WHAT WHERE WHEN!
Without further ado, here’s the schedule of all sound, light, and workshops. Random occurrences of intergalactic fun and space time ripples are totally up to you. These times will be placed all over the farm, so no need to print. But go for it if you wish. AND, tell all your peeps that the major stages are powered by KV2 Turbo Soundsystems. Basically this means big BIG WHOMP!
RSVP YOUR ADVENTURE!
Want to party EMRG+N+SEE style all the way from Portland and back the minute you step out your door? If so, then we have a mighty package for you! Rise the bus —The Groove Bomb bus that is!
It’s official. The Groovebomb will be meeting at 5pm on Friday the 17th and departing for the event PROMPTLY at 6:30pm. Meets in inner SE portland; your departure details and location will be provided in your confirmation email. For reservations inquiry: contact groovebomb@emrgnsee.com.
If you haven’t yet experienced a trip on the Groove Bomb, now’s the time! In support of our ridesharing & sustainability initiatives, Portland’s finest mobile-party transport has partnered up with us to provide you with direct (and stylish) transport to and from the festival. The bus is outfitted with ample racks to haul all your gear, as well as an Emrg+N+See-approved sound system, “hospitality”, and some of the finest chauffeurs to ever grace the American roadways.
SUNDAY ONLY!
Single-Day Tickets will be available for $55.00
ONLY available at Event Gates(no presale) from 10am-6pm SUNDAY, the Single-Day ticket grants full access to all Emrg+N+See activities until end-of-event Monday morning. IMPORTANT NOTES:
STRUMMING THE INFINITE!
Excerpt from Seattle’s The Stranger: Hayes’s music—mostly acoustic, often accompanied by accordion or tuba or oboe or marimba—is loose, dusty, alive. The worn, soulful twang of Hayes’s voice is the byproduct of his North Carolina upbringing; the eclectic, kitchen-sink instrumentation is the fruit of friendships with a huge variety of Bay Area musicians. “I’m not really good with accessories,” he says. “That’s why acoustic guitar has always been good.”
Big Black Hole and the Little Baby Star would be front-porch music—if your front porch overlooked a paisley-printed carnival parade. Hayes’s most recent record, this year’s Flowering Spade, is stripped down, Hayes’s weathered voice a confidential rasp, the songwriting skeletal and haunting. Where Big Black Hole has a jaunty sense of humor—tubas are funny, first of all, as is Hayes’s random swearing in otherwise low-key songs—Flowering Spade is confessional.
BRAINWAVE TIDAL POOL!
Psyche Sonics operates in a modular, geodesic yurt. The yurt is equipped with radial headphones, hi-fidelity speakers, photic stimulation, and consciousness measuring technology.
Participants get comfortable, apply headphones and are exposed to brainwave altering audio-visual beat frequencies. As a group, participants entrain to the same brainwave frequency thereby synchronizing at least one aspect of consciousness.
Through practice and experimentation with different beat frequencies, soundscapes, light color, and intention, we aim to achieve unity consciousness.
PAINTING WITH LIGHT!
Master of the digital stylus, Ryan Johnson specializes in immortalizing the world around him as it happens. He offers the gift of inspiration as he peers through the great visionary lens, and allows the future to pour through his hands. His art peeks into a forgotten past, blended with a future that might be. Never failing to capture the true essence of the moment in epic figures and dramatic tribal imagery. His humble demeanor and willingness to actively contribute have quickly made his work a symbol of the people he loves.
SAUNA IN A BOX!
Remember last year at the pond? Well it’s gonna happen again this year: We have a special treat for your hot dancing muscles —a sauna! But not just any sauna —one that has been magically inserted by the Crafters Collective within the gleaming shell of a classic American Airstream trailer.
Get ready to be melted down by soothing heat within “The Oasis” —the wood fired, cedar lined spa on wheels and its ambient chill space. Also, bring your trunks because the sauna will be placed adjacent to a lush swimming hole. This watery retreat got activated big time last year. The upper swimming hole is ready for you. Rumor has it that its gonna be the place to be Sunday afternoon. Be sure to bring a towel!
BACON + MUSIC!
“We come bearing ballast for your beleaguered bodies” Come join us for EMRG+N+SEE’s newest tradition, where we bring you endless hits from the golden era of Motown and tasty bits as hosted by Boomtown Productions aka the church of swine and roses. We’ll bring the orange juice, baby. You bring the champagne! Afros and short-shorts encouraged.
During the Sunday’s post-dawn meltdown (in the dome from 7-11am) we shall fry up a ton of bacon, eggs, and pancakes, drop a needle on some soul music, and call in the LOVE with the honeyed vocals of Al Green, Bill Withers, Aretha Franklin and Sam Cooke, along with rarer grooves you’ve never heard but are sure to love, as channeled by the R&B, soul, and gospel stylings of MOZAIK and DJ GLOBAL RUCKUS. This is how we keep the party going for ever and ever, amen!
A DATE, A COMMAND, AND A BAND!
A welcome last minute addition to this year is the MarchFourth Marching Band: a mobile big band spectacular, consisting of a 12-piece horn section (4 saxophones, 4 trombones, & 4 trumpets), and a 10-piece drum/percussion corps, anchored by electric bass (battery powered). They will be magically appearing throughout the forest and leading you to destinations supreme!
The sound is huge, melodic, and dynamic, taking audiences on a musical journey around the globe. MarchFourth writes and performs its own material, and also draws inspiration from an eclectic range of worldwide influences, such as Eastern European Gypsy Brass, Samba, Funk, Afro-Beat, Big-Band, Jazz, and Rock music, as well as television, film, circus, and Vaudeville.
