By the voice a faint light is shed. Dark lightens while it sounds. Deepens when it ebbs. Lightens with flow back to faint full. Is whole again when it ceases.
— Samuel Beckett: Company. 1970, John Calder Publisher, Londen.

The strokes now faint now clear as if carried by the wind but not a breath and the cries now faint now clear. ...
As he stood there all bowed down and to his ears faint from deep within again and again oh how something and so on was he not so far as he could see already there where never till then?
— Samuel Beckett: Stirrings Still. 1986–1989, John Calder Publisher, Londen.

Met dank aan de Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart en aan Christoph Grund voor hun onschatbare hulp. Opdracht van Musik der Jahrhunderte en Tage für Neue Neue Musik Zürich voor de Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, voor creatie op 18 november 2007. [R.S.]