a week-long temporary city built and dismantled annually in nevada's black rock desert, drawing around 80,000 participants and organized around principles of radical self-reliance, communal effort, and non-commercial exchange. rooted in the late 1980s, it operates without a central programming authority or curated roster.

music runs continuously across dozens of independently operated sound camps, covering psytrance, techno, progressive, and much more. which camps attend and what they build changes each year, so the sonic landscape shifts from one edition to the next.