Requiem For Fossil Fuels September 18, 2010

At the intersection of four virtuosic human voices and the fossil-fueled din of helicopters, jets, traffic, busses, horns, train wheels, and sirens erupts a composition that pours gasoline on Dante's Inferno. Requiem for fossil fuels, written and performed by O+A (Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger) with four singers and an 8-channel "Orchestra of Cities", is a unique setting of the Requiem Mass offered to a world struggling to reconcile its utter dependence on fossil fuels with the coming end of oil, coal, and peat.

This deep musical meditation on the balance between machines, humans and nature allows us to hear our culture in a new way, to grieve for what we have lost, and to consider with what "the eternal light ahead" will be lit. Requiem for fossil fuels marks the end of one (way of) life to make way for the possibility of another.

This event is a part of the 2010 01SJ Biennial: http://01sj.org/

Official Website: http://01sj.org/2010/artworks/requiem-for-fossil-fuels/