24 hours of continuous performances inspired by
Sun Ra's antiwar classic: NUCLEAR WAR.

3:00 pm April 4, 2008 to 3:00 pm April 5, 2008.
Knoxville, Tennessee

The 72hr. Nuclear War, organized by a Portland-based group of artistic collaborators called Red76 took place in Philadelphia last year. An aural guerilla project, the group solicited contributions of cover versions of the Sun Ra Arkestra song Nuclear War and broadcast them using homemade transmitters. The Red76 website describes the project thusly: "For the weekend of March 23rd, 2007, in homage to the Yippies 1967 levitation of the Pentagon, we arranged, in pentagle (sic.) formation, a series of five hand-built radio transmitters around the city of Philadelphia. For the entirety of the weekend we broadcast the accumulated cover versions that we received, sending these personalized missives against war mongering throughout the city for all to listen to as a means of sonic exorcism. As the songs regenerated themselves through the ears, brains, and psyches of the individuals who listened to them we began the process of casting out the demons of governmental aggression summoned forth with such vigor over the last seven years."

This event has inspired an altered copy, to take place not in a city proud to represent revolutionary history, but in a city with an emblematic tower intended to resemble a nuclear explosion, left over from the 1982 World's Fair. Beginning April 4 at 3 pm, a series of twenty-four live performances of new compositions, scattered throughout Knoxville will occur, each lasting one hour and all taking the Sun Ra piece Nuclear War as reference material and inspiration.