« This music was composed in the fall of 1978 and first presented in solo performances in Rotterdam, Cologne, and Groningen in November. It was used as the soundtrack for the film Asparagus by Suzan Pitt (1979), which recently premiered at the Whitney Museum. The score makes extensive use of the PolyMoog synthesizer, which facilitates the extremely dense textures and rich timbres. The basically “minimalist” approach helps focus attention on the acoustic interactions resulting from the thick sonorities and rapid modulations of frequency, pulse width and phase which characterizes the sound. Within the sound mass, numerous melodic patterns and fragments derived from the theme are “hidden” - occasionally rising above the general level but quickly sinking again to the threshold of the overall harmonic texture. The theme - a sentimental melody - is heard only at the end, and even then in a similarly disguised manner. In writing a piece in a romantic vein, I decided to carry the heighted sentimentality which I took as the essence of romanticism to the extremes which good taste would allow, and even, perhaps beyond. As accompaniment to the film, this hyper-charged emotionalism served both to compliment the sensuous warmth of the visual detail and to provide a kind of bitter-sweet irony, since the heroine’s ultimate romantic gratification consists finally in no more than sucking a stiff stalk of asparagus. ».
(R. Teitelbaum, program notes, concerts February 27, 28th, 1979, The Kitchen Center for Video, Dance & Music, New York, http://archive.thekitchen.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Program_Teitelbaum_Electro-Acoustic.pdf)