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Violence is not inevitable. It’s an expression of culturally specific values that emerges when struggles over things are transformed into imperatives to injure others, human and beyond-human. Cadence Interrupted, one part of a larger multi-media installation featuring a variety of materials and artistic forms, probes the values and frameworks of the violence engendered through both the human/gun composite and militarism’s phenomenal power to create a change in someone’s state of mind even as it infiltrates and mediates the social fabric. In this interactive installation, the participant’s right hand, hovering over the head of a snare drum—an instrument historically connected to warfare as its sonic accompaniment, morale booster, and rhythmic regulator for the loading of weapons—becomes the protagonist for examining these relationships, essentially using bodily presence to compose a change in the drum’s specific behavior-shaping values by interrupting the techniques and sonic affordances (cadences) connected to the instrument’s military roots.