Word: instrumentality
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Most Harvard physicists working on the SSC weredesigning an instrument to detect muons--subatomicparticles liberated from collisions betweenprotons...
...called a Pianola, which fit over a conventional keyboard, were primitive affairs, capable of reproducing notes but little else; much depended on the Pianola's operator, who manipulated knobs and levers and pumped a foot bellows to make the contraption work. Later player pianos put the mechanism inside the instrument, and more sophisticated "reproducing rolls," manufactured by the Duo-Art and Welte companies, were able to approximate nuances like dynamics and tempo shadings as well...
Indeed it is. What emerges from this complex collaboration is the illusion that, by George, Gershwin is right in one's living room, banging away in his fluid song-plugger style. "Gershwin never played soft," observes Wodehouse. But he did have a consummate technical command of his instrument, which, coupled with the tremendous rhythmic vitality of his playing, gives his performances an irresistible strut and swagger. Two more Gershwin albums are on the way from Wodehouse. 'S Wonderful...
Shortly after midnight on Dec. 18, just five days after the shuttle Endeavour returned from the daring mission to repair the Hubble telescope, scientists secretly put the refurbished instrument to its first test. They ordered the Hubble to point toward a bright star and beam its image to Earth. Anxiously, they crowded around a computer screen at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, as they waited for the picture to appear. The Endeavour astronauts had installed the telescope's corrective lenses and other equipment perfectly. But it wasn't certain that the devices would actually work...
...call that sampling. On this song, US 3 plays bits from old jazz songs. Rapper Rahsaan speaks over the music -- not staccato-style like most rappers, but easy and loose, like another instrument. Then, topping it all off, there's a live trumpeter, Gerard Presencer. His solos slink through the track, linking the parts...