"I had a sound file based on a recording of racing cars which got recorded in the years between 1920 and 1940. My first thoughts after hearing the recording: technology, cars, men, masculinity, competition, air pollution, the importance for and the following success of the automobile for our capitalistic society. The car (as well as the racing event) as a main motive for capitalism and a show off of toxic behaviour of mankind. Based on those thoughts I decided to go on making a new composition out of the recording.
"I did not used any other sound material for the composition other than the source sound. I used a sampler to transform and manipulate (cut, slice, transpose, stretch, filter, et cetera) the recording (or better said micro and macro parts of it) to my liking. In addition I made heavy use of delay, reverb and filter effects. After having composed a broad variety of different sounds (from percussion to drone) from the main recording I performed with those sound till I got a
