David Ball gave a rousing performance despite an unattractive-sounding electronic organ.
But his favorite homegrown music was jungle, a wicked-sounding electronic dance genre built around frenetic syncopated rhythms.
Soundtracks to popular video games usually draw from three kinds of music: aggressive-sounding rock, aggressive-sounding rap and aggressive-sounding electronic music.
Perhaps the same spirit that keeps period instrument orchestras flourishing has granted an unusually long life to the theremin, the spooky-sounding electronic instrument invented by Leon Theremin in the 1920's.
Then, the sinister-sounding electronic music gives way to Mr. Corzine's guitar-strumming, feel-good campaign soundtrack, and Mr. Corzine is shown writing at a desk and talking to students in a school and to an older woman.
He pushed his voice from careful and confidential to breathy and overwrought, to the trembly verges of fear and excitement, obliquely referring to sex and trauma in his lyrics; the music followed a precise trail of '80s-sounding electronic rhythm, guitar solos and cymbal crashes.
(Sisario) ISSUE PROJECT ROOM'S THEREMIN SOCIETY (Friday) One of the oddest and most beautiful instruments ever invented is the theremin, the eerie-sounding electronic device ubiquitous on the soundtracks of 1950s horror movies, and that is controlled by gesturing in the air around two metal rods.
The music all night was well played by Ermanno Florio and the Houston Ballet Orchestra; and Robert Brewer handled the Poulenc organ part authoritatively, even if his impressively real-sounding electronic organ seemed too loud and off-center from the side speakers.
The ensemble closed the program with Judith Shatin's "Spring Tides" (2009), a rich evocation of the power of nature, with technical effects (creating wind sounds by blowing almost tonelessly into a flute and clarinet) giving way to lush textures that blended instruments with their distant-sounding electronic echoes.
In 1991, Philip Zimmermann developed a humble-sounding electronic encryption technology known as Pretty Good Privacy.