RIDE AND SLIDE IT!
PopNTod (Legion of eXtraordinary Dancers) and jubz will be teaching the fundamentals of waving, popping and the robot. Whether you’re a professional dancer, or just learning to walk, these foundational styles will increase your vocabulary of movement and elevate your whole dance.
Waving is the art of using isolation to create the illusion of waves traveling through your body. Popping is the art of using muscle control to visually express music. The Robot is the art of starts and stops, total control and isolation of every joint and muscle of the body. Bringing together such diverse influences as miming, kung-fu, fluid dynamics, animal movements, egyptian hieroglyphics, puppetry, claymation, robotics and that straight funk, these styles unlock the ability to achieve pure union with music through the highest levels of physical expression
ESTUARY RENEGADES!
Digital Organics brings a piece of their new found home to EMRG+N+SEE ‘09 with MANIFESTATION FACILITATOR: Estuary Renegades - “Where the tide meets the stream.” The lush fairy forest of this mystical land is the perfect setting for an environment that embodies the four directions and their correlating season. We believe ritual space is a vital part of realigning ourselves with these entities and the cycles of life
With this art installation we encourage participants to find their inner renegade to help brake the monotony that is portrayed in this age of man. This is a space where you can tap into your own inner awareness, renewing a sense of self within the community and a deeper connection with the divine.
DID YOU BUY YOUR TICKET!
Time is RUNNING OUT to purchase your volunteer ticket! Remember, purchasing your ticket guarantees your participation, and all but 15 dollars will be refunded upon completion of your shifts. Don’t delay, get that ticket NOW! We have a large number of people who have sent in their application, but have not sealed the deal by getting the volunteer ticket purchased. Is this you? Make sure you have it all in order –as this is a first come–first served process.
Questions and concerns can be addressed to Mischief at ens.volunteers@gmail.com
LOCK IT AND LOAD IT!
Want physical proof that you are headed to one of the best assemblages of amazing music, good people and great times together with friends –but you still haven’t got your ticket! Well, step right up folks and get you and yours a pair right now at one of our handy-dandy physical ticket locations!
NOW WITH MORE LINE UP!
This just in: Do you like music? Cutting edge underground music? Good! Cause in addition to our slam bam thank you mama stellar line-up we just added the following!!!
PRE GAME JITTERS!
It’s the night before EMRG+N+SEE, you’re all pumped up, but the gates don’t open till Friday morning (and we really mean it!). So pop quiz hot-shot –what do you do? How about swing on by the EMRG+N+SEE Pre Party with Infected Mushroom (live band), Phutureprimitve, and Pipedream! It’s all happening July 16th, 2009 at the Roseland Theater Portland, OR. Show starts at 9pm (All Ages). Why that does sound nice, doesn’t it!
Psy-Trance innovators Infected Mushroom have become one of the biggest electronic bands on the planet. Twice ranked among the world’s 10 best DJs by the bible of the scene, the U.K.’s DJ Magazine, the Israel-bred, L.A. based duo bring a frenetic rock energy to the form. Their explosive show, featuring guitars, live drums, intensely passionate vocals and an ambitious multimedia backdrop, ranks among the genre’s most unpredictably joyous events. And their recordings continually venture where other electronic acts fear to tread.
FREQUENCY MODULATOR SUPREME!
This year on the interactive inner plane menu we are proud to have the Sonosphere –a tool for exploring your own inner self; a portal to a time we seldom visit –the Here and Now.
It is used by one or two people to enter into a state of deep trance for relaxation, wellness and meditation purposes. To achieve this, the Sonosphere not only spins around you at a hypnotic rate, but also uses four modalities found in nature to “induce” or “inspire” a change in consciousness, or a “shift” in one’s state of mind.
Essentially, the four modalities of the Sonosphere shift your four main frequencies of being. You are the battery that runs the circuit of interaction between you and the Sonosphere. This “circuit” is comprised of the many delicate layers of your being. Precisely, there are four main resonate bodies of your being: The physical self, the mental self, the sensitive (“emotional”) self, and the etheric self. These four resonate bodies of self are induced to shift frequency by the four modalities of the Sonosphere; light, geometry, sound and crystals- respectively.
The 6th annual EMRG+N+SEE Festival is on! We are Oregon’s only festival showcasing over three days & nights jam packed with musical freshness from some of the brightest lights in the electronic music scene.
Creating a perfect space to feature what these pioneers of sound, light & vision are up to is our ultimate goal. Packing a line-up that rides the edge of all kinds of eclectic genres and themes. Certainly -more bass for your face!
This will be the 3rd year since we’ve moved from our first home in Ashland, Oregon and nestled into the magically mossy faerie fern fun forest dreamland we are elated to call home. Come see it for yourself!
We also feature stunning art installations to delight your eyes & transformational workshops that will leave you rearranged. Also, check the styley steez, stuff and the things available in the marketplace.
This is a community event, connecting the tribes of the west coast (and further), backed by an incredible crew of talented high-energy staff and volunteers. You make this happen! Get involved!
Welcome to the 2009 website…packed chock full of early-season info, with plenty more on-deck as we finalize details. The time is ripe to apply to be a volunteer, or help create the vibe as a vendor of food or your fine, fine wares. Meanwhile…stay tuned for more info on lineup additions, workshops, visual arts, and more!
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