emergency alert + venetian bells remix: The test of San Francisco’s emergency outdoor alert system which is broadcast on public PA’s every Tuesday at noon has had new residents and visitors alarmed and long term San Franciscans alternately jerked to a state of orange alert or noting the fleeting weeks of their lives. Sampling, layering and manipulating the Tuesday alert test along with the ringing bells of the Venetian Basilica of San Marco in an audio mélange, Meeker contrasts or conflates the call to prayer or the call to awareness or alertness with the authoritative summons from a civic power apparatus. Meeker played the remix at noon in Union Square and at a CIO event, hoping to transform our weekly fight or flight response into bemusement.
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