ABSTRACT
The piece of music is divided into two parts. In the first part, the threshold crossing occurs in the way in which the edited tape “repeats the word gonna over and over again, cutting the word down to the syllable go” that, for Schwarz, suddenly takes on an imperative voice, “calling to the listener”. In the second part, different elements of the preacher’s speech are condensed further and the threshold crossing occurs because the repetition of the words “open the door”, “sure enough”, and “Hallelujah” causes the words to lose their meaning so that they reach the point of pure sound. Through the mediated and conventional techniques of tape-recording, splicing, and phase motion, voice is taken into a different register and disintegrates into swirls of oscillating vibrations that begin to create new circuits in the psyche and, no doubt, in the brain.
