Artist Aubrey Taeuber bring us a fascinating new concept piece in the form of two long form sound collages weaving a tale of forbidden knowledge stolen by the elites and denied to the poor.


“The Beton Library, is a derogatory term given to the sealed concrete posterns of the technocracies final fortifications. In pressing yourself against one you become as close to our confiscated culture as anyone can be. As you know the technocrats abandonment of the precariat achieved two-fold, the seizure of all our recorded culture and our assumed extinction in the dust of ecological collapse.  Silent and unadorned, their fortifications resided over this hopelessness, rendering all outside of them returned to orality and subsistence, sudden story tellers and desperate villeins.

a.a.x’t exists here, several generations past the sealing, content to press themselves against the Beton libraries, forcing their head, ear first, painfully into the concrete surfaces, convinced that some ‘culture’ may sound to them. This ritual, while purely symbolic for the majority of the precariat - who practiced it as a mourning and remembrance of what was taken, a.a.x’t believed it would actually lead to 'the restoration’. The sounds herein prove a.a.x’t’s devotion, what a hair width fault in one of the libraries whispered to them and lit the restoration.

Cut up, carved apart and grafted sounds, greed melted, these songs, languages, stories and manipulations all play simultaneously, playing over each other, competing and harmonising, mechanically looping above the awful remains of technocrats.”