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Nineteen Years

It has been Nineteen Years since the US invaded Afghanistan.

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The American is a single-issue voter: their vote goes to whomever will promise to never speak about the US’s endless wars in the Middle East and Africa ever again.

Artistic Statement

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.

I hope, for our collective sake, that we do not remain this way for much longer. But for each year we do remain at war, a new movement will be composed & performed, then added to the end of this work. We will catalog the history of this horrific oppression, enabled by the brain-dead American demos.

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TITLE PERFORMER CATEGORY DATE
Delegated Powers / Crimes Committed Garrett Semmelink (violin & melodica & percussion)
Composition Jan 11, 23
Reflection, No. 4 Garrett Semmelink (violin & percussion)
Reflection Sep 18, 20
Perspectrum Tyler Dinner (guitar)
Live Score Sep 04, 20
Head in the Clouds Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Live Score Sep 04, 20
CMYK Tyler Dinner (guitar)
Live Score Sep 04, 20
Artifices Tyler Dinner (guitar)
Live Score Sep 04, 20
Nineteen Years Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Aug 26, 20
People Over Platforms, 2020 Tyler Dinner (guitar)
Album Aug 25, 20
PSEUDO Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Aug 23, 20
Upward Fall Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Tyler Dinner (guitar)
Max Pena (guitar)
Album Aug 14, 20
Birthday Cake Chest Wound Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Feb 14, 20
Rococo Slaughter Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Jan 31, 20
Adrift Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Jan 17, 20
A Deep Sense of Responsibility Garrett Semmelink (violin & percussion)
Composition Dec 18, 19
FIREROOM Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Dec 04, 19
Reflection No. 3 Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Reflection Nov 02, 19
Music Ain't For Airports Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Oct 17, 19
Injection Time Lapse Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Oct 12, 19
Solfatara Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Nov 04, 18
Animals (Fucking) Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Aug 08, 15
Infatuated Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Aug 01, 15
Reflection No. 2 Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Reflection Jun 13, 15
Mojo Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Apr 30, 15
Splatter Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Apr 23, 15
Luxury Prism Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Apr 23, 15
Prelude to Titan Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Mar 06, 15
Reflection No. 1 Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Reflection Feb 27, 15
Theia Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Feb 25, 15
Electric Chair Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Jan 14, 15
Titan Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Jan 09, 15
Labor Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Dec 17, 14
Miasma Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Dec 12, 14
Inertia Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Oct 26, 14
Vasoconstriction Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Oct 23, 14
LEK4_AND Garrett Semmelink (steel violin)
Composition Oct 19, 12
Untitled Cosmo D (cello)
Composition Jul 06, 12
MAN QUA MAN Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition May 30, 12
Maine Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Feb 10, 12
Drowned Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Feb 10, 12
Schadenfreude Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Jul 11, 11
FUTURE Andrew Grathwohl (clarinet)
Album Nov 16, 10
Freiburg Garrett Semmelink (violin)
Composition Jul 28, 10