»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.
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.
