Movement and sound take over in the third section, a dance in which Ms. Dorvillier, Heather Kravas, Amanda Piña and Elizabeth Ward (keenly sophisticated performers, all) by turns interact with and add to a collage sound score by Zeena Parkins, who works her usual magic from a front corner of the stage.
The Eagles, the country-rock band whose sound took over the country mainstream, wore dark suits and ties and strummed and harmonized smoothly through their "Busy Being Fabulous".
It's no secret that the new sound taking over the urban catwalk is Jamaican dancehall.
Perhaps it's the public-spirited urge to provide some variety as holiday songs take over sound systems and radio stations for the next few weeks.
The final stage direction calls for Ada to appear with "ones and zeroes echoing around her" until "a strange new light and a strange new sound take over.... It's the blue light of modern computer screens — laptops, iPhones, iPads — all giving off their ghostly light on her.
And by being consistently innovative and great, he ensured that his outlier sound would take over hip-hop's center.
If confidence counts for anything, Noel sounds ready to take over the starring role.
Though he tempered each statement with a politically correct amendment to ease the task of Coach Byron Scott and to soothe the ego of Jason Collins, who started at center last season, Mourning sounded ready to take over the starting job.
"This was kind of a threshold year after the bubble, and a lot of marketers are realizing that the tools are getting better," he added, citing sponsored searches on sites like Google and "rich media" allowing marketers to play sounds and animation, and even take over part of a Web page with their ads.
Periodically, his late-Romantic orchestra dematerializes: heavy instruments recede, and chiming tones of harp, xylophone, and celesta (the sound of Tchaikovsky's Sugar Plum Fairy) take over.
