Like Wodehouse, whom he in some ways resembles, Runyon inherited a comedy of morals and turned it into a comedy of sounds, language playing for its own sake.
Clearly then, the physical embodiment of the work in sounds, language, scores, or other inscriptions is more fundamentally a part of it (of its "essence") than the ideal theory represents it to be.
The key to uncovering new patterns of user behavior is being able to effectively extract signal from sounds, language and images in harmony.
The New Zealand Herald Lydia Jenkin thought the collection represented a standard Pink Martini concert set list by including a variety of sounds, languages and vocalists, each delivered with "class, passion and subtlety".
He draws on the ethnic range of sounds, languages, and instruments of the immigrant population of his homeland to create music that fuses Israeli pop with world music from West Africa, Latin America, and India.
This was the funniest, most impromptu-brilliant, serious moment I've ever witnessed at a poetry reading — and very much about sound, language, expression and communication.
On Saturday the strongest impression was made by Andrew Ford's "Unquiet Grave" for viola and chamber orchestra (1997-98), a contemporary recasting of a Scottish border ballad that filters strands of folk music through a lyrical, sweeping and dissonant sound language.
The Senate has failed to pass any tariff reductions largely because Republicans have objected to sound language in the House bill endorsing basic international labor standards for Pakistani export workers.
Mr. Sciarrino bases three intermezzos on a 1608 elegy by Claude Le Jeune, and while only the first sounds Baroque, for the other two he takes original "syllables," as he puts it, and absorbs them in his own sound language.
She praised the Met for attracting new audiences and attention to opera but worried that singing increasingly for microphones would distract artists, and listeners, from the beauty of the sound, language and style of great singing.
In the entire article, not a word was given over to "audience communication" — devices for a music-loving person to grasp — beforehand and during a concert the nature of a work's sound language.
