'evoke sound' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are trying to describe the action of bringing forth a sound. For example, "His presence seemed to evoke sound from the birds in the nearby trees."
A challenge in writing about music is to evoke sound, describing an event that relies little on vision.
Toop has the rare gift of being able to evoke sound in words, and makes you want to hear the works he describes.
Quoted for stating, "music is the ultimate teacher," Victoria Topping followed Kandinsky's theories to create musical landscapes composed from notes, rhythms and harmonies to evoke sound through sight.
He spent nearly four months trying to get the sound of bow upon string to evoke sounds that were pleasing to the ear.
The cool surname of the mod star of cycling already, in my imagination, seems to evoke sounds of cogs whirring and gears changing.
With their mix of traditional Irish folk, pop, American country and Americana, they offer timeless, tight-knit harmonies that evoke sounds as charmingly nostalgic as the Andrews Sisters and as refreshingly contemporary as the Wailin' Jennys.
Written in simplified Chinese characters, and pronounced ke lài tian yin in the romanized phonetic pinyin system, the ideograms of the Chinese name refer, the brand says, to the first syllable of "Claret" and a Chinese proverb evoking "sound from the sky" — Christophe Claret is known for its complicated chiming watches.
The silent, flickering celluloid evokes sounds of a long-ago day on a beach; Harry's father pointing out Halley's Comet to his young son; the fireworks of a family gathering merge into the guns-and-mortar fire of war.
Among the petite objects of fascination are glaze-splattered ceramics by the talented abstract painter Joanne Greenbaum (at Kerry Schuss), Polaroid landscapes evoking sounds by Stephen Vitiello (at American Contemporary) and a tiny reproduction of Munch's "Scream," poised atop a pedestal, by Lisa Kirk (at Invisible-Exports).
But while it has aroused the predictable hostility or posturing of the U.S. government, policy wonks, the media and our two presidential candidates, evoked sounds of the Cold War all over again.
Those words also evoke the sound and aura of the singer Judy Collins on a midwinter night.
