Three shipping containers -Bass, Guitar, and Drums- left out on the open playa for walk up play.

50 foot long steel cables for strings. "Plucked" with hammers, drills, and bows. "Fingered" with steel pipes as slides.

Open tunings. Mic the box. Three chord Ramones songs only.

Instruments made Russian doll style. The two 20 foot "guitar" and "drum"
containers fit inside the 40' "bass" container so there is only one 40' container to haul.
(strings, bridges and necks are removable, of course)

Details for BORG2 application:

Project Name: Intermodal Power Trio
Artist Name: Jim Mason
One liner: A self-service Bass, Guitar and Drum trio made from 3 ocean-going shipping containers.

Location: Right outside the biggest rave camp i can find . . .

Budget: 3k requested (approximately 50% of the total costs).
The main materials are one 40' long "high cube" container and one 40' regular height container. The regular height one will be cut in half to make the "ShipTar" and "Steel Drum". It will also be narrowed so the "ShipTar" and "Steel Drum" will fit in the "BassTainer" for transport. Each of these containers is around 1.5k. Also needed is a ton of cable and steel of various sizes, 10 come along winches, and whatnot will add another 2k. Trucking the resulting 40' "russian doll" container will be about 1k. So around 6k total. Probably more, as is usually the case. I'm asking for half (3k).

Timeline: 2k up front for material. 1k before desert for hauling the 40' to the desert

Safety Plan: "Safety" is my middle name, don't worry. But clearly allowed cable tensions need to be considered and the winching purchase designed so that it is impossible to exceed the allowable cable tensions.

Cleanup plan: This is all self-contained. Set the containers on the ground and pick them up in the end. There is no mess or burnables. No guarantees made about the sonic MOOP that may result. I will be camped well away from this audio disaster, to be sure . . .

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