Big Ears,12 Hour Drone

Unbeknownst to me until rather recently, there's a four-day music festival in Knoxville, TN called Big Ears that features an absurdly wide variety of artist - from Arto Lindsay to Bang on a Can to Four Tet to Lucius to Suuns. You get it, it's a lot of artists that may be considered niche or fringe because of the genre they work in but are certainly more than well respected.

Part of the festivities is an event called the "12-Hour Drone" - which is exactly as it sounds. One artist starts The Drone and over the course of the night, 20 more artists build and adapt it. If it were coming out of Burning Man I might roll my eyes but the list of artists involved makes it feel like something more alluring than that. Maybe I'm wrong.

So, if you're around, go check out the Big Ears festival. If not, put on your favorite Drone track and live vicariously.