Do you have an instrument? Yes? You should bring it. Don’t know how to play it? No big deal.
Obviously an orchestral harp or a drum kit wouldn’t be a good piece to bring to the high desert, but other things are fine.
The goal here is to provide an environment that breaks musical barriers of our society. Nothing crazy, just music for all. Everyone can Music, Nobody can Music, We all Music. Not the musical elitism that has been seen and taught as most of us know. Everyone can hold a simple beat, believe it or not. You get enough people going and a simple beat is all you need to change the feel of the entire group.
Tambourines, out of tune drums, family guy soundboards, pots and pans, hands, five string guitars, opening a beer, matracas, floppy disk drives, hand cymbals, makeshift whumps, jug blowing, two rocks clacking together, hoots and hollers, its all a welcome contribution to our rumpus. Nothing spiritually imbued, no jargon, not the school fed requirements… just some noise. You’ll be amazed how you can so easily fall into a group grove.
Remember that whole rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody by Aqua Camp’s fire? The calm of a single fireside voice, or the many uses of a single guitar advertising a particular Manual Labor?
All these things possible and more, if you just bring a noise maker.
I’ve definitely got a handful of “toys”. For starters, and on the more normal side of things, my violin, electric bass, harmonica, and sweet potato ocarina, and going to the weirder end of the spectrum, electric violin, and I do indeed have a musical floppy drives setup, hell, I might even have an arduinoboy setup by then
After last CFT I decided I would take the year to learn keyboard and come back an amazing musician. Well I didn’t do that but I’m still exited to just play whatever. Some makeshift drum or something, maybe a kazoo.
Ooh, giant PVC xylophone would be a great art project if someone (you?) were to built one out there. If I recall right, that’s something (big/interactive art) that CFT has been wanting more of since the beginning… and Art and Theme Camps are what will ultimately transform this into a “festival,” not just a mere “campout!”
I’d offer to help, but, I think I might already have my hands kinda full between a theme camp, the stage, and a few other Secret Projects… 8)
Obviously I wanna stress that people don’t bring their expensive instruments to the con for multiple and hopefully obvious reasons, but I might buy myself a campfire violin (violin that sounds like shit and can be thrown in the campfire if we run out of wood) for this summer!
Whatever, you know you have two perfectly good vuvuzela
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OMIGOSH, IS THAT PLURAL FOR VUVUZELA?
Obviously I wanna stress that people don’t bring their expensive instruments to the con for multiple and hopefully obvious reasons, but I might buy myself a campfire violin (violin that sounds like shit and can be thrown in the campfire if we run out of wood) for this summer![/quote]
I have a cheapo student violin too, not gonna be heartbroken if we accidentally drive over it Also, just got myself a Didgeridoo and dug out my old ancient classical (Nylon stringed acoustic with a fatter neck) guitar that I can’t play
I want a drumkit at CFT! I would play it! But I mean, I suddenly want to do a reading of the Decemberists’ rock opera. The one where the heroine has sex with a fawn-man and goes to the forest to find him again, and his forest spirit mother doesn’t appreciate this. Of course it’s appropriate!
I’m sure a couple of people could arrange the song. I too was considering bringing a battery/amp set. Possibly even just the shitty amp, as I need one anyhow, and have the converter.
Probably. I’ve heard that in some stadiums, they would give different colors that produce different notes to different sections of the crowd. Then they blow them as someone below signaled, thus making a simple melody.
That sounds kinda cool but they’re probably all made just to be obnoxious.
If I recall right, that’s something (big/interactive art) that CFT has been wanting more of since the beginning… and Art and Theme Camps are what will ultimately transform this into a “festival,” not just a mere “campout!”
