MP3 EXPERIMENT

Yesterday I attended the mp3 experiment in San Francisco, and I can honestly say it was one of the highlights of my summer. For those who are not aware of what I am talking about, the mp3 experiment is a sort of improve gathering where people get together wearing different colors and play a special mp3 they downloaded of the experiment home page and play it at exactly 6:30, from here on they follow the directions of the mp3.

I was a bit nervous to go, considering me and all the people who went with me were wearing Red and were worried about being mistaken for gang members. Well we arrived late due to horrid SF traffic and when we approached the site of the even I was amazed, tons of people in assorted colors all playing thumb war (we started the mp3 at 630 so we could keep up with what was going on). Me and my friends joined in and started following the mp3s instructions…which ranged from playing “Steve” Says (the voice telling us what to do was named Steve), making a human dartboard, playing twister using the colors around us, and freeze tag.

It was so cool to see the crowd of non-participants watching from the edges of Union Square and the windows of the adjacent mall. I heard someone asking “is the music telling them what to do?” and I could not help but laugh. Through the whole experience I could only wonder how weird or awesome our group looked from afar, and whether or not people wished they could join us. This was a perfect event for me, considering I have a fondness for controlled chaos and randomness, which is exactly that this event was. It felt good to just go with the flow of what was happening and not worry about anything else. The event ended in an epic battle in which the red and yellows faced off against the blue and greens, using only inflated balloons as our “weapons”. This was fun and insane as I rushed through the sea of green and blues to push to other side…this was the only strategy I had considering my balloon was taken out of my hands within 5 seconds.

After this was all over the crowd of colors all waved goodbye and I went with a few friends to get dinner.

 We roamed around the mall, but what happens there is for a different post, until then I urge you, if something like the mp3 experiment comes near you, GO TO IT. It is pure fun and randomness, i.e. a perfect venture for friends XD.

Forever Spontaneous