Share Camp 2012

Last weekend I was invited to attend Share Camp 2012. This fun event is a spontaneous music and arts festival organized by Share (www.share.dj/share/) and hosted by Grace Space (www.grace-exhibition-space.com/about.php) owners Jill McDermid-Hokanson and Erik Hokanson.

In addition to leisure, fine dining, and community fun, there were amazing videos, arias, fire performance, modern dancing, experimental music jams, and fire sculpture.

Part of why I was there was to assist my husband, composer Wolfgang von Stuermer (iwvs.am) with his surround sound audio-visual installation "blue cube ++". Together, and with the help of others we constructed at 10'x10' fabric covered cube. There were eight channels of sound inside and video projected on the outside surfaces. We placed mats inside, so the sounds could be leisurely enjoyed under the stars.

What is great about communities like this one is that everyone can contribute to the whole. Also, everyone has something to contribute. If you want to jam on a guitar, dance, make scratchy sounds with your iPad, project video on the trees, or swim in the pool with fish projected on the surface, those things were all possible and encouraged. In an environment that is an open slate, many amazing things are allowed to happen. I will be talking about my experience there over the next couple of days.