Apocalypse Cow
David Hahn
About this work:
APOCALYPSE COW was assembled from audio files of 2 speeches of US President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld along with some other sounds--planes, bombs, cows (of course) and sex sounds to signify both the lust for war and the pornographic greed and arrogance which characterizes the present regime. I wanted to educe art from the present tragic political state of the US.
Here are the source texts which I used in creating Apocalypse Cow:
"I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons… I don't know anybody in any government or any intelligence agency who suggested that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons. That's fact number one." -- Donald Rumsfeld June 2003
"The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, a group he calls his ‘nuclear mujahideen’.... his nuclear holy warriors… Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof.... the smoking gun.... that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." -- George W. Bush October 2002
Premiere: Spring in Havana Electronic Music Festival, Havana, Cuba March 2004.
Released on the Giraffes! CD available from CDBaby.
Year composed: 2004
Duration: 00:01:27
Ensemble type: Electronic Instruments and Sound Sources:Prerecorded Sound
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