Luciano Berio's book 'Remembering the Future' offers insights into his own compositions and the history and contemporary practice of music. He explores themes such as transcription and translation, poetics and analysis, 'open work,' and music theater. Berio ranges easily among topics such as Schenkerian analysis, the criticism of Carl Dahlhaus and Theodor Adorno, and the works of his friends and sometime collaborators Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco.