a lot of people are interested and would love to take part but an idea like this really needs someone to take the lead then everyone else i think will feel comfortable joining in and not feeling overwhelmed with how much work a pdx em fest might actually be depending on scale etc.
10/13/08
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Ignatius, I didn't see an email from you.... try again? Make sure it's pdxelectronicmusic at gmail... I agree with your assessment; I've been involved in other festivals and usually the way they came about was just a person/group of people saying "enough talk, let's start doing something". I'll try to do some promo for this list soon (have a show on friday so fairly busy until then) and get some butts in the (virtual) seats!
-nn
10/13/08
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ignatius
nowhere said: "Ignatius, I didn't see an email from you.... try again? Make sure it's pdxelectronicmusic at gmail... "
your other post says to send to pdx...at googlegroups.com... so i sent it there. i just resent it to same addy but gmail.com
10/13/08
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ignatius
hmmm. that one was returned so seems neither address is working 
10/13/08
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nowhere
I just sent a test message out to the group using this email address:
pdxelectronicmusic AT NOSPAM googlegroups.com and it worked.... you're absolutely sure there was no typo? Perhaps you have to join from the page? Check out the main page here: link , see if you can join from there, and let me know what happens.
Also, I just got wearethemusicmakers.org , so as time permits a web page shall join the list!
10/13/08
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nowhere
Whoops that was a link in... it should work, but here is the main googlegroups page
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10/13/08
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ignatius
ok- cool. joined the group.
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