Information is representing things as sharply and clearly as possible. Deformation is a broader consciousness. But when consciousness expands it gets vaguer and can no longer be placed in the here and now; it becomes more general. One deformative technique is the remix principle, in which parts of what was previously made are used as raw materials for deformation. These are extracted from all media.

This piece, titled "A Window to Walk Thru", began with text. The text was derived from a video recording of New York Abstract Expressions called "Painters Painting". The text was sampled from the Daytron VHS Hi-Fi VCR and is of an interview with Barnett Newman. The first recording was full of hisses, pauses and pops. Using the Cool Edit program features the hiss, pauses and pops were eliminated. The piece then proceeded by altering, looping and stretching Barnett Newman's voice. About two minutes of silence is left after Newman's sample and the next text recorded is Andy Warhol saying "Everybody is influenced by everybody else", then a screech of car tires. This is looped three times and reversed on the second loop. Again, there is a slight pause in the text, then Jasper Johns is sampled, stretched and looped.

After completing the work with the text music was added. The piece beginnings with a cd recording of the German avant garde band Can. The sample is of the beginning of 'Ethnological Forgery Series No.7'(1968) off of the album "unlimited edition". The sample was recorded onto the Cool Edit program, and by using the multi track feature, the Can sample was looped then aligned with the beginning of the Barnett Newman sample. The Can sample was recorded at high volume and was altered to equalize the noise levels and raise the clarity of the Newman voice. At the end of the Newman sample the Can music fades out and a Count Basie track sample is introduced.

The Count Basie sample, which was recorded from vinyl onto the Cool Edit program, plays for the entire stretch of silence between Newman and Warhol, with the middle of the sample reversed for effect. With the introduction of Warhol's sample, the Basie music fades out and a sample form 'The Iron Apple' album by Ui fades in. The fade in is simultaneous with the Jasper John text. The entire piece fades out on the Ui sample, which is looped three times.

The piece required four tracks working simultaneously on the multi track feature. Without the multi track feature this piece would be nearly impossible, if not extremely difficult. The multi track session allowed movement of the entire loop or sample to a desired position, where it may or may not overlap with another multi track. This feature is extremely valuable and useful.

The intent in creating this piece is not fully clear. It was begun with the idea of making a sound collage which had voice and music overlapping. The intent is unclear only in so far as it will be the listening and its reception which forms the intent. Rather than beginning with a strong intent, the piece was intuited through text and music without stressing an intent. It is possible to say the intent was to bring the brilliant ideas of the Abstract Expressionist together with the musical talent of German experimentalists, American jazz, and modernist post rock, but the deeper intent is wider in scope than this, and will create an intent of its own.

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