Alternating Currents (The Tesla project)

Alternating Currents is an intermedial electricity concert choreographed and performed by Maria W Horn, Stina Nyberg and a frequency-controllable Tesla coil.

The concert is part of the Tesla project which also includes Thunderstruck, The Woman who Lit the World and the festival Spectrophilia.

The concert is one part of a long-term obsession with the inventor Nikola Tesla and the early 1900s phenomena of touring electricity shows. Through flashing lightning bolts, the Tesla coil creates a sound which resembles distorted trance synths threading piercing melodies through ozone-filled air. In combination with dialogues reflecting on science, magic and electrocution, the concert creates a womb-like atmosphere with the lingering threat of bodily harm.

There is a lack of public fascination with electricity, but Alternating Currents is here to cure that.