A trans-sense flavor is lent even to words that are otherwise intelligible; whether through creating new and bizarre compound words, or by breaking up ordinary words syllable-by-syllable, Auktyon “makes language strange,” or “defamiliarizes” it, as the Russian formalists would say.

Auktyon recorded an album (Жилец вершин - Peak-Dweller) consisting entirely of Khlebnikov’s lyrics set to music — and the band succeeded brilliantly at this extremely difficult task