PRESSURE is a listening stroll through an aural building. In eight pieces the album deals with the creation of spaces and edifices. The focus, however, is not only on the planned, aesthetic-constructive elements of architecture as a humanly designed, built reality, but also on aspects of human destruction and the destruction of nature for which it can stand.
A particular eye is on the global cement production, which has now reached a volume of 4.2 billion tons annually - incomprehensible. Sand, one of the most important components in the manufacture of cement, is running out. Enormous water and energy consumption aggravates the balance sheet of the "gray gold". And even before it takes shape, the building material causes land degradation and / or soil sealing, which means a damage to nature of a threatening extent, due to the previous earth movements.
PRESSURE is on the trail of this dilemma and deals with it artistically by means of phonographs of acoustic phenomena such as concrete domes, harsh noise from construction sites and earth movements, to micro-sound recordings of hardening concrete and seismographic recordings of collapsing buildings. The collected field recordings are edited, alienated, disassembled, reassembled. The recognisability of the original material plays a subordinate role. Sound artefacts, fragments, inaudible elements inherent in the recordings get audible and create associative sound narratives that address the contradictions and discrepancies between human activity and its ability to be creative and extremely sophisticated.