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Zero Hour 01:21
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First Hour 07:05
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Second Hour 02:17
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Third Hour 00:34
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Fourth Hour 11:05
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Lunch and Homeroom 01:35
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Fifth Hour 06:25
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Sixth Hour 00:25
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Seventh Hour 06:39
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Eighth Hour 03:16
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Extracurricular Activities 00:35
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In this piece, Normal Community High School Experimental Ensemble explores the auditory field of negative $13 million. Between ongoing chatter and instrumental conversations, the piece indulges in a present that cannot be re-lived unless it is democratically protected from certain dismaying budget cuts. The music mimics the school day with bells sectioning-off the movement of sounds one might never hear again. Whether that be because high school is not long-lived or because the sounds used, such as playing instruments and whirring shop-class machines, might not survive the vote of April 4th, 2023, the group leaves to the listener’s imagination.

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Budget Cuts was originally composed to be an audio installation in the art exhibition, Uplifting Voices, organized and curated by Myra Saulat, on display at The Coffeehouse in Normal, IL, March, 2023.

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Download this piece for free OR donate however much $ you'd like. All donations go to help fund projects NCHSEE is currently working on and/or will be working on in the future.

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released March 21, 2023

Budget Cuts was composed and performed by members of NCHSEE.

Cellos by Matt Beigie and Gabe Martinez.
Field recordings by Stefen Robinson and Parker Steigerwald.
Guitars by Charlie Faulkner and Ibrahim Muftee.
Harmonium by Parker Steigerwald.
Moog synthesizer by John Nguyen.
Viola by Haru Hartry.
Violin by Lilly McClelland.

Recorded, edited, mixed, and mastered by Stefen Robinson.

Artist statement by Lilly McClelland.

Cover art and design by Matt Beigie.

Thanks to the amazing people and sounds of Normal Community High School.

Also thanks to the people in our community who are too ignorant to understand the importance of properly funding public education. Your ignorance inspired Budget Cuts.

Here's to a world where education is truly liberating and freely available and accessible to all.

Peace and Love

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Normal Community High School Experimental Ensemble Normal, Illinois

We are a group of students and staff at NCHS who compose, record, and perform sounds together. Focusing on unconventional structures, improvisation, and nontraditional sounds and techniques, we approach making music as a means of both reflecting and also inspiring peace, love, solidarity, justice, understanding, and liberation. ... more

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