Writer and literary critic Dmitry Bavilsky appears in this book as a «reader’s agent» striving to understand what is going on in the world of exploratory music and to tell about it. He is trying to define what is music today, where does it begin and end, what are its origins. Yet the book is not just about the music. The author investigates a creative workshop of the present day composers turned by them into a sort of an anthropological laboratory.