Situated in the misty overlaps between Drone, Doom Metal and Serial Music, with a tendency towards a Black Metal atmosphere, is where the RUIN project of Berlin painter Martin Eder explores the grim frontiers of contemporary music.

The album (published on Viva Hate Records) is the result of a piece recorded with the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop at the Sophiensaele Theater in Berlin in April 2010. The piece is multi-layered, and consists of experimental blocks of sound, noise, rhythm and melody. IIt can be conceived of as twelve parts, in which the listener is presented with a dusky, dark piece of chamber music. The imagery of the project as a whole is sparse. Like the woven layers of sound, we created a project that was synaesthetic in direction and worked with twelve audible materials.

The outcome was a combination of twelve printed materials, together forming a black square made up of machine oil, vodka, fat, blood, soap, aspirin, tobacco, metal, ground bones, cigarette ash, soot and salt, printed both on separate sheets of card board as well as layered altogether forming a black square on the album cover. The finished product can not only be felt by the thick ‘paint’ job, but smelt as a strange mixture of oil, blood and soap.