| 单词 | sonic |
| 例句 | The telltale sonic boom indicated that the plane had pushed through the volatile transonic region into the state of smoother, all-supersonic flows. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In terms of musical material, it is important to assess the sonic aspects as well as the written. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The demons tumbled and poxies were sent into the air as trees were torn from the earth and the buildings around Central Park lost their windows in a single devastating sonic explosion. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In dothe one does not worry much, and what anxiety I had was for the Envoy, who should have waked long ago from the light dose of sonic I had given him. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z As Schafer began his work on understanding the sonic environment, he realized that we don’t have a very specific vocabulary to describe sounds—what we’re hearing and how we’re hearing it. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “I was not in dothe,” I said, “I was in a sonic field.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z We hear the crack of a bullwhip because its tip is moving faster than the speed of sound, creating a shock wave, a small sonic boom. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Their high sonic calls were audible; and sometimes they flew so close to his head that he could hear their leathery wingbeats. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There are the tone cults, of course, dressing in sackcloth and worshiping sonic vibrations—but like so many things in our world, they seek to imitate what once was. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z They did not use the sonic, stunners but the foray gun, the ancient weapon that fires a set of metal fragments in a burst. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “That was my last sonic arrow,” Michael said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She heard a roar that she later realized was a sonic boom, and Arion tore over Puget Sound, seawater turning to steam in his wake as the skyline of Seattle receded behind them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z At stun setting a sonic gun can locate its resonance-field only within a hundred feet or so. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The horse’s sonic boom echoed across the bay. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z How she wished she had a sonic screwdriver or a superhero’s radio-fixing powers. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z There’s a loud sound, a sonic boom as my world cracks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Our sonic environment and the soundscape: The tuning of the world. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z It is a sonic event—a communication just like speech, which requires us to listen, process, and respond. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z If the river continued through the throat at less than sonic speed—that is to say, less than the speed of sound—it became compacted in the divergent section, bound in turmoil, and inefficient. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The deck cracked like thin ice under Jason’s legs and, with a sonic boom, the Argo II hurtled out of the clouds. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Now and then the door was unlocked and a new refugee thrust in by a farm-policeman armed with the Gethenian sonic “gun.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, Johann Strauss Jr.'s "Blue Danube" Waltz wasn't subjected to such sonic mayhem, and Lubman led it with considerable sway and grace, syncing with the footsteps of a flight attendant in the film. The stars, a 'Space Odyssey' and the Hollywood Bowl in cosmic harmony 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Where Drake’s previous album, “Views,” channelled his paranoia toward a more stylistically insular sound, “More Life” is a work of sonic and spiritual thaw. Drake’s Musical Wanderlust on “More Life” 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z After all, if you need a telescope to make out Mr Dio and the rafters have turned the guitars into sonic stilettos, the least you can do is make their chests vibrate. Readers recommend: songs with the best bass lines – results 2012-10-11T12:35:46Z Holy Grail” did little in the way of sonic innovation. Critic’s Notebook: Miley Cyrus, Secret Weapon, Blows the Smooth Out of the Summer 2013-08-30T00:01:48Z But the genre- and gender-bending star’s music has a wider scope that can’t be boxed, and Tuesday night’s opening blitz showed the breadth of his sonic palette. Review: Bad Bunny proves he’s pop music’s most dynamic game-changer at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Both men were signature vocalists, deploying power that resonated in a variety of sonic contexts. Celebrating Two of Rock’s Big Voices, Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The punk pioneer and sonic provocateur plays Tuesday at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor in a benefit for the Ron Asheton Foundation. AP Interview: Iggy Pop honors fallen Stooge 2011-04-18T19:52:08Z But in what some call the current meteorological conditions earthquake weather, such sonic tomfoolery imparted a diverting immediacy to an otherwise archaic concerto. The Philharmonic dances through Bach and bluegrass at the Bowl 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Asked if that shift represents a counterintuitive risk for a band with an established sonic identity, the three laughed. Regrouped TV on the Radio hits the road with new songs 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The 20-minute piece retains its power on every encounter, but its sheer dazzling newness, from its unprecedentedly aggressive opening through all its how-do-they-do-that sonic magic, is guaranteed to melt the minds of first-time listeners. Can an avant-garde composer draw new people to classical music? Seattle’s Emerald City Music is betting on it 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z It inhabits a different sonic space from Heinali’s medieval-inspired synthesizer compositions, which he’s performed this year in a Paris mansion, a Vienna nightclub and a Ukrainian bomb shelter. Reconstructing Kyiv, One Synth Wave at a Time 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z As with most self-help books, it is impossible to live up to the prescriptions for sonic reduction. Perspective | In a noisy world, books about silence are booming 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Still, he continued making music, partly as a sonic journal of his emotional state. For a Kyiv Techno Collective, ‘Now Everything Is About Politics’ 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The set also bears sonic witness to the musical partnership that saw Monk through the sixties, with the tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Her momentum is fueled by a wild curiosity, but the breadth of her sonic palate is more than a show-offy gesture of global fluency; it’s a metaphor for surviving the hyper-abundance of the information age. All is full of love: Listening for Bjork’s radical humanity 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z "I think having Steve in the mix smoothes over a lot of stuff because there’s just that much more sonically involved." Their last “easy” record: The Hold Steady’s “Stay Positive” and what came after 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z My last record, `Element,' it was more like, I was so into sounds and sonics, I was so into how to create more sonic places to go to and experiment. On 'Fire,' Alicia Keys presents new side of self 2012-11-28T15:21:09Z At the center of the room is a monolithic Richard Long sound system, roped off like the work of sonic art that it is. At the Museum of Sex, a Bar Where You Can Boogie Oogie Oogie 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z It was a long con in retraining pop ears to accept some of that world’s sonic ideas. Review: The Chainsmokers Find That Pop Is an Awkward Fit 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z It struck me as odd that in such an idiosyncratic quartet the individual players have so little sonic personality. Music Review: Kronos Quartet’s Wide Interests Project From the Stage 2014-03-30T22:19:45Z “The Socratic questions can also be expressed physically, aesthetically and sonically.” Taylor Mac’s ‘Fever Dream’: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hang 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z What gives the film a lingering gravitas, though, is how often Green’s sonic journeys lead him back to contemplating grief and loss. ‘32 Sounds,’ a Film Performed Live, Probes the Power of Listening 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Spend some time listening to the frequencies of her brass bell, and a clean distinction between the sonic and the sculptural — between music and art — starts to dissipate into air. Camille Norment Explores New Sonic Terrains at Dia Chelsea 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Reich cares about creating sonic beauty through harmony and rhythm. In praise of ? Steve Reich 2011-08-08T22:23:55Z The usual sonic cliches of the “quiet-storm” sound aren’t much in evidence: the unctuous saxophones, the stacks of synthetic keyboard goo. Album review: Rhye, 'Woman' 2013-03-04T05:46:00Z He likens the sonic branding power of "Yakety Sax" to that which we assign to John Williams' theme to "Jaws." Why "Yakety Sax" makes anything funny and has morphed into the soundtrack of political failure 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Her sonic compositions were often part of multimedia collaborations with musicians and visual artists. Helen Thorington, Who Brought Sonic Art to the Airwaves, Dies at 94 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z In “Flux Gourmet,” this lifelong fascination with sound is shared by the central group of “sonic caterers.” Welcome to Peter Strickland’s Worlds 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Backed by a sonically sliding soundtrack of languid chimes, the tongue licks up liquid candy and gooey cake decoration smeared on a sheet of glass. Marilyn Minter's 'Pretty/Dirty' show allures and repulses all at the same time 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Dragging microphones that emit angry grumbles as they scrape across the floor or creating waves with the cords that she flicks horizontally, Ms. Dorvillier creates a sonic environment. Dance Review: A Search for Freedom in a Noisy, Wired World 2010-10-22T23:39:00Z Wimberley, TX Captivating stories told to a sonic blend of Americana and contemporary bluegrass. Best New Southern Musicians 2011-01-27T21:20:03.957Z The Forum is the perfect venue for British minimalists the xx, who craft cavernous sonic spaces in songs such as “On Hold,” “Angels” and “VCR.” All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z When the song reaches its climax with a chorus of double-tracked vocals – Ocean's low-key sing-song voice set against a passionate falsetto – it's probably the sonic highlight of the album. Magna Carta Holy Grail – a first-listen review 2013-07-04T14:23:37Z Verdi, writing in his best operatic style but without benefit of stage trappings, conjures a terrifying sonic image of the Day of Judgment in this grandiose setting of the Mass for the dead. Review: Verdi’s Requiem, in All Its Theatricality and Resonance 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z It’s a sound cycle of fitful synthesizers making a dense but simple sonic tableau. The Case for New Age Music as American Folk Art 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The album is a 16-track-long journey through the group’s different sonic periods. Fans Were Surprised to Get More Gang Starr. They Almost Didn’t. 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Sometimes, all but one or two dancers freeze, and we seem to enter a personal trip or hallucination for a few moments, the techno beats fading into a more ambient sonic haze. ‘Crowd’ Review: A Slow-Motion Rave, With Glints of Violence 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Those distorted guitar chords went on to rearrange the sonic architecture of the 1960s – but frontman Ray Davies's lyrics also heralded something new and profound. The Kinks: They really got me 2010-12-20T21:59:01Z Hip-hop is now almost fully decentralized; the genre is splintered sonically and thematically. How Do You Capture Four Decades of Hip-Hop? Very Broadly. 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z It swaggered along, with its de luxe sonic upholstery finely balanced and the softer passages charged with a delicate strength. BBCSO/Davis 2010-04-14T21:15:00Z The restored version expands some of the sonic elements but keeps the Beatles' voices at center stage. Beatles' 'A Hard Day's Night' gets fab 50th anniversary makeover 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Yet on “The Wilderness,” the group’s album released this spring, it’s focusing less on creating seemingly infinite sonic spaces and more on minimalism. Pop & Rock Listings for Sept. 16-22 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Robertson's rollicking guitar struggles for sonic space over the Dixieland jazz of "Ophelia," The Band's broadcast of nostalgia for a home that is lost. How Robbie Robertson's hidden Indigenous and Jewish heritage influenced The Band's mournful songs 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z Throughout his new album “Swimming,” Mac Miller sounds genuinely submerged, sonically and emotionally. The Playlist: Robyn’s Dance-Floor Weeper and 8 More New Songs 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Remarkably, Richard's array of sonic weapons matches her epic, elemental vision. Dawn Richard: Goldenheart – review 2013-01-17T21:45:01Z One is the opulent 117-year-old Monument National, where Édith Piaf once sang — a seated site for the more experimental sonic and visual artists. The Sun Never Sets on the Techno Tourist 2010-05-20T21:55:00Z In all three works, episodes of crushing sonic violence coexist with oases of serene lyrical beauty for an overall sense of smoldering, luxuriant noise — a plangent yet gorgeous howl. Review: A Composer’s Redacted Music and Raucous Noise 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z “It probably sounds bigger sonically than people expect from me,” Ms. Colvin said. Texas Monthly: Texas Artists Release Albums About Revenge, Lost Love and a Bartender 2012-05-27T02:43:09Z All of these elements together make his albums feel like warped, scratchy transmissions from a sonic collective unconscious. Alex G and the Art of Interesting Choices 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z This choice brings a new, sweeping dynamism to Baker’s music, and keeps “Little Oblivions” from feeling sonically repetitive, as her previous two albums sometimes could. Julien Baker Explores the Art of Doubt on ‘Little Oblivions’ 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z As the weekend winds down, the mesmerizing avant pop of Annie Clark's project St. Vincent is sure to provide both a visual and a sonic feast. One possible road map through Coachella, Weekend 1 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Was there anything sonically you wanted to try or explore that didn’t feel like a right fit for Alice? Jerry Cantrell’s first solo album in nearly 20 years was worth the wait 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z I believe sonic is the best way to clean your teeth so I would whiten my molars until the glare would blind an owl. Quickfire interview: Eoin Colfer on Doctor Who 2013-01-08T09:00:00Z Even minus his arsenal of sonic alterations, he has an array of voices, and he switches among them with ease. Swooning to the Strangeness of Bon Iver 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z All the while, the noise of it, along with live percussion by Efraín Rozas — an incredible physical presence — transformed the theater into a sonic landscape. Review: Sensation and Skin, in a Theater Housed in Bodies 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Despite its falling into the genre’s tiresome tropes, this long-gestating production, which opened at Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey on Sunday night, succeeds on sheer sonic strength. ‘The Wanderer’ Review: A Dion Musical Hits All the Familiar Notes 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Perhaps more importantly than evolving with the digital times, Sub Pop’s sonic palate has consistently widened since its early days. Sub Pop at 30: How a Seattle record label’s storied past prepared it for the future 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z But as the sonic violence takes its toll on him, the film’s culture-clash humor gives way to an uncanny fuguelike seepage between reality and artifice. Movie Review: An Engineer’s Sonic Ordeals in ‘Berberian Sound Studio’ 2013-06-14T00:57:13Z The movie, visually and sonically, bludgeons its viewers into an exultant submission; that’s why its success is ominous. The Styleless Fakery of “Suicide Squad” 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Because it's the promise of intricacy and sonic detail, of a fullness and richness of sound to match the raw, ragged energy, that excites us most. New band of the day ? No 771: Tweak Bird 2010-04-22T14:04:00Z His constellation of associations — Glyndebourne’s history, the interplay of the visual and sonic arts, the whisper of war — doesn’t quite come together. Review: An Operatic Locavore Consumes the English Countryside 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Both mess with country music’s usual sonic dimensions and proportions; Mr. Yoakam, with his nasal keening and word-ending yelps, sounds born to the fun house. New Music: Albums From Pink, Dwight Yoakam and Aimee Mann 2012-09-17T22:14:32Z Bates revels in what he refers to as the color wheel of sonic possibilities that an orchestra represents. A composer offers the field just what it needs 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Despite the jokey tone, she made an interesting point: It’s remarkable how few sonic experiences we seek while traveling. You Know What London Looks Like. But Have You Really Heard It? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Another major project was his “Ten Freedom Summers,” an ambitious, four-hour-plus suite that traces the civil rights movement over a long timeline, including sonic evocations of the Dred Scott case and the Jim Crow era. This Trumpeter’s Legacy Also Includes Composing String Quartets 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z But a Bulls game isn't a sonic free-for-all either. Every Bulls home game has its own soundtrack 2011-05-09T23:42:00Z Unlike the bare-feet-versus-tap-shoes in "Three to One," this juxtaposition of silent and sonic dancing never culminated in a thematic statement but added another kind of expertise to the evening. Dorrance Dance turns tap on its head: Mesmerizing moves at the Wallis in Beverly Hills 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Whether "The Beatles in Mono" is sonically superior as well depends on the quality of speaker system, amplifier, turntable, stylus, cartridge and speaker-wire gauge. Is 'The Beatles in Mono' necessary? Yes and no. 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Another, which Parks contended was among Franklin’s most distinctive achievements, was the way she “alchemized her pain into sonic gold.” In ‘Genius: Aretha,’ Respecting the Mind, Not Just the Soul 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z According to Winberg, Philadelphia City Council member Helen Gym refers to the devices as "sonic weapons" — and she's working to get them removed. Florida city blasts "Baby Shark" to drive homeless people away from sleeping in public 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Whether sonically good or not, Wannabe is unmatched because it wasn't about music. Spice Girls: What I really really really want 2012-06-28T12:07:34Z But Tweedy, Wilco's songwriter, vocalist, guitarist and leader, shook that off, building on a variety of influences that ultimately led to the sonically adventurous and well-received "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot." Wilco, on a roll, plays Paramount Tuesday 2012-02-02T21:16:14Z Then, as those low notes began to arrange themselves into a steady pulse, it was as if the band were performing a sonic imitation of the life functions they seemed to be threatening. Review | Sunn O))) is still conjuring heavy metal oblivion — but it feels more and more like bliss 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z That period-piece gang-war epic was television at its most cinematic, a blend of operatically high dramatic stakes and equally operatic visual and sonic spectacle. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 4: Mind Games 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z For three hours, it was anything but sonic comfort food. Community Radio Fights to Stay Live (and Weird) Despite Coronavirus 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Drummer Carey, along with being the most important guy in the band sonically, was the only Toolie willing to indulge the fans with rock star cliches. Review | It’s hard to see the members of Tool when the band plays live, but it sure is thrilling to hear them 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Of particular interest is the room set aside for “Creating a Sound,” which focuses on the sonic possibility of electronics. 22 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z It ignores that the long continuum of pop revisits sonic approaches, melodies, beats and chord progressions time and again. It’s Got a Great Beat, and You Can File a Lawsuit to It 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z And, at least on a musical level, he’s found one with his band’s third LP, “1,000 Palms” – an album of sonically redemptive, lyrically radiant guitar-rock. Surfer Blood wants a fresh start: “Everyone wants to go to bed thinking everyone thinks they’re a good person” 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z That's the point about Feldman's long pieces: they don't hypnotise or immerse you in a comforting sonic bath, they call for your attention and, through that, change you. A guide to Morton Feldman's music 2012-11-12T19:01:09Z It largely ignores so-called “big room” dance music in favor of sounds that stretch boundaries and explore sonic phenomena. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z “Blessing” is an outlier sonically, though not thematically, on the new album. Alex G and the Art of Interesting Choices 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z This sort of sonic movement can only happen in stereo — and The Beatles masterfully deployed this effect. The Beatles’ revolutionary use of recording technology in "Abbey Road" 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Throughout are oodles of almost-right sonic reproductions of the sort made for film and TV by hired guns when the soundtrack calls for “party R&B” or “Southern bounce.” Critics? Choice: New Cds: Just Glad to Grab the Mike 2011-01-04T01:07:08Z Death Row countered that it didn't substantially modify the substance of "The Chronic" in any way other than giving it sonic clarity and a slightly louder volume. Rapper Dr. Dre loses claims against former label 2010-06-11T08:17:00Z Mr. Romulus recalled intensive bonding sessions as the three men learned one another’s strengths and sonic leanings, with ’90s pop R&B as a center point. Meet the Stereotypes, the Guys Who Help Give Bruno Mars His Bounce 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Actual sonic youth is, perhaps, just a little under-represented this fortnight. Yoko Ono's Meltdown – review 2013-06-22T23:05:41Z It's an amazing, funky swing band in sonic reality that will surprise you with some free jazz skronk in one of those dizzying, up-tempo vamps they shred at. Sink your teeth into a better Taste 2011-06-23T11:42:00Z Bellom shone in the opening set of Beethoven variations, the hands singing sensitively and independently, all while allowing Julien-Laferrière sonic space. Review | Both musicians shine, but balance between piano and cello is off 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Each “Sgt. Pepper” song creates its own sonic realm, far removed from the live Beatles’ two guitars, bass and drums. The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ at 50: Still Full of Joy and Whimsy 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z "Dance music is so much about the latest styles or sonic ideas, but Underworld has always existed on its own terms." Techno music pioneering band Underworld remains ever current 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Every sonic element — her voice, her saxophone, the clip of a baby crying — comes woven into a tapestry, with no stable relationship of foreground to background. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Khristenko’s Mozart left an imprint on the expanded orchestra, inspiring the musicians to explore a broader spectrum of its collective sonic power. Pianist Khristenko helps Fairfax Symphony finish season joyously 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z The new album, recorded with Aaron Dessner of the National, is more adventurous, with more eccentric sonic effects and flourishes of strings and horns. ArtsBeat Blog: Popcast: Jenny Scheinman, Gotye and Sharon Van Etten 2011-12-09T17:32:13Z Ghanaian drums and dance set a sonic and visual motif that recurs, at once disruption and glue. ‘Queen of Glory’ Review: Back to the Bronx 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z At the end of the fourth piece – a tenebrous funeral march, written in memory of the composer's mother – massed percussion creates the first great sonic maelstrom in musical history. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z But it’s so immersive, psychologically as well as sonically, that even with a yacht’s worth of cameos, the feeling it leaves is both seductive and punishingly solitary. Renewal, the Sensual and Fraught Candor 2010-12-18T07:51:32Z As a composer, Soper answers such destabilizing questions with a wealth of sonic reference points. An Eagerly Awaited Opera, Delayed by the Pandemic, Opens at Last 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z You play as a diver who only interacts with the world around them through a series of sonic pings. 10 chill and affordable video games to play that aren't "Animal Crossing" 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z It offered a wide palette of sonic ideas and creative visions, though some were more fully formed than others. Review: Kronos Quartet Offers a Creative Snapshot of a Global Pandemic 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z He defined in a 1988 interview a so-called plunderphone as "a recognizable sonic quote, using the actual sound of something familiar which has already been recorded." Revisiting the transitive nightfall of John Oswald's 'Grayfolded' 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Each work gained much from the loving, sonorous care of the playing, but perhaps even more from the context of the works around it: together, they combined into a newly lush sonic experience. Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle 2010-09-05T16:05:00Z Also on music, Cambridge neuroscientist Jessica Grahn will help us understand how babies are better at picking up rhythms than their parents and will lead the crowds with sonic social bonding routines. Guerilla scientists infiltrate Secret Garden Party 2010-07-23T17:58:00Z There is no opportunity for sonic escape in “Uncut Gems,” a film that often sounds like it is itself taking in three movies at once. ‘Uncut Gems’ and Its Exquisitely Harrowing Soundscape 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Just out on Newvelle — a vinyl-only subscription label whose aesthetic, in terms of visual as well as sonic design, suggests a debt to ECM — it’s an album of careful contemplation and obvious personal stake. Review: Jack DeJohnette’s ‘In Movement’ and ‘Return’ Show Sweep 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Yes, to be enveloped in the sheer sonic splendor of a great orchestra is a wonderful thing. Music Review: Cleveland Orchestra Performs Berg?s ?Lulu? Suite 2010-05-23T21:25:00Z The New, Weird World of Atlanta Rap Years ago Atlanta took control of hip-hop’s center, both geographically and sonically. Critic’s Notebook: Future, Young Scooter, Trinidad James and Atlanta Rap 2013-02-02T01:50:26Z Webern's transcription breaks up single melodic lines between different instruments, modernizing Bach not by changing notes or rhythms but with sonic juxtapositions of instrumental colors. