Often they'd respond to sound, to the sonic texture of something I played".
The song's steely sonic texture and spikes and drops in intensity give away its scene.
"Each stretch of the Hudson has its own sonic texture," Ms. Lockwood writes.
Mahler's way of building a sonic texture from restless little figures is very much what Mr. Adès does in "Polaris".
But he's also a kind of preservationist, waving a flag for work-ethic, or sonic texture, or manual dexterity, or musical history, or something.
As a singer, the Oxfordshire native is soft-spoken, and as a songwriter he has a keen sense of melody and sonic texture.
Brown, the soul legend who died in December 2006, "transformed the sonic texture of American life," according to associate professor Daphne Brooks, the event's organizer.
12. "Epigone" - 2 34 - guitar sounds open this track and give it a whole different sonic texture, but similar vibe, compared to the other tracks.
And though the score is short on memorable songs, the music direction of Michael O'Flaherty and the orchestrations of Dan DeLange make up for deficits with a rich sonic texture.
A partial list, as I say, of performers captured with remarkable sonic brilliance and visual immediacy on an outdoor stage in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Congo), in 1974.
There were big musical themes in here: sometimes the layers of sonic texture made room for a short, huge and simple melodic motif, a rock-opera kind of thing.
