"Given such unspeakable things, art seems compelled to choose between cynically indolent glass-bead games, ridiculously vulnerable self-inspection, and, should it harbour politcal ambitions, the danger...

"Given such unspeakable things, art seems compelled to choose between cynically indolent glass-bead games, ridiculously vulnerable self-inspection, and, should it harbour politcal ambitions, the danger of turning into monstrous kitsch."(Spahlinger) It is his insistance on the self-reflecting - and hence political - character of art that sustains Spahlinger's music: it makes us sense the underlying orders of art, the hierarchies of language, while showing us their limitations. The ordering activities of the mind are seen as a political act.