Sentence examples for sonic matters from inspiring English sources

"SONIC MATTERS, SONIC KOLLABORATIONS," Printed Matter, 77 Wooster Street, SoHo, (212) 925-0325 (through tomorrow).

"SONIC MATTERS, SONIC KOLLABORATIONS," Printed Matter, 77 Wooster Street, (212) 925-0325 (through Sept. 9).

The Mexican film-maker complained politely after a teaser trailer screened at July's Comic Con had had loud explosions added, despite the film itself taking a realistic 2001: A Space Odyssey approach to sonic matters beyond the Earth's atmosphere.

Earlier this year, the duo offered this sonic matter to one lucky Berlin-based audience via a commissioned live performance.

This sonic matter is a rethinking of Empire, a piece Hart did a few years ago which was inspired by The Course of Empire, a five-part series of paintings by Thomas Cole. "I commissioned the composer Ella Joyce Buckley to create music for that earlier work, and Kurt used it as a jumping off point for The Dolls ballet," she explains.

Mr. O'Rourke's production style is precise and dry; he creates a sound picture in which tiny sonic details matter.

While the complete program opened a dialogue between the audience and sonic and visual matter, a few of the creations in particular stood out for us.

"The scale, subject matters and sonic worlds of these works feels so immediate, their pleasures so visceral, that I felt they would be ideal for our audiences," he said via email.

There are occasional sonic reminders of the subject matter, such as cinematic sound effects: the eerie muezzin wail on "England" drops you straight into Turkey itself, and a horn plays a military reveille on "The Glorious Land" (it's just as well the context has been flagged up in advance or else, given Harvey's enthusiasm for bloodsports, one might mistake it for a fox-hunting tally-ho).

It wasn't a mere matter of sonic eclecticism, the composer making sure there were enough ugly moments to balance out the pretty ones.

Mr. Zorn has often been cast as a musical transgressor, but his renegade spirit isn't just a matter of sonic extremity.