Jones' new installation at the Met's roof garden The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Hyla Skopitz Three large abstract sculptures ... museum’s collection of musical instruments while planning ...

It will then spit out a 20-second audio clip as a starting point to compose (often extremely offbeat or abstract) music that may or may not include the sound of the specific instrument you entered.

Composers and musicians in the world of contemporary classical music have compared it to abstract art. In contrast to the flowing, musically descriptive melodies of the classical composers of past ...