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Slideshow: Fest Rocks With BYO Headphones

At worldwide festivals, headphone hubs replace speaker systems, and audiences plug in to listen to performances in mass intimacy. By Keith Axline.
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Chris Cones, aka Skullcaster, bombards the Plug audience with cybercrunch and ambient ephemera.Keith Axline

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Entrance to 992 Peralta Ave., the warehouse where the Plug music festival took place.

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This console will be occupied once sound artist Justino's performance begins.

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Audience members chat with listeners around the world through this terminal.

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The colorful exterior of 992 Peralta Ave, the site of San Francisco's Plug music festival.

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Though it looks to be quite dysfunctional, this sucker sends the streaming Plug signal around the globe.

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It gets hard to tell what is art and what is functional in the tech fossil warehouse.

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Every inch inside and out of 992 Peralta Ave., the site of the Plug music fest, is an artistic statement.

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