entschwindet und vergeht - romanticising the riots
entschwindet und vergeht:
“One of the riots took place right outside my house in “London’s Fashionable East End”, and as well as going outside to have a look at what was burning (along with a sizable cross-section of the local population), I also, as you’d expect from a pretentious hipster, made an audio recording of the helicopters that were thundering around outside, of which I counted at least four.
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Now, it’s not as if I couldn’t have just left it at that, and had myself an interesting little Chris Watson style audio recording, but I felt it necessary to somehow transfigure it slightly, and the result is the audio that you can listen to here. The helicopters have been combined with a recording of Strauss’ ‘Im Abendrot’ (‘At Sunset’), one of his Four Last Songs.”