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z There are joyful and sometimes rowdy sonic crosscurrents, even as the lyrics determinedly think things through. Wye Oak Delves Inward and Opens Up on ‘The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z And yet the emotional sweep, sonic sensuousness and instrumental virtuosity of Mazurek's magnum opus remain unmistakable. Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra brings celestial sounds to the Green Mill 2011-01-08T15:53:00Z There is, perhaps, a slightly more cynical read to the sonic choices on “Midnights”: Swift hasn’t toured since 2018, after “Reputation.” Taylor Swift, Caught Between Yesterday and Tomorrow on ‘Midnights’ 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The set proceeded from this baseline, with an enveloping atmosphere and an arid, soft-hued tonal spectrum, like a sonic equivalent to the painterly abstractions of Georgia O’Keeffe. Music Review | Kneebody: Tinges of Electro-Pop and Some Ives, Too 2010-02-19T06:17:00Z Can you recommend a sonic collar to use at night only? Animal Doctor: Risks in sidestepping the pet insurance safety net 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z “Quark” proceeds in brightly colored fragments that establish a given sonic texture before introducing a newcomer sound that, by turns, destabilizes or enriches it. Review: A Composer Inspired by Quarks and Chromosomes 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Instead of a big radio chorus, there’s a nagging, irresistible sonic squiggle of a hook: a snippet of Mr. Bieber’s voice, subliminally organic, that holds the song together. The Best Songs of 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z It's an example of strategic sonic logos and branding, a concept that — in a world that is increasingly saturated with competing rich audio projects and podcasts — is gaining some serious traction. How McDonald's recouped its image with a catchy jingle that sparked a sonic branding revolution 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z State Department bandied about an attack by a “sonic weapon” as a possible explanation. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Titled “Flux,” it lands somewhere between the sonic extremes of her previous work, marrying heavy distortion with sticky pop hooks. 66 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Puccini’s score here is a marvel of sonic perspective. Review: Puccini’s American Opera Needs a New American Vision 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Sco’s irresistible lines flow through the trio’s array of electronic effects like a sonic braid. Boogaloo at the Zoo with MSM & W | Concert preview 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Harnoncourt and the Vienna players delivered, concluding the concert with a freshly considered, strikingly original and sonically sumptuous performance of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Music Review: Vienna Players Shine at Carnegie Hall 2010-09-30T06:26:00Z But the sonic transformations she conjured in “Psalms” have recurred in some of the recent works she has created for other performers. Sharing an Intimate Musical Vision 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Old LPs, it seemed, had a more natural acoustic, a finer sonic patina. Washington National Cathedral goes under the microscope But its 2015 follow-up, which Mr. Mills produced with the band, used a far broader and more unpredictable sonic palette, from punk to shoegaze; it won a Grammy for best alternative music album. How Producer Blake Mills Coaxes Musicians Into Pushing the Envelope 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z “Rather, he distributed sonic agency among the eight ensemble members and himself to produce a supple and limpid psychic counterpoint.” Blues, jazz, electronica. It all flows through Ben LaMar Gay. 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Muse are a band that have in the past prided themselves on pushing the limits of what they can do, both sonically and visually. Readers' reviews: Muse, Kanye West Presents GOOD Music, Bloc Party 2012-10-01T17:17:06Z Older Tame Impala songs rightfully drew comparisons to Pink Floyd and the Flaming Lips, but on “Currents,” the sonic vocabulary is less cloudy and more artificial. Review: Tame Impala’s New Album Clears the Haze 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z “The sonideros’ voices create a simultaneous sonic presence between Mexico and the United States, between here and there.” A Label That Fostered Mexican Cumbia Gets Its Own Shout-Out 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z That's a hallmark of Tears for Fears' entire catalog; they've never made the same album twice, and each LP has its own sonic contours and approach. Why Tears for Fears deserves Rock & Roll Hall of Fame consideration 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z A pair of albums with divergent sonic features but a similar ethos of discovery, they highlight Mr. Cyrille’s insight, ingenuity and subtle mastery of touch. Andrew Cyrille’s Late-Career Renaissance 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z “You can’t. So the actual sonic experience, for me, was not that different.” A Philip Glass Score Was Lost. 50 Years Later, Here It Is. 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Every Sunday the East German Air Force made sonic booms to remind us of how close they were. Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z If anything, Cornell felt like the glue that held Soundgarden’s disparate sonic textures and personalities together. Chris Cornell’s talents transcend the grunge genre he helped create 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z A technical and sonic pioneer, she could be relied upon to make any new system work and was the first engineer to make a diamond cutting stylus work on lacquer discs. Hazel Yarwood obituary 2013-06-11T09:26:05Z The track features vocalist Jess Glynne, herself a rising singer now signed to Atlantic Records, and sonically the band seems bent on pop ubiquity. Which of Coachella's smaller acts will go on to make it big? 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The piece is one of a number of sonic meditations that Ms. Oliveros created to hone what she called “deep listening” — an art that engages both heart and mind, focus and generosity. Join a Musical Meditation Bringing Together Hundreds Worldwide 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Ravel’s fairy tales became a collector’s cabinet of beautiful noises; in Stravinsky’s more extroverted fantasy the ensemble still exalted sonic splendor over narrative tension. Review | Melbourne Orchestra brings sense of several places to Kennedy Center 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Music events span the sonic spectrum, from Beethoven to a queer hip-hop dance party. The Luminato Festival Turns a Former Power Plant Into a Creative Engine 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z These are faux pas, and so is the airless, joyless production — it is as sonically uncommitted as it is apathetic. Kendrick Lamar, Mortal Icon 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z For that reason and so many others, it’s always been perverse to think of rock musicians as gods — yet sonic acts of godly power were in abundance at this festival. Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life? 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z It was the music that Nono wrote from the mid-70s that marked a different world of sonic exploration, often involving electronics, and new kinds of very slow or even static time, and silence. A guide to Luigi Nono's music 2012-11-26T15:50:00Z For nearly 80 minutes, various combinations of sounds, whether fresh and present or immaterial, beautiful and grating, appeared and vanished, leaving traces of sonic dust — and the occasional goose bumps. An evening of sophisticated new Spanish music 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Her instrument arsenal includes glockenspiels, analog synths and toy pianos, a setup that she calls her "sonic spaceship". Emily Wells (No 1,503) 2013-04-30T16:03:50Z Bristling with energy, the track benefits from the new remix's enhanced sonic separation. The definitive version of the Beatles' "Let It Be" doesn't exist — but this new deluxe remix sizzles 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Tomorrow's World maintains all the Boards sonic signatures of old. Boards of Canada: Tomorrow's Harvest – review 2013-06-08T23:05:05Z “Mud Muse,” a tank of merrily bubbling, sonically activated driller’s mud, requires a good-sized room of its own—viewers who enter risk being splattered. A Tiny Masterpiece by Robert Rauschenberg 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z The performance of this lurching, intricate and sonically wondrous half-hour work was fascinating to hear and fun to watch. Music Review: Clash! Bang! Clink! Went the Orchestra 2010-10-08T17:47:00Z From a sonic perspective, this is why his work seems so different. Ariel Pink plugs into 'Pom Pom' buzz in his own singular style 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z We love the Beatles and it's the most flattering compliment you can get, but sonically we're nothing like them. 'We're not the new Beatles' 2013-06-15T10:53:14Z Live rock isn't about a perfect sonic experience: if a band's powerful enough, they can overcome anything a venue throws at them. The insiders' guide to the arts 2010-10-17T20:31:00Z When Mr. West began releasing songs to the Internet each Friday this summer, his direction wasn’t clear, the songs lacked an obvious thematic or sonic link. Kanye West, Still Unfiltered, on Eve of Fifth Album 2010-11-19T04:30:00Z For her first full-length album, “Sawayama,” which is out on Friday, she has culled from a wider-ranging set of sonic influences. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z With its slow, low-slung momentum, his set was deeply sonically strange and unusually emotionally complex. Nicolas Jaar is the renaissance man of electronic music 2011-03-12T00:07:22Z Price’s Fourth was rhythmically agile and spirited, but lacked the robustness, the lushness — the sense of sonic, and thus spiritual, abundance — that the Philadelphia Orchestra brought to her First Symphony at Carnegie in February. How the Philharmonic’s New Home Sounds, From Any Seat 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z It's nice, but for once we'd argue for keeping the sonic elaboration to a minimum. New band of the day ? No 758: Lonely Galaxy 2010-03-31T15:58:00Z They were unlikely prophets locked in telepathic mind-meld, their images periodically warping on the surface of the mirror, a sonic parallel to the shifty dual-identity deceptions of Italo Calvino or Nabokov. Darkside returns to lay claim to the title of best psychedelic rock band in the world 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z The anthology series also highlights the genius Franklin demonstrated as a child, evident in what Park explained was her ability to "alchemize her pain into sonic gold as a little girl." Capturing how Aretha Franklin could "alchemize her pain into sonic gold" 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z “Jimmy Lee” could change that through sonic ambition alone. Raphael Saadiq Finally Put His Past on the Record 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Jon Batiste’s lovely jazz compositions take turns with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s subtle, cerebral score, building a sonic bridge between the sensual and the abstract, the physical and the metaphysical. ‘Soul’ Review: Pixar’s New Feature Gets Musical, and Metaphysical 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z She prefers the term “listening with” rather than listening to — a non-hierarchical way of framing humans’ coexistence with the sonic environments all around them. ‘32 Sounds,’ a Film Performed Live, Probes the Power of Listening 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, tales of inner demons and illusory loves firm up dark but euphoric sonic adventures, and it's hard not to share in the band's audible sense of exhilaration and excitement as each odyssey unfolds. Menomena: Moms – review 2012-10-04T20:30:01Z Writers for “The Simpsons” have used this sonic brand, along with Glass’s name recognition, as fodder for jokes in multiple decades of the show’s run. What Philip Glass Learned From Samuel Beckett 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z The makeshift thrust stage for Mostly Mozart concerts is an attempt to create a similar spatial and sonic environment. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z From the band's Broken EP, its unflinching sonic barrage makes it one of their heaviest tracks. Nine Inch Nails: a beginner's guide 2013-07-08T13:52:00Z So it is with "Enjoy," a free download of cloudy-sounding #based hip-hop, a subgenre which provides a sonic parallel to the experience of swimming in information. Album reviews: 'Coexist' by The xx and two more 2012-09-18T16:39:06Z At Tuesday’s opening-night performance of her show, “Forever Moore,” at the Café Carlyle, she turned songs into sonic exhibitions in which emotion was superseded by extreme vocal display. Music Review: A Voice, Something for Flinging Around 2011-04-27T21:39:58Z Subsequently, they lacked the usability, flashiness and sonic fidelity of the CD. Audio cassettes: despite being "a bit rubbish," sales have doubled during the pandemic — here’s why 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z With Spiritualized, Mr. Pierce stepped forward as a bandleader and wrapped clearer song structures around his sonic maelstroms. Jason Pierce Struggled to Make a New Spiritualized Album. And He May Do It Again. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z But for all the sonic riches and episodic prettiness of the music, the selections never quite connected in a way that was emotionally captivating. Review: Christine Brewer in ‘Prayer,’ at Alice Tully Hall 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Admitting he "has painted a bit of a bleak picture" of the record-making process, Nick Lowe-style, the musician attributes the sonic returns of "The Convincer" to the painstaking experience of its original production. "The Convincer" still holds up for Nick Lowe's toughest critic — himself 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z “For me, I needed to create an entirely new sonic space where I could feel my pulse again,” Williams said. Singer Joy Williams gets acting bug after Showtime role 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Instead, she approaches her songs the way a visual artist might treat a blank canvas, filling them with sonic motifs, thematic associations and spoken-word interludes. Jenny Hval’s lyrics will grab your attention at Kremwerk 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z But then he returned to upbeat, supercharged, overflowing, zany pop, applying all his sounds, technology and ideas toward immediate gratification and the joys of far too much sonic information. Music Review: Oorutaichi Performs at Japan Society 2012-11-18T22:25:21Z But really, when it comes to pervasive, omnipresent guitar sounds of the last two decades, it isn't Hendrix, it's probably that tremulous, shimmery, reverb-y, sonic cathedral-y wash of sound as invented by ... who? New band of the day ? No 857: Tamaryn 2010-08-31T16:04:00Z Her music combines pop, electronica and hip-hop, and her theatrical live show is sonically and visually challenging. A look at how they lived the Sweetlife (Festival) 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z His bands in the 1970s “didn’t play songs as much as we created a sonic environment,” he writes. Book review: Herbie Hancock’s ‘Possibilities’ "The Ambassador" defies categorization as it soars from story to story and building to building on sonic wings made of strings, keyboards, bass, guitar and piano. Gabriel Kahane's moving love letter to L.A., 'The Ambassador' 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z And the sonically challenged 1964 recording from Pep’s could benefit from the technical ingenuity of major-label engineers to extract a maximum of information from its troubled tape. Seeing Through “A Love Supreme” to Find John Coltrane 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z This was Harlem’s sonic playground, and it featured the likes of the gospel crossover sensation Edwin Hawkins, the blues icon B.B. At ‘Black Woodstock,’ an All-Star Lineup Delivered Joy and Renewal to 300,000 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z PlectrumElectrum, on the other hand, is sonically and thematically consistent, brash, and swaggering where Art Official Age is eclectic and laid back. Review: Prince Is Revitalized on Art Official Age and PlectrumElectrum 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z And there’s a sonic surprise at the end of the album. Playlist: New Music From Smashing Pumpkins and Neil Young 2012-06-29T20:01:40Z A bass clarinet's startling emergence from a Stravinskyan orchestral thicket was yet another of her sonic sleights of hand. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights up the San Diego Symphony with sparkling sonics 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Djawadi is best known for writing the music for Game of Thrones, and yet again he’s created the ideal sonic accompaniment for a world that seems both so far away and so relatable. The best TV soundtracks of 2016 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Singles of the 50s now sounded like the sonic equivalent of beach huts. Let's raise a glass to lovely, swampy, droning, booming bass 2013-05-29T19:00:00Z Together, these films — along with others in the Sundance lineup, including “As You Are,” a teenage drama that turns on the availability of weapons — could add up to a cultural sonic boom. The Sundance Film Festival Trains Its Sights on the Gun Debate 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z In “Crystalline,” one of the new songs Bjork performed on Friday evening at the New York Hall of Science, she sang: “Octagon polygon/pipes of an organ/sonic branches/murmuring drone.” Music Review: Bjork at the New York Hall of Science 2012-02-04T08:34:26Z Hearing a band who once personified futurism being reduced to following last year's sonic fad isn't edifying. The Human League: Credo ? review 2011-03-17T23:20:01Z She adapts to another industry trend — the overlong album, designed to maximize revenue on streaming platforms — by using tiny sonic details to generate hidden connective tissue. Review | Lana Del Rey suddenly sounds like the poet laureate of post-truth 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Eilish’s songs are actually miniature sonic fun houses, anything but drab or monotonous, with playful melodies, meticulously varied instrumentation and a theatrical spectrum of attitudes, from taunting to suicidal. Pop Music in 2019: An Escape From Isolation? 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z In contrast to the European ideal of sonic purity, Takemitsu suggested, Japanese music embraces the expressive noise that lives inside every musical sound. Hundreds of New Concertos Bring the World to the Concert Hall 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z If the “Fast and Furious” movies went all-electric, and the grunt of gasoline engines was muted, the series could still rely on Vin Diesel’s voice to fill out the low end of the sonic spectrum. What’s on TV This Week: ‘After Yang’ and the State of the Union 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Record-nerd catnip though they may be, these cameos weren't about exploiting name brands, Rechtshaid insisted, but attaining a level of sonic legitimacy to match the "realness" of Flowers' lyrics. Brandon Flowers' new solo album, 'The Desired Effect,' takes personal turn 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Certain sonic cues from percussionists compelled Mr. Kahane to respond in certain ways. Review: Andrew Norman’s ‘Split,’ a Teeming Premiere From the New York Philharmonic 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, he makes a sonic collage that includes words spoken by Paul Bowles. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Her voice flickers like a sonic candle, rising and fading with the music. Feminist performance series brings Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq to the Broad 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z There wasn’t much in the way of nebulous dread in the opening measures, as Morlot emphasized French clarity instead of sonic fog. Filling the Hollywood Bowl with the 'Musique de France' 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The sonic possibilities of the cello are explored in the intense “Transitions,” powerfully rendered by Michael Nicolas. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Oliver’s fashion shows for his label Hood by Air are an explosion of counter-cultural ideas, menacing artificial fog and music that reverberates like a sonic blast. How designer Shayne Oliver won over Kanye West, A$AP Rocky — and the fashion world Saunders’s imagination is well represented within the work’s wealth of sonic effects. The Thrill of a Contemporary Classical Concert, Captured on Disc 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Her music is similarly nostalgic, a sonic scrapbook of what it was like to be young and alternative in the 90s. Meet Waxahatchee: she's like Lena Dunham with a guitar 2013-06-28T12:00:00Z Gounod and his librettists weren’t particularly interested in Shakespeare’s theme of two families reconciled through the sacrifice of their children, but the composer compensated by constructing a nuanced sonic study of youth shadowed by death. At Castleton Festival, a fitting tribute to Lorin Maazel 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z But if we think of the blues more broadly — as a confessional purge, as a sonic act of unburdening — we can hear it all around us. The thrill is gone. So is B.B. King. Now what happens to blues music? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z They were written to fit together harmonically like a sonic jigsaw puzzle. Bluebrain?s App Central Park (Listen to the Light) 2011-12-07T23:35:57Z Noises normally rejected, like surface scrapes and static bursts, provided fertile sonic lodes. Music Review: Sarah Cahill and Carl Stone at the Stone Space 2010-08-04T22:28:00Z Creating a sonic template for a prior trip to Amsterdam proved more challenging. The Sound of ‘Housewives’ Everywhere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s hard to say what is better in those last seven words, the thinking or the sonic arrangement — which is exactly the argument a good poem ought to inspire. The Best Poetry of 2016 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z A careful mélange of archival film and sonic clarity, “The Searcher” is a fine reassessment of Presley’s origins and impact. Review | ‘Elvis Presley: The Searcher’ is a beautiful way to rediscover the man who became King 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The audaciousness of Mr. Dillon’s composition, which spans a wide sonic terrain, pulls you in. Music Review: ?Nine Rivers? at Miller Theater - Review 2011-09-18T22:20:23Z But he’s using his own sonic material, not samples, and he’s attempting anthems. The Week Ahead: July 10 ? 16 2011-07-07T20:15:40Z Then the Doctor arrives from the past with his sonic screwdriver to solve some stuff and un-download her, and maybe get a snog. Doctor Who – review 2013-03-30T19:00:04Z Despite its 32-year history, the group typically focuses on current material and largely ignores its past, pushing forward in pursuit of new sonic directions and conversations. Vandermark blows his horn with Ex's winds of change 2011-03-09T15:20:46Z His tendency to envelop the material in sheer sonic grandeur sometimes worked against it, especially when the high level of amplification employed on this occasion was factored in. Bryn Terfel – review 2012-07-05T17:00:01Z And the Met’s exceptionally versatile chorus takes a crucial role here as, Ms. Saariaho explained, “the sonic bridge between the soloists and the orchestra.” Your Guide to a Met Opera Milestone 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z The sonic details of “Evermore” are radiant and meticulous; the songwriting is poised and careful. ‘Evermore,’ Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ Sequel, Is a Journey Deeper Inward 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z In fact, it’s not a stretch to say that younger generations have come around to Toto’s meticulous, sonically pristine approach to classic rock, which combines studio finesse, instrumental technique and onstage charisma and chemistry. “I’m not ready for the dirt nap yet”: How Toto outlasted the haters, took back their career and won over a new generation 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Over the muted sparkle of “Home,” Goldman spoke-sang about “that rooftop party where I first heard Public Enemy” and how, in that moment of sonic enlightenment, “something shifted permanently.” Review | Vivien Goldman is stepping out of punk lore and into the present 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Lydon says at one point in the song that "Fodderstompf" is the sound of PiL taking up sonic space for no reason other than to fill a contractual time limit, which doesn't explain the music. Concert preview: Public Image Limited at the Showbox 04/20/10 2010-04-14T00:01:00Z Both make use of feedback and resonance effects, and treat music as both sonic and physical phenomena. Camille Norment Explores New Sonic Terrains at Dia Chelsea 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The band’s down-home roots provide thematic as well as sonic inspiration: Their most recent album, “Young Sick Camelia,” from 2018, confronts the fraught politics of their home state. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z The 23rd annual Latin Grammy Awards split their bounty on Thursday night — a sensible choice given the geographic, generational and sonic diversity of Latin music. At the Latin Grammys, Youth and Age Were Both Welcome 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Its telegraphic lyrics pack far-reaching implications into a few words; its succinct melodies harbor nervy sonic experimentation. The Playlist: Missy Elliott Reappears With a Boast, and Wire Returns With a Blast 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z And from the opening of Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture No. 3 through Sibelius' Violin Concerto with Karen Gomyo as soloist and, finally, in Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," Grazinyte-Tyla was able to convey extraordinary sonic immediacies. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights up the San Diego Symphony with sparkling sonics 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z But when will Robinson and his fellow EDM peers showcase the French pioneers' visual and sonic originality? Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z They ended with a stylish presentation of Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel, which managed real sonic sheen and glow, as well as being vividly characterised. Last night's Prom 2010-07-27T11:19:00Z Anna Wise is an artist whose music subtly embraces sonic ironies, like digital earthiness. On her sophomore album, Anna Wise paints a nuanced picture of female empowerment 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z I do feel I can “read” that long m — it has a sonic quality — and the Saroyan poem “lighght.” How Poets Use Punctuation as a Superpower and a Secret Weapon 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z All the better to draw new attention to a thoroughly eccentric song, one that references both Los Angeles and Ms. Richards’s birthplace, Louisiana, while going through multiple sonic metamorphoses. The Playlist: Harry Styles and Beth Ditto Take the Plunge and Go Solo 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Colors are what matter, not masses, Huxley sings in a scene taken from his influential 1954 book, "The Doors of Perception," while the Partch instruments turn color and mass into the same sonic thing. Work-in-progress 'LSD: The Opera' is powerful musical theater 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z For all the sonic wizardry, the album's strongest suits are often the most traditional. John Cale: Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood – review 2012-09-27T21:15:03Z West makes no new propositions here, sonically or lyrically. Review | Kanye West is now trolling us from the void 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The work is a sonic portrait of Edinburgh - the city and the festival - created with input from Edinburgh lovers, both residents and visitors. Join us for an interactive improvisation session for Tod Machover's Festival City project 2013-07-08T15:57:45Z Coinciding with the aim to write songs in the voices of different characters was an urge to “follow a sonic path,” Krasno said. A Brooklyn gentrification soundtrack: Kraz's "Telescope," a timely New York story 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Shebib said that a friend “basically forced me to listen to it,” but the distinctive sonic blend caught his ear. Drake’s Secret Weapon Is All Set to Break Loose 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z There's a lot going on there: horns, piano, bass, drums, electronic effects, all rhythmically matched – towards the end of the track, there's now twice as much sonic material. Lou Reed on Yeezus: 'It brings tears to my eyes' 2013-07-03T15:48:19Z But with Whittaker at the helm – “and with no sign of her handing in the sonic screwdriver any time soon” – now seemed like a good time to renew the debate. Doctor Who: David Tennant voted fans' favourite Time Lord 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z “Rubbed-balloon sound” might not seem like a sonic texture you’d place much stock in if you were creating a musical work. Surround Sound? You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Leppin sat at the center of it all, physically and sonically, maintaining an imposing posture over her cello, as if literally trying to wrestle new sounds out of it. Review | Janel Leppin’s Ensemble Volcanic Ash is making a jazzlike sound you can look forward to 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z The music Grimes created was made up of stems — sonic building blocks — that eventually fed the app’s algorithm. The Future According to Grimes 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z On “Duopoly,” her sharp and stimulating new album, the pianist Kris Davis engages eight different improvising musicians in duets, covering a lot of sonic territory. The Playlist: Danny Brown and the Weeknd Serve Up Twists and Turns 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The nine installations in the exhibit cover more than three decades in his career and make it clear that disorienting intersections between sonic and visual worlds have fascinated the 61-year-old artist from the beginning. A stroll with sound/video artist Gary Hill through his new show 2012-05-02T22:15:08Z Another thing that will expand is the sonic palette, to reflect the range and depth of good music today. Lake Wobegon’s new mayor: Chris Thile’s “Prairie Home Companion” will go “from Bach to Kendrick Lamar” 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z The four-movement composition is a sonic adventure of rhythms, intricate sonorities and emotions. Taipei Symphony makes Strathmore debut with pride and passion 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z Packed with cleverly crafted production, Where Does This Door Go may be a sonic adventure, but it's not quite slick enough to challenge the current crop of R&B luminaries. Mayer Hawthorne: Where Does This Door Go – review 2013-07-11T21:10:00Z When they came on stage, supported by a drummer and a keyboardist, the crowd erupted like a sonic volcano. Haim causes sonic explosion at Paramount | Concert review 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Cuomo is also at work on the group’s next record, the Black Album — a tougher, grittier reaction to the White Album’s sonic buoyancy — and said, “It’s all I think about.” Rivers Cuomo of Weezer Taps His Inner Beach Boy 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Opting to fill in the emotional and sonic space of their earlier work, the pair looked to the body-friendly rhythms of disco and house music. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Discovery can be a joy in a familiar but complex work like this when some felicitous detail, previously unnoticed, slips into consciousness, but not when it hurtles out in a kind of sonic 3-D. Music Review: A Fresh Face Confronts a Seasoned Mahler 2011-03-18T22:24:01Z “We know people are going to expect some sonic universe and emotion. But if we do our job right, people are going to think: I’ve never heard these songs like this.” Has Alanis Morissette Made the Most Woke Musical Since ‘Hair’? 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z “I want something more like a sonic image — that someone hears it on the radio and hears my voice and thinks, instantly, that it’s me. That’s more important to me than anything else.” Dua Lipa Was Raised on Pop Bangers. Now She Writes Them. 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Other than Salonen's score losing much of its sonic allure over loudspeakers, the collaboration did work, with Peck's six dancers effectively conveying a complex study in time and motion leading to exhausted collapse. Music Center's 50th-anniversary gala amps up energy to a fault 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Does Marclay’s sonic output land differently when viewed from the vantage of “art”? Marclay at the Whitney: Listening on the Couch 2010-07-15T16:15:00Z Later, during the substantially longer “Atlas,” with its light-strip crackles and pops, I kept thinking back to those ambient sounds and imagined them subtly warming the sonic palette of the piece. From Silence to Noise: Rauschenberg’s Influence on Music 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The light, carefree strum that has become the instrument’s sonic stereotype invokes innocence, sincerity and childlike wonder, as well as nostalgia for a pre-rock ’n’ roll era. Ukulele Crazy 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z He was also surrounded by a sonic culture built on fusion, education and black styles — a scene that prized combining genres, improvisation and creating new sounds. How Minneapolis made Prince 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z “The Velvet Underground” will show you where that perpetual novelty came from, and connect the sonic dots with other, contemporaneous artistic eruptions. ‘The Velvet Underground’ Review: And Me, I’m in a Rock ’n’ Roll Band 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Absent any convincing emotional investment, the sonic politesse is ideal for naps or gently lolling about in a back-porch swing. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z For Lopatin, who has railed against the often limited sonic palette of underground music, these tapes are proof that slowing down music dismissed as cheesy reveals its weirdness, beauty and potential. Inception brings the trend for slow music to the big screen 2010-07-30T12:04:00Z “Never live in fear again, no, never again,” is the chorus of “New Brighton,” a single recorded with Anohni, whose music has sonic parallels with Nakhane’s own. For Nakhane, Songs Can Be Painful and Dangerous. His New Album Is a Balm. 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z In an embarrassment of Washington’s sonic riches, there were still many other great records from breakout garage rockers, beatmakers extraordinaire and more that narrowly missed this arbitrarily numbered list. The 17 best Seattle-area albums of the year (so far) 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The looseness is hypnotic, extending to an accumulation of stray sonic details, like the series of fills played by Per Lindvall, the Swedish session drummer. The Playlist: The Gospel According to Alicia Keys 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Literally: the piece uses Nasa's captured sounds of the spinning planets to inspire a sonic meditation on our place in the cosmos. A guide to Terry Riley's music 2013-01-28T16:06:11Z Once Marpac recognized that people actually wanted a sonic distraction from this basic feature of modern life, they began marketing the device for improved sleep or concentration. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Residents living near Stansted Airport reported hearing a loud sonic boom as the jets scrambled to intercept the flight. Passenger reportedly attacks crew members and tries to force open plane door: 'Everyone’s screaming and crying' 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z What would you do with a sonic screwdriver in your day-to-day life? Quickfire interview: Eoin Colfer on Doctor Who 2013-01-08T09:00:00Z Each moment plays a role in building an ambitious sonic tapestry that is a grand sum of its parts. REVIEW: 45 Years Later, Led Zeppelin I Remains Transcendent 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Scaled with imaginative variety at all levels, this was a realisation that took in every shade of the work's emotional and sonic scale. Prom 39 & Matinee 3: BBCNOW/Fischer; Britten Sinfonia/Rundell – review 2012-08-12T15:00:01Z You hear that voice, and it is a sonic boom. Film Forum Asks, What Is the Experience of Black Women in Film 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Seabrook is now the greatest sonic wild card in the band, often using echo and distortion and clawed strokes on the guitar strings to put a layer of filth over Mr. Opsvik’s arrangements. Music From a Distance? Eivind Opsvik Has Been Making It for Years 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Their harmony is totemic — it is a sonic representation of sisterhood. The Chicks Are Done Caring What People Think 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Look for it to fill the room here — both literally and sonically. A&E highlights: Craft beer, Steely Dan, Railroad Days 2013-08-07T22:51:24Z His own music has ranged in style significantly while holding onto an identifiable mix of chilly reserve, sonic experiment, simple tunefulness and musical curiosity. John Cale’s new society: “There’s much more sophistication in hip-hop than in regular rock ‘n’ roll” 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Those songs, and others by the likes of Lorde and Ariana Grande, is adventurous, unafraid to be both sonically peculiar and aggressively independent. Meghan Trainor Is All About the Boys on Title, With Mixed Results 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Darden argued her case, and was almost instantly promoted to an engineering team where she started her career in sonic boom research. How history forgot the black women behind Nasa’s space race 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z One of the most deserving acts also making their first ballot appearance is Roxy Music, the U.K. sonic aesthetes whose five-album run in the early '70s was an astonishing display of audacious creativity. It’s time for Roxy Music’s debonair art-glam to get its due 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z “I think a lot about the sonic experience of the things that I’m writing. I feel like they need to hit the right note in order to resonate the way that I want them to.” The Creators of ‘On Sugarland’ Build a Site of Mourning and Repair 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The quietest place I’ve ever lived is Germany, where sound regulations, urban forests and the occasional act of public shushing creates a different sonic landscape. Perspective | In a noisy world, books about silence are booming 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z This season, she pays tribute, visually and sonically, to some of the important artistic relationships she has forged during her 25 years living and working in New York City. Review: Michelle Dorrance Returns to the Joyce. Where’s the Zip? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Weather concerns moved the event inside, to the Temple of Dendur, which made for a muddier sonic impression, though still a grand visual one. Music Review: St. Vincent Sings at Metropolitan Museum of Art - Review 2011-08-26T23:18:13Z A CD is 72 minutes long, so I decided to separate them sonically. Erykah Badu 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist' 2010-03-24T11:48:00Z Even as it poses technical and lyrical challenges to its soloist, it treats listeners to a sonic wonderland, recalling the orchestrating ingenuity of Ravel and Bartók. French accent at SSO: Morlot to lead works by Ravel, Debussy, Dutilleux 2012-03-08T22:02:11Z Oswald started distributing his early sonic experiments in the mid-1970s, when the notion of layering digital files and working cut-and-paste computer tools seemed the stuff of science fiction. Revisiting the transitive nightfall of John Oswald's 'Grayfolded' 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Le’Andria isn’t looking to the past for sonic inspiration, but she achieves a similar warmth on “Bigger Than Me,” which, like “Let Them Fall in Love,” is nominated for best gospel album. The Grammy Gems You Won’t Hear on ‘Music’s Biggest Night’ 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Kate Bush is an obvious comparison for any sonically ambitious, theatrically inclined British female singer. FKA Twigs bewitches crowd at the El Rey Theatre 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Capable of moving between myriad personas and sonic backdrops that cut through hard-core rap, pop fluff and sticky dance floor bangers, the always provocative Nicki Minaj makes us stop and pay attention. A guide to BET Experience shows that are worth catching 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z In Ravel's "Mother Goose," he went for bursts of flavor from every instrument, putting great emphasis on the sonic equivalent of neon lighting for color and effect. A great first date for the L.A. Chamber Orchestra and Matthias Pintscher. Will there be a second? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z I asked my mother what that sound was, and she said, “It’s a sonic boom.” In ‘Afropessimism,’ a Black Intellectual Mixes Memoir and Theory 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z It was the thrill and danger of emotional taboo, the sonic equivalent of sneaking a cigarette butt from an ashtray and taking that first filthy drag. If only I knew what the lyrics meant 2012-09-16T17:00:00Z A sonic benefit of being in Manhattan is overhearing atypical conversation. The Art of Summer: The Words We Live By 2011-08-03T12:00:05Z If there are traces of defiance — or defensiveness — in Rosalía’s delivery, it is because she has not always been praised for helping herself to an all-purpose sonic and linguistic tool kit. Rosalía Reserves the Right to Transform 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z That evening, the orchestra gave the most fully realized, most sonically shattering, most overtly passionate Mahler performance it has yet played with Dudamel. Gustavo Dudamel 'very happy' with decision to stay in L.A. 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z That period of introspection led to his 13th studio album, the recently released “The Horizon Just Laughed,” a striking sonic departure from his “Maraqopa” trilogy. Damien Jurado, out with a new album, says goodbye to Seattle with a show at St. Mark’s 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Still coursing with a psychedelic undercurrent, Freakout’s constantly expanding its sonic reaches and in recent years has established a cool pipeline to Mexico City’s rock scene. The hottest concerts to catch in the Seattle area in fall 2021 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The preconcert presentation included evocative clips from the movie, but its 1938 soundtrack was no match for the sonic impact of the live orchestra. Review: Springtime Auburn gets a taste of Russian winter, courtesy of ASO 2010-04-11T16:36:00Z The genres appear comfortable in a sonic rut – the raveish synthesisers that added an icy edge to Rihanna's Umbrella, Auto-Tuned vocals, arpeggios of 'rock' guitar – while the rest of pop music has caught up. Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday 2010-11-22T15:27:00Z The lack of sonic plumpness also helps make Geffen superb with amplification. How the Philharmonic’s New Home Sounds, From Any Seat 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z “At once sonic and disruptive, these poems pull together everything in a world where nothing is sacred,” she said. Kemi Alabi wins First Book Award from poets academy 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Yet despite all the sonic flash, it was Vernon’s vocals that determined whether a song worked. Review | For Bon Iver, it remains all about the voice 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z “I think I’m just going to start sonically, start with chords and melody and sounds and production and see what the words decide to be,” he said. Moses Sumney Does Not Sing Love Songs 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z “Midnights” feels like a sonic place holder, with stadiums in mind. Taylor Swift, Caught Between Yesterday and Tomorrow on ‘Midnights’ 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Material from the album has retained its epiphanic qualities in Primal Scream's sets, so this full album tour is likely to be far more deep sonic voyage than nostalgia trip for pilled-up fortysomethings. This week's new live music 2011-03-12T00:07:25Z Belle and Sebastian tinkered with multiple sonic experiments before recording the album. Belle and Sebastian's 'Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance' finds its soul 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z French horn "fell by the wayside" after a bout of malaria during a trip to Tanzania and instead he pursued his interest in electronic music, creating dance tracks, "sonic art" and African music. Gabriel Prokofiev gets the Proms into the groove 2011-07-28T20:29:01Z And incorporating that arithmetic into his compositional process, his new symphony accordingly becomes their sonic analogue. Music Review: Beating the ‘Curse of the Ninth’ 2014-02-04T13:01:10Z Portico fans will undoubtedly want this update for the subtle sonic tweaking, and the live recordings sufficiently ramp up the group's familiar melodious murmur for those listeners who previously found them soporific. Portico Quartet: Knee-Deep in the North Sea ? review 2011-02-03T21:46:00Z There she discovered the computer technology that would allow her to realise the sonic phenomena she heard in her personal musical universe. A guide to Kaija Saariaho's music 2012-07-09T15:01:23Z There’s a loosely interrelated, narcotized sonic continuum just outside of pop that stretches across half a century or more: drone, ambient, industrial, shoegaze. New Music: New Music by Kevin Hufnagel, Jimmy Owens and Guided by Voices 2012-01-03T00:53:03Z The effect is not a pastiche, but a sonic code switching. Review: Musicians of Color Reclaim Control in a White Space 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z And the mere slide of a shoe along the floor becomes an abrasive sonic event. Dance Review: Flamenco With Plenty of Volume 2011-02-17T23:04:58Z No drums, no brass, no sonic effects other than a bit of reverb on the guitar, and no distracting virtuosity. Gerald Albright and Karen Mantler Release Albums 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z But consider the vast sonic differences between the music of different cultures, or those within our own culture, and this soon seems pretty implausible. Music is a vital strand of our social fabric 2012-08-02T19:00:00Z All agree that British radio, with its lack of rigid generic separation, played a vital part in creating UK soul's sonic melting pot. UK soul: the sound of the Union 2011-07-07T19:59:00Z The mood board of her career peak, “Melodrama,” though, contained a whole kaleidoscope of color, and it’s that wonderful album’s sense of contrast and sonic dynamism that’s missing the most here. Lorde Opts Out on the Provocatively Subdued ‘Solar Power’ 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Is he completely in control of this strange sonic language, or is the instrument having its way with him? 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Four years after the release of Washed Out’s “Paracosm” — an immersion in introspective sonic bliss — “Mister Mellow” arrives as a “visual album” with videos for every track. Washed Out, a Pioneer of Chillwave, Considers an Escape on ‘Mister Mellow’ 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, “Audium,” a sonic experience held in a specially built theater in the Lower Pacific Heights, engages differently with the melody of water. Arts: ?Audium? and ?The Wave Organ?: The Sounds of Art 2010-03-28T02:41:00Z The movement that came, somewhat retrospectively, to also be called emo, was varied both in style and composition, but did feature certain sonic and visual hallmarks. Emo revival: why 2022 was the perfect time to bring the genre back from the dead 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Despite the ascent of my own medium, I’ve found myself overwhelmed and exhausted by this sonic boom. Perspective | In a noisy world, books about silence are booming 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Paggett’s “Private Realness” is characterized by a physical and sonic sense of volume. Dance Review: ‘Solos & Solitudes,’ Works by Clark, Gravel and Paggett 2013-04-27T00:02:42Z Gear up for that sonic journey with this concert special. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Country Music: Live at the Ryman’ and a Valerie Harper Tribute 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z "We started from the premise that music was a mission, not a competition," says Mayer, who describes himself as a "sonic consultant" to Hendrix. The London years 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z A laptop, he pointed out, easily supersedes what the symphony can offer in terms of sonic power and flexibility. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z And yet the song’s melodic elation chimes with a transporting sonic vision, which Kristi updates for the era of the stan and our contemporary search for identity in avatars. How beabadoobee’s “I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus” Reckons with a Rock Idol 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z But Styles, who came to fame as part of the British boy band One Direction, is still relatively early in his solo career, and is still establishing his sonic ideas. The Harry Styles Show (and Some Music) Comes to New York 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Chief among them were “sound baths” that harness sonic vibrations from gongs, conch shells, tuning forks and other instruments to restore calm and balance and release toxins in the body. The Artist as Healer 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The result is “Yeezus” for Jesus, packed with hard sonic jolts. Kanye West, Heretic by Nature, Finds God 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z The only other objects in the room are four long microphones pointed at the sculpture, which produce sonic feedback from the brass instrument, soft, sustained and sublime. Camille Norment Explores New Sonic Terrains at Dia Chelsea 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z At a second-by-second level, it might seem as if the sonic riot is too much to process. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Artifacts of better times and distant lands and the stupefying diversity of mankind’s sonic output. Down with fascist iPods 2012-06-13T00:07:00Z They just stormed back in the studio to stage more sonic protests filled with equally charged lyrics. Pussy Riot on Trial: The Case Against the Anti-Putin Feminist Rockers 2012-07-31T12:00:36Z Children can follow a sonic scavenger hunt of global music on their way to the new Discovery Garden. Spare Times for Children for June 5-11 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The result is an orchestra pit that's like a smaller version of Wagner's in Bayreuth, descending yards underneath the stage to create the ideal sonic balance between the singers and the orchestra. Bringing Wagner to Gloucestershire 2010-07-22T22:06:00Z The idea that there is a determinable origin point where a sonic idea was born is a romantic one. It’s Got a Great Beat, and You Can File a Lawsuit to It 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z These came across as tedious sonic streams of consciousness, in which the language of experimental jazz was subjected to the centrifugal forces of extended technique. Review: New Music Inspired by Christ’s Agony and Dating Apps 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Despite the sonic differences, Rankin said she channels her father’s drive. Alvvays, a Dreamy Indie-Rock Band, Cranks Up the Volume 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z “We were not interested in playing by those rules,” said Julio Perez IV, the show’s lead editor, who recalled conceiving of their “own sonic galaxy” with the “Euphoria” creator, writer and director Sam Levinson. Why the ‘Euphoria’ Teens Listen to Sinead O’Connor, Tupac and Selena 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z As Simon Reynolds notes in his brilliant new book "Retromania," retro -- sonically, sartorially or stylistically -- is a revolt against the present moment. Why I miss the monoculture 2011-09-29T00:01:00Z M.I.A. made her name with her complex juxtapositions of the first world and third world, verbally and sonically. Critics? Choice: CDs by M.I.A. and Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse 2010-07-11T22:31:00Z In a program note Ludovic Morlot, who departs as the Seattle Symphony’s music director after next season, promised “a very different sonic landscape.” Review: A Pulitzer Sequel for Orchestra, Packed With Drama in Microcosm 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The minutes creep by as the performers tease out sonic experiments that were new half a century ago. Israel Galván – review 2013-03-26T18:11:27Z Yet, “somehow, everyone swims in the same sonic ocean, and that is transporting.” Essential Arts & Culture: Norton Simon keeps its Cranachs, Doug Aitken lands at MOCA, the power of 'Carré' 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z Amid a raw yet seamless blend of piano, acoustic guitar and subtle rhythms and sonic accents, her songs seek something true amid the bumps and bliss of daily life. Review: Holly Williams spins sensitive new album 2013-02-04T17:25:53Z That most British of seafront pursuits, metal-detecting, is also paid tribute to in Output Arts' sonic installation Lost & Sound. This week's new events 2011-08-19T23:10:18Z Swoon pays homage to My Bloody Valentine and Orbital's Halcyon, while K+D+B's drums-and-melody soundscape battles with the giant sonic shadow cast by the Brothers' own The Private Psychedelic Reel from 1997. The Chemical Brothers: Further 2010-06-10T22:45:00Z Just infinite shades of sonic gray and songs that would never freaking end. I’m Not a Dad, but I Rock Like One 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Some of Mr. Cooper’s changes might appear subtle to outsiders but are the equivalent of sonic booms to regular attendees. 