Listening Crumb, George - Black Angels, Thirteen Images from the Dark Land (1970), Image 4+5: Devil-music

The creation of this composition is extremely innovative. Crumb used a violin bow and played in on the side of a cymbal to create a intense sound. He also would play that sound into the inside of a piano with the pedal down. This is interesting because it would alter the sound of the instrument. The sound would become muted. Also Crumb liked to mic all of his music up because he felt that the audience would get a different experience listening to it from speakers rather than from the stage. I feel that he could use the different position of the speakers to alter to direction of the sound. The music was very amplified, which created a more modern sound. I thought that this piece was a new way to demonstrate the several ways that an instrument can be used to create sound.