His music blends non-western instruments with the 1960s folk revival.

Here was an old, proudly non-Western instrument, played by a man in a costume and setting so formal and serene.

Examples of such instruments include the Japanese koto and non-Western traditional instruments with sympathetic strings.

His music is written for nearly every medium, including orchestral, chamber, band, percussion, electronic, vocal, and even non-western instruments.

Some rarely seen and non-western instruments do not fit very neatly into it.

During his international journeys, he also collected a variety of non-Western instruments, which he mastered and often played in performances and on recordings.

Because the performances were to be played by students, he avoided the colorful part of the repertory that requires mastery of non-Western instruments.

The final section of the exhibition includes a sample of non-Western instruments.

His music also frequently explores unintentional sound, chance activities, minimalism, and non-Western instruments and tuning systems.

He is a pianist and a specialist in many non-western musical instruments, especially the wind and string instruments of Asia.