After a successful career as a child prodigy violinist and the Reger Prize from Berlin's Stern Conservatory, Golyshev became one of the founding members of the Dadaist November Group, painting "anti-art" works and creating music for kitchen utensils and various new, invented instruments.
Between 1956 and 1966 Golyshev, lived in São Paulo, where he influenced Brazil's Música Nova composers.
This piece, subtitled Zwölftondauer-Komplexe (twelve-tone-duration complexes), was published in 1925 in Berlin, but was possibly written as early as 1914.
Copies of the archival score can be ordered directly from Robert Lienau, the original publishers of the work.
Golyshev provided illustrations for Sensorialité Excentrique, the last book published by Raoul Hausmann in 1970.