das Kapital _soundtracks

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Das Kapital  brings together four soundtracks produced between 1999 and 2010 for a video series that reinterprets Karl Marx’s Capital through sound, image, and machine processes. The recordings were made inside a television post-production control room, using microphones positioned near equipment racks, monitors, and signal processors. What emerges is not music in the conventional sense, but a form of acoustic archaeology: a sonic registration of labor, repetition, and technical duration.

Each piece is constructed from layers of mechanical vibration—machines humming, fans rotating, consoles emitting low-level electrical activity. Noise functions here as structure rather than ornament. Rhythm is not composed but extracted, shaped by industrial cycles and systemic persistence. The sound of production turns inward, listening to its own operation.

Positioned within a trajectory that moves toward austerity and precision—between minimal digitalism, cold structuralism, and spectral resonance—Das Kapital occupies a restrained but critical space. The work remains analytical and materially grounded, carrying a latent sense of absence and fatigue.

Together, the four tracks document technological residue: the continuous hum of systems at work and the proposition that every machine retains a trace of exhaustion embedded within its function.