Michael Gordon – Timber

To some, waves on the shore, leaves from a tree, flames in a fire all look the same.
Others can stare at this fractal beauty and find Zen-like peacefulness in the fact that this ‘sameness’ is just an illusion, because every single detail is different – and no single detail ever occurs twice. 

Michael Gordon‘s Timber” may achieve the same effect in sound.  

Timber” is scored for six “wooden 2x4s, each cut into different sizes, giving each one a slightly different pitch.” 
Called a “simantra“, this percussion instrument was first devised by composer Iannis Xenakis.