Is this preferable to silence? (We are winning the war on terror)

For anyone familiar with This American Life (all of you), you might remember the segment that they excerpted from the WNYC show Radio Lab about a year ago. Radio Lab doesn't have new episodes quite as much as This American Life does, but it's consistently incredible. But that's not the point.

The point is, Jad Abumrad, the host of Radio Lab, has come out with a 4-part series on WNYC called "Wordless Music," after the Wordless Music festival which features indie rock performers on the same ticket as classical musicians: Beruit will play in the same night as someone performing Osvaldo Golijov, or Jonny Greenwood (guitarist from Radiohead) will just play. Check out Episode Two of this especially--I'm not crazy about the middle piece, but all of you need to hear Arvo Pärt's (pear-t) "Fratres," especially you, Mom. The Crash Ensemble did a whole half concert (part of a Dublin-wide festival) on Pärt, an Estonian-born expatriated composer with strong mystic Eastern (Russian Orthodox) influences.

In other news, I found a sample of George Bush saying, "We are winning the war on terror," and I mapped it to my keyboard, with multiple filters and distortion effects controlled by knobs, looped in layers. Also, if you hold the button down it loops "on terror." It's more of an improvised setup than a real composition, and really the kind of thing that needs to be heard live over giant speakers. So reserve the date of August 16, my backyard, private concert by Andrew Smith feat. George Bush.