Creation : 25 May 1996, Tapei
This piece is among a series of the composer’s works titled Peril. The title suggests a sense of instability and unpredictability, which the composer tries to seize in these pieces. In Peril III, a drama of percussion ensemble is cast through the interplay of timbre, dynamics, and texture which involves a lot of experimental performing techniques and instrumentation, and which aims at achieving an unstable and unpredictable atmosphere. As a consequence, the central character of the piece is being anxious, insinuating, mystical, eerie, and sometimes ethereal and suffocatingly toneless.