Subsong 3

‘Subsong’ is an ornithological specialist term and indicates a type of birdsong that is not yet structured and does not relate to territorial calls of a particular species or anything similar. It is therefore purposeless and serves only as an experiment in vocabulary; perhaps one could also describe subsong as a kind of ‘existential self-assertion’. In Subsong 3, I seek a floating harmony and melody, whose lines intersect, but keep on getting lost for lack of direction and then dissolve, like paths that lead nowhere. Detlev Müller-Siemens