Dear kVA Fans....
Don't miss our first public performance on Sunday
January 18th, 1998.
This event, sponsored by the Los Angeles Cacophony
Society, promises
to be a spectacular array of electrical energy, light and
sound. Please copy
and distribute this message to anyone interested in an
evening of
million-volt, in-your-face, electrical special effects!
Jeff W. Parisse, Director
kVA Effects
www.teslacoil-dot-com (coming soon)
THE MAD GENIUS SHOW
Los Angeles, CA - Sunday, Jan. 18, 8
PM - Midnight
The Mad Genius Show is a celebration of Tesla, Theremin,
Reich, and
technological freethinkers everywhere. It will be an evening of
performance,
installations, and music out of sync with scientific
conformity. Showcased will
be members of kVA Effects, a collection of
Southern Californian Tesla
enthusiasts exhibiting a number of coils, plasma
balls, and other electrical
discharge devices. While 2 million-volt arcs burn
the surrounding ozone,
kVA members will provide factual edification and
death-defying entertainment
with a confidence that allows them to draw
five-foot lightning bolts into their
barely protected hands. The shimmering
otherworldly sounds of Leon
Theremin's invention will be coaxed from a number
of instruments collected
and built by Ross Marshall, Dean Opseth, Home
Audience, and Mark Segal,
performing solo and in concert. This harmonic
convergence of theremin
performers promises to be the largest such gathering
ever witnessed in
Los Angeles. Theremins will also be available for audience
experimentation
throughout the evening, while crackpotologist Gregory Bishop
of
Excluded Middle magazine will offer a few words on other
divergent
tributaries of scientific thought. While Tesla's dreams came to an
abrupt
and even explosive end, Theremin's pioneering spirit and
electronic
inventiveness lives on in the cosmic tinkering of musical
ensembles like
Sleestak, Amps for Christ, and Home-Audience, whose
peculiar
manipulations of tape, feedback, voice, and home-engineered
musical
apparatus will be experienced tonight. Throughout the evening,
ongoing
research will be conducted by performers from Cacophony's
"Museum of
Mental Decay," continuing their work in labs constructed
at the nexus where
Science trips over the Visionary and Wilhelm Reich spills
his drink on
Rube Goldberg.
Cost: $6 donation to Science.
Info:
(213) 694-2478
Where: Spanish Kitchen Studio, 734 E. 3rd, downtown
LA