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Common for the three composers discussed in this chapter is their inten-

tion of creating virtual spaces of sound; Ligeti by the merging of pitches in

vibrating masses, streams and sheets of colored sound, Xenakis by the

stochastic distributions of sonic events, and Lutoslawski by the illusions of

spatial movement created by gliding bundles of quarter-tones.