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Capitol Riot -> Capital Riot: Sonic Sketches for Four Wednesdays in January

by Edward Breitweiser

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1.
https://www.fbi.gov/uscapitol1 (First Wednesday: Insurrection) 00:14
2.
Sequence: One 05:02
3.
Sequence: Two 09:51
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Sequence: Three 06:25
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G:\M\17\BUSH\BUSH_001.XML (Second Wednesday: Impeachment) 00:19
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eBay item number: 164663737162 (Third Wednesday: Inauguration) 00:33
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I want to name this “Smooth” but that’s not an option anymore T_T : One 13:09
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I want to name this “Smooth” but that’s not an option anymore T_T : Two 14:06
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$BBW +260.64% (Fourth Wednesday: Insanity) 00:37
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This feels like early-2000s internet again. 23:12

about

"This January has lived up to its namesake, Janus, the Greek god of transitions. Each Wednesday this month in particular was momentous: insurrection, impeachment, inauguration and then insanity (with the stock market.)" - Andy Serwer and Max Zahn,
“How the tale of Reddit, GameStop, Robinhood is really about 5 big trends.” Yahoo! Finance. January 30, 2021.


January 2021 carried a relentless and eerily recurrent pattern of historical events. As it so happened, every Wednesday in January (four in total) marked a steady pulse of consequence. I’m neither superstitious nor good with calendars, but the drumbeat was impossible to ignore. Every Wednesday, our screens glowed and flickered anew. In real time, time stopped and warped. Without being present together, four times we watched the same thing together. In real time, we saw images in advance of stories, data without narrative, reaction before action. Like tectonic plates, cracks emerged, layers folded upon one another, and wrinkles buckled and scrunched. With frayed nerves and skittish synapses, we lurched forward into echoes as these memories flattened onto those events as our eyes strained to keep up.

These pieces are sketches. To sketch is to be present, here and now. These pieces are attempts to listen during what was, in hindsight, a loud period of time. Amidst a numb baseline of convergent crises (a seemingly endless pandemic; multi-pronged attacks on democratic institutions; escalating right-wing violence; generalized emotional, physical, and spiritual exhaustion; the climate emergency, in which local winters are experienced as a cyclical pendulum swing between two states: atypically mild, and polar vortex; mass incarceration; etc.), I unexpectedly struck a new creative stride. During the winter, I paused to rearrange my studio. A blank canvas was a welcome nudge into new creative territories; the canvas became a collage, a site of generative productivity. Recombining elements - both new and familiar - prompted exciting experimentation and unexpected inspirations.

Every Wednesday, our screens glowed and flickered anew. How did you listen?

What did you hear?


Length: 1h 13m 28s

Headphones or loudspeakers recommended.

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released March 5, 2021

All tracks written, performed, programmed, and recorded by
Edward Breitweiser between December 2020 and February 2021

Jacket design, photographs, and text by Edward Breitweiser

Some rights reserved under Creative Commones Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

All proceeds will be donated to PATH Crisis Center (www.pathcrisis.org), YWCA McLean County (www.ywcamclean.org), and the Immigration Project (www.immigrationproject.org). These are non-profit organizations that are fighting for suicide prevention services, immigrant rights, empowering women, and cash bail reform.

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Illinois-based artist, musician, and writer. Incorporating models from various intellectual traditions and bodies of knowledge, Breitweiser organizes particulars (software, electronics, audio/visual signals, text, networked distributions, improvisational music, performative activities) into arrangements whose products are the macro-result of the emergent interactions of all components at once. ... more

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