Dexfest Music Festival

Dexfest is a four-day multiple stage music festival and features some of the new age electronic acts in the country, as well as a line up of regional musicians, located in historic Dandrige Tennessee and nestled in the bottom hills of the Great Smoky Mountains on Lake Douglas. The festival grounds are 30 minutes east of Knoxville, and 90 mintues from Asheville, NC. Aside from a musical line up and an outdoor location and multipule stages for performances, Cosmic Convergence also offers its guests a wide variety of activities ranging from, hiking, swimming, arts & crafts, yoga, costume contests, and Brainquility, a new and unique digital meditation experience. The event boasts state of art sound & lighting along with live art installations and performances. There is also many merchant and food vendors on site for festival attendees.
History

The creator of Dexfest is 21-year-old Dexter Palmer, who is a Belmont University student from near Dandridge and a touring DJ. The festival started the summer of 2009 as a birthday party for Palmer and drew a surprising crowd of 700 people. This caused insperation for another festival to occer the following year. The line up for the festival is full of artists with a combination of computer driven trance like music called electronica.The festival draws dozens of acts from across the country, and a crowd of 1,500 to 3,000 is expected, according to Business TN weekly magazine.There is a general admission camping set up similar to that of other outdoor festivals.
Activism

Dexfest goes green. Dexfest has put in a bigger effort to cut down their carbon footprint on the world. They teamed up with a recycling team to have more recycling bins and have plans to reduce more waste.
1) Eliminate the use of plastic grocery bags for packing supplies
2) Bring reusable dishes and flatware
3) Try to avoid toxic chemical insect repellants
Electronica Music

Electronic music or electro-acoustic music, term for compositions that utilize the capacities of electronic media for creating and altering sounds. electronic music Music in which electronic methods are used to generate or modulate sounds. The first pieces produced on tape recorders were composed in the 1920s. In Paris, Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry manipulated recorded sounds, producing one of the first major works, Symphonie pour un homme seul (1950). The invention of the synthesizer inspired many composers, particularly Karlheinz Stockhausen. In the 1960s, it became possible to use computers for complex electronic sounds; Yannis Xenakis and Pierre Boulez are two of many composers to have used computers.

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