…sound artist Glenn Weyant, creator of the The Anta Project / SonicAnta Project, a sound collage created by recording sound generated by the U. S./Mexican border fence. “There’s actually a lot of political and conceptual ramifications …what one decides is noise gets policed and cordoned off from what gets to be considered music…to be able to play a wall—that is really like immersing yourself in the wall and becoming the wall, by creating this sound and relating with it” —Merced Sun Star
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March 25, 2008 by Robin Locke Monda
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