inter-mezzo / 128 erfüllte augenblicke / in dem ganzen ocean von empfindungen eine welle absondern, sie anhalten

"Given such unspeakable things, art seems compelled to choose between cynically indolent glass-bead games, ridiculously vulnerable self-inspection, and, should it harbour politcal ambitions, the danger of turning into monstrous kitsch." (Spahlinger)

It is his insistance on the self-reflecting - and hence political - character of art that sustains Spahlinger's music: it makes us sense the underlying orders of art, the hierarchies of language, while showing us their limitations. The ordering activities of the mind are seen as a political act.