The sound of instruments could develop and change during a concert.

How does an attack with a blunt instrument sound for violence?

The various voices brushed in her mind like the sounds of instruments.

Multi-timbre: The ability to play more than one kind of instrument sound at the same time.

They can imitate the sounds of single instruments, one note at a time, fairly well.

He learned orchestration, and how to mix the sounds of different instruments.

This means using electronics to change the sound of normal instruments that are amplified.

In addition, he said, "I like the idea of the sounds of other instruments" and the variety they offer.

Another troublesome question raised by the experiments is obvious: how will the modern instrument sound 300 years from now?

They come about as experiments in texture made from processing the sound of real instruments and field recordings.