2010-01-21T06:26:00Z Foiled against crisp, glassy piano chords and reverse-gasp cymbals, the basic sonic premise for "Take Care of Me" — anchored by bass — is immediately affecting on a physically sensational level. The-Dream's "Love King" songs of note #2: "Take Care of Me" 2010-07-22T20:46:00Z Some airlines have experimented with what Spence called “sonic seasoning,” like playing tinkling music or offering plates and glasses that make that sound, because it brings out the sweetness in meals. Airlines aim to trick your taste buds at 30,000 feet 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z But wonder 2 sounds incredible, like the sonic counterpart of a dust storm, with Shields' vocal – another beautiful melody – drifting pacifically through it. m b v – review 2013-02-04T18:22:24Z Then — quickly! — he jumped up to another standing microphone, where he began a weird sonic compound of murder and prayer: penetrating shrieks, steadying purrs. Critic’s Notebook: Keiji Haino at Issue Project Room and Whitney Museum 2013-04-21T21:46:54Z His string section plays with gut strings, the winds and brass are of period design, and the sonic palette sometimes blooms with wonder. Tchaikovsky for Christmas 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z I’m curious what, if any, sonic analogues this record brings to your minds. Fiona Apple Is Back and Unbound: Let’s Discuss 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The St. Luke’s musicians deftly illuminated the sonic intricacies. Pierre Boulez’s Legacy Is Explored at NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Kondo notes on the site that the sonic vibrations made by a tuning fork help her reset, and she demonstrates in a hypnotic video. Marie Kondo Wants to Sell You Nice Things. What’s Wrong With That? 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The band’s music changed as the technology changed, becoming less sonically immersive and more beat-driven as the musicians began using digital synthesizers. Edgar Froese, Leader of Tangerine Dream, Dies at 70 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z But Swift is also approaching a career crossroads, working with the same producers as she has in the past and exploring familiar sonic ideas. Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’: Let’s Discuss 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Basically, rather than standing on a stage in front of an audience, the band perform in an adjacent room where sonic artist Dallas Simpson wanders around with two miniature microphones in his ears. New music: Swimming – All Things Made New (Stand) 2012-05-29T12:33:43Z Then there are Ringo Starr’s drums in “The End,” which fill the entire sonic space, from left to right. The Beatles’ revolutionary use of recording technology in "Abbey Road" 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z In “Danzaora & Vinática,” performed Thursday, unfortunately for one night only, she uses elements, like wine and glasses, not as gimmicks, but as tools to create a sonic landscape. Review: Rocío Molina, Offering Dances of Wine and Glasses 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z I wonder what they will make of That UltraBeer Thing!, which is almost literally a sonic screwdriver. Kitchen gadgets review: That UltraBeer Thing! – how to get a big head 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Since then, his music has only grown more intense, sonically and philosophically. Review | In chaotic times, Mizmor’s heavy metal is a model of composure 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Puts has gotten from Glass’s Minimalism a taste for using repeated figurations as a kind of sonic carpeting, but his repetitions are much less insistent. Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z Tinashe treats familiar Christmas songs the way hip-hop producers treat samples: as springboards for commentary, moods, tangents, associations, sonic transformations. 20 Albums That Put a New Spin on the Holidays 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z One of the first things you notice hearing Canadian artist Afie Jurvanen, who uses the stage name Bahamas, is the complete absence of sonic distance between the singer and the listener. Bahamas wants listeners to lean in to hear 'Bahamas Is Afie' album 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z I hereby nominate, for a retrospective Pulitzer, Public Enemy’s 1988 album “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back”: an experimental sonic bombshell, a verbal torrent, a mind expander. Kendrick Lamar Shakes Up the Pulitzer Game: Let’s Discuss 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z There were plenty of excursions into other sonic terrain, too. Review | Harriet Tubman, the band, blasts out at Kennedy Center 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z In this piece, synthesizer and saxophone create piercing dissonances that are sustained to the point where sonic boundaries blur, throb and flicker. Review: Either/Or, at University Settlement, Is Inspired by Boredom and Writer’s Block 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z “The Promise” marked the latest sonic iteration for Cornell, who committed suicide after Soundgarden’s Wednesday night show in Detroit. Chris Cornell’s talents transcend the grunge genre he helped create 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z On "Zonoscope," the band's sonic ambitions stretched as the players took on their own production duties. Cut Copy breaks out of dance mold Tuesday at Showbox SoDo 2011-04-07T19:31:08Z So when he decided to make his next album a sonic biography, it was bound to delve, perhaps uncomfortably, into questions about consumption. In ?One Pig,? Matthew Herbert Finds Music in a Pig 2011-10-17T23:39:17Z It’s how he plays the melody that best demonstrates his sonic fingerprint. The Tedeschi-Trucks dream, still unfulfilled | Concert preview 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Its music is studded with sonic and structural allusions, though it doesn’t linger on any particular style or era. Cage the Elephant Returns, Suspended Between Rowdiness and Regret 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Furthermore, as Hayes herself notes, when Vaughan crossed over, she broadened the sonic palate of American audiences, introducing them to “everything new and modern” through her sophisticated, avant-garde singing. Sarah Vaughan finally gets the biography she deserves 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z And what an album – as sonically arresting as anything you'll hear this year. New band of the day ? No 835: Aeroplane 2010-07-28T16:25:00Z “Older recordings sonically are a little thin and lack the heft that so many contemporary songs have.” Movie Trailers Keep Tweaking Well-Known Songs. The Tactic Is Working. 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z But at this early stage, Pearl Jam leaned heavier than both of those bands, both sonically and emotionally. Pearl Jam's "Ten" at 30: A raw, dynamic debut that's both sonically and emotionally exquisite 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z There was a close connection between music and text — the latter projected onto a screen — even in the instrumental passages, where Gabriel Cabezas’s cello underwent a number of sonic transformations. Music Review: Dolce Suono Ensemble and Lucy Shelton at Roulette 2013-12-10T18:21:41Z The hybrid sonic excursions ebb and flow, with Willner molding and shaping undulating waves of sound around the contributions of his accompanists. Pitchfork Day 3: Vampire Weekend, Ty Segall, Kendrick Lamar (and Lady Gaga?) 2012-07-16T05:11:00Z Llike Doom and Gloom, premiered last month, One More Shot harks back sonically to the band's early-70s heyday, with a modern production gloss from Don Was. Hear the new Rolling Stones song – One More Shot 2012-11-08T10:33:00Z Zeds Dead, a duo from Toronto, offered a more lighthearted sonic variety pack, touching down with bits of pop and hip-hop before ricocheting in unpredictable ways. Review: Electric Zoo, a Menagerie Designed for Dancing 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z Stylistically, they paved the sonic highway for a generation of less imaginative nu-metal bands that eventually chased their own platinum tails into the end times of mainstream rock. Prophets of Rage and the trouble with fighting today’s wars using yesterday’s weapons 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z But the mood is undercut by its juxtaposition with Nassar’s stark prison hallway march, with its sonic flourishes forming a macabre musical interlude: cuffs jangle, doors creak and thud. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 6: Walk, Talk ... Duck! 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z He is an uncomplicated, always-good-never-bad hero, the kind who saves galaxies with a single flash of his sonic screwdriver. TV Review: 'Doctor Who' Episode 801, 'Deep Breath' -- A Heroic Failure 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z “After sonic and visual hell,” Xenakis wrote, “follows a detonating calm, full of despair, dust and death.” With a Sound Forged in War, Iannis Xenakis Embraced Chaos 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z “Let us leave a sonic trace of ourselves here today.” Pathological Theater, a Salve to Soothe Minds 2010-06-05T02:05:00Z The result of doing so, she has said, is a record that is sonically sunny. You will miss her when she’s gone: Noname soars live 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z The sonic and visual flux became itself a kind of meditative focus: embracing the analog, organic variability of both sound and existence. Review | With analog Music Easels, Eternal Now paints a serendipitous aural landscape 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Mississippi’s release schedule serves as a kind of sonic box of chocolates. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck needed a new label. The one he chose won’t take your credit card. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z His transducers, silent to the ear, leap into sonic life only through bodily action. Sergei Tcherepnin makes music with his viewers 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Situations that appear impossible often are: there's no way to resolve them without resorting to such unfair play as time travel, sonic screwdrivers, or revealing that everyone was dead or dreaming all along. Utopia – box set review 2013-05-30T14:00:01Z And I was like, “Who did this? Who took my insides and made it sonic?” Tyler James Williams Lifts His Spirits With bell hooks and Tom Ford 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z That became the most useful point of sonic similarity between piano and the plucked koto. Piano and koto meet in 'Strings and Serpents' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Lieberman addresses questions of musical purity by explaining that expanded arrangements only explore sonic possibilities of the quartet form. American String Project thinks big at Benaroya Hall 2010-05-12T22:57:00Z As with "Sgt. Pepper," "Get Away from Me" benefits from Emerick's talent for imbuing his artists' recordings with colorful musical textures and innovative sonic landscapes. Revisit Nellie McKay's "Get Away from Me," one of the great pop albums of the early 21st century 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z But LJ went on to explain that while not all flavors had sonic resonance, her synesthesia allowed her taste each individual ingredient in a dish and reverse-engineer the recipe. You Know What London Looks Like. But Have You Really Heard It? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z It quickly became a symbol of the civil rights movement, and after that, a sonic emblem of American progress and virtue — the yearning sound of who we still hope to become. Perspective | Aretha Franklin’s voice was the sound of an America we’re still trying to become 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z By infusing a little sonic variety into Band of Horses' guitar expanses, it attests, perhaps, to the time the band spent in country-soul mecca Muscle Shoals, Alabama, working on their recent album, Infinite Arms. Band of Horses 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z It drifts between music history, sonic anthropology, mild biographical asides, broad pop theory and grandfatherly financial and artistic advice. Books of The Times: ‘How Music Works,’ by David Byrne 2012-09-12T18:02:58Z While the film’s visual callbacks are imperative, it’s the hip-hop soundtrack that gives “Rise of the Beasts” its sonic verve. How ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Throws a ’90s Hip-Hop Party 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Like every other instrument, organs differ extensively in character, the sonic personality of each depending on the acoustics of its specific surrounding. Christopher Candela dispels the notion that all organ music sounds the same Visually as well as sonically, this was a mammoth spectacle. Prom 58: Mendelssohn's Elijah ? review 2011-08-29T10:24:31Z In writing “Shock Waves,” Mr. Vaclavik said in an onstage interview, he was intrigued by the phenomenon of the sonic boom, specifically by the notion of disruption with no evident cause. Music Review: Contact!, New York Philharmonic Series at Met Museum 2012-12-26T22:31:15Z “The fans of ‘Bebop’ know how important the sonic identity of the show is,” he said. She Shaped the Sound of ‘Cowboy Bebop,’ Again 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z “I learned to program, so I was more in control of the effects that were used. I think I created my own sonic palette aside from anyone else.” Brit sensation FKA Twigs to make Seattle debut | Concert preview 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z But this is an attempt to capture passing instants of background music, a sonic portrait of the city in summer. The Ephemeral Soundtrack of a New York Summer 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z “You know what I mean? Just with his range of what he did musically and sonically over the years. It’s classic, it’s current, it’s timeless all at the same time, and that’s incredible.” Gary Clark Jr. was supposed to save the blues. But the guitarist would rather channel Curtis Mayfield. 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Unsuk Chin's Graffiti was also strong on atmosphere, and its use of a phantasmagorical sequence of refined or complex textures gave it consistent sonic fascination. LA Philharmonic New Music Group/Dudamel/Adams – review 2013-03-15T17:33:23Z The score combines the gigantic, chest-thumping sound of Zimmer’s best known work of the last decade with the spirit of radical sonic experimentation. How Hans Zimmer Conjured the Otherworldly Sounds of ‘Dune’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z It’s an apt concept for the group, whose virtuosic players offer composers an ever-expanding sonic palette, and in whose hands a flute or cello may sound as unfamiliar and surprising as a shamisen. Hundreds of New Concertos Bring the World to the Concert Hall 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Hayes’s sartorial experiments were the visual counterparts to his sonic largesse. How Isaac Hayes Changed Soul Music 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Mahler’s way of building a sonic texture from restless little figures is very much what Mr. Adès does in “Polaris.” Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Mahler and Thomas Ad?s - Review 2012-01-07T00:40:59Z It’s telling that discussion of city noise requires hitching common terms to the word “sonic.” The sounds of our lives suck! How to make cities better by ending the blight of noise 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z As with the peacocks, some of their most compelling sonic textures are derived from noninstruments. These Composers Are Maestros of Menace 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z If Christmas took its usual toll on your bank balance, then seek sonic solace in a new clutch of free musical offerings. Click to download: Gorillaz, Radiohead, Yeasayer and more 2011-01-06T23:00:01Z Whereas with funk, you had to join them, you had to take a trip with them that was both sonic and somewhat conceptual. Funk was the black answer to “Star Wars”: Take the trip with “Tales From the Tour Bus” 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z As R&B changed, becoming by a distance the most sonically adventurous mainstream genre, Houston changed with it. Whitney Houston: Five great performances 2012-02-12T08:42:00Z “Pacific” was accompanied by excerpts from another magnificent Harrison work, “Trio for violin, cello and piano,” where the rumblings of a kind of sonic Siberian peat bog yielded gradually to a shower of light. Mark Morris Dance Group’s many surprises flow naturally at GMU 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Sanchez spoke with Salon about the whirlwind drama that inspired “Color,” the album’s arresting sonic detours, and how a non-concept is itself a concept. Our weirdest rockers settle down: Goodbye, sci-fi epics — hello parenting, real estate and married life on planet Earth 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z “He used to come by our house, and he’d never ring the doorbell. He’d just hit things with his cane. It was the sonic hello.” What Do Anna Wintour and Bob Dylan Have in Common? This Secret Garden 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Not sonically – On a Mission was far more gregarious – but how it uses the colour palette of club culture as a starting point to paint broader pop pictures. Jessie Ware: Devotion – review 2012-08-16T15:29:01Z On Thursday evening the gifted percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum joined a roster of fine musicians in works that experimented with new sonic combinations. Music Review: Something New From the Chamber Music Society 2014-04-18T22:24:21Z Charnas explains that Dilla’s process was more complex and that he took multiple steps to purposefully accentuate the sonic effects of error. J Dilla Was a Revered Rap Producer. A New Book Deepens His Legacy. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Bruits, she added, are sonic indications of a troubled circulatory system. For These Classical Musicians, It’s Always Been About Racial Equity 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Around this spare story, though, the director Warwick Thornton constructs a searing indictment of frontier racism as remarkable for its sonic restraint as its visual expansiveness. Review: 1920s Australia Is No ‘Sweet Country’ for Aboriginal Australians 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z As the key feature of an upcoming boxed set, slated for release on October 28, the remixed "Revolver" is a revelation made explicitly possible by recent advances in sonic technology. Remixed "Revolver" to reveal new layers of the Beatles' extraordinary musical powers 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z “Diamonds” feels out of place sonically, but it’s the closest thing the album has to an anthem. REVIEW: Common Speaks to Chicago on New Album Nobody's Smiling 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z He made the Berlin Radio Choir sprawl on the stage, crawl across it as a mass and, at one point, raced to the corners of the Philharmonie to create a chilling sense of sonic immersion. Music Review: Berlin Philharmonic Performs a New ‘St. John Passion’ 2014-02-28T03:15:50Z With its wider sonic spectrum, the new mixing desk reshaped the Beatles’ sound significantly, affording them with more range, not to mention a warmer, brighter quality inherent in their recordings from that era. The Beatles' "Abbey Road" at 50, remixed: A definitive deep dive into the greatest rock band at work 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z On the opposite end of the sonic spectrum, the resonant, resounding bass Ante Jerkunica made Sarastro’s arias among the high points of the production. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Magic Flute’ is a delight for the eyes and the ears 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z But composer and performer certainly succeeded in exploring a broad range of sonic possibilities for standard percussion instruments, illuminated by Mr. Schick’s deft, nuanced touch. Steven Schick Performs ‘Mathematics of Resonant Bodies’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Here are audible wounds transformed into art, from a voice whose sonic and emotive power could raise the dead and reach the deaf. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Unlike, say, the Abba songbook, there isn’t much sonic variety or weirdness to distinguish one peppy dance number from the next, and too much Go-Go’s can blend into one enervating beat. “Head Over Heels,” Reviewed: A Trans-Positive Spin on a Sixteenth-Century Romance, with Help from the Go-Go’s 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z You feel you're experiencing the piano as apparition as much as reality – a heightened sonic surrealism that Adès's music often achieves with different media and in different contexts. A guide to Thomas Adès's music 2012-10-01T15:19:00Z “It’s the first sonic archive I’ve been able to create documenting me as I explore my relationship to the instrument.” From Lady Gaga to an ice cello, Seth Parker Woods redefines what it means to play cello 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z “They do have a higher price point, but the sonic technology is still the best for removing soft buildup on the teeth.” There are a lot of toothbrush options out there. We asked experts for their picks. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z But many of the sonic trappings are from the digital era: electronic vocal tweaks, backup voices peeking in and winking out, eerie spatial effects, strings that might well be simulated. A Bittersweet Juice WRLD Team-Up, and 13 More New Songs 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z And the more we’ve taken a song to heart, the more its sonic details resonate. U2 Revisits Its Past, in the Name of … What, Exactly? 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Parker plays tenor sax throughout, on just two long tracks – the first varied in sonic landscape and pacing, the second more focused on high-energy jamming. Evan Parker/John Edwards/Eddie Prevost: All Told Vol 1 – review 2012-06-07T21:40:00Z But they are wards of a greater sonic metropolis, along with Waterloo Sunset, Up the Junction, Inner City Life and many others. Saint Etienne: London's musical laureates 2010-05-24T13:10:00Z And that's before we get to his experimental sonic arts projects combining music with brainwave entrainment to induce altered states of consciousness. This week's new clubs 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z That’s because, for the most part, music is used in movies as sonic wallpaper, covering silences and images with an indifferent and casually factitious unity. Ornette Coleman’s Inspired Soundtrack for “Who’s Crazy?” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z In “Raised By Wolves,” surround-sound guitar noise preceded the sonic simulation of a car bomb and images of the 26 Dubliners killed by such explosives on May 17, 1974. Review: U2 Kicks Off 8 Nights in New York With Depth and Spectacle 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z But what a treat to just sit back and let this gorgeous sonic tide wash over you. Review: Cassandra Wilson works magic at Jazz Alley 2010-06-04T20:11:00Z But when combined with the brilliant works of Merce Cunningham, the revolutionary choreographer who died in 2009, sonic abstractions come to life. Music Review: For Composers, Bending the Notes for Cunningham 2011-03-21T21:36:32Z Other footage depicts Aitken’s own Venice residence, a psychedelic, sonic sculpture he calls “Acid Modernism.” Sneak peek: Doug Aitken's 'Electric Earth' will shake the MOCA landscape 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z On this week’s Popcast, a conversation about midcareer sonic switches, the importance of fantasy in music making, and how freedom outside of one’s music career can lead to liberation within it. Jessie Ware Is Dancing Into Her Second Act 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z He has never been much of a sonic innovator in the vein of Kanye West, nor has he ever developed a true signature sound. The Screwball Poetry of Lil Wayne’s Prison Diary 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z This performance is her first at the venerable Radio City Music Hall, and the plush surroundings may just push her Disney hit, “Let It Go,” to a whole new sonic strata. Pop & Rock Listings for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z If Alabama Shakes’ blend of bellowing soul and raggedy rock ’n’ roll echoes any element of regional sonic influence, it’s almost an accident. The New Sound of Muscle Shoals 2012-12-25T13:20:15.353Z But the sound system often made those recorded texts undecipherable, lost in the sonic murk. The struggle, the hopeless fury and the joy of life, all captured by Alvin Ailey Dance 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z There’s something about the sound of it that is sonically shocking — the juxtaposition of two harsh plosives in a string of so few letters. About Samantha Bee, Ivanka Trump and That Word 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z “We need to honor where we left off sonically last time, and we need to honor how we used to paint outside the lines.” At the Drive-In Rekindles Its Manic Inferno 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z In practice, this concept resulted in sonic worlds of engulfing, constantly shifting movement. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z "The scale, subject matters and sonic worlds of these works feels so immediate, their pleasures so visceral, that I felt they would be ideal for our audiences," he said via email. L.A. Opera broadens scope with post-apocalyptic 'Dog Days' at REDCAT 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z The New Jersey trio’s 13th album, “Fade,” finds all its sonic hallmarks — uncluttered arrangements, metronome-tight drumming, full-bodied guitars, whispery dual vocals — working harmoniously. Yo La Tengo’s ‘Fade’ spellbinding, focused 2013-01-14T21:21:42Z We also looked at the kind of sonic experimentation that the Beatles applied to “Sgt. Pepper” and we lifted that idea and tried to do something visually that was in the spirit of that. ‘Sgt. Pepper at 50’ Artists on How the Beatles’ Album Inspired Them 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z At the beginning of the decade, Yams helped Rocky establish what would become the sonic blueprint for the crew. Review | A$AP Mob continues the legacy of the New York hip-hop crew 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z He’s also taking animation, mime, sonic boom and rock band, where he’s one of the singers. Sitka campers sound it out with beatboxing 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly for a "Hunger Games" product, the compilation is dominated by women artists with huge sonic ambitions. Kanye West, Chemical Brothers lead Lorde's 'Hunger Games' soundtrack 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z In addition to its borderline erotic attention to detail and domino-rally plotting, “Saul” had a real sense of style and flair, a subtly warped visual language and sonic palette found nowhere else on television. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Matching his ever-expanding ambitions to the era’s punk and art-rock ferment, the albums, released from 1977 to ’80, are full of sonic, verbal and structural experiments focused by Bowie’s pop intelligence. The Year in Boxed Sets, From David Bowie to Weird Al 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z But his voice lacks the tone of joyful release that made Motown so vital, a sonic embodiment of mid-1960s hopes. Music Review: Phil Collins Plays Motown at the Roseland Ballroom 2010-06-24T21:18:00Z There were big musical themes in here: sometimes the layers of sonic texture made room for a short, huge and simple melodic motif, a rock-opera kind of thing. Music Review: Amon Tobin?s ?Isam? at Brooklyn Masonic Temple - Review 2011-10-27T22:39:39Z The last piece was a study in sonic saturation by French composer Raphaël Cendo, who is obsessed with excess in his over-the-top-scores. Chicago-based Dal Niente pops up in new L.A. music series called Poolhouse 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z There are a chorus of visual, sonic and psychological echoes between the sequel and its forebear. Sedate expectations: will Blade Runner 2049 give birth to the slow-burn blockbuster? 