About

The Bon Aqua Computer Club is an opportunity to meet and collaborate on fun technical projects that expand our minds and enhance our self-reliance. It is also a fully-fledged performance space with outdoor event, film production, live streaming, and concert capabiltiies!

Contact

Reach out to Andrew Grathwohl for more details on any of the below offerings.

Facilities

Event Spaces

DIY Performance Venue

Featuring a state of the art live audio reproduction system, a DMX lighting rig, a cinema-quality projection setup, and a time-synchronized control room!

• 28x20ft performance stage
• indoor/outdoor loudspeaker systems
• seating & parking for up to 50 guests
• wheelchair-accessible entrances/exits

Outdoor Events

Surrounded by 8 acres of serene, peaceful fields with no road noise, neighbors, or competing events in sight!

• outdoor stage
• drive-in-theater ready, including AM/FM audio transmitter or phone app!
• cookouts and other large gatherings
• ask us about our super-secret woods clearing!

Filming

Our space is equipped to support full-crew video production projects!

• outdoor conditioned power available
• fully unregulated drone filming
• 3 acres of woods +0.25 acre clearing
• lots of mature trees
• 5 acres of open fields

FreeBSD Server

• jails hosting
• torrent seedbox
• website hosting
• (highly secure) private email services

Services

Multi-Track Recording

Our recording facilities combine state-of-the-art professional audio software with old-school audio engineering tricks of the trade!

• 32x balanced inputs (XLR, AES)
• 8x channels TOSLINK
• 36x channels SPDIF
• Up to 8 separate headphone mixes

Audio Mastering & Restoration

If you have recently faced any forms of “public cancellation” via corporate media outlets, we would like to help you continue the musical career you’ve worked so hard to achieve. The Bon Aqua Computer Club humbly offers free mastering services to any artists who have been dragged through the mud over the views they hold, whether they be political, religious, ethical, etc.

Background

Bon Aqua Computer Club is owned & operated by Andrew Grathwohl.

My goal with the Bon Aqua Computer Club is to build an abundant local community centered around the ideas of free software, self-reliant computing, and other endeavors that empower individuals to escape the wrath of Big Tech, the cloud, and the surveillance state.

I moved to Bon Aqua from New York, NY, where I spent most of my childhood and adult years until the COVID-19 lockdowns began taking place. It became clear to me that this was not a disaster that we were going to protest like we did the Iraq War, like the Stonewall Riots, and like the Union Square direct action in the early 20th century.

After many years of believing in the things that make Tennessee great - a respect for others’ natural rights, an inherently limited centralized state authority that works in service of people’s liberties, etc., - I finally decided to seek it out, and I am so happy I did.