Word: instrumentality
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...synthesizer is a gambler's instrument. It lures musicians with its gaudy array of textures and noises, but it can also deaden their performances. Sometimes, only sometimes, the gamble pays off. William Orbit's Pieces in a Modern Style, a collection of synthesizer arrangements of pieces by classical greats ranging from Vivaldi to Satie, is a case in point. When Orbit, Madonna's producer, sticks close to the composers' arrangements and instrumentation, as he does on Barber's "Adagio for Strings," the songs don't profit from the synthesizer's virtues and still suffer its vices. "Adagio" sounds like...
...other campaign members also distributed a petition supporting the Ethnic Studies Campaign as an "instrument of education and awareness." By the end of the day, Matt Damon and about 200 students had signed...
...this show is Norman's brilliant voice, which cuts through the nocturnal mood like a shaft of light. Though you can't help wondering what the diva could do if she shrugged off the opera-house manners and let herself go a little more, there's no denying an instrument of such grandeur...
...million miles from the earth, NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft suddenly found itself under assault. Late in January, the tiny, instrument-packed spacecraft was buffeted by an exceptionally powerful burst of particles spewed out by the sun. In the space-environment control room at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) headquarters in Boulder, Colo., alarms sounded. "All of a sudden, a blast wave of solar wind showed up at the ACE spacecraft," says NOAA's Joe Hirman, "as dense as any we've seen, and, bam, 30 minutes later the earth's magnetic field got hit hard...
...Maybe four years ago, I asked for a harmonica for Christmas in an attempt to learn a not-quite-as-cool instrument that was significantly easier. The idea was eventually to play blues harmonica so that, you know, if I ever wanted to form a blues band, I could play the harp and be the lead singer. That didn't pan out so well. About the only thing I can do is play along with some Bob Dylan songs like "Like a Rolling Stone," and even then I don't really know if I'm any good because...