Our experiment here lay in the task of combining serious music and the
aporia of popular production and its history. Our aim consisted in the
hope that we could present a reorganisation of digital space related
to the Ritornello, but beyond motif and counterpoint. Dissonance and
dissidence. From this one can see our intention to repoliticise
digital music.

Noir stands, not least, for a feeling. We can see it in John
Cassavetes. We have it sometimes at night or after too much to drink.
It is always with us, it is in the air. Media discourses deny the
existence of the abyss, just as does the greater part of contemporary
crime writing. In the cinema one is irritated by Tarrantino. Hong Kong
is history. Only Hip Hop seems still to want to draw on noir - here
one could examine the Geto Boys or Wordsound as interfaces. Our
production is also dedicated to this feeling. We hope this can be
sensed.

We are most grateful to Bernd Lennartz and . Without them this would never have happened. We would also like to thank Markus Weisbeck and Peter Fay for their extensive help. And a special word of thanks must go to Terre Thaemlitz, whose music accompanies us at the most beautiful moments.