From the Arc de Triomphe to the Golden Gate Bridge, he's recorded sound and created installations.

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Today, we celebrate a man whose clarion call stirred our Nation to bridge our differences, and whose legacy still drives us to bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

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He has since gone on to mount an impressive list of works, including bringing the sound of the sea from the Normandy beaches to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and the inner vibrations of London's Millennium Bridge to London's Tate Modern.

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Mr Carter has a good feel for the arc America traced from the buoyant post-war optimism of the Apollo programme across the bridge of the Vietnam war to the pessimism surrounding Nixon's fall from power.

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