15. Children Of Adam and Eve

After succesfull collaboration on a short movie One Hundred Dogs, Jan Cvitkovič invited me again to make compositions for his project Children Of Adam And Eve, staged in National Theatre Nova Gorica. Shortly after begining of rehersals he asked me to join them with efektor. It was intense, focused, strict, upredictable and exciting.    I have to react very precisely, follow the rhythm of silences, words and gestures. So different experience from following musicians or playing on click. The play started to grow from Jan's text, dedicated actors become alive and words were slowly transforming into voices. My compositions were following them and becoming together with them. You never go so far as when you don't know where you're going. That's the principle of creativity and principle of human history. We all are children of Adam and Eve, walking through time, following ideas, falling into history.

14. The Stroj's special appearance on TV Slovenia

We were invited to perform live on TV Slovenia for a production called Arrhythmic Concert, so we took a chance and do our best in their studios. TV crew was very supportive, they even invited some audience to the studio which gave us good push during performance. There are two videos, so check it out!

13. Federmeister –' To Mechanics!' on MFRU 2014

 

Past autumn I was invited again to make a performance for International Festival Of Electronic Arts in Maribor, Slovenia. I was glad that organizers make some space for more analogue/mechanical/electro approaches in their programme so I took a chance to introduce less known but very meaningful manifesto of great slovenian avantgarde poet Srečko Kosovel, titled 'To Mechanics!'

Manifesto, which Kosovel wrote in July 1925, a year before his death at 22, begins: »Mechanics cannot die because it has no soul. Paradox is incomprehensible to mechanics because it transcends mechanical laws. Paradox is a leap from mechanics into life. Paradox is alive as an  electricity. But electricity is not mechanical. Electricity is an element. SO DON'T BE MECHANICAL, BE ELECTRICAL!«

As a metamechanic I am deeply intrigued by this visionary text and it's meaning in digital age. But more about that after July this year, when Federmeister's special performance will took place on his Bukovje Base farm to dignify 90th anniversary of creation of the manifesto.

One of the compositions I include into the performance was also 'Fail Better' which I dedicated to another visionary deeply connected to electricity – Nikola Tesla. It was performed for the first time and I used qoutes from his interviews as a text. This time in Slovene. English version will follow as a studio track... Stay tuned...