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Composed and Performed by RAC/Andre Anjos

Inspired by the Jonathan Clarke sculpture

Digital Technology consumes our contemporary lifestyle. We have created it to serve our needs, but in many ways, we serve technology instead. I will be the first to admit this cultural criticism is far from original. It is as old as computers themselves. But that concept is what comes immediately to mind when I look at Jonathan Clarke’s Lifestyle. It strikes me as a classic mainframe computer that has been put out to pasture, sitting in the most unusual of computer graveyards.
Andre Anjos composed a truly foreboding funeral march, a requiem for all technologies past, referencing bleep and bloops of punchcards and dot matrix printers, while slipping in a little Philip K. Dick, dystopian warning about the power we place in that technology. If someone were to write a eulogy for HAL 2000, this is the music that would be playing underneath it.
- Benjamin Kaplan
St. Louis, 2014

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from 38​.​627​,​-​90​.​194, released July 1, 2014
Composed and Performed by RAC/Andre Anjos

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Commonwealth St Louis, Missouri

Commonwealth, founded by artists Benjamin Kaplan and Chris Grabau and, “is an approach to making art that comes in response to our surroundings,” says Grabau. Kaplan adds, “St. Louis is a city of neighborhoods, both geographically and psychologically. We live in our neighborhoods. And we see Commonwealth as a way to expand that neighborhood.” ... more

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