MC Flasher
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MC Flasher is the Electronic music
persona of Slovenia
n-Canadian
performance artist Simon Pribac.
As a long time resident and art director of Slovenia's most famed club Ambasada Gavioli
, MC FLASHER has been the developer of new wave techno MC-ing and the creator of Ambasada's ideological structure in years 1998 to 2005. He has also been seen as the man, who reinvented the way of vocalizing the Techno music in Central European Electronic music
scene of the late 1990-s.
band Pudding Fields in 1993 and as an actor in various theatres in Slovenia
and Northern Italy
.
He received his first voice/speech training at the national Slovenian radio
and television
broadcasting
company (RTV Slovenia). Later he produced and hosted a number of alternative music radio shows on different Slovenian radio stations.
In 1998 he began to develop the project of techno
/house
vocal animation under supervision of Ambasada Gavioli
as producer and Valentino Kanzyani
as the art director, which proved to be one of the most defined and sophisticated projects of its kind in the electronic music scene at the time. As a techno
MC he created a fusion of different approaches, techniques and skills he developed through his theatre
, music
, radio
and television
work and later took charge of Ambasada Gavioli's art direction and outreach sector.
Some of his performance works have also included elements of street theatre
, Neoism
, teachings of Antonin Artaud
and Michael Chekhov
and adhering to the official ideology of Ambasada Gavioli: Commedia dell'Arte
since Ambasada Gavioli
has originally been designated to host an ongoing "Commedia dell'Arte of the 21st Century".
career he collaborated and performed with artists from Sony Japan (Takkyū Ishino
), Cocoon Germany(Sven Vaeth, Toni Rios, Joerg Henze,…), Claude Young, Novamute UK (Luke Slater, Space DJz,…), Dee Lite, New York USA (Supa DJ Dmitry), Ovum Recordings USA (Josh Wink), Black Nation USA (Jay Denham), Recycled Loops Slovenia (Umek), Tortured Records UK (Billy Nasty, Craig Walsh,…), …
Beside years of residency in Slovenia’s most famed techno venue Ambasada Gavioli
, one of his most important public appearances included performances at Cocoon’s Morph to Extreme series in Amnesia, Ibiza
(Spain) in cooperation with Sven Vaeth.
He is the organizer and the artistic director of annual Music and Art festival “THE FINAL FLASH”, which takes place in the Seaside region of Slovenia
, introducing new approaches in sound
, performing arts
and fashion
while showcasing emerging world’s electronic music talent. A number of international artists from over 15 different countries on 5 continents have contributed their works to this international project.
, DJ Psiho, Dahlia Steinberg, Aviva Zimmerman, Noel Cillavak, Valentino Kanzyani
, F Sonik as well as various film
and media
projects, such as main role in the feature action drama Exit, planned to be launched in 2008.
Significance of such result
, Izola
, Slovenia
, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance, Residency 1998 - 2005
Influenz Pictures, London, main role acting in feature film Izhod-Exit 2007
Cvetlicarna, Media Park, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Electronic Vocal Arts Performances 2006 - 2007
Smoove Vida, Vicenza, Italy, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance 2006
Rabac Summer Festival, Croatia, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance 2003-2005
Exordium FFA, Toronto, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance 2005
Spasmo Pop Orgy, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance, Performance Arts 2005
MTV European, Final Flash TV ad, vocalisations 2004
CHRY Radio, Toronto, Radio Show Hosting/Appearances 2003-2005
The Final Flash Series, Ambasada Gavioli, Slovenia, Electronic Vocal Arts Performances, Performance Arts 2000 - 2007
Cocoon - Morph to Extreme Series, Ibiza, Spain, Electronic Vocal Arts Performances 2002
Core Techno Sessions, Toronto, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance 2003
Ryerson Theatre Company, Toronto, Performance Arts 2000 - 2002
RTV Slovenia, radio show hosting, TV voice-overs, speech training 1995 - 1996
Cocoon Series, Ambasada Gavioli, Slovenia, Electronic Vocal Arts Performances
Nextwave Series, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance 1998 - 1999
Meet-Me Festival, Slovenia Electronic Vocal Arts Performances 2001 - 2002
Portrait Records Nights, Munich, Germany, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance 2001
Unity Festival, Vienna, Austria, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance 2000
Steps Theatre Company, Izola, Slovenia, Performance Arts 1995 - 1998
Lai Studio, Izola, Slovenia, Performance Arts 1994 -1996
Info Net Radio Network, Radio Hosting 1995 - 1998
Pudding Fields, Punk Rock Band, Slovenia, Lead Singer, Frontman, Performance Arts 1994 - 2000
Radio Capris, Koper, Slovenia, Radio Hosting 2001 - 2003
TV3, Slovenia, Music TV Show hosting 1999
RAI, Trieste, Italy, Television Performance/Drama Arts 1996
SKD Tabor Performance Group, Trieste, Italy, Performance Arts 1996 - 1998
SLKD Ljubljana, Experimental Film Appearances 1996 - 1997
Melodije Morja & Sonca festival, Choreo performance 1995
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
persona of Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
n-Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
performance artist Simon Pribac.
