Borut Krzisnik is an intense and diverse composer from Slovenia. The key moment in his musical stories is not only emphasising the contrasts but rather bridging them over. His relationship to musical ideas is similar to that of a director to an actor: he builds the composition by confronting different characters, make them deal with various situations and so he tries to draw out of them their true nature. Crashing the differences till they burn or dance together. Avant-garde or popular, tonality or atonality, genre or non-genre, underground or academic, program or abstract music, written score or improvisation, , fixed orchestration or an ad hoc ensemble - these are the extremes between which he moves easily. Liberated from the narrow confines of a specific methodology, he is able to stress the diverse aspects of his music. Using a polyglot musical language the composer draws a common thread through all these contrasts and introduces them to us with inspiring optimism.