Primož Oberžan: Metazvočnost / Metasonics
13.11.2017
ACE KIBLA / Kiblix 2017

Primož Oberžan has recently been working on new electromechanical sound machines, leading musical workshops, writing about new approaches and paradigms in art and science, and giving lectures on scientific and artistic imagination under his general concept called metamechanics.

In 1997 he founded the music collective The Stroj (The Machine), which became internationally renowned for their powerful, energetic, and dangerous shows, performed on self-made industrial percussion instruments in unusual venues, such as stone pits, mines, factories, and ships, as well as at many international festivals. He received a BA in Philosophy and Sociology of Culture from the University of Ljubljana.

Cymatics is a young scientific discipline studying the impact of sound vibrations on the formation of matter. Its founder, Swiss researcher and artist Hans Jenny (1904–1972) coined the term cymatics from the Greek word ‘kyma’ meaning ‘wave’. Jenny continued the work began in the 18th century by Ernst Chladni, who experimented by drawing a violin bow around the edge of a plate covered with fine sand, which in turn formed various geometric patterns.