"I had a very light, white instrument," he tells me.
Giorgia Angiuli and Piero Fragola, from Florence, play a sort of butter-soft, spatially aware disco-pop on a selection of often self-made black-and-white instruments.
The white-face instruments include voltmeter and oil-pressure gauges low on the console, but these are window dressing, since neither needle moves appreciably.
But just as the show seems headed for snoozeville, with her band (all playing white-painted instruments) doing little to alleviate the supper-club vibe, she hits her late-90s run of hits, when she started collaborating with rappers and producers like Puff Daddy on bangers like Honey, Fantasy and the triumphant Always Be My Baby.
This white beam instrument has a wavelength range of 1 Å ≤ λ ≤ 16 Å.
The White Stripes act was utterly choreographed, from its red-and-white outfits and instruments to Mr. White's careful placement of two microphones for himself to expand the tableau.
Her excellent band, five-strong, wear all white and swap instruments like busy angels; later they rock out like imps.
I am aware that "oddballs," "quirky," and "alt-rock" are just code words for ugly white men with instruments, but I would be willing to bet that this band's sales would not have suffered one bit if they had been marketed as everyday, dirt-average wieners who are just like everyone else you already know.
Before it adopted a civil rights plank in 1948, the Democratic Party was, for many years, the "white South's instrument for pursuing the goals of white supremacy," as Merle Black, a political scientist at Emory University, put it.
Acres of coal black are etched by slivers of white light bouncing off instruments and musicians' clothes and skin.
In orchestral concerts, similar groups of musicians sit in prescribed formation, wearing black, or white, playing the same instruments they always play.
