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Post by sharingintheroo on Apr 4, 2007 12:33:50 GMT -5
I think its very cool. One of the coolest things they have had. BUT........
I think its time for them to step it up with something new. The sonic forest works and works well so how could that be advanced into something even better?
dude - i totally agree. they need multi-colored lights and more variety in sounds. it would also be nice to have more texture in the sounds...percussive, weirdness, strings, etc.
Post by unplugdacusticaz on Apr 4, 2007 13:06:17 GMT -5
smeman said:
What is a sonic forest?
The sonic forest is a little square area at the back of centeroo, probably about 20 x 20 feet, that has all these metal poles, probably about 10 feet high, all along the poles are these holes with motion detectors that causes noise to come out of them. In order to creat noise, one must flail their arms vigorously over the hole. There's alos lights on top of each pole that flash and dip and dive and yahtzee and do all sorts of trippy things. It's great at night, especially when you're in the middle of a mind-wandering phase.
And yes! I agree, that this was one of my favorite side attractions at the roo. Here's to hoping it will return!
Post by suitcasemurphy on Apr 4, 2007 13:10:21 GMT -5
IMO.. the sonic forest is weak. The last couple years its appeared and its definitly a cool idea for bonnaroo...just lacks art or how bout THE FOREST!!! Its a bunch of poles that are motion sensitive, as you walk by, they make noise. Without druqs its even lamer hahaha.....
Although I'm all about them enhancing it...I remember bamboo sticks that were trashed by roo goers one thursday night. The event staff took the bamboo down because people were banging on them, rather then just walking through-observing...so about90% of festival goers didn't even get to see this unique exhibit.
my first time in the sonic forrest, me and my friends are trying to figure out how it works and we're seeing everyone else basically just moving their hands around the columns, and we think that there must be more to it so we start banging away on it as hard as we can, it still doesn't sound right but at least we're making noise now.
suddenly a worker frantically comes up to us and is like why are you guys trying to break it, we were like were not sure what we're doing we just want it to make noise. so he gave us a quick demo, it did turn out to be a little under-whelming although it can be cool to just stroll through it for some late-night audio craziness
I remember very vividly last year (suprisingly, considering my mindset), walking up to the sonic forest, seeing all these people rubbing and jumping around the poles, and saying to my friend "Remember 2001: Space Oddysey? The giant, black monolith at the begining that all of the apes are crowded around going crazy?"
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Post by phishinalong on Apr 4, 2007 19:41:11 GMT -5
ya they should definitely step it up this year. we checked it out last year and randomly moved around it and such and realized it was fairly monotone and not so impressive. i agree with a variety of sounds, lights, etc. we need some chaos in the forest for it to be interesting. seemed a little too fisher price for me.
also you get the best effect at night, hands down. during the day there a lots of randoms who are just curious, but at night, everyone is on the same wavelength and its a much more group experience
sonic forest poem
i'll never forget in 05 i was bugeyed i approached a pole that was occupied by two girls to whom i apologized to which they simply replied you can play with us! its fine!
it doesn't flow, but it rhymes and thats all that matters in poetry when your high
*i like coconuts, you can break them open they smell like ladies lyin in the sun** *Hell I don't even know where I am** *for now I must sit here and ponder the yonder: The herbivores did well cause their food didn't never run** *We listen, if it feels good We shake** *You made a big impression for a girl of your size, Now I can't get by without you and your big brown eyes.**
It would be cool if they had some that emitted the sounds of different instruments, kinda like the thing futureman plays where if you touch them at a different place you get a different sound of that instrument. Myabe the higher up you touch on one of them, the higher the guitar note, one for bass, the drum one could just be you hold your hand over it at different points you get different beats in varying times. It would just be cool to see people out there making music by waving their hands over these weird poles. And different colored lights.
You know the sonic forest is actually a puzzle. If you hit one pole another one will go off. So if you follow the poles and keep hitting the ones that go off eventually you crack the code and all the lights and all the sounds go off at the same time making some big huge UFO like event. Now I'm not really sure if this is true, but I had a friend tell me that he was there when one of the guys who helped build it got a bunch of people together to help him and he set it off in the middle of the night. Take it as you will, but it still sounded interesting and puzzling to me.
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Post by unplugdacusticaz on Apr 5, 2007 16:07:22 GMT -5
I loved the sonic forest. Funny story that involves that. My friends and I wandered into there Saturday night in a mind-altering phase. My one buddy (who was in his own little crazy world) wandered away from us and went over to his own pole. But right when he was about to use it, this black guy in war paint all over him started to use it. Tim (my friend) said to the guy in a really slow eerie tone "You took the one I was gonna use" Then the guy in war paint slowly turned to Tim and said in the same tone "You can haaave it man" , then slowly walked away to another one. It was pretty friggin funny when he told us. BUt that just shows you how much fun it can be!
