He assembled a swatch card by taping snippets of the twine to card stock.
A taped snippet of one of his nights in the sleep lab is part of a parasomnia training video.
The tapes feature snippets of improvisation by the violinist Gidon Kremer, who gave the work's premiere in 1988, and a range of noises from the recording studio, including murmurs of conversation and a haunting burst of laughter.
Mr. Dowd, who spoke to the jury for only an hour before the day's session ended, said the tapes were "snippets of recorded conversations taken out of context".
Mr. Eszterhas demonstrates, for instance, a sharp ear for dialogue in choosing telltale taped conversational snippets from Ms. Lewinsky and Linda Tripp, but anyone who followed these revelations as they unfolded is liable to have heard this material before.
Orbit then sent her a tape of musical snippets he was working on, which were usually eight or sixteen-bar phrases and stripped down versions of tracks that would later be heard on the album.
As years pass, snippets of tape become holy relics, cherished by the faithful even if the performers themselves considered them second-rate or disposable.
He had begun to experiment with tape loops, playing back snippets of human speech at different rates, letting them phase in and out of sync.
They could hear snippets of tape like the one in which Mr. Pannone said of Ms. Glancy, "She bends, you know what I mean?" "I show some green, and she's all right, she's happy," he said.
On a snippet of tape, Mr. Reeve describes his role as "temporary custodian of a past that was an essential piece of American mythology".
