From me flows what you call Time is a 1990 concerto for five percussionists and orchestra by the Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu.
[3] The title is taken from the poem "Clear Blue Water" by Makoto Ōoka, a Japanese poet and a friend of Takemitsu's.
[4] Takemitsu intended the work to represent the music that had "flowed" through Carnegie Hall throughout its hundred-year history.
Each is wearing a pocket square of a different color, each meant to represent one of the natural phenomena (blue for water, red for fire, yellow for earth, green for wind, and white for sky).
In the same colors are long ribbons, linking the stage to bells and chimes hung from the hall's ceiling.