17. Electric Mass for Nikola Tesla

KunstHaus Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia. 10th of July 2016. One hundred sixty years ago Nikola Tesla was born. A small group of admirers of Tesla's work come together to commemorate his birthday with special happening. Folk artist Nani Poljanec was reading Tesla's original letter from his collection, with my musical support on efektor.Electrifying ceremony sparked deep emotions in all the participants of this extraordinary event and heighten our spirits on higher voltage.

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...