moduS ponY utilizes strange sounds, samples, and instrumentals to create a sonic language that resonates with its listeners.
A free app called Songify, available Thursday for the iPhone, records your spoken words and then auto-tunes your voice while adding an instrumental track to create a song.
One counterpart might be the frail music of Salvatore Sciarrino, the Italian composer who uses extended instrumental techniques to create delicate sounds that often stay at the pianissimo level.
I liked the score best when Mr. Cuomo pushed the complexity to extremes, piling up Arjuna's solos, choral counterpoint and instrumental textures to create haunting, astringent, multilayered music, with cluster chords in the electric keyboard and spiraling flights in the strings and winds.
If you feel it will help to enhance the mood, you can also use incense and instrumental music to create a spiritual setting.
The make-shift DNA collector has proved instrumental in attempts to create a series of "shark passports" which will ultimately make it easier to identify each individual fish.
Mr. Sergenian, a saxophonist and flutist who lives in Millwood, plans to create instrumental and vocal ensembles.
In the instrumental writing he strives to create a sensual Impressionistic shimmer with long stretches of undulant figurations and oscillating intervals.
Jon Ronson, the journalist, filmmaker and author of "The Men Who Stare at Goats" and "The Psychopath Test," contacted me to provide a musical score to a documentary he was working on, with the only real instructions to me being to create instrumental music that evoked the specific emotional atmosphere of the "Anxiety Attack" song.
Whereas the Romantic composers had frequently employed the instrumental forces at hand to create a deliberate sense of vagueness, the Neoclassical composers, beginning in about 1917 with a group in France known as Les Six, attempted to recreate the clarity of the Classical period by turning to models found in the popular music of the period, the music of the dance halls and cabarets.
