"Ms. Steyerl invites several survivors of gun violence, projected at an enormous scale on the screens, to explore the Armory’s rich interiors and foundational links to guns. One teenager talks about shootings in her low-income neighborhood; a man in a wheelchair says he’s been to more funerals than he can count. Ms. Steyerl, with her customarily brilliant editing, intercuts their testimonies with footage filmed in the Drill Hall of the Yale Precision Marching Band — musicians with military discipline — who play a score of clattering percussion and roaring brass. The score, we learn when the credits roll, was algorithmically composed with data related to mass shootings in the United States; each note is a record of death." "Making the deadly defensible requires images, “Drill” insists, and different images over time. In the 19th century, the Armory’s founders did it with oil paintings and Tiffany glass; a character in “Drill” purrs that they “spared no expense to make war beautiful.” Now this glorification takes place through poor images — perhaps with martial music and special effects — made by gun lovers who sometimes smear victims as crisis actors or deserving marks. (Ms. González, for instance, appeared in a doctored photo that made her look like she was tearing apart the Constitution.)" Go see Drill at the Armory until July 21st - we are very proud to have worked with the marching band in creating the algorithmic score.