Matthias Pintscher writes: "I have attempted to shape a situation which is designed to give the listener the impression that he is in the middle of this 'space', that he is being directly addressed...even though he stands outside, and listens from without..."
As a composer, Pintscher knows that the most productive creative tensions stem from the paradoxical, and if there is a fundamental contradiction at work in his music, it might be this: the meticulous construction of a space, a stage or landscape, that the music itself endeavors to transgress, even to obliterate. Hence a ...