“[In The Fisher King], director Terry Gilliam transformed a throng of rush-hour commuters in New York’s Grand Central Station into a huge arrangement of ballroom dancers. Finding beauty in such maddening situations is also the work of Alexander Chen … His latest work, Sonata of the Unaware, is composed of [video] from inside Philadelphia’s railway station. The feed is converted into data, which is used to generate music.” (The Guardian, Jan 2004)