IMPERIA
Tobias Kirstein & Jacob Kirkegaard © 2011

Recorded at Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant, Sweden 2004. Edited in Berlin and Copenhagen. Released March 10th, 2011

IMPERIA is an art work based on recordings from the now defunct Nuclear Power
Plant Barsebäck located in southern Sweden.
Barsebäck became a symbol of evil for both children and adults in the political climate of the 1970s and has been an object of fear and hatred ever since. This eventually led to a total shut down of the power plant in 2005.
The two artists visited this death star equipped with microphones and sensors,
one year before the reactors were stopped.
But rather than being merely documentation, IMPERIA is the force itself.
The force of the radioactivity is present in the sounds on this CD and might tilt the balance of the atoms that you consist of.
The sweet singing frequenzies of IMPERIA might change the world.
They point to the world's fragility. Everything we humans consider to be secure and stable is in a constant state of flux and the atoms which happen to form a house or a chair, might as well agree, by the laws of nature, on forming a human, a rock or a reptile.

IMPERIA borrows its title from a poem written in 1912 by the danish poet Sophus Claussen that deals with the relationship between destruction and the untamed forces of creation.

So, if your home stereo speakers have trouble playing the sound, now you know why. To be played at very low volume.

With thanks to
DJBFA