«Reconstruction of a Promise» is a vending machine offering alcoholic beverages which you don’t pay for but you trigger a sound when taking out a bottle. The bottles were connected to micro switches that made it possible to allocate different sources of sound for each bottle.

For the sound pieces I cut up the Henry Rolling Band song «You Didn’t Need» (Album: «The End of Silence», 1992) into 48 pieces. To the viewer, or listener really, it was not obvious which part of the song would play – if it was at all obvious what would happen – when taking out a beer.

Finally, after all beers were taken out of the machine the song was played in full length.