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Many works by Sergej Newski focus on the human voice. In the interview with Michael Rebhahn, the composer remembered: “The voice was the ideal path for finding my own idiom. In the late 1990s I began to transfer expressive vocal sounds into syntactic systems that obstruct their expressivity. I set out to find the primordial element of the voice; I searched for things that were immediate, unformed and onomatopoeic. I didn't want to write expressive music so much as to develop a syntax that at once touches listeners and keeps them at arm's length.”