WARDENCLYFFE TOWER

Solo Album, Germany, 2021

Description
The album draws inspiration from Nikola Tesla’s visionary project Wardenclyffe Tower; the idea of a global, wireless system for communication and power transfer. The never-completed project, which was ahead of its time at the beginning of the 20th century, foresaw the future of information society:

“An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant. In the same manner any picture, character, drawing or print can be transferred from one to another place. Millions of such instruments can be operated from but one plant of this kind.” (Nikola Tesla, “The Future of the Wireless Art,” Wireless Telegraphy & Telephony, 1908, pp. 67-71)

Wardenclyffe Tower symbolizes the ongoing struggle to form a better world while honouring the illusionistic, futuristic and utopian ideas.