Would you bring MP3 player to club that mixed it in?

[Mister Jellyfish Mister]

I think karaoke showed us that everybody wants to be a star. With the advent of small, high quality MP3 players like the Ipod, combined with the short distance FM radio transmitters like the iTrip that allow people to listen to them on their car radios, you've got a pretty amazing and diverse possibility to put them into a mix at a Burning Man nightclub. On a special night and using only two FM radio recievers and good antenna placement in the tent, The DJ could spin the radio dial looking for good songs coming out of the palms and pockets of everybody grooving in the room. Anyway, it would be an interesting experiment I would love to work on as it would be totally live and you might hear shreaks of glee when participants realize their song made it into the mix. Your thoughts?

[Bob]

Would it harsh your bowl if you knew everybody in the room would be grooving on Tony Robbins lectures?

[Mister Jellyfish Mister]

Would it harsh your bowl if you knew everybody in the room would be grooving on Tony Robbins lectures?

Ha! Live with PASSION, Bob! I think I'd just put on a Kraftwerk CD and thank the wrong person for cueing it up!

Here's a couple of links from other people that had similar ideas:
http://www.methodshop.com/mp3/articles/ ... odDJ.shtml

Here's a nice idea set to Andy Worhall's "15 minutes of fame" concept:
http://www.ipodbeat.com/article.php?sto ... 9094116569

[HEADBANDMAN]

I THINK IT IS A GREAT IDEA!!. I don't know if you could get a whole tent full of people. Like one of those huge tents. But you could get a bunch of people to plug in. Also I don't know how great the ipod is for mixing stuff up. I am no D.J. but isn't the only thing you can put on an I pod is stuff you down load from the itunes web sight? But your point is people could bring and broad cast there own mixes. You could easily do it! So do it!

[ronski]

A fun idea. We actually did this at my little camp-- a neighbor tied in his Ipod and transmitted his tunes from next door to my crappy little Value Village circa 1990 sound system. All we had to do was scrounge a piece of coathanger wire for an antenna. I was quite amused by the bastard joining of old and new technology.

The tech problem was that any time I physically moved my body through the line of sight connection it would cut out. So to work like you want you'd probably need a directional antenna set high above the dancefloor. Having the Ipods and transmitters stationary would be good too. Maybe little pre-positioned ports set up where people could just plug them in?

[Mister Jellyfish Mister]

Maybe little pre-positioned ports set up where people could just plug them in?

Now that makes a lot of sense. You could have people take a ticket deli-style for their 15 minutes of fame. Then they jack in and they could dance on a platform like an elevated god for all the ravers to worship. DJ still runs the board and yanks them if the crowd is not pleased.

I've run the idea past one of the nightclub guys and am awaiting his response.

[gladeye]

Would it harsh your bowl if you knew everybody in the room would be grooving on Tony Robbins lectures?

It'd still be a welcome change from the BOOM badda BOOM badda BOOM badda BOOM soulless, homogonous, techno rave crap that 99% of the camps play now. If we can enjoy diversity of fashion, sexuality, drugs, and politics (as long as they're to the left) at Burning Man, then why on Earth can't we have diversity in music? I miss the Funk Camp sooooo much!