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Reinventing the Pyramids - Tectonic at Telemagica

Composed of over 2 ½ million blocks of limestone weighing from 2 to 70 tons each (that’s enough masonry for 30 Empire State buildings), the Great Pyramid of Giza is estimated by archaeologists to have been built by a workforce of up to 25,000 over the course of 20 years and has been called the most imposing engineering feat of all time.

The oldest of the wonders of the ancient world served an unknown purpose and was put together with a precision that suggests a hyper-advanced technology which baffles modern ken.

Now, art student, musician, and promoter Joe Mousey plans on constructing a similar architectural undertaking of his own (albeit on a much smaller scale) for an upcoming outdoor music festival in the deep East border town of Jacumba.

“I have the habit of making seemingly insurmountable goals for myself,” Mousey says of the project involving one twenty-foot-tall and six four-foot pyramids made of electric metal tubing.

Psychedelic video jockey Wind Spirit will be projecting on the larger pyramid’s custom-tailored fabric while the smaller structures will contain LED arrays to be covered by Plexiglas shells.

“When you come over the hill at the site, you’ll see all these glowing pyramids, so it will be quite the spectacle to behold,” says Mousey, whose engineering experience includes a geodesic dome built for Haloa, a free November, 2010 party in the Imperial Desert which saw over a hundred in attendance and performances from 16 bands and electronic musicians.

“I didn’t finish it until the day before Haloa and never put it together until the day of the festival.”

Photo: Ian La Form

Mousey has also produced two Tectonic festivals in the desert and Jacumba which featured visuals by Wind Spirit, Moistrix, and analog projectionists Operation:Mindblow, and musicians including Snuffaluffagus, Wild Pack of Canaries, Free Moral Agents, Plant Tribe, Sleeve, HM.T DM.T, and Mousey’s psyche-rock outfit, Pilots.

“We decided to call it Tectonic because the desert is earthquake central,” recalls Mousey. “We were going to be out there with our amplifiers and we wanted to cause an earthquake. Sure enough, the next day there was an earthquake and we were right at the epicenter.”

The second Tectonic gathering peaked with downpours of rain and dry lightning illuminating the high-desert plateau.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6if8XWVDAc

Mousey is now gearing up to get seismic once again, this time in collusion with the nearly decade-running Telemagica festival in Jacumba.

On Saturday, June 9, the Tectonic at Telemagica live music stage will be aglow with performances from 19 bands including Pilots, Shiva Trash, Jamuel Saxon, Wild Pack of Canaries, and several to-be-announced acts.

Mousey assures there will be a litany of topless women at the outback tintinabulation.

In order to actualize his ambitious vision, Mousey will be hosting a fundraiser this Friday, the 17th, at the Tin Can Ale House featuring Pilots, Cigarette Bums, Children of Nova, and Misc. Ailments.

Five bucks at the door.

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Composed of over 2 ½ million blocks of limestone weighing from 2 to 70 tons each (that’s enough masonry for 30 Empire State buildings), the Great Pyramid of Giza is estimated by archaeologists to have been built by a workforce of up to 25,000 over the course of 20 years and has been called the most imposing engineering feat of all time.

The oldest of the wonders of the ancient world served an unknown purpose and was put together with a precision that suggests a hyper-advanced technology which baffles modern ken.

Now, art student, musician, and promoter Joe Mousey plans on constructing a similar architectural undertaking of his own (albeit on a much smaller scale) for an upcoming outdoor music festival in the deep East border town of Jacumba.

“I have the habit of making seemingly insurmountable goals for myself,” Mousey says of the project involving one twenty-foot-tall and six four-foot pyramids made of electric metal tubing.

Psychedelic video jockey Wind Spirit will be projecting on the larger pyramid’s custom-tailored fabric while the smaller structures will contain LED arrays to be covered by Plexiglas shells.

“When you come over the hill at the site, you’ll see all these glowing pyramids, so it will be quite the spectacle to behold,” says Mousey, whose engineering experience includes a geodesic dome built for Haloa, a free November, 2010 party in the Imperial Desert which saw over a hundred in attendance and performances from 16 bands and electronic musicians.

“I didn’t finish it until the day before Haloa and never put it together until the day of the festival.”

Photo: Ian La Form

Mousey has also produced two Tectonic festivals in the desert and Jacumba which featured visuals by Wind Spirit, Moistrix, and analog projectionists Operation:Mindblow, and musicians including Snuffaluffagus, Wild Pack of Canaries, Free Moral Agents, Plant Tribe, Sleeve, HM.T DM.T, and Mousey’s psyche-rock outfit, Pilots.

“We decided to call it Tectonic because the desert is earthquake central,” recalls Mousey. “We were going to be out there with our amplifiers and we wanted to cause an earthquake. Sure enough, the next day there was an earthquake and we were right at the epicenter.”

The second Tectonic gathering peaked with downpours of rain and dry lightning illuminating the high-desert plateau.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6if8XWVDAc

Mousey is now gearing up to get seismic once again, this time in collusion with the nearly decade-running Telemagica festival in Jacumba.

On Saturday, June 9, the Tectonic at Telemagica live music stage will be aglow with performances from 19 bands including Pilots, Shiva Trash, Jamuel Saxon, Wild Pack of Canaries, and several to-be-announced acts.

Mousey assures there will be a litany of topless women at the outback tintinabulation.

In order to actualize his ambitious vision, Mousey will be hosting a fundraiser this Friday, the 17th, at the Tin Can Ale House featuring Pilots, Cigarette Bums, Children of Nova, and Misc. Ailments.

Five bucks at the door.

Poster by Dusty Dirtweed

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