✖Dragisa Krsmanovic

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Today I heard my child’s heart beat for the first time. It’s strong ! Here is a recording (mp3, 357kb)

During first half of 1980-ies a wave of new music and art happened in former Yugoslavia. Not being a member of Warsaw Pact, communist Yugoslavia had more liberal system than the rest of East European countries. But specially after Josip Broz Tito died in 1980, his uncharismatic successors were unable to maintain his firm grip on society. People started discovering new freedoms.

Unfortunately, this creative period ended with fall of Yugoslavia and civil wars in 90-ies.

Here is a small collection of videos from that period: Link>

LunchBox Lab is a cool project by Futurefarmers that is going to be in NYMOMA in February. I helped write the code for Arduino board that is used to run those LED dots.

Photos from our trip to Serbia in August 2007.

I finally put online photos from our trip to Philippines in May.

My wife Laurie is performing this Wednesday, July 25th at Edgetone New Music Summit experimental music festival here in San Francisco. She will be performing in the music piece by Andre Custodio.

An interesting document “YUGOSLAVIA: THE OUTWORN STRUCTURE” (PDF) from recently released CIA ESAU papers. Contains mostly stuff already known about events in late 60-ies and early 70-ies. Demise of Rankovic and decentralization of the government. An interesting detail: Soviets have approached Croatan separatist in Western Europe

On the second week of our trip tp Philippines we went to Kalinga region. We flew to Tuguegarao and then took jeepney along Chico river to Lubuagan. Folk dance of the Kalingas:

So I finally fixed my computer and I can post some videos from our trip to Philippines last month.

He is playing an instrument made of wood neck and soda can.

Filmed in Tagbanua village, Napsan, Palawan island.