Andy HerdJun 7, 2024

I am still surfing the wave of “omg #emfcamp was simply an amazing experience”

A friend’s response after hearing a fraction of what we got up to: “that’s incredible. How can you go back to your day to day life now? Isn’t it really boring in comparison?”

This is an excellent question, if a little terrifying to think about. I don’t have an answer. So I must conclude… the status quo is not enough: we need to make it our mission to make the real world more like EMF.

Show threadAndy HerdJun 7, 2024

An installation which nicely sums up one part of what #emfcamp was like: the random midi keyboard left quite literally in a grassy field, vaguely facing null sector (where the party is at). There’s no sign. It just silently SCREAMS “play with me”. Turns out this keyboard controls the lasers which go out across the whole site! Deeply satisfying to play with.

We can make the world a little more like this. We can reward people for being curious.

Show threadSophie GarrettJun 7, 2024
@herdingdata B flat was absolutely the best key, I discovered
Show threadAndy Herd
@sophiegarrett what happened when you played B flat? I was a bit hypnotised by the lasers to be looking at which notes I was playing
Jun 8, 2024 at 8:34amWeb
Show threadSophie GarrettJun 8, 2024
@herdingdata It was just a particularly pleasing laser pattern! 😅