Performed by Nikolay Alifanov, Studio for New Music, cond. Igor Dronov, 2007

This piece is written specially for Young Composers Meeting 2006 in Apeldoorn, where a theme ʻWaiting for a bus stopʼ was supposed. So, the authorʼs task was to find a connections between constructive principle of the work being written and the theme given by organizers. The text appeard is as follows.
 
A passenger waiting for his bus is observing as a car is passing down the road; dusts are raising from under its wheels and settled onto something else after chaotic movement in the air. Than due to that (or, vice versa, because of quite different reason) something else is happening etc. Many processes — depending to each other in different degrees — are taking place around the observer. Every process, being generated by another one, ʻlivesʼ each own live, develops its own way.

Short phrases from some music are wafting from passing car stereos, sometimes being distorted by something like Doppler effect, but at once ʻsubmergeʼ among other sound and no-sound  ʻeventsʼ. All this stuff is filling all receptors and ʻscintillatingʼ so, that even time starts shrinking and stretching in sensations of the waiting person.

Sprawling street for barytone and large ensemble

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