"The so-called disturbances of harmonics (combination tones, beats, low and lowest tones, etc.), which Helmholtz described as scientific phenomena in the second chapter of his Lehre von den Tonempfindungen [Theory of Sound Sensations], form the tonal source material of the composition, which subsequently enters into a relationship with the poem Die Irren by Rainer Maria Rilke. In his text, Rilke in turn creates the rationally difficult to grasp paradox of an artistically almost crystalline descr...