INVISIBLE-Binary - Selectric Piano on FOX

Experimental music group INVISIBLE plays live on local FOX news with their homemade instrument, a selectric typewriter that plays keyboard. Unbeknownst to this local Fox morning news show, the song is making an anti-Fox statement. Look closely at the text typed - it's a little hard to make out, it says "news:propaganda". The song is about binaries, pairs of complementary opposite words.... if something isn't north, than it's south.. if something isn't, black than it's white, .. digitally, if something isn't a one than it's a zero. As the song progresses, the pairs' relationship becomes blurry, eventually becoming "cop:criminal", "love:hate" "news:propaganda". Things that should be opposites, but they aren't that simple. The text is followed by the "terrorist fist jab" sound bite sample, as spoken by Fox news host E.D. Hill in reference to Barack and Michelle Obama's fist gesture exchange.

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