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http://partnershipforcoastalwatersheds.org/socio-economic-profile/?wptouch_switch=desktop Christopher Rountree “Overture to La Haine (the Hate)” 2017 What frustrates me more than anything else is: blind hate. And so, in our world, I’m finding myself frustrated often. More and more recently I’m finding myself frustrated everyday. Frustrated to the point of being scared even. And, making and writing music from this space of dark paralysis is a strange proposition. What a strange idea, right? “Sound in a time of hate.” How can we, makers of fleeting temporal artworks, ever hope to respond accurately or effectively in the face of political evil, zealously baseless morality, damaging grandstanding, and simple beyond blind bigotry? All of this, so much larger than each of us, even sometimes larger than all of us collectively — surely making art and sound in a climate like this couldn’t possibly even be appropriate, could it? So, in these dark times, I set out to write a short piece of music. A piece for a whole lot of people to play. Together. First I thought to make a piece based on the national anthems of the “Axis of Evil”. A prospect that in hindsight was like making a ballet in a pit filled with lime jello, while everyone not in the pit — snakes in expensive outfits — looked on and watched, jaws open, teeth bared over-wide. Then I thought, well, if not a piece made from the musics of some arbitrarily assigned “Other” enemies, maybe I’d make up 18 nations, then their national traditions, their songs, and then their anthems — finally making a piece that used all of those, imagining all their imagined...