A project of two Slovenian musicians from two different genre edges. Transhuman is an album that heralds a new era of artistic creation. There has long been talk of whether machines can create original art. There are as many answers to such questions as there are questions. In the project, Mitja Reichenberg and Dušan Hedl combined the seemingly impossible and set a mirror to such current discussions.
The songs on the album Transhuman will include works by Philip Glass, or. The way of his performances is vaccinated with the principle of electronic music by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Works such as Oktophofonie and Telemusik in the new version with other electronic and acoustic devices will support a pure piano performance in the case of Metamorphosis (Glass). The album will be released on all media, first on CD and on all digital platforms. Later, the desire is to release the album on analog media such as cassette or vinyl.

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doc. dr. Mitja Reichenberg

Born in 1961 in Maribor, he graduated from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana (in the department of composition with Prof. Dane Škerl) and received his doctorate from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana (in the department of sociology under Prof. Dr. Rastko Močnik). He writes professional books in the field of film and music, essays, columns, scientific and professional articles, lectures and reviews and other reviews for many different publications. He works as a contract lecturer at four different faculties, and is signed under more than 500 bibliographic units, of which he is the author of 38 books in the field of film and music theory, 16 independent music albums, and 13 production units, two higher education textbooks, five manuals for high school and six independent music albums, author of music for more than 30 films, is a music producer at Mladinska knjiga, as a musician he also performs in independent author projects, concerts and recitals with original compositions and as a pianist of silent films at many festivals and screenings ( Ljubljana, Maribor, Zagreb, Belgrade, Trogir, Split ...). His bibliography is also available through the COBISS and CONOR programs (ARRS - where he has a researcher code) and comprises over 530 bibliographic units by the end of 2020, of which as many as 38 monographic publications and other professional (more than 80 articles), scientific (more than 40) articles), film and music material.

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Dušan Hedl

was born in 1961 in Maribor, where he completed secondary and higher education (electrical engineer), in 2006 he graduated from GEA College, a higher professional school for entrepreneurship. He has been working in the field of culture since 1977, first as an author and co-author in the field of music. culture or so-called alternative cultures. Along the way, it opens new premises, establishes club infrastructures and arranges training and filming premises. Today, the interaction of the author's artistic creation and organizational work deepens - in the sign of strategies of both cultural management and cultural policy - and produces ideas or. products in the field of cultural transmission or creative industries (music and book publishing, print, radio and television media, socializing and networking of interested independent creators and consumers of culture, music production, etc.). All this with exactly the same ear for introducing the new, different and challenging into the new-old social environment, where the economies of cultures and ideologies, ideas and emotions, bread and butter reign. The repercussions of the listed programs and projects in the wider Slovenian and international space seem self-evident.
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Mitja Reichenberg - Piano
Dušan Hedl - Monophonic Synthesizer, Polyphonic Syntesizer,
Electric Organ, Tone Generator, Amp feedback, Mining Rig

1. Human (9:32)
2. Trans (6.59)
3. No Human Trans Music (6:12)
4. Radio Waves Marzidovsek Trans (24:58)


Classica Slovenica / Kulturni center Maribor, CSCD 008 / FREE CD 084 / 2021