Artifacts
Instead of being meticulously planned and written out over a period of days, I wrote this in half a day (hurray for looming deadlines) at the computer and actually went in not having a single clue how I wanted the piece to turn out.
The idea for the piece really just spawned from the fact that I really wanted to write for gamelan - and that was the only thing I had planned. Everything else - the ambient erhu, the new age-y atmospheres, and the light infusion of electronic rhythms is really just all happenstance.
As a technical work of composition, I’m pretty comfortable saying it’s not as good as the fanfare I wrote by hand - it has all the glaring deficiencies of what computer composing sounds like. But, I’m still happy with how it turned out - especially the interesting soundscape it has going for it.
