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€ „The Trumpets Of Jericho“ is a performance that Glisman specially developed for the outside section of the „Kunsthaus Rhenania“, the venue of the third Stromfestival in Cologne Germany curated by Maria Wildeis. In the Bible the name of the Jericho-Trumpet refers to the case of Jericho, where the sound of Trumpets has heralded the collapse of the city walls ( Jos 6.4 LTU). The theme of rebirth and destruction of previous Glisman celebrates to the opening of the festival in collaboration with the musi- cian Kim Unger and the event technicians Sebastian Wolff through the influence of sound and energy on materials by producing a serious sculptural relict. At the opening of the festival a 2,5 ton, soft/plastic ceramic tube is dropped from a mobile crane from a height of 25 metres. The process is accompanied and reinforced by the trumpet player Kim Unger of the University of Music in Cologne. The sounds are recorded live and replayed looped, distorted and manipu- lated by using special sound systems. Parallel the impact is absorbed through several Setup Microphones and reflected in real time on the audience through a PA system. Staff of the earthquake Institute Cologne Bensberg measure the deformation of the object as well as the vibration in the ground with seismographical instruments and 3D-Lasersystems. then the object was removed, hollowed out and in an industrial furnace burned a week at 1250 degrees. The reconstructed installation weighs 1.8 tonnes and has a diameter of 4 meters. Preserved and regardless of age influences, it is a witness of our existence, a souvenir of transience