As a long time resident and art director of Slovenia's most famed club Ambasada Gavioli
Ambasada Gavioli
The Ambasada Gavioli is a Slovenian night club located in Izola, and named after its architect Mr. Gavioli. It has a floor space of 1,600 m2 and a capacity of 2,500 guests....
, MC FLASHER has been the developer of new wave techno MC-ing and the creator of Ambasada's ideological structure in years 1998 to 2005. He has also been seen as the man, who reinvented the way of vocalizing the Techno music in Central European Electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
scene of the late 1990-s.
History
Flasher began performing as the front man in progressive punk rockPunk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
band Pudding Fields in 1993 and as an actor in various theatres in Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
and Northern Italy
Northern Italy
Northern Italy is a wide cultural, historical and geographical definition, without any administrative usage, used to indicate the northern part of the Italian state, also referred as Settentrione or Alta Italia...
.
He received his first voice/speech training at the national Slovenian radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
broadcasting
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...
company (RTV Slovenia). Later he produced and hosted a number of alternative music radio shows on different Slovenian radio stations.
In 1998 he began to develop the project of techno
Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...
/house
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
vocal animation under supervision of Ambasada Gavioli
Ambasada Gavioli
The Ambasada Gavioli is a Slovenian night club located in Izola, and named after its architect Mr. Gavioli. It has a floor space of 1,600 m2 and a capacity of 2,500 guests....
as producer and Valentino Kanzyani
Valentino Kanzyani
Tine Kocjančič, better known as Valentino Kanzyani is a Slovenian techno deejay and music producer. He has also released records under the name Recycled Loops, which is also the name of one of the record labels that he co-runs , the other being Earresistable.He became famous in Slovenia, when he...
as the art director, which proved to be one of the most defined and sophisticated projects of its kind in the electronic music scene at the time. As a techno
Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...
MC he created a fusion of different approaches, techniques and skills he developed through his theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
work and later took charge of Ambasada Gavioli's art direction and outreach sector.
Performance Techniques
His understanding of vocal performance is based on stories and themes. Flasher deconstructs the elements and meanings of the theme and assembles them into a greater vocal super-structure that is projected into the music-ambiance-public during the event. His techno style is described as "atmospheric flashing of mind" and the vocalizing is producing a "sound picture", which ultimately affects the receiver's state of mind.Some of his performance works have also included elements of street theatre
Street theatre
Street theatre is a form of theatrical performance and presentation in outdoor public spaces without a specific paying audience. These spaces can be anywhere, including shopping centres, car parks, recreational reserves and street corners. They are especially seen in outdoor spaces where there are...
, Neoism
Neoism
Neoism is a parodistic -ism. It refers both to a specific subcultural network of artistic performance and media experimentalists, and more generally to a practical underground philosophy...
, teachings of Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud
Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, more well-known as Antonin Artaud was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director...
and Michael Chekhov
Michael Chekhov
Michael Chekhov was a Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner. His acting technique has been used by actors such as Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe, Yul Brynner, and Robert Stack. Constantin Stanislavski referred to him as his most brilliant student...
and adhering to the official ideology of Ambasada Gavioli: Commedia dell'Arte
Commedia dell'arte
Commedia dell'arte is a form of theatre characterized by masked "types" which began in Italy in the 16th century, and was responsible for the advent of the actress and improvised performances based on sketches or scenarios. The closest translation of the name is "comedy of craft"; it is shortened...
since Ambasada Gavioli
Ambasada Gavioli
The Ambasada Gavioli is a Slovenian night club located in Izola, and named after its architect Mr. Gavioli. It has a floor space of 1,600 m2 and a capacity of 2,500 guests....
has originally been designated to host an ongoing "Commedia dell'Arte of the 21st Century".
Development
During his technoTechno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...
career he collaborated and performed with artists from Sony Japan (Takkyū Ishino
Takkyu Ishino
, born December 26, 1967 in Shizuoka, Japan, is a Japanese composer and music producer. He is a member of the technopop group Denki Groove.- Singles :* anna - letmein letmeout （1999）* Stereo Nights （2001）* Takbam （2001）...
), Cocoon Germany(Sven Vaeth, Toni Rios, Joerg Henze,…), Claude Young, Novamute UK (Luke Slater, Space DJz,…), Dee Lite, New York USA (Supa DJ Dmitry), Ovum Recordings USA (Josh Wink), Black Nation USA (Jay Denham), Recycled Loops Slovenia (Umek), Tortured Records UK (Billy Nasty, Craig Walsh,…), …
Beside years of residency in Slovenia’s most famed techno venue Ambasada Gavioli
Ambasada Gavioli
The Ambasada Gavioli is a Slovenian night club located in Izola, and named after its architect Mr. Gavioli. It has a floor space of 1,600 m2 and a capacity of 2,500 guests....
