The water we drink, the fuel we burn, the psychic energy we invest in keeping up with the rat race - all of these resources are limited, and when they run out (or if we burn them up too fast), the results may be deadly on an individual as well as collective level. With its brooding, ominous, apocalyptic soundscape, "Ressourcen" by Emerge and Anja Kreysing is a memento to our inability to use our resources sensibly.

As a basic resource for the composers, Gerald Fiebig wrote a short text (in German) meditating on various aspects of individual and collective, fossil and immaterial resources. Anja Kreysing fed the text into a speech software that read the text out loud. Some comprehensible fragments of the text are featured in the composition, but mostly the human text, spoken by a machine, was the resource that got processed to create the sounds from which Kreysing and Emerge created the 26-min piece.

"The listener isn't allowed to grasp for breath, with the continuous bending of sounds, morphing into something new all the time, and with speech fragments popping in and out. At one point, everything morphs into a beat or two, but the stretching and pitching are going on and on. It is a powerful work" (Vital Weekly).

Ltd x 200 copies in a gatefold digisleeve.