Nonprofit · Bay Area, California
1hz
One cycle per second. The pulse under everything.
A nonprofit for bass music and sound system culture. Home of DEEP AUDIO and 3rd Eye Collective.
One cycle per second. The pulse under everything.
A nonprofit for bass music and sound system culture. Home of DEEP AUDIO and 3rd Eye Collective.
Bass you don't just hear. Bass you feel.
1hz is a nonprofit for bass music and sound system culture. It carries on a tradition that runs from the sound systems of Jamaica through dub, jungle, drum & bass and dubstep to the bass music of today: a community built around a rig, the crew who build and run it, the music made for it, and the crowd it moves.
Our mission is to promote music, sound and the related arts through education, public performances and exhibitions, and access for underserved audiences, including people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Low frequencies are felt in the body, so bass music is something everyone can share.
We are a community-run nonprofit. Nobody owns 1hz and there are no investors: it is run by an unpaid founding board, funded by tickets priced to cover costs, donations, grants and sponsors, and everything it earns goes back into the work.
A Hi-Fi sound system built for bass music, with an infra-sub floor tuned down to 19 Hz. Run in the sound system tradition: built, tuned and cared for by the crew who play it, and put to work for the public.
Bass music events where producers, selectors and the crowd meet on the system, from intimate sessions to festival stages.
Hands-on teaching in sound system culture: building, tuning and running a rig, and producing bass music that translates on one.
Bass music sessions, shows and exhibitions open to the public, with tickets priced to cover costs.
Bringing sound to underserved audiences, including people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Bass you feel, not only hear.
We pay the producers, selectors and artists we book at fair rates.
1hz runs on gifts, grants and people. Sponsors are thanked by name and logo. That is the whole deal.
A Bay Area nonprofit, now being formed, for bass music and sound system culture. It promotes music, sound and the related arts through education, public performances and access for underserved audiences. It has two programs: DEEP AUDIO and 3rd Eye Collective.
A music culture built around a sound system: the rig, the crew who build and run it, the selectors and MCs, and the crowd. It grew out of the sound systems of Jamaica and runs through dub, jungle, drum & bass, dubstep and today's bass music.
Not yet. 1hz is being incorporated in California and will apply to the IRS for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. We will say so here when it is confirmed.
Nobody. A nonprofit has no owners and no investors. 1hz is run by its board, and anything it buys belongs to the nonprofit for good.
The sound system program: the rig, its upkeep, teaching, and public bass listening sessions.
The events program: bass music nights, performances and festivals.
One hertz is one cycle per second, about the pace of a resting heartbeat. Below what you hear, inside what you feel.