Van Vliet used a piano-an instrument he had never played before-as his main compositional tool.

Focusing on formal elements, like movement and space, Viewpoints is both a compositional tool and a series of actor exercises.

Ms. Pawel uses improvisation as a compositional tool, and the result is often almost desultory performing.

The recording falls firmly in the conceptual tradition championed by John Cage, who turned randomness into a compositional tool.

Improvisation is one possible compositional tool used in creating a spontaneous composition.

King then began to use the banjo as a compositional tool.

In New York, Zappa increasingly used tape editing as a compositional tool.

The group favors improvisation as a compositional tool and each of their performances is a unique manifestation of established songs.

Its heavy hand and sharp elbows make brutality into a compositional tool.

Cage, on the other hand, used silence as a compositional tool for incorporating unintentional, atmospheric sounds into the context of a musical composition.