The Bad Boys were Prodding the Bear through the Bars of the Cage (1985, 4-channel tape)

While I was still studying composition, I developed my own language for computer aided composition, “ppp”. With this program I could generate data-sequences, that, after appropriate conversion to voltage, were able to control the huge modular synthesizer SynLab, that was (and still is) hosted at the electronic studio of the Folkwang Hochschule (today Folkwang University of the Arts).
After some smaller studies the “Bad Boys…” was the first piece realized with that language. The piece describes a long process from a slowly evolving, harmonic layer to a more energetic, rhythmic and noisy structure. While I was looking for a title around that expression (process or Prozess in German) I saw the word “to prod” alphabetically close to “process” in an English dictionary at hand. The example sentence for that verb then became the title, because I thought, somehow it fits…
“The Bad Boys…” has been presented numerous times around the world and has been published on several CDs.
Here is stereo reduction of the 4-channel piece, mp3 compressed.