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Nineteen Years

by Garrett Semmelink

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Blowback 04:30
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Year 1 - A Government Falls 02:18
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Year 2 - 66% Elimination 01:28
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Year 3 - Resurgence 01:30
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Year 4 - Permanent Military Bases 02:27
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Year 5 - Reign of the PRTs 00:39
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Year 6 - Combined Command Deactivation 00:39
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Year 7 - Commitment Renewal 00:31
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Year 8 - A Final Goodbye 01:52
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Year 9 - Northern Distribution Network 01:40
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Year 10 - Drawdown 01:20
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Year 11 - Protests, Shooting Sprees, and the Body Parts of Dead People 01:08
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Year 12 - Security Transfer 01:05
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Year 13 - Resolute Support Mission 00:43
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Year 14 - Call To Arms 01:33
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Year 15 - Successful Negotiations 00:57
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The Past Four Years 05:36
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Despite the hundreds of thousands of innocent children who have died at the hands of US foreign policy over the past nineteen years, my fellow citizens feel it much more urgent and necessary to agonize over the yearly death toll of less than ten non-white individuals in 2019 at the hands of our domestic police.

It is rather shameful that we, as a nation, would prioritize what is happening to a few of our own citizenry, instead of the massive clusterfuck of death, misery, and violence that we spread overseas. Not one of the cultural, spiritual, or political leaders responsible for facilitating 2020’s tensions in the US have mentioned the starving and cholera-stricken kids of Yemen, nor the ailing peoples of Afghanistan. They refuse to read about how the OPCW falsified reports to force Obama to strike targets in Syria. We remain in the country to this day, giving aid and even fighting alongside Al Qaeda with the goal of overthrowing the Assad government.

Even those protesting against no-knock raids seem doomed to misunderstand the full breadth of the situation. These SWAT raids bear a striking resemblance to the kind of coordinated shakedowns of Iraqi citizens performed by the US military throughout that country’s occupation.

It’s almost as if our tragic foreign policy leads to similar kinds of destruction here at home.

This piece of music is intended to awaken the anti-war spirit of the American citizenry. I trust that my fellow Americans are not cruel, awful, or vicious people - they are just carelessly, tragically, and ruthlessly uninformed. But there is no excuse to remain that way, after listening to this series of vignettes.

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released March 13, 2020

Garrett Semmelink: violin

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The premiere ▲ ensemble, dedicated exclusively to performing works of Sonic Multiplicities, the data-driven, AI-assisted electro-acoustic improvisation platform and philosophy developed by Andrew Grathwohl. The ensemble is headed by Garrett Semmelink, as the ▲ organization's lead Sonicmeister, and serves as its main performer, utilizing violin, viola, voice, and percussion. ... more

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