San Francisco Chapter Formed in 1986, some members became organizers of the annual
Burning Man event. The move came after Cacophony member Michael Mikel attended the event's previous iteration, the unnamed Memorial Day beach party to raise and burn the Man on
Baker Beach, in 1988 and publicized the 1989 event in the Cacophony Society newsletter. In 1990, Carrie Galbraith and Kevin Evans conceived of Zone Trip #4 a book published by
Last Gasp. In 2013, a digitized collection of the
San Francisco chapter's
Rough Draft newsletters was uploaded to the
Internet Archive.
Los Angeles Chapter Originating in 1991, the
Los Angeles chapter listed events in their monthly newsletter
Tales from the Zone. After mailing out physical monthly newsletters for several years, they switched to an online newsletter format. The events produced by the Los Angeles branch often centered on public pranking with several historical events, including "Cement Cuddles" where they filled a dozen
teddy bears with cement and put them on toy store shelves complete with bar-coded labels. In 1996, Portland Cacophony organized the first Santa Rampage outside of San Francisco. The arrival of the members dressed like Santa, who flew in by plane, was met by Portland police in riot gear, following a tip-off from the San Francisco Police Department.
Other Chapters Cacophony chapters are or have been active in about two dozen American cities and at least a half dozen other countries. Between 2003 and 2006, and in 2008, "Sant' Arctica" was held at
McMurdo Station,
Antarctica. ==Other events, affiliations==