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This composition developed as a music-centered response to my personal work with 'liminal states of consciousness' that arose in a non-art context generally characterized as healing. Based on casual recordings of my own voice that I made during actual sessions, my soundtrack focuses on sequences of highly stimulated vocalization ('excited', 'ecstatic', etc.), particularly those that seem to embody a unique and intense experience of knowing, something like a direct encounter with vitality. The effects: sound, vision and emotion in the rawest possible state. Truth shot through me like a whistle.

-Margaret De Wys
• Pivotal member of late '70s no wavers Theoretical Girls
  
• Cover art by Barbara Ess, liner notes by George Quasha
  
• Heavyweight within the museum sound-art scene breaks ranks and infiltrates the commodity fetish playground known as wholesale distribution of mass produced objects
  
• Goodbye, 20th Century!

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We as artists know and feel the true identity of sound from existentialism to our immediate surroundings. For us this was a project of triumphant research, exploring movement, sound, and emotion. Movement of our universe, the sound of this movement and the effects of them together. Culture of sound experienced in everyday life, while cruisin' and walking, a futile affair. A sonic field of power, a materialist activity, an instinctual pulsation from which aural pictures of social relations, far and close, emerge. Reaction, interactions, affections of beings and objects. Something that keeps us alive, picked up while walking, creating our songlines, seeking spiritual meaning in material space. Our dance and music, based on a temporary loss of self in chosen surroundings of sound. Those are our songs, ambivalently involved, detached, yet dialogical, interacting with what we found. Our seekers' trips through streets, spots, stores, a kitchen. We are creating some ultimate reality. Everywhere, there is life full of incident. We feel one is one's life. You can hear us working on it. Time's embroidery of blood, music, laces, laughter...and here we go: "walkin' on, leather, leather, leather...wawawa... walkin' on...

-Jess Holzworth & Jutta Koether
• Released by Thurtson Moore's prestigious label
  
• Avant field recordings of New York City - you know Smithsonian Folkways is kicking themselves over this
  
• A true Sonic life of aureatory experience

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In the artist's own words, Full Stop reflects some of the areas I have been both actively and indirectly exploring for the past 10 years. I conceived each piece with both a particular acoustical concept as well as an emotional center associated with it: all are concerned with my ongoing struggle against time. As such they may be best approached as stills from a film as opposed to strict compositions.

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