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z His albums with Brian Eno – “Low,” “Heroes,” and “Lodger” – were not aimed at the charts, but were an artist’s dive into a strange kind of sonic experimentation. Gaga flattens Bowie in Grammys tribute: Technically perfect karaoke can’t capture his rebel spirit 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Ms. Yanagi’s “Zero Hour,” which she wrote and directs on a set she designed, is primarily a visual and sonic experience. ‘Zero Hour: Tokyo Rose’s Last Tape’ at Japan Society 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Bowie and his band cannibalized themselves — in hindsight, it feel like a natural sonic progression from 1971's "Aladdin Sane" — and recent trends, like the proto-punk of the Stooges, for inspiration. 50 years ago, David Bowie and Roxy Music made history 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Even if “Look at Me!” slides off the charts next week and plummets into the public register of great pop flukes, it’s already violated our sonic decorum, making room for more songs like it. Perspective | The brutal distortion of XXXTentacion’s ‘Look at Me’ is changing the sound of the Hot 100 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The striking British avant-R&B singer FKA Twigs harnessed minimalism both sonically and visually, moving in tight motions in key moments as she sang about desperation and obsession. Coachella fest outdoes itself as a rollicking Sim City 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The Offshore Project takes its cue from Edward Gorey's "The Doubtful Guest" in "The Buffoon," while Befort goes for something more abstract in "Cut Chalk," described as "a work of visual and sonic polyrhythm." Preview: Northwest New Works promises theater, bodies in motion and mixed media 2010-06-03T20:13:00Z A complex tune with bright colors and vigorous sonic arrangements, “Steps” also confronts my sensibilities, making me a bit uneasy. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Journeying far beyond the usual bounds of our sonic universe, he's captured everything from gusts generated by passing cars "playing" roadside wire fences, to raindrops drumming a tattoo on a thin sheet of pond ice. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z A producer also wants to avoid sonic fatigue, which can happen when a listener gets exhausted by an album that has too much musical intensity at the beginning. Grammy winner explains why Adele is right – album tracks should not be shuffled 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z With "Become Ocean," the temptation can be great to float mindlessly in a warm bath of sonic beauty for a sublime 40 minutes. Weekend concerts across L.A. provide solace in a world gone wrong amid Paris attacks 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The pianist Kathleen Supové played it with such supple poise that it appeared to gently mold itself to its sonic environment, even when that included the muted trill of an orphaned cellphone. Review: At Bargemusic, a Surprise Competition With Live Bluegrass 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z He listens to The Smiths a lot; there are nearly a dozen of the “complaint rock” band’s songs providing sonic wallpaper throughout the film. David Fincher cast the wrong "Killer" in the Netflix thriller that lacks the auteur's usual edge 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z All the staples are there: scorching riffs, waves of overlapping notes that dive bomb into deep growls and signature sonic horse wails. Music Review: Van Halen ageless on new album 2012-02-06T19:40:09Z Strickland’s films whisper and rustle; their sonic landscapes induce an uneasy tickle on the back of the neck, a visceral drop in the pit of the stomach and, occasionally, the erotic sensation of goose bumps. Welcome to Peter Strickland’s Worlds 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Orchestras stocked with electric guitars and other amplified instruments create new sonic hybrids in the music of Louis Andriessen. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The sonic message — and the film’s strongest argument for its subject’s relevance — is that Presley’s blend of blues, gospel, pop and country continues to mutate and pollinate in the musical present. ‘Elvis’ Review: Shocking the King Back to Life 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z After some fifty minutes of pallid pianism, my stereo speakers were flooded with soft and golden sonic light—where was this guy, I wondered, twenty minutes ago? CD Notes: Keith Jarrett’s “Barber/Bartók” 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z While it may be difficult to pinpoint a defining “Andy Johns sound,” it might be more rewarding to acknowledge how many terrific and durable albums display his sonic expertise. Remembering Andy Johns, Rock Producer Extraordinaire 2013-04-09T17:43:36Z The series began with Adams' sonic travelogue: A Guide to Strange Places, paired with Bruckner's fifth symphony. Bruckner's Second Act 2011-07-16T14:05:00Z Writers for The Simpsons have used this sonic brand, along with Glass’s name recognition, as fodder for jokes in multiple decades of the show’s run. What Philip Glass Learned From Samuel Beckett 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Throughout the album, Algiers lashes out at injustice, exults in its sonic mastery and insists on the life forces of solidarity and physical impact. Algiers Blasts Songs of Damage and Redemption on ‘Shook’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z A slowly building alarm creeps into the rending music, then the stage is cleared with a sonic blast — one so powerful it shakes the seats of the theater. Review: An ‘Orlando’ Opera Is a Milestone, but No More, in Vienna 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is certainly more sonically scattered than their debut. Mount Kimbie go beyond making music for after the club 2013-05-24T12:00:00Z Thank Me Later’s offerings, though, were sonic mush, victims of the twin viruses of overproduction and underplanning. corrects this deficit tout de suite. Drake's Take Care Was Worth The Wait 2011-11-15T14:00:12Z The show is an immersive sonic and visual landscape, covering more than 20 years of her career. Björk Is on Display, Up Close and in 3-D at MoMA 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z It's a disconcerting, oddly captivating experience that does away with the music rulebook in favour of creating various sonic textures that seem to be almost working against each other. New music: BTU – Swordbeerfish 2013-02-28T11:54:00Z His restless effervescence might be a form of compensation, considering that the best sonic habitat for him is the recording studio. Music Review: Dave Koz and BeBe Winans at Bergen Performing Arts Center 2012-06-24T21:39:13Z If not then the Doctor may be after them with his sonic screwdriver. Doctor Who: it's back ? promising to be the scariest and darkest yet 2011-04-04T23:23:43Z Her book, too, is short on sonic clutter and emotional reverb. Books of The Times: Rosanne Cash Writes ?Composed: A Memoir? 2010-08-10T19:00:00Z The band’s experimental live performances were notoriously loud, physical “sonic assaults,” sometimes featuring halogen lamps or mirrors facing the audience. The Reinventions of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Within this specific sonic atmosphere, it’s as if Mr. Ratmansky distilled a dancer’s distinctive energy and placed it under a microscope. Review: Alexei Ratmansky Finds a New Voice at City Ballet 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The electronics play a multifaceted role: sonic fragments recombine to mimic chemical signaling, the process used by the trees to communicate and interact, even to warn of the harsh human threat. Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z When West began releasing songs on the Internet each Friday this summer, his direction wasn't clear and the songs lacked an obvious thematic or sonic link. Kanye West: Do not disturb 2010-11-20T01:25:00Z Seen that way, perhaps the sonic experimentation on “Folklore” isn’t really about embracing a new genre so much as abandoning any sense of duty to the ones she’s been built upon. Taylor Swift, a Pop Star Done With Pop 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Their lush arrangements of guitar, keyboard, viola, other assorted instruments and random sound samples often eschew reliable melodies and vocal harmonies in favor of occasional passages of minimal drone or maximal sonic layerings. November's best music from across the MAP 2012-11-15T09:00:00Z A line could be drawn between “4:44,” which is, in part, a sonic confessional, and “This is What I Mean,” which is also an exercise in vulnerability. How Stormzy Crafted His Latest Album, ‘This Is What I Mean’ 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z This separation of sonic landscapes brought out Mr. Adams’s gift for orchestration. Review: A Pulitzer Sequel for Orchestra, Packed With Drama in Microcosm 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z She's a floating sprite, her murmurs and wordless refrains sprinkling sonic pixie dust as plucked harps, pounding drums and dynamic swells echo. Lollapalooza Day 3: Jack White, Florence + the Machine, At the Drive-In and the amazing Amadou and Mariam 2012-08-06T06:00:00Z Mr. Bangalter talks about the thrill of “starting every sound from scratch, creating a sonic world from the ground up.” Daft Punk Gets Human With a New Album 2013-05-15T12:00:18Z Sliding doors, screened porches, and decks blur the line between mine and yours, both physically and sonically. The Summer Idyll of Free-Range Children Should Last All Year 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Versatile and keenly aware of the sonic space that he moves through, Cardenas uses the guitar to negotiate between audacity and restraint. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Teenagers' impulse to separate from their guardians and childhood homes is common territory for coming-of-age narratives, but the culturally and sonically specific landscape makes this story about much more. On "Reservation Dogs," the raddest soundtrack on TV "breaks expectations" for Native storytelling 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z In his 2018 historical drama, “Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,” the French director Bruno Dumont infused Saint Joan’s formative years with a sonic landscape that featured prominent, raucous guitar shredding. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Joan of Arc’ and ‘Princess Mononoke’ 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z “I think that this album sonically sounds more like the music I listen to than anything else I’ve ever done in the past.” Read Kesha’s touching, necessary essay about female empowerment 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Thereafter she played an acoustic guitar, allowing her vocals to float higher to the sonic surface. Lydia Loveless, deconstructing country rock with a healthy dose of frustration In its own way, the half-speed edition of "Red Rose Speedway" is not only very clean, but yields new sonic textures for a new generation of vinyl-loving listeners. Paul McCartney's Wings album "Red Rose Speedway" is all the richer at 50 with a loving remaster 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z These acts have been cropping up as major sonic inspirations in 2017. Why ’70s soft rock came back, and why it’s not going anywhere 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z His sonic landscape is as kaleidoscopic as his personal style — grungy, minimalist, funky and futuristic all at once — and his rhymes flow like cool waters. The Changing Sound of Baltimore 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Somehow, everyone swims in the same sonic ocean, and that is transporting. Stockhausen's 'Carré' revives the genius of the '60s 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z It can be a fine line between energetic enthusiasm and manic excess, especially with the sonic resources of the modern orchestra brought to bear. Guest conductor sets a fast tempo for Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Give Me My Month dispenses with sonic trickery in favour of a simple piano ballad; it's the least interesting track here, because it isn't a particularly striking song, suggesting that Blake can't really do straightforward. James Blake: James Blake - review 2011-02-03T15:30:00Z “Renaissance,” Beyoncé’s seventh studio album, is a sonic odyssey through the history of dance music, with a specific focus on the genre’s Black and queer pioneers. Listening to Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ References 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z It plays continuously in the gallery like a sonic sculpture. This Artist Got His Start as an I.C.U. Nurse 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z One was a series of drums sonically prepared by Mr. Kotche, with springs, wires, and other devices. Music: Jeff Tweedy and Wilco Build a Festival at Mass MoCA 2010-08-16T22:44:00Z EL-P and Killer Mike credit the sonic adjustments to financial security, which has afforded them the privilege of sampling more freely now that they can afford the clearances. Run the Jewels Is Rewriting Rap’s Rules 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z At what tempo will a series of sonic events fail to register as a beat? The joy of drumming, with Liturgy’s Greg Fox 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z As you'll hear, it's a story of sonic continuity but creative flux in the vastly different approaches to the composer from each of the orchestra's chief conductors. Happy 125th birthday, Concertgebouw 2013-04-11T18:11:17Z They can aim a sonic boom at prey and kill it. Building Field Museum's beasts a giant undertaking 2011-05-17T00:27:00Z At the risk of sounding churlish, it was sometimes hard not to mistake his original material for cover versions, as the songs were so evocative of their sonic touchstones. Anderson East offers an almost-too-perfect R&B throwback 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z This performance situates her squarely in the sonic genealogy of the East Coast hard bop aesthetic. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Its sonic palette was too shallow, she said; its concepts and word choices were too redundant; its hooks could have been stronger. SZA Almost Quit Music. Now She’s a Grammys Contender. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z In fact, when Abbey Road was released in the autumn of 1969, many listeners blanched at the palpable sonic differences in the Beatles’ sound. The Beatles' "Abbey Road" at 50, remixed: A definitive deep dive into the greatest rock band at work 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Saddled with anxiety and prone to panic attacks on top of his obsessive attention to sonic detail, Mr. Granduciel nearly destroyed himself on the way to his musical breakthrough. The War on Drugs Is Still Playing Rock the Old-Fashioned Way 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z We might already be humming the score, we might not; what counts is that the music contributed to the construction of a complete sonic world. Is the success of a movie score measured only on screen? 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z In this Sadler’s Wells London production, his music – described as “sonic surrealism” – is muse to four choreographers. Dance Listings for Nov. 20-26 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z But it's worth noting that, sonically, Unapologetic is a far more interesting album than its predecessor. Rihanna: Unapologetic – review 2012-11-15T15:30:00Z Prokofiev's sonata, a Soviet response to World War II, had, in Levit's playing, profound sonic depth and profound violence. Igor Levit, the best Russian pianist you haven't heard...yet 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Gordon’s Clarinet Quintet combines a similar zest for sonic experimentation with a four-movement structure built around thematic signposts — reiterations of an opening motif — that guide the listener through a colorful and atmospheric journey. Review: JACK Quartet and Anthony McGill Perform a Menu of American Delicacies 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z The sonic details of the track — booming acoustic bass, shimmery autoharp, slouchy drum beat, sparse electric guitar — shroud Mr. Walker in a self-contained haze, which feels about right. Review: Ryley Walker Is Unsettled in a Chicago Way on ‘Golden Sings’ 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Now armed with silence as an orientation rather than a sonic condition, I find myself experiencing books, films and conversations through a new filter. Perspective | In a noisy world, books about silence are booming 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z “Grae” delves even further inward — it’s hard to imagine many of its songs being performed onstage, even before the pandemic — even as it encompasses more sonic possibilities, from the orchestral to the surreal. Moses Sumney and Perfume Genius: Complex Voices of Desire 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Specifically, in the song She Said, She Said and, most unambiguously, in the sonic dreamscape of Tomorrow Never Knows. Doctor Who's acid test 2010-04-13T20:00:00Z At the Roxy, the new material came across as a sonic expansion that didn't lose the zeal of the group's earlier songs, which often saw them attacking their folk-world instruments with a punk rock-like abandon. For Mumford & Sons, dropping banjos for synths on next album is a natural move 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z It’s the work of an artist who is both maturing and retaining her edge—melodically gorgeous, sonically sane, and lyrically relentless. Listen to Sinéad O’Connor 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Crump stays flashy; Iyer takes off from his luminously large tone into cautiously exploratory realms; Sorey throws caution to the winds of sonic imagination. Vijay Iyer jazzes up the Ojai Music Festival 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z In his “Bird Concerto,” sampled birdsong mingles with music that mimics the sonic signatures of our feathered friends, but also the “quasi-electronic frequency modulation” of their cries. Perspective | Beyond Vivaldi, a classical playlist to bring on the spring 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Without so many hard reflective surfaces as St Mark's, or indeed most ecclesiastical acoustics, the hall itself offered an ample resonance, if not quite one allowing Monteverdi's harmonies to recede into sonic infinity. The Sixteen/Christophers – review 2013-02-13T17:54:10Z They sound great, for one thing: concise and focused, with most of the digressive sonic elements folded into the fabric of the songs. Critics? Choice: New Cds: Wrapping Up Life and Death In One Album 2011-04-11T21:45:09Z Popular mainly in the U.K. and spawned from certain danceclubs, the trend was distinguished by sonic melodrama and a fancy sartorial aesthetic. "Planet Earth" at 40: The perfect debut single that boldly launched Duran Duran 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z Or will she simply continue to answer the universe’s distress calls, solving whatever problem is thrown her way with simply her wits and a sonic screwdriver? A Female 'Doctor Who?' It's About Timey Wimey 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z It's always something new: a different take on a familiar piece, a performance that is faster or slower or quirkier than you've heard before, and a chance to venture more deeply into Liszt's sonic world. Garrick Ohlsson performs a superb night of Liszt in Seattle 2012-03-08T17:57:04Z And throughout the album, there is intense sonic layering, with G-funk swirls and classical music string samples and references that are so buried that they might not even be there at all. Blackpink and the Limits of K-Pop Maximalism 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Saturday's show will explore even more sombre sonic terrain, though Williams says he's amused by the "dark ambient" label. Lustmord: ambient's dark star 2013-03-16T03:08:20Z Glotzer, who writes all the compositions, describes his work as "a sonic landscape evocative of dusty old music boxes and haunted carnivals." Toy-Box Trio creates a lilting, lurching soundtrack to a carnivalesque world 2010-06-11T19:45:00Z It's often said that Kraftwerk ran out of juice because they couldn't keep up with the sonic innovations of their young disciples but, more crucially, they just ran out of things to say. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night five: Computer World 2013-02-12T15:13:31Z Reflecting on the huge legacy of existing recordings, he writes: "Ours is a city of sonic ruins, a Rome of aural superabundance." 'Reinventing Bach': multiple variations on a virtuoso composer 2012-09-27T20:18:04Z The LP got positive reviews from Pitchfork and other indie-music Web sites, which lauded its emotionally charged and sonically lush songs. Six Hopefuls Worth Watching at the CMJ Music Marathon 2012-10-15T21:47:30Z An article in The Hollywood Reporter on Friday said that Mr. Affleck’s future was in doubt — the equivalent of a sonic boom in the superhero movie world. At Comic-Con, Ben Affleck Says He Will Continue to Play Batman 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z It is, perhaps, an iteration of psychedelia that has more in common with Oasis's Be Here Now or latterday Verve than, say, the gnarly sonic adventures of the 13th Floor Elevators. Richard Hawley – review 2012-10-06T23:05:53Z Mr. Lerche’s sonic vision is more realized than ever on his eighth studio album, “Pleasure,” selections from which he will debut as part of this North American tour. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Though the open-captioned film sticks with the character, the sonic perspective shifts back and forth. How ‘Sound of Metal’ captured the sounds of silence 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z The Doctor, on the other hand, has wit, strategy and a sonic screwdriver. The regeneration of "Doctor Who": Jodie Whittaker's Time Lord proved the naysayers wrong 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z The twisted, blasting noises he made did not help the general atmosphere of clownish sonic vandalism. Paul Morley Showing Off ... Wild Beasts 2010-09-03T16:03:00Z It's still Cloud Control, sure, but it's been a very long time – and with a set-list that switches consecutively between old and new material, the band's sonic progression is undeniable. Cloud Control at Vivid Live 2013 - review 2013-06-01T05:26:00Z Attracted by this sonic electromagnetic plate, other seemingly random pitches begin to agglomerate. CD reviews: A Hungarian master stirs the senses and the mind 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Fans will no doubt enjoy the opportunity to hear the Beatles' magisterial performance with an enhanced sonic spectrum. The Beatles' remixed "Revolver" is a revelation, adding even more rich sonic detail for the ears 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z “The sonic wizardry made heads smoke,” he writes, feebly, about an Incredible String Band album. Books of The Times: Primordial Soup, a Musical Brew 2011-05-12T22:00:06Z The sonic squall grows melancholy and implacable, like a memory that won’t fade away. The Playlist: Iggy Pop’s Jazzy Whimsy, and 12 More New Songs 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Though there were genuine highlights, these were subsumed within the ongoing development of a sonic fabric whose continuity was reflected in miniature in the sharp simplicity of Justin Way's semi-staging. Prom 20: Götterdämmerung – review 2013-07-29T11:54:00Z The seriousness of the subject matter may seem forbidding, but the imagination of Hindemith’s sonic language — dissonant at times, but always rapturous and conceived with care — is so riveting, it actually sells the philosophical material. A Lot of Opera Is Now Streaming. Here’s Where to Start. 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z With Berninger occasionally exploring new vocal approaches and Devendorf moved back in the mix, that groove is often forced to the side by airy atmospherics and sonic effects that are indeed beautiful, but often insubstantial. Review: The National returns with somber 6th album 2013-05-20T13:58:11Z But within the first minutes, you can feel the plink-plonking tones entering into a sonic multiverse — splitting apart, doubling, with different iterations of the game cascading over one another. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z In spoken comments before the performance, Mr. Pintscher described the piece as a sonic tale in music. Matthias Pintscher Conducts in the NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z The album is confrontational, both sonically and structurally. Animal Collective wants to do their own thing and that means saving coral reefs 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z This just after strutting through that tune, more or less faithfully, with close attention to sonic detail. Music Review: The Songs Of Prince, Faithfully Reimagined 2011-06-16T22:08:15Z The album opener, “Renegade Runaway,” is about a comely heartbreaker who’s “tough as nails under that corset,” but sonically it brings to mind the slick, exacting rock of mid-’80s Fleetwood Mac. Carrie Underwood Returns to Her Roots on Storyteller 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Also, during the run of the exhibition, Philip Glass and members of his ensemble will perform in the central space of the work, and the music will become part of the sonic environment thereafter. Art Review: Carlito Carvalhosa?s Installation at MoMA - Review 2011-09-01T22:10:21Z Without cables or patching things together, all these new sounds were possible, which people liked because it created sonic novelty.” Meet the encephalophone: An instrument you can play with your mind, just by thinking 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z But I’d add that there’s a difference between the actorly performances of texts and the performance of music; it’s the difference between the observation of behavior and the creation of a sonic object. John Coltrane Live: A Playlist 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Even so, sonic experimentation coloured every musical reflex. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z Bombastic as the title sounds, hip-hop has indeed changed the world, both culturally and sonically, something its host Idris Elba seems immensely proud of, judging by the outlandish arm gestures he employs. TV highlights 12/08/2011: BBC Proms 2011: Film Music Night 2011-08-11T22:00:03Z One sound he isn't interested in is having string and horn players simply provide sonic sweetening to his core songs. Elvis Costello looks at the orchestral possibilities in Bowl shows 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z From the outside, it appears Atmos is entering a critical period that could determine whether it will kick off a sonic revolution or become just another tech lost to time. Dolby Atmos Wants You to Listen Up. (And Down. And Sideways.) 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z More original material, and closer attention to the orchestration — to create a distinctive sonic palette to unify the work — might help. ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’: An affectionate comic opera look at the high court 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z In Daniel Wohl’s “Glitch” flaws of recorded media — stutters, pops, crackles and further sonic detritus — inspired fragmentary lines and noisy abrasions performed by the Calder members over recorded string sounds played from a laptop. Music Review: MATA Featival Features Calder Quartet at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-04-21T22:26:00Z Eventual accusations that “Royals” was moralizing about hip-hop culture did not necessarily take into account the fact that it was paying studied homage to it — woven into the sonic DNA of the song’s low-blood-pressure, 808-heartbeat. Lorde Opts Out on the Provocatively Subdued ‘Solar Power’ 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Grande’s voice is the fount of her fame, as well as a sonic manifestation of it. Review | Ariana Grande reached the height of her fame by making heavy feel light 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Friday night at the Anthem, the Pacific Northwest band’s current incarnation added synthetic bleeps and thumps — commonplace sonic emblems of Tomorrowland — for such songs as “The Future Is Here.” At the Anthem, Sleater-Kinney’s music bridges the past, the present and the future 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z “This one is more defined. We were trying to be bolder with the sonic palette, and making more decisions.” L’Rain’s Songs Hold Ghosts, Demons and Healing 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Imagine a gravelly voiced diamond of a singer, in a bouncy, sunny, gorgeously played sonic setting. Chicago's best entertainment values 2011-02-18T08:00:00Z He added, “It is like a sonic manifestation of inner awakening.” Want to Change Your Life? A New Exhibition Offers a Path. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Alexis Petridis, writing in the Guardian, argued that, while containing references to Bowie's past work, it largely avoided becoming a sonic memoir of a stellar musical career. Bowie is back to best on new album, critics say 2013-02-26T21:01:08Z But “No Time for Dreaming” wants to be part of no movement, heralds no shift in the sonic landscape; it just wants to be. Music Review: A Journeyman Soul Singer Embraces His Audience in Word and in Deed 2011-07-27T21:53:11Z It helps the listener learn what classical music needs: to appreciate the sounds as they are, in a boundless sonic space. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Its sonic material is hissy, staticky noise, a few separate layers of it — some skewed lower, some higher — placed in a stereo mix, starting and stopping and fluctuating in volume, unpredictably but rhythmically. The Playlist: Miranda Lambert Bounces Back and Michelle Obama Sings the Hits 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Like those sonically stunning LPs that were recorded to demonstrate the range of the first generation of stereos, Benson’s photographs often seem designed to mark the outer limits of what photography can practically achieve. When a Master Printer Picks Up the Camera 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z With its trudging tempo and thick electronic bass frequencies, the track conveys little of the sonic warmth associated with her. The Playlist: Miranda Lambert Bounces Back and Michelle Obama Sings the Hits 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z But as of the early hours of Friday morning, The Life of Pablo is available in its entirety for sonic consumption on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming platforms. Kanye West's 'The Life of Pablo' Is Finally Streaming On Spotify 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z In this case, Dalton responds erratically and drastically to a Russian sonic attack on the U.S. Few politicians are talking about removing the president — but two TV shows are 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z She doesn’t employ the panoply of devices, tracking shots or cranes or, for that matter, any effects—visual or sonic—that break the sense of reality captured on the fly. A Stilted Vision of a Declining Europe in “Toni Erdmann” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Just as her best music drew on sampling — assembling sonic licks and stylistic fragments borrowed from Motown, Stax, punk and early hip-hop — her personal style was also a knowing collage, he added. A Bad Girl With a Touch of Genius 2011-07-27T21:06:38Z At one point the fragment “of the sun” was repeated with whispered urgency, creating a multilayered sonic tapestry above which the word “sun” rang out with startling clarity. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra Offers Premieres at Zankel Hall 2014-02-21T22:20:50Z I don't really care about a venue's acoustics; if I wanted a perfect sonic experience, I'd stay at home and listen through my Grado headphones. The insiders' guide to the arts 2010-10-17T20:31:00Z “This is nice,” she said, in her lilting accent, assessing our sonic environment. The Troubadour and the Lady 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z But in his detailed instructions on the number and positioning of instrumentalists, Beethoven reveals how carefully he crafted this sonic assault on listener. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z We couldn't reproduce a Kinks record which has its own sonic world, but with the band and the orchestra, it's opened up the songs to be more of a narrative. Meltdown maestro 2011-06-07T07:32:30Z The result was an unforgettable sonic performance that also bathed the audience in visuals. Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger turn animation into a wild sensory art installation 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Having been a fan of the series since the age of 15, Charles got to meet the current Time Lord, actor Matt Smith, and skillfully wielded the sonic screwdriver. Prince Charles does Dalek impression on visit to Doctor Who set 2013-07-03T13:32:38Z Missing is the palpable sonic presence to draw a listener in. The brave -- and complex -- new world of digital music 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Animals in a particular ecosystem evolve to occupy different frequencies in the sonic spectrum, like instruments in a symphony orchestra. Non-fiction reviews roundup 2012-07-06T06:59:01Z Soundwalk refers to it as “Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ in the form of a sonic fresco,” and from lapping waves to distant radio conversations, it blends the ancient with the everyday. Dance Review: Jonah Bokaer and His Father, Tsvi, Dance at Gould Hall 2013-05-10T20:53:02Z In 1982, with Nile Rodgers producing, he recorded the album “Let’s Dance” at the Power Station on West 53rd Street, a sonic and commercial triumph. David Bowie: Invisible New Yorker 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Instead, these producers understand that everything is collapsing and that sonic tides are starting to move naturally in their direction. Future Brown, Confident Song Collective, Cooks New Stews 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Sifting through the avalanche of new holiday music is another time-honored tradition: Between one-off singles, seasonal EPs and full-length festive fare, sonic cheer is everywhere. Here are 20 new holiday music releases to bring festive cheer to your ears 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z The track “fits sonically next to every contemporary artist, and it also crosses genres,” he explained, allowing it to be played on almost any format. How Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ Finally Hit No. 1 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z It was a performance that offered many thrills and sonic marvels, but also left me feeling adrift and disengaged. Alan Gilbert Conducts the New York Philharmonic 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s a brittle, professional album full of sonic treats. Review: Charli XCX’s ‘Sucker’ 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Some of Prince's records feel closely tied to the 1980s, but sonically they still sound modern. Prince is still king, say Hot Chip 2012-12-11T18:55:00Z The Beach Boys are the sonic equivalent of having a dog whistle implanted in your medulla and then honked on by a didgeridoo player with protean bong-tested lungs. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z In a video accompanying a 2014 performance, Mr. Niblock explained how expanding the volume and duration of a sonic event affects a listener’s perception. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Who better, though, to catalog and celebrate this country’s sonic lineage than someone who’s consumed and regurgitated it all? New Music: Kid Rock’s ‘Rebel Soul,’ and Alicia Keys’s ‘Girl on Fire’ 2012-11-26T23:07:45Z It’s not his most cohesive batch of songs, and tracks such as “Pigtail,” which smells the most of Phish, unapologetically throw off the sonic, sprawling sound Anastasio set out for. Phish's Trey Anastasio Ventures Into Indie Rock with Traveler 2012-10-18T16:00:38Z For 40 minutes, it immerses the listener in a sonic churn, ebb and roar that conjures a world inundated by rising sea levels. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z His songs draw you into a den of heightened sonic bliss lined with inherent trepidation. The Weeknd: A ‘Starboy’ is born, full of brash and bragging 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Her ambitions sharpened as her ear tuned to Beckett’s Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, his tortured but exact syntax, the sonic perfection of his prose as it sought the comic depths of human suffering. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The story is a lesson in the power and peril of branding, and in particular, of sonic branding — associating sounds and music with products, companies, organizations and ideas. The sounds of our lives suck! How to make cities better by ending the blight of noise 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z But most people who travel to see a launching are oblivious to anything other than finding a good spot to watch the liftoff and hear the sonic boom. | Journeys: How to See the Last Space Shuttle Launches in Florida 2010-05-14T21:12:00Z All the while, Pentagram was helping to establish the sonic, rhythmic and melodic tenets of doom metal. Doomed for life: How Pentagram became metal’s ultimate survivors 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z We still don’t really know what anything means, but music provides much more than the merely creepy sonic atmosphere of the film. L.A. Opera lets Ingmar Bergman's film 'Persona' sing 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z The effect is sonically powerful, visually thrilling and a demonstration of group synergy that speaks to a broader sense of shared cultural history. Dance Listings for Jan. 22-28 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Violist Diana Wade brought both athletic and operatic ferocity to Sequenza VI, throwing herself into tremolo passages with a physical force that shook her and a sonic one that practically shook the walls. The L.A. music scene as seen through Berio's Sequenzas 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z There seems to be something about the sonic cocktail of loud conversation and background music that many people like, because it is the sound of almost all successful modern restaurants. Is Restaurant Noise a Crime? Our Critic Mounts a Ringing Defense 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Young's passions - his family, electric trains, cars and a system to sonically improve digital music files - get as much space as music. Broken toe spurs Neil Young to write 1st book 2012-10-05T11:36:10Z Ms. Dorrance’s “Boards and Chains,” excerpted from her full-length “ETM: The Initial Approach,” suggested likewise, as her excellent dancers mined a dizzying sonic repertoire from wooden and metal surfaces. Review: ‘Rhythm in Motion’ Lets New Tap Ring Out 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Since 2009, they have been engaged in austere sonic experiments, from engineering complex minimalist techno to replicating the DNA of dance music using orchestral instruments. Brandt Brauer Frick – review 2013-03-21T18:10:55Z Yet while visually and sonically stunning, the many moving parts of “Deep Blue Sea” too often drown out the potency of the dancing itself. Review: Bill T. Jones’s Oceanic Vision 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Clips from hundreds of hours of "Nightly News" broadcasts are painstakingly stitched together to form a sonic and visual quilt. Brian Williams 'raps' 'Who Am I (What's My Name?)' on 'Tonight Show' 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The Revolution is a grim, simmering sonic landscape. Review: ‘Ghosts’ of the Guillotine Reunite at Versailles 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The State Department in September warned Americans not to travel to Cuba after an alleged series of sonic attacks against United States personnel. How to Travel to Cuba Now 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Garratt is far more jittery than his sources, more likely to change a sonic parameter midway through a line. Review: Jack Garratt Chops, Croons and Wobbles 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z “It reminds me a little bit of ‘Trout Mask Replica’ in terms of its sonic canvas,” said Mr. Madsen, referring to a Captain Beefheart album. Sad and Haunted Girls Who Couldn?t Play Worth a Lick 2011-05-22T00:45:25Z This is the second exhibition at Dia’s reopened Chelsea galleries since the long-delayed reopening, and fills two adjacent galleries with sonic installations, one austere and one intricate, one high-pitched and one low-toned. Camille Norment Explores New Sonic Terrains at Dia Chelsea 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Third is glacial synth-pop, like Cocteau Twins in a sonic cathedral with Pet Shop Boys. New band of the day – Picture (No 1,334) 2012-08-20T15:56:02Z There are a wide spectrum of O.T.C. devices including lasers, light sources, Intense Pulsed Light sources, radio frequency and sonic cleansing devices. Skin Deep: Assessing Those Laser, Pulsing-Light and Sonic Skin Care Products for Home Use 2011-10-05T22:30:11Z The images are frequently overlaid with dots and mottling, evoking intentional analog accidents—like digital recordings with the sonic artifacts of vinyl clicks and swishes dubbed in. The Superhero Movie as Secular Religion in “Aquaman,” “Bumblebee,” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z We decided we can do all these arrangements but in a sonic way, with guitar noises, so we added a guitarist for that show. Capsula's Bowie obsession pays off 2013-10-31T14:12:32Z Over the last couple of years, this Atlanta rapper has been spiraling into ever weirder sonic territory, and getting only more popular as a result. Fall Pop Music Preview: An Abundance of Rhythms and Styles 2013-09-09T16:03:09Z But her 2015 solo album and the band’s subsequent dissolution signaled new endeavors for Potter, both sonically and personally. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z We were just trying to make a sonic statement on this record. Vampire Weekend’s Evolution in ‘Modern Vampires of the City’ 2013-05-08T12:00:18Z The degree of sonic compression used on the new Apple Music, for instance, produces the audio equivalent of a genetically modified supermarket Macintosh that lacks authentic flavor and texture. Is streaming a threat to music? Not if musicians have anything to do with it 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z For sheer sonic splendor, few programs could surpass the one Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic are offering at David Geffen Hall this week. Review: The New York Philharmonic Offers Works by Modern Masters 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Moving from Boston to New York in the late 1950s, he became associated with the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, a hotbed of sonic ferment. Halim El-Dabh, Composer of Martha Graham Ballets, Dies at 96 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z We know their riffs, the sonic skills they brought us both on records and on stage. “Hired Gun” film honors the rock gods you never heard of 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z It’s freeing, this expansion of musical liberation into spaces visual as well as sonic, instinctual as well as intellectual, performed as well as lived. Arts & Leisure Preview: Feminism in the Age of Gaga, Robert Duvall, Matt LeBlanc and More 2010-07-23T20:42:00Z Elevator is a monthly showcase for experimental and avant-garde music, and this seventh edition features three musicians who explore new sonic avenues using rock’s most staid instrument: the guitar. Your week in Seattle music: Sam Smith, the Sasquatch! launch party and more 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z She draws on club beats like trance and techno but never settles for the repetitiveness of much dance music; it’s a funhouse of an album, with sonic jolts and gimmicks that she spent months on. Music: Even Offstage, Lady Gaga?s Ready for the Stage 2011-05-18T13:02:40Z I found the theme to “Boardwalk Empire” to be sonically and almost unbearably masculine, like the music from ads for erectile-dysfunction pills. ‘Boardwalk Empire’s’ pitch-perfect goodbye It’s music of meditation, less driven by lines than by individual sonic events. Review | Whistles, rumbles, bleeps: New Icelandic music sounds like no string quartet you’ve ever heard 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z They can also participate in drop-in activities and sign up for workshops on topics like drawing sonic scrolls and creating animated visual music. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 24-30 2014-01-24T00:40:59Z That song, one of her best yet, begins as an AM-gold-style piano ballad and ends up, in its rapturous conclusion, becoming the sonic equivalent of a group hug. Weyes Blood Gives Beautiful Voice to Global Pain 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z On his album credits, he’s the guy responsible for the “sonic architecture.” Review | Why sweat the future of jazz when you can listen to Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah right now? 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Philharmonic played out of a sonically inadequate auditorium leased from the Temple Baptist Church downtown. Dorothy Buffum Chandler was the driving force behind the Music Center 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z That the group had released two solid, at times magical, records in the last three years -- "Collapse Into Now" and its barnstorming sonic predecessor, 2008’s "Accelerate" -- barely registered. How R.E.M. invented alternative music 2011-09-22T12:23:00Z “Space Loneliness No. 2” is a fitting sonic description of the seclusion one feels during a global pandemic and political turmoil. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z “He’s switching times: You’re going from the Middle Passage to a Dr. J clip. How to communicate that sonically, rather than cinematically, I think, is what’s happening here.” High Schoolers Get In on an Avant-Garde Musician’s Latest Show 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Lutoslawski’s aleatoric techniques result in colorful sound clouds and riotous sonic landscapes, punctuated by the soloist’s dramatic lines, which Mr. Campbell played with flair throughout. Music Review: A Composer Who Rolled the Dice 2011-01-30T22:07:57Z That work, too, is permeated by his distinctive sonic vapor. Salzburg Festival’s ‘Charlotte Salomon’ Falls Short on Drama 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z On the surface, the White Album marked a shift from the orchestral formality and sonic experimentation of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Deep Inside the Beatles’ White Album, 50 Years Later 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z The final dance section was slashing, incisive and sonically glorious. Review: New York Philharmonic Ushers in Carnegie Birthday Season 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z A sonic portrait of asthma is not necessarily enticing concert music outside of programs by, say, the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony. L.A. Chamber Orchestra ending season on a sunny note 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Even though she has spared the audience dancers who speak lines, the work’s musical compilation — a form of sonic wallpaper — is just as irritating, ranging from percussive rock to string pieces. Dance Review: Virgins, Pimps and Other Facts of life 2011-06-24T21:35:03Z The result is "sonically, a very consistent piece," he said. Drake finds new groove on "Take Care" 2011-11-15T13:42:12Z "More to the point," adds Chang, "the range of visual tricks available now to the bedroom auteur is analogous to the range of sonic tricks available to the basic hip-hop producer." It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z The decision to hang up the guitar, aside from short bursts of writing and demoing new songs, coincides with a new sonic motif Jurado really embraced with last year’s “What’s New, Tomboy?” Damien Jurado’s 10 comeback concerts mark Seattle’s highest-profile shows since the shutdown 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Casiotones were limited, technically and sonically, but they beautifully fulfilled their remit of an electronic musical instrument that a child or someone with no musical training could pick up easily. Hey, what's that sound: Casiotone 2010-07-13T09:43:00Z It conjures an evocative sonic and choreographic ritual suggesting a narrative of disaster, migration and rebirth. Forced Online, an Opera Festival Searches for Intimacy 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z By day you be able to roam freely from car to car experiencing different sonic environments and art pieces. Manchester's Cornerhouse goes on a digital spree 2012-08-10T14:00:00Z Christine Darden, now 73 and retired, had worked her way out of NASA’s computing pool to lead engineering research into sonic booms. On Being Black Female Math Whizzes During the Space Race 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Then, it all unspooled, a sonic melee like an orchestra tuning up. Review: Stiff shot of dissonance vibrates at Seattle chamber-music fest 2010-07-22T21:49:00Z Floating, as if weightless, that intro is the sonic equivalent of Jordan paused in midair, halfway between his launching point and the rim. How Pearl Jam’s ‘Present Tense’ became the final song on ESPN’s Michael Jordan documentary ‘The Last Dance’ 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z The violins, enhanced by shimmering crotales and resplendent bells, create a sonic halo that hovers over the audience’s head. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Or, depending how you look at it, a surround-sound oratorio — a kind of sonic sculpture — with an accompanying film. Dying Languages Cry Out in ‘Last Whispers’ 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z The set removes decades' worth of warble and sonic dust, to be the clearest possible view of a historic year. Back to the basement with Bob Dylan 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z It began and ended with comfortingly well-known radio stalwarts – Big Ben's chimes and the pips – but between those was an opaque sonic collage that made the Olympic opening ceremony easy to fathom in comparison. Damon Albarn's barmy composition a fitting birthday tribute to BBC Radio 2012-11-14T19:59:26Z “It’s impossible to be a sonic boom,” she said. In ‘Afropessimism,’ a Black Intellectual Mixes Memoir and Theory 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Though many artists bristle at direct musical comparisons, Mr. Mendes is exceedingly open about his influences; his entire sonic development is documented in online videos, after all. Shawn Mendes, Pop Idol, Is Not Banking on a Gimmick 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z But Debussy’s 1915 “Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp” — a sonic miracle if there ever was one — changed all that, giving birth to a compelling new genre. Myriad Trio, in its Kennedy Center debut, is nearly impossible to not like 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z For one, there were good reasons to look elsewhere: Darting lights flashed on huge projector screens, confetti rained from the ceiling and massive bass drums washed over like sonic tidal waves. Rapper T.I. isn’t necessarily worth the wait at his Echostage concert 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Future is far stranger, less emotionally reliable and more sonically novel. Critic’s Notebook: Future, Young Scooter, Trinidad James and Atlanta Rap 2013-02-02T01:50:26Z He modestly points this out, but it’s only when he removes the sonic bluster that he reveals the song’s Woody Guthrie heart. 'Springsteen on Broadway': A rock-star confessional with heart 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z This is a sonic landscape as sensitive as it is muscular, and both those qualities were present in the vibrant performance led by Mr. Wachner, featuring players from the Trinity ensemble Novus NY. Review: Trinity Wall Street Presents Ginastera’s Raging ‘Cantata Para América Mágica’ 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z “While the Seattle Symphony is a fine orchestra, they just did not have the sonic weight to fully realize Debussy’s ‘La Mer.’ What the critics said about Seattle Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-08T20:28:09Z Sitting in the studio in Los Angeles, Mr. Sivan pulled up a Spotify playlist on his phone, a sonic mood board: Sky Ferreira, Drake and the Replacements. Troye Sivan Is a New Kind of Pop Star: Here, Queer and Used to It 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Notably, Nelson declines to distinguish among the men, and instead patchworks their deep, breathy voices into sonic wallpaper. ‘Apocalypse ’45’ Review: Graphic Images of Wartime 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s less a description of a visual experience than a separate sonic one, a companion work of art. To See and Be Seen: These Dancers Make Disability Visible 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z The songs easily stood up on their own, slipping sonic experimentation and an eerie sense of space into sturdy pop structures. What’s Beyoncé’s Definitive Album? 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z It was like, all these raps, all these sonic acrobatics. The Visionaries: Kanye West Talks About His Career and Album ‘Yeezus’ 2013-06-11T23:25:32Z Yet through the 2010s, many of pop’s sonic spaces grew more isolated, barren and claustrophobic. Pop Music in 2019: An Escape From Isolation? 