World Party Parade afterparty, held the night before the start of EDC. It was a free event commemorating Insomniac's 30th anniversary. Hats off to the organizers for bucking the trend of some other American entertainment staples (Vegas in general, Disney World, etc.) which are chasing the disposable income of the well heeled customer, pricing out the middle class as well as an entire generation of young people. The potential long term negative effects of this shortsighted trend are self evident. Thank you Insomniac, for doing something.

Beginnings of the setup for the EDC Art Car Parade afterparty on Thursday. Mister Fusion will be in the parade and Soul in the Machine will be playing the afterparty (8 till midnite, set times 8:30 & 11:00). We're atop the Titan sound stage. It's not called Titan because the stage is huge, it's tiny compared to some of the other EDC infrastructure. What's huge here is the horn. We're going to be atop the world's biggest horn. The mouth is 26 feet x 6 feet. In order to have depth, of course the horn is modular, it has to be assembled. The advantage of having a giant horn in an audio system playing electronic dance music is: it can produce undistorted bass. Systems which stack conventional subs aren't able to produce undistorted sound when the size of one oscillation of the sound wave exceeds the size of the diaphragm producing it. The Titan horn doesn't start to have that issue until the sound nears 40hz. It's a marginal gain, but when there's clean bass, there can be a lot of low frequency sound pressure and you can have a normal conversation and hear what the other person is saying since there's very little low frequency distortion muddying up the soundscape. Other benefits are directional bass (rather than omnidirectional) and vastly increased efficiency (sound pressure per watt). Thanks to all the folks associated with the Titan stage who helped us grunt the trusses up onto the stage, it was 5 times faster than expected.

A collage of rehearsal as well as the actual event (raising $$$ for Cure for the Kids (cancer)). We were so happy to be able to donate our time to this worthy cause and the venue and the production in general was outstanding.

setting up and rehearsing for Circus Couture on Thursday evening, May 7, at the Theater at Virgin Hotels in Vegas. It's a dinner benefitting a kid's cancer charity. It's not a Soul in the Machine show, persay. We're functioning as the house band in support of a series of cirque acts during the dinner. The production is looking pretty sick. If you're in Vegas, it's open to the public.

rehearsing for Circus Couture (at the Virgin Hotel/Casino) on Thursday, then the EDC Art Car Parade Afterparty the following Thursday. No, the macaw is not making minimum wage, but unlike the other 3 parrots, she always volunteers to help out in rehearsal. So we don't even feel slightly guilty although perhaps we should.

Animal slave labor. Band rehearsal for Circus Couture this Thursday and EDC Parade the following Thursday. The macaw is taking over laser harp duties.

Reconstructed Tourbillon atop the Valyrian Steel art car. This is the first video of it working properly after extensive debugging. This isn't the final version, it's out for polishing, powdercoating and plating right now and then it will have the expected amounts of bling. Every single one of these projects is a learning process. It's nice to finish and it's nice to get a good result, but the real satisfaction is learning new things and applying lessons learned to the next one. I can't wait to begin designing once this one is finished. More to come.

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We'll be the house band this charity event on May 7. It's a charity event raising $$$ for child cancer. Open to the public. Lots of different types of Vegas acts are donating their time to this cause. Tickets at: cure4thekids.org/circus-cout…

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