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»Anthem for bass-baritone or tenor solo«, 2003 intermingles and transposes various lyrics and melodic fragments from several patriotic songs: The Star Spangled Banner, My Country ‘Tis of Thee, Battle Hymn of the Republic, America the Beautiful, and The Marines Hymn. By Christopher DeLaurenti.




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“Dead Room” by Camille Norment.

For 3 minutes and 33 seconds at a time, eight large sub-woofers pulse a rhythm of bass frequencies that are too low for the human ear to actually hear. The space is silent, but the sound can be seen as the woofers throb their play cycles, felt as the sound waves move through the body creating a subtle intangible disturbance, and heard in the ‘helium voice’ disruption of the visitors’ voices.