Canon-cling and thus as it were archaic structures permit greatest possible economics of the means and a high degree of condensation, reflecting supertemporal musical thinking.
In Imitations five different canon things appear, successively one- to five-toned progressing introvertedly in the piano. A ritornello-like moment interrupts in each case the imitatoric current and lets in silence and timelessness.
Thus sounds deferredly by the three low, corporeal flute instruments within a homogeneous- heterogeneous set the equal and the similar: reduction generates complexity, and being alone in being common becomes possible.