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Take, for instance, Stephen Lawrence Clark's Rooftop Cop, which was the opener for Journey Live. A five-part abstract meditation on policing in America, Rooftop Cop stunned National Sawdust's crowd as Clark played the game, burying the audience in buzzing synths and heavy metaphors. The game's second vignette, "Capture the Flag, For One", tracks a single figure marching back and forth across a snowy field in pursuit of a flag—a simple metaphor for the objectives and procedures that guide policing practices. The structure of the scene subtly changes until the field is a hill—then a cliff, then an abyssal tomb. It happens so slowly that it's impossible not to see it coming, a trainwreck in slow motion."Listening to live music is as close as we get to skimming across the surface of the sun." -Austin Wintory
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