The Cathedral Fart

Accession

FA.014

Medium

Lentils, incense, terror

Duration

Eleven seconds, with reverberation

Provenance

Recorded in the margin of a psalter; scribe unnamed

Executed in the finest acoustic environment then available to the species, and — the curators wish to stress — almost certainly by accident. The work is notable for its reverberation, its congregation of four hundred, and the fact that its author is believed to have gone on to a long and otherwise unremarkable life. You are at your most memorable in rooms you did not choose.