As well as creating tape pieces from these field recordings, Body also developed a process of ‘double-transcription’, which he described as transcribing the essence of the musical source in the recording in such a way that would be playable by Western musicians. Whenever possible, Body used field recordings he himself had made, and used the original music in its entirety. Works employing these transcription techniques include "Melodies for Orchestra" (1983), commissioned by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to mark the 100th anniversary of the University of Auckland, "Three Transcriptions" (1988), commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, and the orchestral work "Pulse" (1995), which combines transcribed material from the Baining people of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, with fragments from symphonic works by Beethoven, Berlioz, and Stravinsky.