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This is the second iteration of a growing work, yet as computer realisation, waiting for a human string quartet to be performed. Commissioned by and dedicated to Nadya Bokk.

Here is the explanation of the concept.

INFINITE SUPERPOSITION

Any of socially and media acceptable forms of music existence implies finishedness, completedness. All that we think and produce should result in a thing and should not rest in a progress, and that has an axiomatic power, because we possess a finite quantity of time.

At the foundation of music life (and not only) we find difference and repetition. We distinct aesthetic trends, figures of composers, separate opuses. Difference is linked with identity being reproduced by self-repetition; identity is linked with completedness. Only a completed statement might be taked into consideration; the author is implicitly required to mark and defend boundaries of his style and aesthetics; that is the way in which the very figure of author is determined.

I would like to dissect this axiomatics by means of infinite composition. I will write as if I could do it everlasting. At no timepoint will compositional process be considered as completed and the form as finished. A composition will gradually appear as a total of all versions, as a footprint of a period in which it is being composed. It can broaden infinitely and non-linearly, from any point in score.

In fact, this is an attempt of a new practice, 'pratica quarta', that might throw into question a paradigm of both opus and text corpus.

Any version might look as standalone piece; moreover, the whole thing might work as a database for extracting smaller pieces that do not coincide with versions. One can speak about the form regarding these transitional or incidental works; however, an infinite composition itself has no form. On the contrary, I suppose this process should have a place to be executed, a locus where to grow. Each growing composition – I'm planning several ones for different instruments – should acquire a physical (or virtual) place to happen.