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The Signal-Sever! (meaning Signal-North! in Slovenian language) performance is the continuation of the work Solar that we have performed together with the group of people at Ars Electronia in 1998 (Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, Olaf Bender, Marko Peljhan, Brian Springer). It is an open air event, that last from dust until down. The basic conceptual plan of the work is to follow the events in the electromagnetic spectrum according to the daily changes in the ionosphere, which have a lot to do with the sun activity and present this immateriality as a acoustic and performative experience. The Signal-Sever! Machine is the sensor array and processing unit which receives radio waves, process, transforms them and send them back in a many different directions and forms. The systems we use are standard systems we have used and developed for Makrolab and the World-Information. Org. EMM console, but this year we will also use the new EMM-1001 unit. This is tactical-radio unit, which was first presented during Signal-Server! In 2001 in Lativa. We will definitely be agreeing with Nikola Tesla who stated, that the magnetosphere of the earth behaves very similar to that of a small metal sphere. The collaborators of the project are Nullo, Random Logic, Jadviga, dr. Izo and dr. Ivol working with primarily electronic sounds,waves and forms. The 8-10 hours are a long a period of time and a lot of manpower has to be invested to make a such a machine work. Signal-Sever! will combine many of the resources that Projekt Atol and associated projects have gathered in the 9 years.