Mr. Perez cooks the recipes he learned from his mother, Aurora Ruiz, dishes like pastelon, a sweet plantain pie with layers of string beans and ground beef that is baked like lasagna, and majarete, a creamy porridge made with rice meal, coconut milk and cinnamon.
Try different color variations, perhaps even think of having multiple layers of string.
The design included three layers of strings that were not interwoven, which created incredible snap back and wildly bouncing balls.
Sitting behind a plain white gauze, musicians play Szymon Brzóska's sparse, atmospheric score, with layers of strings and percussion.
In a week when a case involving an orchestra's responsibility for its players' hearing looks set to be tested in court, one noticed the musicians sat in front of the bass drum fiddling with their earplugs as the glowing layers of strings got hammered into the background by the percussion's stomping rhythms.
After an ITF committee had made studies of the so-called "double-strung," or "spaghetti," racket, introduced in 1977, which had two layers of strings that imparted topspin on the ball, it was banned by the following rule: A racket shall consist of a frame, which may be of any material, weight, size or shape and stringing.
Thread three beads (in any color combination you like) onto the double layer of string, then take one of the money flowers, remove the binder clips and pass the strings through the center.
Morrow's composition, a nervy layering of strings, seems to whisper and sigh like the wind at a broken window, and Rachel Shipp's wave-form lighting sees the dancers alternately picked out in clear, watery silver and dissolving into a wash of black.
But "Vaelv," a coda to the track "The Living Layer," provided Mr. Fundal with a brief, plush showcase, and Ms. Mazzoli's inventive ear was evident in her fine details: a subtle layering of strings in "Black Summer"; pinwheeling vibraphone in "So," an unreleased ballad with the airy languor of late-model Roxy Music.
The Herald Angels Sing". The added layer of strings from the Nashville Recording Orchestra are unnecessary but don't become a major distraction.
The localized damping introduces mode complexity, which results in spatial shifting of the peak resonance amplitudes to different locations of the string and highly nontrivial phase variations confined to certain predictable boundary layers of the string.
