<div>High Desert Soundings needs your help!  Our 2025 festival, October 10th and 11th at The Palms restaurant in Wonder Valley, promises to be one of our most exciting years yet, with a dynamic lineup of incredible performers, including Pedestrian Deposit, BEAM SPLITTER, Ulrich Krieger &amp; Jason Kahn, the Vinny Golia Quintet, Leo Chang, M.A. Tiesenga, and many, many more.  This year, we're trying to raise a modest $3000.  All funds generated by you will go directly towards the artists themselves. We are a DIY festival, and any amount will go a long way in making sure that we can continue to offer experimental music in the desert. We do not make a profit - we do this out of love and support for our community to come together for two days of shared sonic exploration, with this year featuring over 20 artists.</div><div> </div><div>If you donate as little as $15, we are confident we will reach our goal!</div> About HDSHigh Desert Soundings is a two-day outdoor music festival near Joshua Tree National Park in the California High Desert. Founded in 2018 by T.J. Borden and Daniel Meyer-O’Keefe, the festival is a crossroads of experimental musicians from different communities and backgrounds, coming together to share their work and perspectives.  The festival is held at the Palms Restaurant in Wonder Valley, a homesteading frontier community. The Palms is the primary meeting place for the diverse group of artists and free spirits who call the desert valley home. Wonder Valley's natural beauty and remarkable quiet set the stage for unique, immersive, and eclectic performances.  High Desert Soundings is currently co-directed by T.J. Borden and Ethan Marks and under the fiscal sponsorship of Fractured Atlas Inc, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. We have featured performances from Wolf Eyes, Sarah Hennies, King Britt, Michael Pisaro-Liu, Vinny Golia, Agriculture, Audrey Chen and Phil Minton, Palberta, Jeph Jerman, Jack Wright, Carolyn Chen, and many more. Our MissionHigh Desert Soundings is dedicated to presenting exciting performances by musicians from across the spectrum of experimental sound practices. Featured artists draw from styles including but not limited to new and contemporary concert music, free jazz and improvisation, noise, drone, and outsider pop music. Their backgrounds are as eclectic as their music: performers come from academic and non-academic institutions, underground and DIY scenes, concert halls and art galleries, from across the country and overseas. By relocating these diverse musical practices outside of their typical, sometimes restrictive environments, we believe we can help foster a more dynamic and inclusive experimental music community. 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