But a special one planned at Lincoln Center on Saturday will also make instruments, and it will even make musicians.
Much, perhaps too much, screen time is dedicated to individuals singing, sometimes while playing locally made instruments, and large groups participating in elaborate music rituals.
One lesson provides instructions on how to make instruments, and a plan for teachers on engaging the students in using them.
For the next three or four months, Mr. Lauer says, Varian, which makes instruments and vacuum pumps used in manufacturing high-technology equipment, will be cautious about how much it invests and how many employees it adds.
But Chávez, who has only just started receiving a wage after thousands of volunteered hours with the orchestra, insists that the key elements, the music and the benefits to community, cost little apart from the time to make instruments and engage with children.
In the future, Dr. Gawande said, it may be possible to make instruments and sponges with gadgets that would set off an alarm in response to a probe or scanner, similar to the clothing tags that set off alarms at department store exits.
I just take live sounds of certain things, and make instruments and samples out of different things that I hear.
They have a sound lab in East London where they conduct their musical experiments, make instruments and create interactive designs.
You invariably encounter terms like "craftsmanship" and "elegance" in any description of Piston's work, and rightly so: few composers have shown his seemingly effortless knack for making instruments — solely and in any combination — sound exactly right.
"Conjure" has Mr. Hall and Tony Palomino making instruments out of thin air and playing them.
