mymodernmet.com: Over the past 35 years, Burning Man has brought a mystical energy to the Black Rock Desert. Every year, shortly before Labor Day, tens of thousands flock to northwestern Nevada for a week of art, music, and community. As anyone who is a dedicated “Burner” will tell you, it’s difficult to describe the exact magical feeling that takes over the event. But thanks to an audiovisual short from BonaMaze, it just got a little easier to enter the world of Burning Man.
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I chose to read this article because I have recently seen media about Burning Man, and I wanted to know more about it. It is a very interesting event relating to music and art, with many people from around America attending. I feel like there is something more than music and art, but it is just a feeling. I think that the very distinct sounds of Burning Man should reflect what goes down and the community it evokes. From the laughter to the bikes, and even down to the wind, it really brings out what this event has to offer. I think the editing to make the videos line up with specific areas within sounds enhances the video entirely. I have only heard about Burning Man this year, even though it has been going on for a while, so I think that the video and the audio are a great way to document it each year.
Burning man is weird. I’ve been to a lot of festivals, musical and otherwise and worked at a couple myself (Northlands and Wormtown in New England) and I think this “sound of” video shows that this is the oddest festival of them all. I’ve been to Phish festivals where participants are covered in cotton candy or where the trees have eyes and that pales in comparison to the level of oddness on display in just these two and a half minutes. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing. As a cultural event, I think it’s certainly interesting to have a place in the desert where people can be weird for a couple days every year, but I don’t think we should support everything about it no-questions-asked. Burning man has been in the news a lot recently for the odd goings-on there and I don’t think that’s without reason. Honestly I think the world would be worse off without this kind of odd thing in it, but I don’t think this video should be some sort of universal recruitment tool for everyone. Burning Man doesn’t look like it’s for everyone, contrary to what it looks like the article is trying to say. I’d rather something like this was a little more lowkey like a jamband festival than a big event that consumes our pop culture every year. It’s kind of annoying and presumptuous of “burners” you know? I thought the installations and technical aspects of the event displayed in the video were brilliant and very interesting but contrasted with the prominent “orgy dome” and constant nakedness and promiscuousness was a little off putting. Call me a prude, but sometimes that kind of thing should be a little more lowkey, rather than being screamed out loud like a middle schooler shouting cusses in a crowded room. That’s just my two cents.
What I'm trying to get at is that being provocative for the sake of it is cringe, and that the parts of the video and of burning man that focus on community, togetherness, connection, and art are much more compelling than orgies, and naked fisticuffs.
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