The title of the piece is a reference to the song “Daisy Bell”—in 1961, it became the first song sung by a computer—and to the deactivation of the computer HAL 9000 in the film “2001: A Space Odyssey”—where HAL starts singing this song while being shut down.
HAL 9000: "Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? Dave, I really think I'm entitled to an answer to that question”.
All sounds composed from my own extensions to Xenakis's stochastic synthesis.
