Sentence examples for piano to create from inspiring English sources

For example, in one section of the work, as Mr. Stevens played hand and arm clusters on a piano from a standing position and Mr. Werner drew the detached silk hairs through the strings of the piano to create plaintive whimpers of sound, the sustaining foot pedal on the instrument had to be held down somehow.

His eccentricities, often exaggerated for publicity reasons, reportedly included running into auditoriums in gym kit and leaping over the grand piano to create a grand entrance.

It was at the UCLA elementary school where Cage first experimented with placing household objects on or in between the strings of the piano to create a new percussion effect.

Finally, the MIDI files were synthesized through the Kawai CA 950 digital piano to create audio files, and the root mean square (RMS) amplitude of the mechanical performance was adjusted to equal the mean RMS amplitude of the expressive performance.

With his luminous 1948 "Sonatas and Interludes" for prepared piano (his invention of placing nuts, bolts and other objects between the piano strings to create a one-man percussion band), Cage began a quest for answers outside the Western tradition, turning to Hinduism as a path to tranquillity.

There is some lovely writing here, particularly a section in which a pizzicato dialogue between the string instruments is set against a plaintive piano figure to create an effect of considerable intensity.

During the formative stages of compositions, Buckingham and Christine McVie played guitar and piano together to create the album's basic structures.

In "Toner" (above), Oyamada riffs on the sound and visual process of an ordinary desktop printer — melding a series of bleeps and mechanical grunts over a piano riff to create a surprisingly charming musical number and an Abstract Expressionist-like video painting.

The NU1 also lacks the two features that the more expensive AvantGrand pianos use to create subtle, realistic resonance and vibration: what Yamaha calls the Tactile Response System (the keys vibrate slightly) and the Soundboard Resonator (a flat-panel oscillating unit, on the N3 grand, that replicates the vibration of the strings themselves "singing").

Having left his arsenal of percussion instruments and metal sheets behind, he set about inserting bolts and screws, bamboo wedges and bits of rubber, between the strings of his piano in order to create a sound that, for Cage, evoked African pitched percussion ensembles.

Though he first operated in a duo alongside a man who now DJs in a tuxedo, Luca's output as a solo act has always offered a steadily effortless listen, splashing together breathy disco and piano-soaked house to create experiences that evoke standard balearic themes like sunset, summer, and sand.