Since 1990, Micha Wellnitz and his family live on the Coromandel
Peninsula in New Zealand. The quiet pace of life and the absence of
unnecessary commitments allow him, alongside the daily routine of family
life, to indulge in research and exploration. In the course of time
a large vegetable garden and an electronics workshop were established
besides a wood workshop, where the buns (made
from sawdust! remark by the editor) are produced, that provide the livelihood
for the family of five. "There are many ideas in my head and
they have to be transformed quickly. Therefore I need a lot of different
materials and tools."
Recycling is of upmost importance to Micha. In nature, there
is no waste or garbage, why is there waste in peoples' environment?
(aren't we part of nature too?) "When energy, which's quality
is constant change and motion, solidifies and becomes unavailable for
a longer period of time, we end up with a problem. Compost is the best
example for transformation of waste materials, that's why we have a
compost-toilet at home. There is no wastage of water and the ingredients
don't have to be exported, but are directly available to benefit the
land."
Already in Germany, his country of birth, Micha had established
a cabinet-making workshop, where he worked as a freelance artist making
individual furniture from solid timber as well as musical instruments.
"The cycles in nature follow the same principles as the vibrations
of sound and light, just on a lower octave", this conclusion
revealed itself during his research and experiments with simple acoustic
musical-instruments and he soon realized that the phenomenon of resonance
and energy transformation is universal, reaching far beyond the framework
of music in the conventional sense. "Energy and vibrational
patterns can be discovered everywhere and the influence on human beings
and all life-forms becomes obvious, if one looks in the right places...
". Of particular interest in this context are weather phenomena,
air-electricity and so-called 'atmospherics', that have direct correlation
to our brain and can induce weather sensitivity and influence our state
of well-being. In his electronics lab Micha developed sensitive biocurrent
detectors as well as gauges that can display electromagnetic pollution
as an acoustic experience. " The ears are our most sensitive
organs, giving us a chance to explore the world with enormous precision
and depth. Those who hear the noises that we surround ourselves by are
waking up!"
Since the beginning of the 1990's, Micha is associated with
the BBE institute in Auckland where he completed an Inspector training
for electromagnetic pollution. "I see myself as an artist and
inventor in this world, New Zealand provides me with a lifestyle, that
could probably not easily be found in Europe."