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Because these pieces are based on existing songs — "Down by the Riverside" and "Which Side Are You On?" are the best known — Mr. Rzewski uses their refrains and other melodic elements as emblems, to be called upon, varied and regularly pounded home.

Some of the pieces are based on poetic themes, but don't include words.

The Masada pieces are based in klezmer, with its modal scales, odd meters and zigzagging melodies.

Dated like diary entries, the pieces are based on a specific spatial or design experience, which they also provide.

Mr. Gachot's most minimal pieces are based on driftwood, to which he has added only a few embellishments.

"All these pieces are based on something I have seen: the Berlin sky in the winter, dark and very dark".

Some pieces were based on vast polymetric grids, and all of them involved complex rhythmic gear-changes known as metric modulations.

The exhibition, which brought together 30 pieces including installation, video and a collection of two-dimensional pieces, was based on Diamond Dogs, Bowie's studio album inspired by George Orwell's novel 1984.

Many of the pieces were based in fixed rhythm, but at any possible opportunity the various musicians took their own industrious, contemplative solos, and the other musicians stopped playing.

The pieces were based around Leonard Cohen poems (of the same name) and written for soprano, flute, percussion, and tapes.

So my way of recording the pieces is based on a live set up and a set up with two Disklaviers performing techno sequences or drums".