Space Gathering
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Space Gathering is a yearly electronic music
festival held in the nature in the Beauce
region of Quebec
, Canada
during the second weekend of July. The chosen emplacement, a magnifiscent camping site right by the Ste-Agathe falls, is located about 40 miinutes away from Quebec city
.
In order to join several cultures sharing a same ideal, the festival is composed of a few different stages:
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
festival held in the nature in the Beauce
Beauce, Quebec
Beauce is a historical and traditional region of Quebec located south of Quebec City. It corresponds approximately to the regional county municipalities of Beauce-Sartigan, Robert-Cliche and La Nouvelle-Beauce, and its major communities are Saint-Georges, Sainte-Marie, Beauceville,...
region of Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
during the second weekend of July. The chosen emplacement, a magnifiscent camping site right by the Ste-Agathe falls, is located about 40 miinutes away from Quebec city
Quebec City
Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...
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In order to join several cultures sharing a same ideal, the festival is composed of a few different stages:
- a stage on the beach with a GoaGoa tranceGoa trance is a form of electronic music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India.-History:The music has its roots in the popularity of Goa in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a hippie capital, and although musical developments were incorporating elements of industrial music and EBM...
feel, featuring live performances and dj sets of electronic music such as psychedelic trancePsychedelic trancePsychedelic trance, psytrance or just psy is a form of electronic music characterized by hypnotic arrangements of synthetic rhythms and complex layered melodies created by high tempo riffs. It appeared in the mainstream in 1995 as with reporting of the trend of Goa trance. The genre offers variety...
, goaGoa tranceGoa trance is a form of electronic music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India.-History:The music has its roots in the popularity of Goa in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a hippie capital, and although musical developments were incorporating elements of industrial music and EBM...
, progressive, electro, tribalTribal houseTribal house is a subgenre of house music similar in structure to deep house, but providing elements of ethnic or indigenous musical percussions...
and houseHouse musicHouse music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
; - a stage with a more relaxed feel, presenting worldbeatWorldbeatWorldbeat is a music genre that primarily refers to a blending of Western pop music with traditional/folk or world music influences...
music, reggaeReggaeReggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
, downtempoDowntempoDowntempo is a laid-back electronic music style similar to ambient music, but usually with a beat or groove unlike the beatless forms of Ambient music. The beat is sometimes made from loops that have a hypnotic feeling...
, live bands, etc; - a meditationMeditationMeditation is any form of a family of practices in which practitioners train their minds or self-induce a mode of consciousness to realize some benefit....
temple, also used for workshops and conferences on a variety of subjects related to the vision behind this event; - a cinerama featuring movies and documentaries about subjects such as spiritual worlds, ecologyEcologyEcology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...
, culture, etc, - Kiosks selling CDs, clothing, health food, local products, etc,
- a space for kids with activities planned especially for them.