Three days in the Black Rock Desert, then a long flight east, then forty-eight hours in a Brooklyn warehouse and a Hudson iron foundry. The same energy, two different rooms.
Burning Man is the Western world's largest non-permanent venue. For one week a year the Black Rock Desert in Nevada hosts a temporary sound system the size of a small city. The week ends, the city is dismantled, and the desert is dust again. This route follows the energy east. Burning Man week-one, then a re-entry to architecture in New York: Basilica Hudson's 1880s iron foundry on the river, Elsewhere's three-room Bushwick warehouse, the Village Vanguard's basement triangle. From the largest non-permanent venue to the smallest permanent jazz cellar in ten days.
An 1880 forge and foundry for steel railway wheels on the Hudson River, turned into a non-profit arts centre in 2010 by Melissa Auf der Maur and Tony Stone. Industrial cathedral, all brick, steel truss and broken light.
Wedge-shaped basement jazz club on 7th Avenue South, opened 1935. 123-capacity. More than 100 live records cut here, Coltrane and Bill Evans among them.
A temporary city of about 71,500 people on the Black Rock Desert playa in Nevada, built and burned each year. The next edition, Spellbound, runs 29 August to 6 September 2027.
A five-room venue in a former Bushwick furniture factory at 599 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn, open since Halloween 2017. The Hall, Zone One, Chatroom, The Loft and a seasonal Rooftop fill three storeys.
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Updated 22 October 2026 · Made by Quiet Build