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Contents 1 Setting Up a Stage 1.1 Equipment 1.2 Power 1.3 Structures 1.4 Getting There 2 List of confirmed stages

[edit] Setting Up a Stage

Partying in the forest may sound easy, (and it sometimes is ;)) But there are real technical and logistical challenges to be faced in setting up your stage. Use this page as a central resource to collect information on doing it successfully.

[edit] Equipment

To run a sound system you need a few things at minimum.

• Speakers
• Media and Players (laptop, cdj's, turntables, microphones, headphones, etc)
• A Power Source

[edit] Power

There are a number of ways to power a soundsystem. This forum discussion provides some useful information: [1]

• Gas Fired Generator is the traditional favorite
• Solar Power ($$)
• Batteries clean and safe source of power if anyone is interested in setting up a car audio soundsystem you can contact us: geto.blast@gmail.com we will try to get a guide together sharing our experiences with this configuration
• Bicycle power is not very efficient, so should only be used as a backup power source to a battery-based system. However, at least one soundsystem is powered by bicycle, and you should check out these websites if you're interested rindky-dink altpedalgen

It would be a good idea to get some type of Inverter[2] to move the juice along the lines at your soundsystem.

[edit] Structures

There are all sorts of fun and usefull structures you can build to house your party. Here's a list with links

• The Yurt [3] [4]
• The Wickiup (sim. sweat lodge) [5]
• The Geodesic Dome [6]

[edit] Getting There

Now that you have all this stuff, you need a way to get it to your party!! What better way than a recycled-vegetable-oil fired Schoolbus! [7]

[edit] List of confirmed stages

Here is a (partial) list of musical stages expected at Northtek Teknival 2005.

alt [montreal]

blackkat [nyc]

DCM [toronto] website coming soon...

FAK [Ottawa]

freespace collective [toronto]

havoc (havocsound.cjb.net) [nyc]

houseofmouse [toronto]

mir/ghetto blast: a modular entity [toronto/ottawa]

neurotik [montreal]

pin:ksox[toronto]

renegadevirus [nyc]

weskodyne warriors [toronto]

Afterglow / UV-E (Toronto)

looking for a spot for a performer who does a live-pa sort of thing on his huge keyboard. he loads samples, including the back beat, into the workstation, and triggers them live using the keyboard - awesome to see and hear! --Bennyp 12:05, 16 Apr 2005 (EST)

Benny is that you? there was discussion about having a weskodyne jam session on saturday night. I hope you will join in. we were also talking about having live bands during the day on Saturday. so any live bands that want to rock out contact weskodyne soundsystem -- PET

so any live bands that want to rock out contact weskodyne soundsystem -- PET that's pimp