Artforum, May 2005
Top Ten
By Tim Davis

7. Rachel Mason's Model Anthem, 2004
In the tradition of Komar & Melamid's most and least wanted songs (and the Marx Brother's "Hail, Hail, Fredonia"), cagey Cagean Mason used probabilistic language models to refine the mean phraseology and musical structure of 193 national anthems. She then videotaped a hired orchestra performing this stumbling, blunt, militaristic march, which is without question the music playing inside George W. Bush's head.

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