The Surveillance Waltz

12.The Surveillance Waltz 4:02
Wendy Grossman
Administered by Riverlark Pulishing (BMI)

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For the 2005 Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference, the organizer of the Big Brother awards, given to the worst privacy violators of the day, thought it would be fun if I sang Bill Steele's song "The Walls Have Ears", a remarkably prescient imagining of something more like our time than 1974, when the Watergate discovery that Nixon's conversations had all been recorded inspired him to write it.

Because the tune doesn't have much variation, I began noodling on the only instrument I had with me, the autoharp, to find something I could play between verses to liven it up a little. Instead, I got this four-part waltz in A minor.