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The music that comprises \u003ci\u003eSacracorpa\u003c\/i\u003e was written after a time of personal crisis for Johnson, who used the following months as a time of healing, recording the music at locations in Chicago, New York (while working on an installation at La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela’s Dream House) and an earth ship outside Abiquiú, New Mexico. Johnson’s extraterrestrial soundscapes pulse and writhe, at times sounding like funeral hymns (opener \u003ci\u003eOf The Living\u003c\/i\u003e) orspiritual invocations, summoning forth the circuit-fried ghosts in the machine that dwell just beyond. (\u003ci\u003eOf Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e, or the mournful \u003ci\u003eThe Misty Realm\u003c\/i\u003e) Johnson approaches composition from a shamanic perspective, applying not only a set of spiritual principles, but a set of technical principles as well. Rest, fasting, meditiation all factor into the creation of Matchess compositions, as well as consistent instrumentation; her Ace Tone organ, viola, a Rhythm Ace drum machine, magnetic tape all run thru effects and augmented by field recordings (recordings of a tributary of the Susquehanna River, a dog barking across the Allegheny Mountains, and an alien radiostation in a New Mexican Arroyo, among others.), and Johnson’s own voice (sung using a vocal technique she coins the “sigil mantra”, a hybrid of a Buddhist mantra and Austin Osman Spare’s sigil). 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