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The installation is seen as a small illuminated room which is filled with alternative spiritual clues that at once honor and unravel some of the signs traditionally read as Christian signs of spirituality and searches for where that spirituality resides for the viewer. The viewer is drawn into the installation through translucent drapery by lights and sound. Once in, the viewer notices at the back of the room a hanging large bare wooded frame (5 feet by 4 feet) that holds a life size photograph of an elderly man who rests in his coffin with a Christian cross. Four bare wooden speakers lie scattered on the floor, like coffins, and each sound a recording of an individual string instrument. Each instruments / speakers simultaneously plays a separate part from a personal composition by Kenneth Doren and provides an overall affect of a chamber ensemble, i.e. each speaker has its own instrument and sounds its part to be mixed in with the other speakers/instruments. The composition was composed by digitally reconstructing a small audio sample from a Beethoven recording then scoring for live performance and ultimately re-recording it for the four string instruments.

