This piece seems to be all about contrast. There are sounds that are very close up, like the insect-like clicking, and sounds that are further away, like some of the pitched synthesized sounds. Two types of sounds dominate, quick, high pitched sounds (like those clicks and some other pitched sounds) and long low sounds that seem to kind of drone in and out. Also, Smiley has sounds move back and forth between the speakers (especially in the beginning), making the listener feel kind of off balance.
I found it really interesting that Smiley said that Kolyosa was the russian word for wheels. I can't really hear that in a literal sense, so I reinterpreted. So many of the musical elements of this piece sound like animal noises (mostly insect noises) or other natural sounds to me. I kept hearing things like feelers being scraped together, a frog croaking, or water dripping down, and I thought that the wheel could be like the life cycle or something, but I still felt too much of an ebb and flow (It built up a lot at the end) so a constant turning didn't make sense. Then I thought that maybe it could be like a wheel picking up speed going down a hill, energy building until it hit level ground again and slowed.
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