Walt Whitman: The Wound Dresser

In 2007, a portion of the poem 'The Wound Dresser' (1865) by Walt Whitman was inscribed into the granite wall around the north entrance escalators of the Dupont Circle Metrorail Station in Washington, D.C. A site-specific performance was staged and filmed there on May 24, 2014. Performers rode the escalators continuously with smart phones, cassette recorders and hand-held sound producers. Morse Code + MIDI transcription of the inscribed stanza serves as the basis of the music score.