The political-choral works of Eugene Birman comprise 289, a composition written for, and commissioned by the Estonian National Male Choir and State of the Union, a thirty-seven minute dramatic stage work scored for twelve solo voices, premiered by the Helsinki Chamber Choir across six concerts in the US in 2016, and further in major European venues in 2017, with significant support from the National Endowment for the Arts (USA). Both works contribute significantly to the still-nascent development of notation of extended techniques and semi-aleatoric material for the choir, documenting a clear path from draft to final score, developed through lengthy consultations from conductors and choir members. The extended techniques employed in the music range from vocal multiphonics to throat tones, falsetto, breath effects, whistling, among many others, while the printed scores themselves seek to offer solutions to standardize not only the notation of the aforementioned effects but also of aleatoric and graphic effects. As some of the most virtuosic music for choir ever written, according to the conductor of the Latvian Radio Choir, these pieces, then, serve an encyclopedic purpose, beyond their artistic and political implications, for composers interested in writing modern music for choir. The attached materials, from a museum exhibition booklet featuring sketches from State of the Union to the performance scores, demonstrate the development of techniques from theory to practice. 289, which references an Estonia-Russia border treaty dating to 1920, uses no specific pitches until only the final material, relying on the timbres of vocal whispering, shouting, and megaphone effects to construct a dramatic narrative. State of the Union, which has been featured in National Geographic magazine and will be out on BIS commercial release in 2020, premiered in September-October 2016 in venues including Trinity Wall Street, where the Occupy Wall Street movement, the piece’s subject, began.