If you don’t know about Transformus, you should. It’s a pseudo private festival where about 1500-2000 individuals come out to a beautiful 640-acre piece of land called Deerfields to throw up their own temporary “city.” The city consists of dozens of theme camps, which provide services, music, and other entertainment. Whether it’s being a trapeze artists for a day, sharing costumes to run around in, brewing coffee for passers-by, learning a certain craft, or just dancing the night away with some techno DJs, there is something to do for the three days of the festival. It takes place during the traditional summer solstice time, and provides a massive effigy burn on Saturday night, complete with a very trippy drum circle and fire dancers and all the people of the area encircling it.
Awesome.
So, this is my third year, and some friends and I have decided to participate by building and organizing our own theme camp, dubbed FrequenSee. We’ll be providing a 24-hour-per-day outpost to hear music, dance, play with circuit-bent toys and devices, manipulate sound and video, learn some facts about sound engineering, and best of all…free food. Brewing up some big pots of Indian, Persian, and Thai dishes, along with some straight-up BBQ on the grill!
So for our camp we’re buidling a pair of geodesic domes, from pvc, rope, and a parachute. We didn’t think it would work, but it looks pretty good to me. And it was extremely stable. Here is a prelim pic of our test-run.
Tags: camping, festival, transformus