BTW

Spektral Quartet–Photo by Jocelyn Chuang

WELCOMED : Invited, included, made to feel as if they matter and are respected.
SEEN : Noticed, Pay Attention, Hold space reciprocally, No assumptions or expectations. 
HEARD : Listened to literally, Ask questions, follow up, encouraged, flowing conversation. 
VALUED : Be interesting AND Interested, Not trying to fix or heal, Unique & Sovereign. 
LOVED : Respected, Trusted, Shared Vulnerability, accepted exactly as they are, 
SUPPORTED : aligned values (NOT identical values)
compatible values, (prioritize life & growth choices as a similar priority) 
Not to Be Another's Source of happiness.

FROM LOVE (from a wholeness)
NOT FOR LOVE (from a deficit) 

SUPPORT non harmful choices
of what makes another happy.

BTW - Keep Growing Towards Wholeness
Listen, Create and Notice
The Natural Lines of Least Resistance.

"Pay Attention, Be Astonished, Tell About It"
Mary Oliver

BTW...

"A masterpiece"
– SPIN

"It’s not quite classical, not quite pop,
and not quite monodrama—
but it’s all scintillating brilliance."
– Chicago Reader

"[A] lovely, transfixing album.
It’s part ambient, part contemporary
classical – very atmospheric –
with Julia Holter’s voice at the center.
Really gorgeous."
– NPR Music (All Songs Considered)

Behind the Wallpaper is an invitation to explore one’s own 

transformations and experiences

 undramatic though they might have seemed at the time. 

An invitation to pause, feel sensations, and experience memories as they appear, 

and to appreciate the universality of the messiness, interconnectedness, 

and inexplicable mystery of human consciousness.

"Creative, enterprising, and unconventional, the Spektral Quartet is remembered as a forerunner of progressive music-making and an unapologetic disruptor of the bourgeois values still clinging to Western classical music today. Having substantively expanded the art form’s listenership as well as its repertoire, the ensemble leaves behind a legacy of audacious presentations, gripping performances, and a confirmation that relevance originates at the local level.

After exiting the stage for the final time in 2022, the members of Spektral Quartet – Clara Lyon & Theo Espy (violins), Doyle Armbrust (viola), Russell Rolen (cello) – will offer three new recording projects in 2023: studio albums Behind the Wallpaper and Plain, Air, and art film Thus, the Night.

Spektral Quartet is forever grateful to its family of fans for their adventurousness and generosity, and to all future listeners for their curiosity."