In his orchestral score Mr. Cerrone uses a prepared piano and electronic instruments to evoke exotic sounds and an ethereal atmosphere.
Wang Lu's "Flowing Water Study II" for orchestra and video began with all the string players plucking and tapping their instruments to evoke the delicate colors and harmonies of Chinese folk music.
For "The Human Abstract", he used ascending piano, bass, and percussion instruments to evoke the ghost described in Blake's poem.
It's as if he were fighting against the limits of his instrument to evoke the throes of spiritual ecstasy.
Their most frequent use on this instrument was to evoke the sound of thunder, but also to portray sounds of battle, storms at sea, earthquakes, and Biblical scenes such as the fall of the walls of Jericho and visions of the apocalypse.
Mr. Guy is fond of the metallic, whining, bow-on-the-bridge sound that period-instrument groups use to evoke, for example, the Witches' scene in Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," and Mr. Surman, playing the bass clarinet in its lowest reaches, provides assertive counterpoint.
In his chamber music, the composer Bright Sheng uses standard Western instruments and European forms to evoke typically Oriental sounds.
A.O.P. presents scenes from the opera in progress, which the composer colors with Hindustani ragas and traditional instruments (bansuri and tabla) to evoke Afghanistan.
Mr. Rockwell, the designer, said he was using elements in the 1,200-square-foot 1,200-square-foot 1,200-square-foot-- for inspacee, a rosewood bench curved like a guitor and a ribbevokeiling that contains projection and sound equipmusical
I'm just a beatboxer,' " he said, recalling the moment it dawned on him that what once had seemed a modest gift for vocal mimicry — beatboxers use their voices to evoke percussion instruments and other sounds — was now affording him entree to the world of symphony orchestras.
Brand also tries his hand at playing a theremin, the experimental instrument that Miklos Rozsa used to evoke a sense of psychological disturbance in Hitchcock's movies.
