Dream of B

This piece was composed as a result of my research on the gamelan. The bridgable point between the gamelan and the acousmatic music is that the both of them have the timbre-oriented musical character. Some fragmental sounds recorded in Bali and Java were selected and processed by the computer. The Gong Agung has a principle function in the gamelan music. This Gong forms the central idea of the composition which unites all characteristics such as harmonicity, inharmonicity and the noise. From these various characteristics the entire structure was developed. [W. Jentzsch