Drone Strikes (2012)
“In the United States, the dominant narrative about the use of drones in Pakistan is of a surgically precise and effective tool that makes the US safer by enabling ‘targeted killing’ of terrorists, with minimal downsides or collateral impacts. This narrative is false.”
-International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at Stanford Law School and
Global Justice Clinic at NYU School of Law, Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and
Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan (2012)
“Drone Strikes” is a composition with elements that are indeterminate with respect to their performance. Four of the performers (the violin I, violin II, viola, and piano players) are each given a page of time cues and a gamut of musical material, the individual parts of which may be played in any order. The cello part consists of a series of time cues with dynamic markings between them and a five-line staff with points and lines that refer to any aspect of the music other than pitch. Each performer should realize his/her part independently, without consideration for the other performers’ parts. The time cues were determined by chance operations involving the heights of some of the mountain peaks in Pakistan.
-International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at Stanford Law School and
Global Justice Clinic at NYU School of Law, Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and
Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan (2012)
“Drone Strikes” is a composition with elements that are indeterminate with respect to their performance. Four of the performers (the violin I, violin II, viola, and piano players) are each given a page of time cues and a gamut of musical material, the individual parts of which may be played in any order. The cello part consists of a series of time cues with dynamic markings between them and a five-line staff with points and lines that refer to any aspect of the music other than pitch. Each performer should realize his/her part independently, without consideration for the other performers’ parts. The time cues were determined by chance operations involving the heights of some of the mountain peaks in Pakistan.
