'Three only seemingly incompatible texts, stripped of their pathos-laden, poetic and profane diction, are sent from the same sound source – a soprano voice singing "in whatever way" – into a intervallically ever-changing field of sound, reverberation and movement. Calling out, playfully, "warbling" and lamenting arioso: they interrupt and pervade one another, thus marking out a space that ultimately remains foreign to them, and in which – as in all my compositions – music reflects upon itself with "expression"-less joviality, thus showing its awareness of the transcendent, god-less message of "ridicolas" that unifies these three texts.'
(Helmut Lachenmann, 2010)