It highlights key features of their music: the sound imagination, the persistence of tuneful melody, and the close coordination between words and music.
Beside its practical utility or theoretical meaning, such a suspension provides us with new ears, enriching our listening experience and sound imagination.
The composer is overwhelmed, perhaps by the medium's prodigious, profligate ability to create new realities out of light, sound and imagination.
It is an overwhelmingly ambitious orgy of color, sound, and imagination.
The 130-page book offers a wealth of information on how magazines continue to morph into shapes, views and sounds beyond imagination.
But he has constructed the show with the same unobtrusive discipline as his opening mind-reading trick – just watch the efficiency of his technical team as they match his free-flowing imagination sound cue for sound cue.
Silence invigorates the imagination; sound decorates it.
At each dramatic moment, he shifts the sound with subtle imagination, as when, in Act 1, Jocasta (Susan Bickley) has her agonised solo begging Oedipus not to explore his past: "May you never know who you are".
The five works, seen in the center's raw little jewel box of a theater, showed dance to be one element of broader choreographic investigations: of time, of sound, of the imagination.
Mr. Eskelin, the tenor saxophonist, has been around New York for more than a decade, and with his classically brawny, gargly sound and good imagination for harmony, he's one of the more talented moving parts of the downtown jazz-related improvising scene.
He doesn't belong to any particular idiom, but his vaulting, ambient sound reflects an imagination haunted by musical forms and styles outside his own head: blues and country music, Aaron Copland, lullabies, ceremonial music for American graduations and parades and funerals.
