By Music, only the tape part is meant--that which has already been conceived and concretized in terms of sound--to which the indefinite and abstract One is added. The latter is represented by what is written on paper. Although commonly referred to as music, it is not music unless translated into sound (by a violinist). In this recorded realization, One has become music, too. Hence the title properly applies to all the other possible realizations which shouldn't significantly differ from the one heard on this record as the system of notation I used is thoroughly conventional.
The style, as well, is \"conventional,\" at least in the sense that it reflects my response to a certain brand of conventional violin writing. Alongside my inclination to use the past as the fantasy of the present (not to speak of the present which may often be perceived as its own fiendish fantasy), the fact that the piece was composed to be performed first by a virtuoso of Gabriel Banat's stature also determined the character of the violin part.
As to the meaning of this music, One and all, no further word is needed than a reference to the context of the program into which it is placed. That, of course, goes for everything else that's part of this context.
--İlhan Mimaroğlu
