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This piece has been composed specifically for radio and Mr. Knizak never forgets the radio listener. "The listener or observer is important, thats who is receiving it, I suppose. I don`t want to disturb people - I want to provide the listener with a certain kind of pleasure. A pleasure that he isn`t expecting. I would like to unsettle the listener a bit. It may well be a terrible recording, but it is so beautiful - it is composed of poor recordings of ugly sounds and beautiful recordings of wonderful sounds - everything mixed together. The piece is not supposed to just leave the listener in peace, but it is also supposed to project a feeling of tranquillity, which isn`t as boring as it is in a lot of music. I am a music aficionado and I love music and I hate bad, boring music. I also think that music is everywhere, meaning that it tries to transmit fluxus. Perhaps it isn`t really necessary to perform music - take pieces by Cage, for example. His "radiomusic" for example, which anybody can perform by just remembering to listen when using the tuning knob on the radio."

George Maciunas was the founder of the fluxus group which Knizak became a member of in the 1960s. For George Maciunas, founder of the fluxus group, fluxus experiences were the monostructural, non-theatrical qualities of small everyday events, games or jokes. He perceived fluxus as a combination of vaudeville, Spike Jones, gags, childrens games and Duchamp. The strict requirement of a non-personal form of art could only be realized partially, as the characters of the artists who composed the fluxus movement were too individualistic. Fluxus attempts to soften the boundaries between the arts of music, poetry, art or between art and life. In retrospect, one can see that many of the intention of fluxus were achieved, and not only in the realization of the artists own pieces of work.

Milan Knizaks "Bossanovasuite" was recorded at ORF`s digital recording studio.