republic is a six channel sound work that explores a peculiar cross section of America. Limiting my scope to six small U.S. towns named Republic, I mined textual artifacts from the internet that involve such Americana as ghost sightings in Ohio, a witch persecution in Missouri, minutes from a town meeting in Washington, freak accidents in Pennsylvania, nuclear defense installations in Michigan, and a gun store in Kansas. These texts have been recorded by New York actors, and are played back from different speakers, each representing a different town. The audience is encouraged to find there own line through this audio re-mapping of America?listening to individual voices, finding uncanny synchronicities, or just absorbing the dense texture of pulverized speech audible from the center.