Doctor Frankenstein, I presume..., or, The art of vivisection

This essay portrays a composer philosophizing about his Task, his Materials, his Art. Here you will see a composer at work trying to understand the internals of his Craft as honestly and logically as it is possible for him. As guides, the composer will follow the works and writings of some of his personal "heroes", artists from several disciplines: Maiakovsky, Tarkovsky, Pierre Henry, Schaeffer, Paradjanov, Eco, Khlebnikov, Eisenstein, Drummond de Andrade, Dovzhenko. At the end, there shall emerge an awareness of the complex question "how can one approach the musical sound matter?";
* *This dissertation is compound (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: Windows MediaPlayer or RealPlayer.