Austrian composer Peter Ablinger's Voices and Piano performed by English pianist and avant-garde specialist Nicolas Hodges. "The general idea of Voices and Piano probably has to do with the fact that when somebody speaks to me I never miss the melody of the speech but sometimes the meaning. When I was a young boy my mother asked me to go out to buy a pound of butter, 10 eggs and a loaf of bread. I listened very attentively. I loved how she spoke to me. I hopped on my bike, rode to the store and waited in the line until it was my turn - only then to realize that I had not listened to the content of the message and had to ride back home to ask...."
Note that some of the crackles in ?Roman Opalka? are not from your physical record disc but from Opalka?s voice recording, which was issued on vinyl by ?Edition Block?, Berlin, 1977.