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This is a Modern piece . This piece was composed for shakuhachi by Neptune, John Kaizan .

Turbulence appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Sky Spirit  (Listen)	Neptune, John Kaizan
Cloud shapes, cream in coffee, smoke rising: it is amazing that studies in chaos have shown us that there are connections and a kind of "order" in seemingly random events. I thought it would be interesting to write a piece that might seem somewhat turbulent, but in fact is highly structured. One diminished scale--a symmetrical arrangement of half steps and whole steps--is used exclusively, and the rhythmic meter fluctuates.