, one of his most important public appearances included performances at Cocoon’s Morph to Extreme series in Amnesia, Ibiza
Ibiza
Ibiza or Eivissa is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea 79 km off the coast of the city of Valencia in Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. With Formentera, it is one of the two Pine Islands or Pityuses. Its largest cities are Ibiza...
(Spain) in cooperation with Sven Vaeth.
He is the organizer and the artistic director of annual Music and Art festival “THE FINAL FLASH”, which takes place in the Seaside region of Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
, introducing new approaches in sound
Sound
Sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.-Propagation of...
, performing arts
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
and fashion
Fashion
Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person...
while showcasing emerging world’s electronic music talent. A number of international artists from over 15 different countries on 5 continents have contributed their works to this international project.
Other projects
Flasher’s other projects include international SYLD (Support Your Local DJ) series in Slovenia, United Kingdom and South Africa, performance art projects collaboration with artists such as Istvan KantorIstvan Kantor
Istvan Kantor is a Hungarian born Canadian performance and video artist, industrial music and electropop singer, and founder of Neoism....
, DJ Psiho, Dahlia Steinberg, Aviva Zimmerman, Noel Cillavak, Valentino Kanzyani
Valentino Kanzyani
Tine Kocjančič, better known as Valentino Kanzyani is a Slovenian techno deejay and music producer. He has also released records under the name Recycled Loops, which is also the name of one of the record labels that he co-runs , the other being Earresistable.He became famous in Slovenia, when he...
, F Sonik as well as various film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and media
Electronic media
Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical energy for the end-user to access the content. This is in contrast to static media , which today are most often created electronically, but don't require electronics to be accessed by the end-user in the printed form...
projects, such as main role in the feature action drama Exit, planned to be launched in 2008.
International resonance
The projects initiated and developed by MC Flasher attracted the attention of institutions such as the Israeli Ministry of Culture, Sport and Education, York University in Toronto, Canada, MTV Networks Europe, which led to collaboration of the Final Flash team on various international conferences and a global video animation contest in collaboration with MTV.Significance of such result
Performance History
Ambasada GavioliAmbasada Gavioli
The Ambasada Gavioli is a Slovenian night club located in Izola, and named after its architect Mr. Gavioli. It has a floor space of 1,600 m2 and a capacity of 2,500 guests....
, Izola
Izola
Izola is an old fishing city and a municipality in southwestern Slovenia on the Adriatic coast of the Istrian peninsula. Its name originates from the Italian Isola, which means island.- History :...
, Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance, Residency 1998 - 2005
Influenz Pictures, London, main role acting in feature film Izhod-Exit 2007
Cvetlicarna, Media Park, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Electronic Vocal Arts Performances 2006 - 2007
Smoove Vida, Vicenza, Italy, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance 2006
Rabac Summer Festival, Croatia, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance 2003-2005
Exordium FFA, Toronto, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance 2005
Spasmo Pop Orgy, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance, Performance Arts 2005
MTV European, Final Flash TV ad, vocalisations 2004
CHRY Radio, Toronto, Radio Show Hosting/Appearances 2003-2005
The Final Flash Series, Ambasada Gavioli, Slovenia, Electronic Vocal Arts Performances, Performance Arts 2000 - 2007
Cocoon - Morph to Extreme Series, Ibiza, Spain, Electronic Vocal Arts Performances 2002
Core Techno Sessions, Toronto, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance 2003
Ryerson Theatre Company, Toronto, Performance Arts 2000 - 2002
RTV Slovenia, radio show hosting, TV voice-overs, speech training 1995 - 1996
Cocoon Series, Ambasada Gavioli, Slovenia, Electronic Vocal Arts Performances
Nextwave Series, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance 1998 - 1999
Meet-Me Festival, Slovenia Electronic Vocal Arts Performances 2001 - 2002
Portrait Records Nights, Munich, Germany, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance 2001
Unity Festival, Vienna, Austria, Electronic Vocal Arts Performance 2000
Steps Theatre Company, Izola, Slovenia, Performance Arts 1995 - 1998
Lai Studio, Izola, Slovenia, Performance Arts 1994 -1996
Info Net Radio Network, Radio Hosting 1995 - 1998
Pudding Fields, Punk Rock Band, Slovenia, Lead Singer, Frontman, Performance Arts 1994 - 2000
Radio Capris, Koper, Slovenia, Radio Hosting 2001 - 2003
TV3, Slovenia, Music TV Show hosting 1999
RAI, Trieste, Italy, Television Performance/Drama Arts 1996
SKD Tabor Performance Group, Trieste, Italy, Performance Arts 1996 - 1998
SLKD Ljubljana, Experimental Film Appearances 1996 - 1997
Melodije Morja & Sonca festival, Choreo performance 1995