The project, funded by the Alban Berg Foundation, began in April 2015, and was managed by Werner Baumüller [de].

[3] Prix, whose great-uncle Klaus Maetzl was a violinist in the Alban Berg Quartet, described the sculpture as reacting to the expressive lines of the music with expansive loops.

The sculpture is on a pedestal one metre high, consisting of twelve steps, referring to the twelve-tone technique used by the composer.

[4] The monument is also intended to pay tribute to three composers who were colleagues of Berg: Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and Gustav Mahler, director of the court opera in Vienna.

[4] Andreas Mailath-Pokorny [de], Viennese councillor for culture during the realization of the project, said that the monument is "a striking symbol of artistic obstinacy and the courage to innovate".