"Banished Orin" (1977) offers similar contrasts, and "Empire of Passion" (1978) fuses Japanese and Western instrumentation with electronics to produce a coherent, affecting style.
His music is noted for being a harmonious blend of traditional Indian music and Western instrumentation.
Niyaz adapts Persian, Indian and Mediterranean folk sounds, poetry and songs including the poetry of Sufi mystic Rumi, with Western electronic instrumentation and programming.
Regional, secular, and religious drum patterns, melodies, and instruments were blended with Western electric instrumentation.
Wonderwall Music, a soundtrack to the 1968 film Wonderwall, blends Indian and Western instrumentation, while Electronic Sound is an experimental album that prominently features a Moog synthesizer.
Returning to Baghdad in 1967, he began to mix Western and Eastern instrumentation and rhythms.
The music of O was composed by Benoit Jutras and features a mix of classical Western and world instrumentation, including Chinese violin (erhu), bagpipes, African guitar and harp (kora), Colombian guitar, cello, ancient woodwinds and a wide variety of percussion instruments.
An instrumental arrangement appears on Wendy Carlos' album Beauty in the Beast as "A Woman's Song," with synthesized Indian and Western instrumentation in place of Bulgarian bagpipes.
Fusion, traditional music with Western instrumentation to revitalize and re-popularize Bengali music.
Like Bright Sheng, Chen Yi and Tan Dun, composers with similar biographies, Mr. Ge comes to Western instrumentation and compositional forms with fresh ears.
