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kVA's Mad Genius Science Show!




From: 	Jeff W. Parisse[SMTP:jparisse-at-teslacoil-dot-com]
Sent: 	Saturday, January 10, 1998 9:57 AM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	kVA's Mad Genius Science Show!

 
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


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