Artist Ekene Ijeoma is an MIT professor who draws on sound and data to explore representations of social justice. He’s working on a “voice portrait” of the census, composed of Americans counting in languages they grew up speaking.
worked with Ijeoma on the arrangement. He says depending on the year, different iterations of"Deconstructed Anthems" might remove all sharps or flats, or accidentals, he says. Because"The Star-Spangled Banner" was written by a slaveholder, performing the piece has affected him, Bowers says, in surprising and emotional ways.
"It almost illuminated in me a feeling I've had since childhood," he told NPR."This feeling that something rings a little false about the words we're saying because of how my community's been treated since the beginning. This way, it felt a little more representative of what's been happening to our country and the Black community in our country."Ekene Ijeoma is a first-generation Nigerian American who grew up in Fort Worth, Texas.
The artist worked with an epidemiologist to create a 2018 sculptural work called"Pan-African AIDS," in which he uses etched plexiglass panels to sharply contrast rates of infection in Africa and the United States.
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