RELATIONSHIPS was intended for the creation of harmonic and metric fields of variable strength by means of the melodic and rhythmic organization of a relatively limited quantity of pitches and pulses. In more conventional terms, this implies a music that moves from 'tonal' to 'antitonal' to 'polytonal' to 'atonal', from 'metric' to 'antimetric' to 'polymetric' to 'ametric', while limiting the musical material to a given pitch- and pulse-mode.

The word "Relationships" in the title refers to the harmonic and metric links within the material of each part or voice, the mutual links between the parts and finally those from the parts to the drone-cycle: if one limits the state of each of these three relationships to 'clear' and 'unclear', one will obtain eight harmonic and eight metric constellations, which in combination yield 64 musical situations.

Relationships has to date been realized in six different versions, the first four in the years 1974-76 and the last two, after a nine-year break, in 1985