Silence factor in the composer’s idea of the cycle “Window to Music” by A. Karamanov
“Window to Music”, the cycle created by A. Karamanov in the “modernist” period of creativity (1963–1965) reflects the composer’s search in the field of expressive and constructive means complex, which system has the leading role that belongs to the texture-phonemic complex in its sonorous- visual function. The “silence factor” that creates a particular “spatiality” of the composer’s sound writing, is worth special attention. Music is born from silence, but this silence is always relative; it is filled with natural sounds, echoes that appeared in memories of the composer, a performer or a listener. In the “Window to Music” cycle, the silence is modeled in texture, which is represented by a variety of techniques: fermatas, pauses, phrasing “breathers”, pedaling as the “echo” that emerges “in silence”.