What is the Whitebox VIP Lounge?
The Whitebox VIP (very intimate performance) Lounge is a live documentary event series capturing San Francisco's best underground live electronic music and visuals. You are invited to support the recording session through your attendance as an audience member. Whitebox began in 2002, and we have produced fantastic shows with coinciding documentary videos. The original venue was a small loft, 450 square feet in size, and we set the limitation to 25 audience members.
We are currently running Whitebox VIP Lounge events at satellite locations. Our new venue will be much larger space and we can accept more people than before. We hope the Whitebox series introduce a new way of entertainment. Please join us and be a part of documentary.
How it works?
Like any live TV program, footage from multiple cameras is combined with the live sound and graphics to create the White box shows. We named this process as REAL-TIME DOCUMENTARY. The audience can see the documentary process at different screens in real-time. What is unique about our process is that the session is recorded directly to VideoCD.
Unlike our past shows at our loft, we can't offer the VideoCD to the audience at the same night due to the difficulty of setting up the duplication system at the club. But, we can offer all past show documentary products at each of our events.
What kind of music?
Whitebox VIP Lounge will cover all kind of electronic music. Techno, House, Trans, Drum'n'Base, Dub, Ambient, Experimental, Noise, Laptop, IDM, etc. and most of the case, it will be live performance. And we will match up the visual performers who are fitting to the music. Drum Machine Museum also starting Dance Oriented Music including DJ act. We are support and promote all kind of electronic musicians and video artists. We also start new After Hours series which provide Down Tempo/Ambient music for your Saturday after hours.
Ticket Policy:
You don't need to reserve your seats in advance. The new venue should have enough capacity to accept all of you. Whitebox shows will start at 7pm and end at 11am. You are suggested to arrive at the venue before 7:30pm. The ticket price (at the door) is $7 to $15 (SLIDING SCALE). If you still can't afford to pay $7, please contact us to volunteer and we will waive the admission cost. You can work as a volunteer for the show.
Contact: mickeyt@drummachine.com
Documentary Media:
Each Whitebox show features two acts. The two discs produced that night are available one week after the event. Currently, Whitebox documentary products are only available directly from Drum Machine Museum. All revenues will be reinvest to the future event. The prices for each medium are as follows:
VHS tape (*1): $19.95
VCD (*2) : $15.95
DVD-R (*3) : $24.95
Buy a documentary now.
All the profits will be reinvested into the Drum Machine Museum and Whitebox production. We will support the electronic music and VJ community through our efforts.
(*1) VHS tape is a common media which you can watch at your video deck. This is linear medium so that we need to wait 60 min. to duplicate 60 min. contents.
(*2) VideoCD (VCD) discs are playable in many newer DVD players with connected Television, and any Mac and windows PC. Check the manual of your player to see if it is compatible.
VideoCD is a kind a rare format which more popular in Asia and Europe than US. The movie file format is MPEG1 (DVD Video is MPEG2), the image quality is equivalent to VHS tape. For playback at your computer, you need CD-ROM drive (not require DVD-ROM drive but DVD-ROM drive also can playback VCD as well), and MPEG1 decording/playback software such as Apple QuickTime 5 or later (Mac) or Microsoft Windows Media Player 7 (PC). On Mac, you don't need to use Apple DVD Player software which is good for DVD Video only, just double click the icon from the finder (icon looks like same as Quick Time). But if you using Mac OSX, VideoCD is not supported at the moment. So you need to either use OS9 or some specific VCD player which designed for OSX.
Again, VideoCD is playable for most of newer stand alone DVD player (set top box) which you are using for DVD Video. Watch VCD at Television is better than watch it by computer from our experience.
(*3) DVD-R discs are house burned DVD video. Best quality among the three different medium. DVD-R discs are playable in many DVD players, and many Mac and windows PC. Still not fully compatible like factory stamped DVD video, but will play in the majority of players.
Special Sale:
Each Whitebox shows, we are offering our documentary VCDs at special discounted price. The VCD discs are exactly the same ones that usually sell for $15.95, with full color label graphics printed directly on the discs.
VCD on-site special: $10.00 (10 quantities only for each title).
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