Sebuah Cairan Topografi II (Fluid Topography II)

It is written for 6 percussion players and pre-recorded sound. Dedicated to Max Riefer and UiTM Percussion Ensemble and in memory of Derek Shiel, an artist, sculptor. The piece is a hybrid, a continuation of gamelan numbering organization with intuitive ‘rasa’ as applied method in the process of composition. The process consists of determined and intuitive ‘rasaning’, inspired by ideas of topography with time and chaos, fractals iterative patterning. It is a hybrid process of basic simple numbers with random human ‘rasa’; with addition of simple additive and subtractive math in the uneven perception of sound. Our human timing is a fraction micro-time unaligned distinguished us from mechanic time, mechanical time. The micro-time in human is enhanced in in-deterministic framework in the compositional process as well as in the performance of the work. The end result produce a hybridization of micro-time and micro-intervallic of sounds, a collection of in-determined ‘rasaning’ iterative fluctuations in the sound. Notation is hybrid topography to confined sound in visual symbols for recreation of the sound by performance. From basic numbers of 7 which derived from pelog pentatonic of gamelan scale, it transformation becomes the source of metric modulations and collection of rhythmic entities in compositional frame structure. ‘Rasaning’ is also relates to improvisation in creating sound from the range of percussive instruments. During working on the piece, I passed through New York, Washington DC, New Hampshire, Kuala Lumpur, Subang Jaya, San Francisco, Taipei, Osaka, Kanazawa, Muscat, Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London. During working on the piece, I passed through New York, Washington DC, New Hampshire, Kuala Lumpur, Subang Jaya, San Francisco, Taipei, Osaka, Kanazawa, Muscat, Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London. Duration: within the range of 12-18 minutes