 Over the past ten years she has explored musical forms arising from heightened states of awareness, borrowing from a wealth of artistic media and spiritual traditions.These preoccupations are evident in two works written for the London Sinfonietta – "tigres azules", in which by her own account Milstein sought to investigate "the compositional potential of treating the 'present moment as an infinite dream'", and "surrounded by distance …", an exploration of "the indefinable, yet seemingly precise manner in which musical shapes and configurations arise spontaneously as evocative appearances and illusory continuities, as described in the Lankavatara Sutra.