Proto Himbo European

#Request: Do you know this #ExperimentalMusic piece?

In the early 1990s a friend of mine danced to an experimental (I think) electronic piece that had slowly-building ambient music behind a recorded voice (I think sampled from a 1980s Chrysler New Yorker) saying "A door is ajar" over and over, relentlessly, for several minutes. It was a lovely way to alter consciousness.

Does anyone know how I can find that piece of music? Artist? Title of piece? I realize this is very specific, but if anyone has hints, I'm very open to all information that might lead me to it.

#ADoorIsAjar #ChryslerNewYorker #modernDance #ImprovDance

Sep 7, 2025 at 1:47amWeb
Show threadMatthew MillerSep 7, 2025

@guyjantic

Maybe something built from this?

https://archive.org/details/08KronosQuartetAlfredSchnittkeStreichquartettNr3/10+-+Kronos+Quartet+-+A+door+is+Ajar.mp3

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workks performed by Kronos Quartet,Terry Riley,Arvo Par, Anton Webern,etc, composers, contemporary classical music.

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Show threadProto Himbo EuropeanSep 7, 2025
@mattdm That is fun and awesome, but that's not it. It was a female voice (maybe), but it definitely had swelling, ebbing/flowing music while the voice repeated hundreds of times. The voice might have been masculine (that part of my memory could definitely be wrong), so yeah, maybe it was built from that. Hm.
Show threadColinSep 7, 2025

@guyjantic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DwKqCZlKnw
https://ploguechipsounds.blogspot.com/2014/12/chipspeech-diary-part-2.html

This is what came to my mind right away (can't believe it was a 2016 HaD post.. didn't think it was THAT long ago).

Sorry it's a non-answer but tangentially related!

Preserving the Chrysler Electronic Voice Alert (EVA)

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Show threadProto Himbo EuropeanSep 7, 2025
@colinstu This is cool in its own right :)