Hall focuses and uses sound as a means to translate feeling, create hybrid environments and notions of journey.
Hearing is birds' second most important sense and their ears are funnel-shaped to focus sound.
Both the melon and spermaceti organ are believed to be involved in focusing sound.
The dome acted as an acoustic reflector, focusing sound back at Toni's body and adding an almost tactile resonance to anything she said while in the seat.
Mr. McGill captured the music's lacy lyricism, playing with a rich yet beautifully focused sound.
He produced an attractively compact, focused sound, and his intonation was consistently precise.
Nor is the difficult vocal line of "Pierrot" often heard with the consistently rich, focused sound that Dawn Upshaw brought to it.
Bel canto technique values unforced production of tone, agility, focused sound and, above all, evenness throughout the range.
Such devices could be high precision measurement instruments and they could lead to high energy focused sound.
Like the orchestra, Mr. Zukerman produced a lovely, focused sound, with not much beneath the surface.