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Henning Lundkvist - The End of a system of Things [Komplott - 2007]

The end of a System of things is an audio & musical tapestry celebrating of the end of days,armageddon, full stop and no more. Built from curious, camp and at times eerier  dialogue films samples, film scores and apocalyptic elements from pop songs, that are all manipulated into encrossing and bizarre audio collage.

The dialogue details mass disasters, wars and societies total collapse & taking in  heated TV chat show debates, panicked  heroic and desperate texts from  small groups of survivors & defenders, to lone people walking the streets deep in paranoid expressing their been watched from every Connor. There’s also a use of sounds such as helicopters, plane noise, air sirens etc to heighten the effect of the picec. The musical elements are a collusion of locked doomy string soundtrack scoring, looped/ blurred easy listening, jazz elements and stuck 60’s pop.  Lundkvist builds-up the 32 mintue picec with a great feeling of desperation, confusion and ultimate complete loss. The collection of the samples alone must have been a mammoth task in it’s self, let alone the crafting  manipulations of the samples for maximum effect and atmosphere.

A rewarding and clever work of collaging that is not something you’d play often, but is never the less very effective in it’s feeling of doom, that’s sometime touched with comic & camp edges.

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Roger Batty
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