David Lang

Everyone is cooperating in this.

And it started me thinking about the relationship between performance and democracy.

So I decided to make this piece for a thousand members of the community.

And I decided to call it Crowd Out because I wanted to pay attention to my experience, which was what it was like to be an individual in this swirl of voices.

So I went to the internet and I auto-completed in my search engine the sentence, when I am in a crowd, and then I just set to music the answers which were not pornographic or not saying nasty things about people or advertising particular products or whatever.

You know, I sort of filtered those answers.

Here are the lyrics.

I draw deep breaths I feel more confident and calm I lost it all I do not waste my words I hate for all eyes to be on me I start to panic I feel so alone I could cry I start to sweat

I can fully submerge myself.

I don't want people to know.

I push, I shove, I glare, I mutter.

I am always alone.

I am alone.

I am most alone.

I feel like rushing into tears.

I feel anxiety.

I feel awful and I wish to be alone.

I feel energy.

I feel more confident and calm.

I feel no one understands.