Sunday, February 20, 2022

Burning Man "DearTemple of Transition" 2011, by Ian MacKenzie

Dear Temple of Transition - A Burning Man Short Film from Ian MacKenzie on Vimeo.

A little nostalgia- I haven't been back to Burning Man since 2012. Not much traveling....

The actual music inside the Temple was Indonesian Gamelan music. The system worked like a player piano except it was the parts of a gamelan orchestra located all over the walls of the temple. The instruments of  the orchestra are all of the xylophone and gong families (metallophones). They were triggered by some kind of electronic script.

The emotional intensity of the Temple doesn't convey well on video- but MacKenzie managed to convey it very well with this short film- so I thought I would post it here.