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\nThe item Eins Bis Sechzehn (CRONICA 069-2012) is by the sound artist Ephraim Wegner and the visual artist Julia Weinmann, with their audio and visual snapshots of old ruined hotels. Presumably they wander about these collapsing edifices while no-one is looking and operate their capture devices before a wedge of plaster falls on their heads. They present the finished work as a fairly short CD \u00e2\u20ac\u201c just six tracks of field recordings \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and a portfolio of full-colour photographs, very well printed and some of them folding out into friezes. Although at first glance \/ listen we may think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re facing a rather empty and desolate set of surroundings, in fact there are minimal traces of human endeavour and past lives embedded in the recordings. We can hear something bumping about like the ghost of a portly man settling into a sofa or furniture removers operating a service lift. Also other signs of life, like birds twittering outside or the distant seashore. Evocative and airy, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quite a benign undertone here, and clearly not directed by Stanley Kubrick in the ruins of the Overlook Hotel while furrowing his beetling brow. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m very much reminded of Michael J. Schumacher and his 2003 release Room Pieces \u00e2\u20ac\u201c this one seems to be poking around in similar enigmatic blank zones. I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t read their lengthy explanation in the notes though, as I suspect it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trying to overstretch a simple idea with one too many \u00e2\u20ac\u0153resonances\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n