Tesla Knight Productions

Tesla Knight Productions Fabrication and Live Entertainment Company Tesla Knight Productions offers Special Effects, Fabrication, and Filming services for media and entertainment.

Tesla Knight Productions was founded in 2019 by Jake Bissen and gained notoriety at Maker Faire Milwaukee due to the intense and unique show utilizing tesla coils. Current Projects Include:

- Music Video Covers

- Live Shows with Tesla Coils

- Neon Signage

- Medieval Armour

Rook my senior thesis from UWM is finally available to watch on my Youtube after 9 long yearsYou can definitely tell its...
02/09/2025

Rook my senior thesis from UWM is finally available to watch on my Youtube after 9 long years

You can definitely tell its a student film, I decided to post it because I've recently revisited Rook, the Tesla Knight in a music video I did for Immortal Girlfriend, coming out very soon! Im very excited for the music video and it really shows the progress my fellow filmmakers and I have made in the past 9 years.

Rook, A modern day knight, confronts a Pyromancer in his chaos torn city.Shot in 2015 as Jake Bissen's senior thesis for his degree in film and video at the ...

Tmj4 did a story on us and for the interview we had Sam Catania (coil builder) walk in lightning for the first time in a...
02/25/2024

Tmj4 did a story on us and for the interview we had Sam Catania (coil builder) walk in lightning for the first time in a chainmail suit. Here's an awesome shot they got of him touching lightning. In his right hand he's actually holding a fluorescent lightbulb which is lighting up from the radiant energy emitted by the coil.

Tmj4 did a piece on sam and I. Thanks to james for taking the time to come interview us and see the coils up close.
02/24/2024

Tmj4 did a piece on sam and I. Thanks to james for taking the time to come interview us and see the coils up close.

Tesla Knight Productions and MUSX in Saint Francis are changing the music industry by merging lightning with music production to create electrifying displays and turn lightning into instruments.

02/16/2024

We've made a second offering to sleep!
Around the same time we covered the summoning, we covered the incredible vocal runs in chokehold. Sleep token is still one of our favorite bands to play on the coils, they match overall tone and timbre of sleep token really well.

Note: This is real lightning and we are able to change the frequency of when the lightning arcs to create different pitches. The lightning is making the music! We added the original track to fill out the overall sound.
Don’t forget to like and share these videos with everyone! We have many more songs on the way with all different genres.

02/14/2024

Custom tesla coil stands featuring real neon I made for a live show with and . The Rods are neon glass tubes and the energy from the coil excites the neon causing them to light up. The wires attached to the bottom of them are only attached to earth ground. What's cool is as the coil played the neon would flash.

02/10/2024
Have you seen our latest cover??
02/06/2024

Have you seen our latest cover??

Check out our latest cover of Cafo by Animals As Leaders! ...

Our latest cover!!
02/02/2024

Our latest cover!!

Check out our latest cover of Cafo by Animals As Leaders! ...

01/27/2024

A small peak at footage from the live starcadian show featuring lightning from tesla coils! This is the end of cannibal gods. I haven't gotten to all the footage yet or camera angles this is just a short clip of some of it to tease the full thing.

On Friday January 19th, 2024 I had the pleasure of presenting a live show featuring Milwaukee's own, Immortal Girlfriend...
01/21/2024

On Friday January 19th, 2024 I had the pleasure of presenting a live show featuring Milwaukee's own, Immortal Girlfriend and Brooklyn's Starcadian featuring the Tesla coils of Sam Catania's Musx and my business Tesla Knight Productions. The show was incredible we had around 350 people in attendance at Jason and Alex's venue the Dresden Castle. After months of hard work and learning a bunch of skills to make it happen we successfully put on a full concert with live lightning backing up the artists whom had the opportunity to write all the musical parts the coils played during their sets. I really need to thank the team that helped made it happen starting with my girlfriend Faith Finfrock who not only photographed the show but also helped produce the show. Jason and Alex Phillips, as well as the entire staff at Dresden castle. My dad Mark Bissen and my friend Markus Schneider who came in clutch to tackle Audio and setup. Xavier Schaetzke and Phil Brylow for Shooting video. The legendary Kevin and Will Bush of Immortal Girlfriend as well as the coolest dude Starcadian. Last but not least Sam Catania for all his lightning expertise with the Tesla coils. I'm incredibly, incredibly grateful for all the people who came together to make an incredibly unique and rare event like this happen. I plan to release a lot of footage in the next several weeks so stay tuned! Until the next time! Jake Bissen aka The Tesla Knight.

We got to sit down with Fox6 today to chat about the show!
01/14/2024

We got to sit down with Fox6 today to chat about the show!

Local music duo Immortal Girlfriend is collaborating with collaborating with Starcadian and Tesla Knight Productions to create a truly electric show in Cudahy.

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Tesla Knight Productions was inspired by events at the Milwaukee Makerfaire. The founder, Jake Bissen, built his own suit of armor over a 5 year period while in college. His second year attending the Makerfaire and showing off his suit he was invited to conduct a 1.5 million volt Tesla coil while wearing his suit. It was the first time plate armor had been used as a Faraday cage and it became the icon that is now Jake's Business. Jake graduated UW-Milwaukee with a degree in Film and video and a Minor in Art. While in College Jake was a member at the Milwaukee Makerspace, a membership workshop for makers and tinkerers. Here he learned a large variety of skills in fabrication that he paired with his interests in the film industry. Tesla knight Productions is also a co-showrunner with Musx for Rook vs Dr Ion, the Live spectacle utilizing the Tesla coils Jake has interacted with for years.