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Proto Himbo European Sep 7, 2025

#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

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Matthew Miller Sep 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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Proto Himbo European

@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.