Ideas sprang to life, jumped from instrument to instrument.
Thus a single phrase bounces from instrument to instrument, fragmented yet coherent, creating the effect of stained glass.
Everything from instrument design and construction to the machines used for recording and transmission has affected the art itself.
Mr. Muhly's arrangement of Dowland's Third Lute Fantasy was particularly dazzling, with bursts of ornamentation jumping from instrument to instrument.
Except, if you think pianos have a ratio and a spectrum from instrument to instrument you should try playing the organ night after night".
"Pulse Shadows" similarly starts with fast reiterations, moving from instrument to instrument in the opening fantasia and eventually moving aside to let the first, dedicatory song come through: the song about songs.
It was the perfect setting for their layered, complex music with all four members moving from instrument to instrument – often during the one song – and blending their voices in gorgeous harmony.
It's become the centrepiece of his gigs, which combine live looping, audacious harmonies and a multimedia show, in which multiple Jacob Colliers scurry around a screen, moving from instrument to instrument.
One is to leap from one camera angle to another, pursuing the music as it flows from instrument to instrument, so that the watcher can't help registering that yes, this is a trumpet playing.
During a break in a recording session with Ray Charles in 1962, Mr. Claxton led Charles from instrument to instrument so he could feel them, the equivalent for the sightless singer of seeing them for the first time.
The imaging of lower-mass atoms such as carbon by TEM continued to present a challenge, however, because they yielded extremely weak signals that were difficult to distinguish from instrument noise.
