12. Concert for efektor and two 3D printers

  

I was invited to prepare a solo performance with two 3D printers for MFRU – KIBLIX 2013 (International Festival of Computer Art) organized in Maribor by Kibla. Initiator of the project was curator Jože Slaček and Jan Sterniša joined as 3D printer operator.

The project capitalizes on the acoustics typical of plastic wire 3D printing processes. Two printers will be printing two different objects, causing different sound effects, but due to the typical repetitive movements there is a chance of occasional synchronicity. The rhythmic background is enhanced by my performance on efektor. The entire performance is topped off by a video projection consisting of 3D animations and a live captured recording.

The story of 3D printing began in 1986 with the invention of stereolitography, which uses thermal lasers to manufacture individual forms from raw materials. This gave rise to the development of 3D printer models that represent modern-day desktop printers or “personal factories”. Today, 3D printers are the technology that anticipates some of future’s greatest changes. The expectations are immense: manufacturing of clothes, medicine, food and even human organs. The scheduled program will shed some light on the possibilities of 3D technologies and their creative use.

Videos and more information about authors are available on:

http://mfru-kiblix.si/koncert-3d-tiskanja-joze-slacek-ortotip-2013/?lang=en 

11. RENEGADE – The poet of the trash

»My name is Franz. Professor Franz Spielmann.

I'm a philosopher by education, drummer by my heart and renegade by my profession.

I come to
 tell you a story.

Story about events which had to happen, that we meet each other here tonight...«

These are the opening lines from Renegade, musical stereodrama for a man and a machine. But as prof. Spielmann said, many important events had to happen before he could take over the stage and told us his story.

Past two years I've felt a strong urge to express some of my metamechanical ideas. As we know from McLuhan on »The medium is the message«, so I had to find my own way how to do it. I've already wrote some texts about metamechanics, had some lectures and made a short documentary for TV Slovenia, but I was still looking for a new form to present my ideas to the public.

Past June I've moved to Bukovje area near Laško in a small family house we had for more than 30 years. It is a place where the road ends, but also a place where the only frontier of becoming of your spirit is your imagination. I had to be alone to made an inner space in myself where my becoming could resonate strong enough to become real.

I've arranged an improvised recording studio and rehersal room in a garage. For next three months during summer I've composed the rest of the music and prepared myself for live performance, merging elements of drama, concert and ritual with techical help of my mostly selfmade gear.

Professor Franz Spiellman, a renegade who left modern society and found his new home, life and it's meaning on a junkyard, researching a trash and making strange machines out of it.  He call them 'meaning generators', machines which aim is not a highly efficient production of material things but production of pure meaning.

Renegade is a visionary who recognized  an infinite potential of the trash:

»Trash is dark side of modern world. Banned and forgotten world beyond Narcissus  mirror. Trash is omnipotence – universal material  of the future. The only limitation of  potency of  trash, final frontier of  its recombining possibilities is only our knowledge and imagination.«

And last but not least: Renegade is the pioneer and teacher for the future generations which will have to cope with problems they got from us as the only gift.