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Though “Atrocity Exhibition” is sonically and thematically dark and full of debauchery, Brown says real life for him is actually pretty cool these days. Danny Brown returns to uncompromising originality 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Ultimately, empty space is a luxury in pop music, a strategy that isn’t as available to rookies who need to compete with the rest of the sonic universe for our momentary attention. Frank Ocean and the virtues of boredom 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Drawing from the sonic library of house music from its formative years, Snaith spun a seamless set of songs from his album "Jiaolong" mixed with dance classics. FYF Fest Day 2: Redemption through Flying Lotus, Haim and more 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z A: When we play live it is definitely looser and bigger, sonically. Seattle band The Cave Singers celebrates new album 'No Witch' 2011-04-21T21:51:10Z “It’s more of a sonic safari,” Mr. Stewart said. Paul Simon’s Ambition, and Inspiration, Never Gets Old 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z I think of the noise, the basic change there will be in sonic circumstances. Paul Morley meets Emily Eavis, organiser of Glastonbury festival 2010-06-20T17:01:00Z No sonic experience was given short shrift; by the end, a sense of calm felt honestly won. Review: Meredith Monk, Still Peerless at Shocking Serenity 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z And he's right: Where the earlier disc cushioned songs about hope with stately roots-pop arrangements, "Second Hand Heart" gets back in the dirt both sonically and thematically. Dwight Yoakam leans on vintage to inspire his new 'Second Hand Heart' 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z “One is visual, one is sonic,” he said. Elton John’s songwriter to unveil new visual art at exhibit 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z There are no features, and the album sticks to an organic, cohesive sonic template — keys, strings, beats that propel rather than bludgeon. J. Cole has stories to tell at Seattle’s KeyArena 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z That extra time helped them turn lyrical concepts into sonic realities. D.C. punks Bad Moves expand their sound but keep their focus on ‘Untenable’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z At least as evident as the sonic evolution on “Supernova,” however, is the change in Mr. LaMontagne’s personality. In Ray LaMontagne’s ‘Supernova,’ Hints of the ‘60s 2014-04-30T18:25:15Z That was the Minneapolis production company Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis operated and where the three came up with “Control,” Ms. Jackson’s third record and the first of their subtly strange, sonically complex thematic carnivals. Sorry, Ms. Jackson: You’re Underrated. ‘Control’ at 30 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Two supersonic RAF Typhoon fighter aircraft soon dramatically intervened, creating a sonic boom to blast through the sound barrier as they rushed to respond to the apparent emergency. Jet2 passenger fined $106G for violent outburst, threatening to kill: 'It was like she was possessed' 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Awards on Wednesday night caused such a stir was perhaps preordained — even in this most sonically polyglot of country moments, there remains deep, deep resistance to change. The Playlist: The Gospel According to Alicia Keys 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z "For this record, I wanted to have a concise sort of sonic theme," Vile said. Rocker Kurt Vile ? yes, that's his real last name 2011-04-23T00:53:26Z But she gravitated to uncharted territory, and in recent decades she’s been known for ambient solo performances that conjure a sleepy sonic gloaming. Billie Eilish’s Kiss-Off, and 14 More New Songs 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Hearing the piece there was certainly an experience of sonic saturation. Music Review: Hamburg Symphony Orchestra at Roulette 2012-01-25T00:10:49Z But Mr. Wheeldon’s choreography often operates like a dam to this sonic flood, building up suspense by its sheer power of calm resistance, poetically contrasting background with foreground, machine rhythms with flowing currents. Dance Review | Ballet Corella Castilla y Le?n: At City Center, ?ngel Corella and a Surfeit of Bravura 2010-03-18T22:40:00Z The range of music, all in excellent performances, is a tribute to the sonic imagination of its composer. CD reviews: A conductor takes risks with Tchaikovsky 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Designers for live performance create and curate an experience, right, by juxtaposing visual, sonic, tactile, spatial elements within a time-based structure. 5 Broadway Veterans on Race and Representation in Theater Design 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z It's fascinating – it's very poignant, but there's nothing warm about it, sonically – it's really electronic, and after a while, his voice and the synth are virtually the same. Lou Reed on Yeezus: 'It brings tears to my eyes' 2013-07-03T15:48:19Z Often, the results are charming, essentially harmless, mildly distracting, a visual and sonic goof. The Playlist: Ariana Grande Shows Her Heart, and 8 More New Songs 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Combining nostalgic sounds with the latest technology allows Sawayama to experience the best of both sonic worlds. If It’s All Going to Hell, Rina Sawayama Can’t Wait to See You There 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z The nasally twang of lead singer Jorge's vocals and the flutter of his accordion are part of California's sonic landscape. Los Tigres del Norte get a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame -- finally! 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z In the online notes for this project, you talk about “running dozens of sonic experiments” to determine the best sound for these releases. ArtsBeat: Which Jazz Greats Were Left Off the Blue Note 100? 2014-03-24T21:04:37Z More important than its sonic template, though, was how “OK Computer” cemented Radiohead’s status as a band worthy of interpretation — a privilege typically extended only to very popular rock groups. Radiohead show to mark 20 years since ‘OK Computer’ 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Using tools like amplifiers, cables, pulleys, transformers and oscillators to create novel sounds, her sonic experiments anticipated the music software programs and apps that are commonplace today. She Brought New Sounds to Colombia. The World’s Catching Up. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z The particular sonic world that an orchestra inhabits is the result of the conglomeration of its players, a collaboration between dozens of individualized interpretations shaped by the singular vision of a music director. Philip Smith, Master Trumpeter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Said to be the most performed among today’s living composers, a composer whose music is touched with sonic purity and infused with beguiling spirituality, Arvo Pärt is revered as an agent of escape. Dudamel makes Mozart and Arvo Pärt a matter of life and death 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Guitarist Keith Grimes says he fretted that Cassidy’s worrying about the opening night’s sonic disaster would hinder her performance for the closing show. The story behind the gigs that helped launch the legend of Eva Cassidy 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The Met Orchestra held its own in the sonic splendor department and outdid the Philharmonic in transparency and precision. Opera Review: Matthias Goerne Fills In as Lead at the Met 2014-03-07T22:34:23Z Her operas especially explore the big themes of war, of love, of existence; and each has created a new sonic universe to do so. A guide to Kaija Saariaho's music 2012-07-09T15:01:23Z In January, an audience at the New School was treated to a surprising sonic shift: placid jazz quickly evolving into punishing metal. Dan Weiss’s Starebaby Mines the Loud Ground Where Jazz and Metal Meet 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The music starts out spare and contained, but gradually builds with blistering, tinkering speed to get at, sonically, the urgency of not just one, but multiple generations that have faced oppression. Review: A Dance Searching for Harmony in an Unequal World 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z The effort paid off for the 42-year-old composer, who has been known to tinker with old instruments and industrial salvage to find unique sonic qualities. 'Binge-watching' viewership casts bigger spotlight on TV composers 2013-09-14T13:00:38Z Such florid space-rock tendencies demand a broader canvas and a more colourful sonic palette – just ask Muse or their prog-rock forefathers. Klaxons: Surfing the Void 2010-08-19T14:29:00Z It’s a hymn of gratitude that arrives with sonic undercurrents of dread. Coi Leray Borrows a Hip-Hop Classic, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z “Thrive on Routine” evokes Ives’s early morning potato digging with a misty sonic landscape dotted with percussive plucks and tiny curlicues. Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble Beckons, Playfully, at Miller Theater 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z If there’s a commonality here, it’s this: Instead of evoking fantasy worlds, these flute lines seem to be engaging rappers in sonic conversation. Perspective | How Bjork, Future and the brightest minds in jazz tried to save 2017 with magic flutes 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The soft, sonic brush strokes are also matched by thoughtful lighting design from Burke Brown. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Listening to it now, the sonic burrs are still there, but so is a playful, mischievous sensibility that perhaps wasn’t so obvious the first time around. | : Sept. 19 ? 25 2010-09-16T16:11:00Z “Don’t Break My Heart” is soaringly sad, framing romantic desperation as an unescapable sonic maze. The Endless Pop Shimmers of the Weeknd 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Through the use of machines and sound effects, the band have been experimenting with dub and Jamaican music, starting with the sonic expansion of reggae and its processed and remixed forms. June's best music from across the MAP 2012-06-13T10:52:13Z Packs a mighty sonic punch with wall of sound/breakdown towards the end. Shoegaze: a beginner's guide 2013-01-23T15:42:23Z Their meaning seemed secondary, however, to their sonic role in the stark yet knotty arrangements. Joanna Newsom, unconventional in every way 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change asked for a copy, hoping to add sonic context to dry discussions about data and policy. The Poignant Music of Melting Ice 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The debut album from the Joy Formidable sounds as if it was recorded as some kind of sonic weapon. The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar ? review 2011-01-20T23:59:01Z To that end, Green and Mangini made an early expedition into Death Valley to collect natural noises that could be used later for the film’s sonic palette. The Secret Sounds of ‘Dune’: Rice Krispies and Marianne Faithfull 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Boulez returned to them decades later, using them as seeds for orchestral pieces of sometimes overwhelming sonic beauty. Berlin’s State Opera Has Served Kings, Presidents and Dictators. Now What? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The group members played amid stacks of amplifiers that sonically and visually resurrected an era of big rock. What’s on TV Saturday: Black Sabbath’s Final Performance and ‘Arrival’ 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z Hadzihalilovic is an expert conjurer of other worlds, and “Earwig” unearths a startlingly seductive array of visual and sonic textures that don’t quite add up to much more than a powerful mood. ‘Earwig’ Review: Danse Macabre 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z It’s a collection of nerves, anxieties and self-recriminations set to ebullient melodies and unbound sonic collages. Remi Wolf Turns Bedroom Pop Into Hypercolored Explosions 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z But its most distinctive feature is a sonic glow as entrancing as a phosphorescent sea. Review: In ‘The Upper Room,’ Homesteaders Living an Eco-Nightmare 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z I’ve learned to perform, as the added theatricality both pleases my son’s desire for wordplay and sonic delight and helps keep my daughter’s attention. Board Books That Let Toddlers Join the Action 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Walker's work in the late 1960s as a member of the British-based vocal group the Walker Bros. gave way to a sonic descent into difficult, visceral experimental music after the trio's dissolution. Scott Walker and Sunn 0)))'s dark 'Soused': Judge it for yourself 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z "But the whole kind of sonic atmosphere of that song, if it had been actually performed totally live, would've been really different. It probably would have been closer to what we do normally." Peter Buck has no complaints: On his new Filthy Friends album, R.E.M. reissues and more 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z Beach continued honing her orchestral voice in the stormily combative Piano Concerto, which Ms. Block’s biography treats as a sonic metaphor for the composer’s struggles for control in her private life. Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Subtle mistuning between the different wood blocks or pipes is what creates the surprising sonic blossoms. David Lang, Michael Gordon and So Percussion toy with minds 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Loud spent much of his debut album, “Nap Town,” trying on different sonic hats, proving himself a dual threat rapper and singer capable of gritty street anthems, after-dark R&B cuts and everything in between. Seattle rapper Jay Loud lands major-label deal, two years after stint in Tacoma shelter 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Colourbox's sonic breakbeat-fuelled collages morphed into M/A/R/R/S's Pump Up The Volume – the first independently distributed single to reach number one – and Watts-Russell had also signed his first American act. Label of love: 4AD 2010-03-17T13:37:00Z While sonically that glitchy language is now everywhere – from modern R&B to, still, Vienna, in the form of the tiny, mighty rhiz – few of the records from that time have stayed with me. Hidden Treasures: Gas – Gas 2013-03-19T16:12:15Z But his third record, “Talk Dirty,” got into some sonic strangeness, and his latest, “Everything Is 4”—according to Jon Caramanica, our resident Derulo-ist—suggests a new sort of vision for pop. Popcast: Jason Derulo Glides Across Genres 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z When a large group of strings adopts this technique, strange sonic mirages occur. The Otherworldly Minimalism of Jürg Frey 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z What hip-hop needed to stand on its own fully was a sonic jolt, a sound that would give it escape velocity out of disco’s orbit. Larry Smith, Hip-Hop Producer, Dies at 63 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Bombastic, attention-grabbing inorganic noises are becoming the norm, disruptive sonic alerts trigger Pavlovian feedback, and simulated sounds are supplanting analog ones. Clap On Your Bose, Baby, ’Cause It’s Noisy as Heck Out There 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z It was the sonic representation of the “post truth” culture. The inspiring poetics of Tedeschi Trucks Band 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z It took more than a decade for Mr. Shorter to release his next album, “Atlantis,” a complex sonic canvas that met with a tepid response, critically and commercially. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z But despite her sonic maturation, nostalgia courses through the record. Review: Lights Burns Bright on Dreamy Little Machines 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z I started to hear some kind of solace in a place that is sonically hellish.” What does Guitar Center sound like? These guys secretly recorded customers to find out. 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Even when Lambert misfires in a musical sense, her charisma and the sentiment behind her compositions somewhat papers over any errant sonic choices. REVIEW: Miranda Lambert Strikes Gold on Platinum 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Jazz is an inherently experimentative form, she said, developed through eras of cultural exchange and sonic improvisation, and she sees her own work, “as intuitive as possible,” as fitting into that legacy. MacArthur ‘genius’ grants launch winners from obscurity: ‘Now I feel like I’m working with a face’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Like a lot of Paul’s best music, there’s a sonic shyness about it, but also a deep undercurrent of tenderness. The Enduring Appeal of Magical Mystery Musicians 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z And the best sonic episodes, like the song of a single frog in the Sierra Nevadas, seem largely wasted. Review: In ‘Biophony,’ Ballet Matches Exotic Sound 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z With that much activity on the sonic bottom, the music was a marvelously oblique rumble, a tangle of thick roots over which Coleman’s alto blossomed. Seeing Ornette Coleman 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z She puts the lead, or the batteries, back in his sonic screwdriver. TV review: The Snowman and The Snowdog; Doctor Who: The Snowmen; Call The Midwife 2012-12-25T20:45:00Z Think the sonic version of drinking a pumpkin spice latte in Uggs while watching Sex and the City. Taylor Swift Proves She's the Musical Equivalent of a Pumpkin Spice Latte 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Whoever actually suggested the idea, it clearly made sense in Rubin’s sonic imagination. ‘Aerosmith had never heard of Run-DMC’: The path to the groundbreaking hit ‘Walk This Way’ 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z What unites all of these thinkers, from the economist Ha-Joon Chang to the “sonic research” collective AUDiNT, is their shared desire to conjure a different world. What We’re Reading This Summer 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Musicians don’t need to think so exclusively about what sounds, beats and structures the radio gatekeepers will allow; they can get poetic, political, sonically weird or all of the above. With Streaming, Musicians and Fans Find Room to Experiment and Explore 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Taking a magnifying glass to this instrument, we can enjoy in detail the clicks and breath, and even multiphonics that make the clarient so sonically rich. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z Rappers are sonic protagonists who turn words into sounds, and whenever they break our collective contract with time, they’re literally telling us how to get outside of life. Review | Is Blueface ahead of his time? Or does he just rap like it? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z His experimentation producing novel cymbal types — swish and sizzle, bounce and crash — would inspire a new generation of musicians to utilize a broader sonic palette. A Family’s 400-Year-Old Musical Secret Still Rings True 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z And they gained momentum and sonic cohesiveness as the evening unfolded. 'Four Others' charge hard at Jazz Showcase 2011-04-01T15:34:00Z As the film shows him listening intently in the woods, he talks in voice-over of wanting to mix the world’s sounds with instruments in a “sonic blending that is both chaotic and unified.” Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Others produced the hardly unpleasant effect of diving into a self-sustaining sonic environment, if maybe more varied Biosphere 2 than smothering womb. With Jóhann Jóhannssson and Bedroom Community, L.A. Phil tries to break through the Icelandic cliches 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z In these games the physics are generous, the characters are colorfully outlandish, and the weapons, like heat-seeking missiles and sonic shock waves, are plentiful. Video Game Review: Sony?s ModNation Racers Is a Driving Fantasy Game 2010-07-02T21:36:00Z But seeing it live and with disembodied, vaguely aquatic sonic effects was weird and cool, the audio/visual sequences hanging in air still charged by the most recent Tyler Swan drum freakout. Truckasauras rocks hard, salutes the '90s at Barboza 2012-06-29T18:19:13Z As a solo artist, he mines similar lo-fi sonic ground, best heard on “The Universe and Me,” his first new album in seven years. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z What I like about these guys is that it’s very compressed sonically. | Brad Mehldau: Pianists, Yes, but a Jazz Singer and Deep Metal, Too 2011-02-25T19:44:54Z In a small pile of sand, Galván falls to his knees and mimes digging himself out with a toy shovel, before donning those pink rubber boots for another sonic experiment. A Flamenco Star’s Percussive Mastery and Insouciant Subversions 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z These are visual coups, even as they aim to be primarily sonic experiences. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z As a teenager he worked at a radio repair shop, dissecting small stereos and developing an affinity for the sonic qualities of broadcasts. Holger Czukay, 79, Influential Rock Experimenter, Is Dead 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z For their peers the pairing — inevitably nicknamed LouTallica — makes sense as both a sonic match and the kind of shake-up that mature artists need now and then to keep things fresh. Music: Lou Reed and Metallica Team Up on ?Lulu? 2011-10-27T12:00:00Z The electronics become a halo around the instruments, amplifying their sonic palette yet indivisible from them. A guide to Kaija Saariaho's music 2012-07-09T15:01:23Z It’s a rare opportunity to hear the music that influences a group of sonic innovators, at least for those who managed to scoop up tickets in time. Your week in Seattle music: Chastity Belt, James Taylor 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z A great part of the music’s appeal came from that tension between intimacy and sonic power. Review: With Flower Pots and Toys, an Ensemble’s Fresh Take on Percussion 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Then there's the sheer sonic opulence, attained by snubbing computers in favour of veteran session musicians, legendary studios and a 70-piece orchestra. Daft Punk: the midas touch 2013-05-18T23:05:39Z Rihanna’s talent has always been versatile, and her early success showed how nimbly she could ride the waves of pop’s sonic trends. Rihanna: Since She’s Been Gone 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, at the other end of the sonic spectrum, Metallica revisit their thunderous Black album at Download. Why this festival season will be massive 2012-05-25T23:30:00Z In Miles' hands, the song enjoys an even richer sonic range. Paul McCartney's Wings album "Red Rose Speedway" is all the richer at 50 with a loving remaster 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z “More Forever” constantly extended the sonic aspects of dance. The Best Dance of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The album's sonic palette is so rich and varied, so utterly filled with whimsy, that each new cut sizzles with virtuosity and drama. Paul and Linda McCartney's "Ram": Dramatic pop virtuosity that still shines brightly at 50 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z He made a Vixen song sound better with a little sonic trickery — adding someone else’s guitar solo — and watched in horror as his band was held at gunpoint in Taipei. Richard Marx is right here waiting — for respect he’s due 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Inherently innovative, fundamentally American and unequivocally black, it’s the great futurist pop-form of our time — a sonic yearning to escape the oppression of the present. Perspective | The year’s best rappers sounded ahead of their time. Literally. 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Carlos Iturralde's "Fata Morgana" was a sonic mirage, with a trio of winds offstage mysteriously altering the sounds of violin, cello and bass on stage. Liminar makes Mexico's Carrillo look like the next great rediscovery 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z I wanted to make my masterpiece, sonically, and I feel like I almost died making that album. Billy Joel’s Got a Good Job and Hits in His Head 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z In quiet, glistening music, like some of John Adams’s “My Father Knew Charles Ives” in October, Geffen offers a transparent sonic window. Geffen and Gustavo: Mixed Boons for the New York Philharmonic 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z And, occasionally, he opted for deep-focus clarity, letting everything in his sonic frame gleam with pristinely arranged dramatic purpose. Review: An Artist’s Transporting Sounds (Blindfold Optional) 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Its first studio and rehearsal space was in a castle outside Cologne, but in 1971 the group relocated to the nearby village of Weilerswist, where they converted an abandoned movie house into a sonic lab. Holger Czukay, 79, Influential Rock Experimenter, Is Dead 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z While the momentum that carried Mumford & Sons and others to mainstream success eventually drew them toward more modern rock sounds, Old Crow remained sonically steadfast. Old Crow Medicine Show Looks to the Future While Picking at the Past 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z There is sentiment at play here — not just in the words, but also in the faster-than-the-internet sonic chaos. The Riotous, Internet-Speed Sound of 100 gecs 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Imagine Dragons is preoccupied with a few elementary sonic ideas — deeply forthright guitar rhythms and melodies, jagged juxtapositions between loud and soft, gestures in which one instrument rises to the top and quickly commands attention. Imagine Dragons, a Rock ‘n’ Roll Survivor by Any Definition 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Kaya’s new album, “Watch This Liquid Pour Itself,” expands beyond the understated sonic palette of her debut with strains of disco pop and rock. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z The sound design puts you deeper in his headspace, sonically and visually. "It's a quiet revolt": Filmmaker on how "The Last Tree" moves between Black and white spaces 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z In order to review my album as an academic work, the academic publisher had to "come up with appropriate questions for the evaluation of a sonic, rather than written, work." Hip-hop professor looks to open doors with world’s first peer-reviewed rap album 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z David Lang, another Bang on a Can founder, upends the violin’s sonic identity with “Killer,” a hard-driving, grungy piece evoking squealing electric guitars. Review: Todd Reynolds, Live and Recorded, at the Jewish Museum 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Jones posted on social media that he was “devastated” about the news of Swedien’s death, calling him a sonic genius. Bruce Swedien, Grammy-winning engineer of ‘Thriller,’ dies 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z The result is a sonic howl — part glam rock, part orchestral, part punk, with driving, industrial songs that are liable to disintegrate or tear off into a different direction. Danny Elfman writes a solo album with ‘venom’ pouring out 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Besides whetting listeners’ sonic palates to the tone of the album, the early material signaled the tone of the album to come. Holy Joker: Father John Misty releases “Pure Comedy” 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z From a sonic perspective, both spent the ’90s pushing their sound forward. A modern-day Beatles vs. Stones?: Why people love arguing about the merits of R.E.M. vs. U2 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z In a separate interview with the BBC, Stipe affirmed that the song's sonic evolution from the studio to the stage — raucous and loud to moodier and introspective — was akin to a grieving process. R.E.M.’s “Monster” and the legacy of an unsung melancholic masterpiece 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Textures hovered in slow-swirling variation before shifting to new ideas; the aural landscape was dotted with gentle surprises of weight and sonic depth. Review | With analog Music Easels, Eternal Now paints a serendipitous aural landscape 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z It's this apparent purity of emotion that explains, more than any sonic cues, the regular comparisons to the Beach Boys. Animal Collective: Centipede HZ – review 2012-08-23T14:31:01Z Beyond a more Old School kind of paywall – the not-insubstantial but in this instance definitely worth-paying £4 purchase price – this particular September issue corrals a superbly grizzled posse of sonic renegades. Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb fails to climb the Times paywall 2010-08-25T10:57:00Z Between the earlier rousing political moments and Death Cab’s sonic eloquence, it was easy to forget that this was in fact a celebration of the 90-year-old venue. Hometown heroes Death Cab for Cutie punctuate Paramount Theatre’s unexpectedly political 90th birthday bash 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z The point is, the Strypes are into faithful period recreation, devoting their energies to making sonic replicas of music that would have been current when their grandparents were around. New band of the day: The Strypes (No 1,396) 2012-11-15T16:37:05Z “Even in the first and second books of madrigals, when he is still learning the trade, Monteverdi plays with material and uncovers new sonic horizons,” Mr. Carter said. Monteverdi Set Human Emotion to Music 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z “Living Mirage” is a bit of a shift sonically. The Head and the Heart are taking over a Seattle landmark Sunday. What inspired the free concert? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Photograph: Rex Features There was a time when US R&B was one of the most sonically adventurous genres going. Justin Timberlake: The 20/20 Experience – review 2013-03-17T00:05:18Z However, when Patton howls and barks while accompanied by a Napalm Death-style sonic barrage, you wouldn't guess he's delivering an essay on the Knights Templar. John Zorn – review 2013-07-14T15:00:01Z It’s draped in an ominous, gray cloud of sonic energy, an overcast atmosphere that seemingly exemplifies Chicago at its bleakest. REVIEW: Common Speaks to Chicago on New Album Nobody's Smiling 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z The whole sonic tone shifts at the half-way point, too, from clamped down and angry, to springy and sparkly. Download this: "John DeLorean" by Seattle's Blue Scholars 2011-04-20T17:34:06Z They also have a modern sense of sonic detail. Music Review: Chris Thile & Michael Daves at the Allen Room - Review 2012-01-14T00:30:25Z Named for a heady genre of electronic music in which thousands of notes are digitally layered atop one another, this British quartet has an affinity for sonic overload. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z They’ll see something like “A Quiet Place” in a packed multiplex, its spell broken by the sonic booms of “Pacific Rim: Uprising” bleeding in from the next auditorium. Does It Matter if You See a Film in a Theater or at Home? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z The song’s wholesome optimism is undone by the sonic shakiness—and then a gunshot goes off. “Atlanta” and Vince Staples and a New Hip-Hop Sensibility 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z When Bob Dylan’s Nobel lecture was released on Monday, the transcript was accompanied by an audio recording of Mr. Dylan reading his speech with an unusual sonic touch: jazzy piano chords floating in the background. ‘A Really Cool Gig’: Playing Piano for Bob Dylan’s Nobel Lecture 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z I’m here to crack the pavement and make new grounds sonically … and culturally.” Kanye West: I’m “No. 1 Rock Star on the Planet” 2013-09-24T19:27:48Z On this album the sonic experimentation is a little more modest than on her previous two, “Saltbreakers” and “Year of Meteors,” which were released on Nonesuch. 2010-01-10T23:10:00Z Perhaps unsurprisingly, Spalding particularly sparks to the idea that being able to “recalibrate your creative being,” one way of looking at this sonic experiment, is a valuable thing for artists to do. “We always are pleasantly surprised at what we have in us.”: Esperanza Spalding talks about making an album in 77 hours 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z And yet we also think of it as an objective threshold, “a kind of sonic excess or nonsense or hazard”—something that not only bothers us but presumably bothers everyone else, too. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z But that doesn’t mean the sonic details just slip past, lost in the flow. Playlist: Whether Jazz, Rock Or War Anthems, A Vintage Harvest 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z Today’s playlist is a brief sonic tour through some of music’s most iconic uniforms. Dressed for Success: 7 Bands in Uniform 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z There has been no escaping the sonic shifts that have been reconfiguring country music of late. Country Music Opens Its Ears 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z And oh what fantasies do his sonic landscapes conjure. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z This record is a pretty big sonic shift for the band. The Airborne Toxic Event renovates, recharges on 'Dope Machines' 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The result is a dense sonic collage that turns the Coleman trio’s free jazz into a crucial element of White’s own free cinema. A Lost Masterwork Is Found: Thomas White's “Who's Crazy?” 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Using his up-all-night voice to articulate a spectrum of wide-awake ideas, his music became a reconciliation of contrasts, a sonic manifestation of his personal bio-psych. Review | Mavi is rapping his way toward the center of human consciousness 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Ms. Swift’s alliances are social and Instagram friendly; Drake’s, though, are professional and sonic. Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill, Twitter’s Ethics Police 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z But his road to the top was paved with the help of Yams, who is a spirit guide, a muse, a curator of sonic ideas. ASAP Yams, Partner to Hip-Hop’s ASAP Rocky 2013-01-25T13:00:00Z The band’s debut album, released that same year, was sprinkled with environmental sounds, jagged guitar riffs. and other sonic detritus. Rita Lee, Brazil’s Queen of Rock, Is Dead at 75 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Entirely sonic, the Sims piece is based on a single familiar song, “Dixie,” composed for pre-Civil War minstrel shows and meant to mock clichés of “happy” Black slave life. Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in ‘The Dirty South’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z In fairness, the show does have a rich history of convoluted stories fixed with a wave of the sonic screwdriver. Doctor Who: Steven Moffat's highs, lows and time-travelling hijinks 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Before noon on the West Holts stage on Friday, Jonny Greenwood opened on solo guitar and layered recorded loops to create a rich, sonic atmosphere. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z The music Mr. Crumb has dreamed up in this home studio, a converted garage, over the decades is often peaceful and jolting, like his sonic environment. His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Rather than riffs on Billings, the only sustained sonic reference to an 18th-century composer in “Hamilton” is to a European, Johann Sebastian Bach. ‘Hamilton’ Is Known For Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z But I loved being part of this enveloping sonic and communal experience. Review: The Jaap van Zweden Era Begins at the Philharmonic 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Marvel, home of The Avengers, relies on a house style that coasts on the charisma of its attractive casts but has all the visual and sonic flair of an ibuprofen commercial. ‘Legion’ Series Premiere: Where Is My Minds? 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Ever the curious sonic architect, guitarist Lanois avoids chords and favors phrases that assume the form of sharp slivers and wrinkled ribbons. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z For one month, London restaurant House of Wolf served a “sonic cake pop” of chocolate-coated bittersweet toffee, which came, intriguingly, with a telephone number. A new way to eat chocolate: How sound changes what you taste 2014-03-14T14:20:00Z The Tate described the shows as a "chronological exploration of the group's sonic and visual experiments" and promised "spectacular 3D effects". Kraftwerk to play shows in Tate 2012-12-05T14:42:47Z We'll find you somewhere underneath all of this glorious sonic rubble, twisted melody girders and the debris of a hundred ideas! This week's new tracks 2012-11-10T00:06:00Z On the singular “Motomami,” one of the coolest pop stars on the planet mashes up innumerable genres and cultural influences to create her own sonic world. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Bennington, on the other hand, has spent the past decade fronting one of the most sanitised and sonically beige bands on the planet. When one frontman is as good as any other 2013-05-23T13:14:08Z This may seem odd, but a great deal of this book was generated out of a particular inquiry into the unique and ineffable sonic character of racquetball. Steven Church talks essays, and his new book 'Ultrasonic' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z There’s tension, between her nature and Spector’s; her sonic force and his symphonic, percussive Wall of Sound. Tornado. Treasure. There Was Nobody Like Tina Turner. 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Three teams of German architects and engineers fabricated flexible spaces that are sonically and visually discrete, allowing video art to be exhibited with a purity that museums can’t provide. The Ultimate Video Art Retreat 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z But the confrontation is hushed, private and solitary, as if it’s taking place in a sonic hall of mirrors. glaive Showcases His Less Hyper Pop, and 13 More New Songs 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z While Mr. Lortie’s three-hour performance was impressive and shot through with sonic marvels, I was not convinced that the arduous experience added up to a real journey. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Take On Travel and Folk 2014-04-28T20:16:46Z Unlike participants in the marathon drone performances in downtown lofts during the 1960s, they did not have the aid of cannabis in opening themselves up to sustained sonic meditation. Johann Johannsson’s ‘Drone Mass’ Bridges Ancient and Modern at Temple of Dendur 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z For a meditative visitor sitting on one of the folding chairs scattered about, it all becomes a Cage-ian symphony: a harmonious blend of sonic textures, timbres and rhythms. Art Review: Pondering Sculpture Under the Trees 2010-08-26T20:00:00Z But he’s also a kind of preservationist, waving a flag for work-ethic, or sonic texture, or manual dexterity, or musical history, or something. Music Review: Foo Fighters at the Izod Center - Review 2011-09-27T22:00:18Z But the finest moments happen when he takes a break and, aided by Mr. Kuklis’s sonic manipulations, conjures a dreamscape woven from folk tales and personal tales of camping by the Adriatic Sea. Reviews: A Wild Ride and a Nomadic Journey at River to River Festival 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Yet almost as quickly, “Folkestone” made me forget those sonic signposts; my focus shifted to the polished clarity of Ms. Smith’s compositional intentions. At This New-Music Festival, You Can Count on Variety 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z "Power" and "exploded" are possibly overestimating the sonic achievement here. New band of the day ? No 776: The Agitator 2010-04-29T14:39:00Z Composers like Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros and Terry Riley carried out many sonic investigations under the auspices of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, an electronic studio that gained prominence in the ’60s. Arts: ?Audium? and ?The Wave Organ?: The Sounds of Art 2010-03-28T02:41:00Z Always On is somehow mournful but manic, with a mad synth noise – sheer sonic graffiti – completely at odds with the vocal melody. Silver Columns (No 746) 2010-03-16T17:25:00Z Available for the first time, the next sonic treat on our audio advent calendar is this Hunded in the Hands remix. Audio advent calendar: Download The Hundred in the Hands' Pigeons (Screentests remix) 2010-12-18T00:08:12Z But by the time Brahms ratchets up the drama in the development section, Ms. Jansen and Mr. Pappano let loose all their charisma and sonic clout. Bach, Reich, Bartok, Beethoven and More 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The buzz: "Behind his intoxicating vocals, he melds layers of sonic dreamscapes, creating moody and ethereal visions with blasts of exquisite post-pop". New band of the day: Mikky Ekko (No 1,446) 2013-02-05T17:36:08Z It gathers sonic strands she helped weave into the pop mainstream. Madonna: 'Caring about what people think is the death of all artists' 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z People can crow at the lack of innovative sonic ideas on display, but they are not what find you an audience, from NME-reading teens to aunties humming along to Radio 2. How Adele conquered the world 2011-04-05T23:05:05Z Not the most original approach, but amid the hazy sonic washes and catchy songs, an effective one. Lollapalooza Day 1 in review 2011-08-06T06:57:00Z Songs with more experimental and abrasive production, like “Hey Kids,” “Call Ticketron” and “Legend Has It,” are sonically interesting but also feel a little exhausting, dragging on like an unnecessarily long car chase scene. Killer Mike and El-P sounds more together than ever on ‘Run the Jewels 3’ 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Pop songs fight to be noticed in an arms race of sentiments, gimmicks, sonic manipulation and promotional strategies. On the Pop Charts, Singing the Unspeakable 2011-03-15T16:00:06Z But a Bulls game isn’t a sonic free-for-all either. The DJs behind the Bulls 2011-05-10T14:32:34Z The sound design is striking, too, a sonic collage of percussive booms and deafening static roars that are often more unsettling than the film’s relatively mild visual shocks. ‘The Quiet Ones’: Horror flick is more creaky than creepy 2014-04-24T22:08:21Z Yet it’s also the most ambitious Queens of the Stone Age record — both sonically and conceptually. Queens of the Stone Age’s …Like Clockwork is Dark, Personal, and Heroic 2013-06-06T13:28:40Z Hooks, hooks, hooks: When every vocal line, every guitar riff sounds like a little sonic forget-me-not, you've got something. SXSW 2012: It's a wrap 2012-03-18T19:19:00Z Delighting in new paths around words, exploring their visual, acoustic, sonic possibilities, she revels in “affinities and relations,” in “signals and transmissions.” A Poet of Found Language Who Finds Her Language in Archives 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z And it is that resistance — through fevered creativity, proud sexual and other deviance, literary and sonic cut-ups, and mind-altering substances — that he transmitted to the rock generation like a seditious cultural virus. Review | How David Bowie, Jimmy Page, Patti Smith and other musicians fell for William S. Burroughs 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Over the course of its set Monday night, the band sounded so focused, well-rehearsed and sonically full that one would never have guessed it has been out of action for nearly two decades. Reunited slowcore band Codeine more vital with age 2012-07-10T19:37:03Z "As a sonic worker- gross do not do that," someone else wrote. Viral TikTok 'hack' for free Sonic sparks debate about canceled DoorDash orders: 'Please don't do this' 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Her timbre carried with it a sonic chiaroscuro: pure tones gleamed out of depth and shadow. The Shimmering Magnificence of Jessye Norman 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z She took the tables after him, at 11 p.m., straddling Friday and Saturday with a sonic sermon of house music. What it felt like to lose time — and all the other things coronavirus took away At the end of a section or two of the 40-minute piece, performed in the round without sonic accompaniment, one of the dancers says, “O.K., good” or announces the title: “This is called ‘Strange Engagements.’” Review: A Dance That’s Just Not Weird Enough 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z There’s too much at risk because it’s so valuable to create sonic perfection. Talkin’ Fifty Years of Bob Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde” 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Reid and executive producers Timbaland and Jackson’s estate overseers, the release offers sonic holograms of the best possible kind. CD review: Michael Jackson’s ‘Xscape’ feels shockingly vital 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z But very few have dared to dream sonic images of such magnetic power as those that Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho has conjured in her music for ensembles, orchestra, opera houses, electronics and soloists. A guide to Kaija Saariaho's music 2012-07-09T15:01:23Z But so far, the sonic world they've created is staying credible as it grows more inviting. Fade to Mind, a record label and more, extends its cultural reach 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Another display shows “geophones”: sonic sensors used with stethoscope ear pieces to detect the enemy burrowing tunnels. First World War Galleries Reopen at Imperial War Museum 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z I Am the Narrator may dash busily through a string of sonic cliches – police sirens and the like – but its blend of warped fairytale strings, dub bass and antic Dr Dre swagger persuades the ear. Best albums of 2012: 20–11 2012-11-28T09:00:00Z Mr. Hollenbeck, an idiosyncratic drummer and sonic architect, likes to let sounds float around and connect at various angles, misplacing and de-ordering things. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Why did you want them there, aside from sonic reasons? “I’m just weeping and weeping”: Thao Nguyen on how Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead” set the tone for her new album 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z The adventures are adventurous, and the sonic and visual approaches are almost never cliched or stale. Nearly Nirvana in ‘Journey to the West’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Meighan proved to be the ringmaster, orchestrating crowd choruses and urging bodies up on the shoulders of many while his band mates provided plentiful sonic ammunition. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Reznor and Ross revisit some of their most distinctive sonic vocabulary on the new albums. Nine Inch Nails Faces the Pandemic With Hope, Despair and Noise 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z With the array of reggae vocalists and DJs who came through the Black Ark, Perry paired their heavy messages in a head-swimming sonic brew that could not be denied. Perspective | Behind the smokescreens, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry was a true master of sound and spacetime 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Bonus features include three Doctor specials new to DVDs, an 11th Doctor "sonic screwdriver" gadget, art cards, and the comic book "Doctor Who at Comic-Con." Guide to TV DVD sets as holiday gifts 2012-11-20T17:59:09Z Of their enduring, opposites-attract sonic chemistry, Sinatra quips in a lively new interview included in the liner notes, “We used to call it beauty and the beast!” Boxing Up the Past: The Year in 16 Pop, Rap, Soul and Jazz Sets 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z The music is full of dark electronic textures, harsh drones and enveloping synthesizer tones, a sonic pallette at least partially influenced by her past, playing in metal bands. Jenny Hval’s lyrics will grab your attention at Kremwerk 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z But others hold their shape and summon an elusive mood of longing within the sonic wonderment. Playlist: New Work From White Rabbits and Magic Youth 2012-03-11T03:09:07Z Mr. Gordon’s recent large-scale works fixate on a limited sonic palette — a cohort of bassoons, a smattering of wooden 2-by-4s, the innards of a piano — but somehow unlock a vast range of tonal hues. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z But they differ sonically from one another and work best when Mr. Durado sings accompanied by a fingerpicked folk guitar, even if his voice seems at a distance in the mixes. ‘The Horizon Just Laughed’ by Damien Jurado Review: Comfort Tunes 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z It was a combination of all of these films, snippets of things, that were sonically stitched together without it being billed or understood as a sound-based exhibition. An Artist Who Makes Use of Housedresses, Resin and Sound 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z However, he mostly keeps the music laid-back, the innocuous sonic wallpaper accommodating the throngs of smokers in attendance. Pitchfork Day 1 wrap-up: Feist, Japandroids, Big K.R.I.T., rain 2012-07-14T05:09:00Z “You can be a pilot and make a sonic boom, but you can’t be one.” In ‘Afropessimism,’ a Black Intellectual Mixes Memoir and Theory 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Last month, just before the reality of the covid-19 virus was becoming widely known, I added another snapshot to my sonic stash. Even when you can’t travel, you can still bring the sounds of a far-off city to you. 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z The week before "Young Sick Camellia" is released, Janeway spoke about St. Paul and the Broken Bones' sonic evolution, how family dynamics influenced his lyrics, and the therapeutic value of music. Paul Janeway on the new St. Paul & the Broken Bones LP and “open wounds we didn’t know were t... 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z At the middle was the imposing Michael Gira, 60, statuesque with a carved face, stringy shoulder-length hair, an intense presence girded by a spiritual devotion to sonic epiphany. Swans at the Roxy: Volume, harmony and rhythm yield profound beauty 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z They subtly cohere, with some songs sharing rhythmic elements; they also continue to expand Mr. Simon’s sonic vocabulary with unique instruments as well as with electronics, loops and samples. Paul Simon’s Ambition, and Inspiration, Never Gets Old 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Lyor Cohen, a fabled industry executive who was in the studio that day, felt the song’s easy packaging, its sonic obviousness, forced rap from the underground before its time. Review | How the crossover hit ‘Walk This Way’ became a major pop cultural moment 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z Crooning melodies and sweet pop hooks were Reznor’s major sonic crimes against 1980s industrial music. Nine Inch Nails: a human scream in Reagan’s postindustrial America 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z It’s not easy to capture this type of sonic energy on the page. ‘Sick On You: The Disastrous Story of the Hollywood Brats’ 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Flourishes of footwork thrill here, but the exploration throughout is more sonic than rhythmic. Dance Review: For Colin Dunne, Life After ?Riverdance? 2011-10-21T21:30:31Z But since “Traveller” also has a part for a human pianist within the chamber group, you had to pay close sonic and visual attention to discern which pianistic choices were Voyager’s. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z His songs matter so much to so many people, myself included, because of the introspection and pain he manages to layer into them behind and below their sonic brutality. Books of The Times: H?sker D? From the Inside, in a Memoir 2011-06-14T16:10:39Z All in all, his performance displayed the endless and contrasting sonic character of each organ, serving to dispel the common notion of “the organ” — as, for instance, “the Stradivarius” violin — being a single instrument. Christopher Candela dispels the notion that all organ music sounds the same Meanwhile, the opening title track steps back from the hysterical sonic overload of its predecessor into infinitely more subtle territory: a sing-song melody, over Neil Young-ish piano and lazily strummed acoustic guitar. Arcade Fire: The Suburbs 2010-07-29T14:30:00Z It’s a fervent chant attempting to sonically break social barriers, bonds of silence and with the words “cut me loose” brings to mind images of Billie Holiday’s anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit.” Beyoncé brings her ‘Lemonade’ stand to CenturyLink Field 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z I didn’t meet anyone from the beyond, but it was a remarkable sonic experience. Palm Springs beyond the poolside: lonesome hikes, alien-inspired architecture and a poignant art museum 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The composer, who is both percussionist and engineer, matched color frequencies with their sonic equivalents. Aron Kallay experiments, triumphs in Piano Spheres' 'Nothing Is Real' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z The Wall of Sound was a fuzzy, congested, massive sonic assault designed for 45-r.p.m. record players and AM car radios. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z An archetypal piece for this is Erik Satie's Gymnopédie No. 1, a timeless piano solo that envelopes the listener and treats tired muscles to a sonic massage. Why you should consider adding classical music to your exercise playlist 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z There are, however, zero traces of the era’s sonic traits here – and barely any of Explosions in the Sky’s defined features. Explosions in the Sky Explore a Muted Sound on the Prince Avalanche Soundtrack 2013-08-09T18:56:46Z It is also something of a natural sound for the streaming era, which rewards gut-level accessibility and sonic consistency. The Rowdy World of Rap’s New Underground 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Guest conductor Leslie B. Dunner understood the sonic beauty and rhythmic snap of Davis' orchestration and encouraged the Sinfonietta to play it to the hilt. 'Concerto for a Genius' shows promise, but needs more fire from the piano 2011-01-16T15:56:00Z It turned the museum into a sonic hell. Art Review: ‘Soundings’ Features Art With Audio Elements 2013-08-08T20:41:20Z These songs’ vocals were malleable instrumental color to enhance overall sonic expression and convey feelings such as alienation, or fear of modernity. In defense of Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z For more than four minutes, acidic, slashing gestures harshly sliced through flashes of silence, the pauses varied just enough to leave uncertainty as to the next sonic attack. Music Review: The JACK Quartet Plays Bryant Park 2013-07-28T19:41:00Z Even the attainment of joy in the finale is preceded by a terrifying outburst of sonic chaos. Revolution No. 9: Seattle will hear Beethoven’s famed, still-needed work of inclusivity 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z One general rule is to hold back as much as possible, to give the listener the chance to let the song grow and unfold, introducing new sonic elements, such as new instruments or sectional groupings. Elton John, the Beach Boys and the fine art of pop alchemy 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z But he quickly learned the single-genre format couldn’t satiate his vast sonic cravings. Seattle music’s champion of weird, Doug Haire, ends KEXP’s ‘Sonarchy’ 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z But every week since the show debuted in fall 2006, Richmond has fashioned the background music that sonically frames the madcap action. A final '30 Rock' showcases its unsung music man 2013-01-29T18:01:04Z A sharp eight-piece band, led by the conductor Carmel Dean, is arrayed around the stage, providing a sonic frame for the action. | 'American Idiot': A Musical Inspired by a Green Day Album Opens 2010-04-21T03:16:00Z To some late-night joggers passing by, it sounded like a “sonic boom.” How terrorists became the unspoken architects of the Capitol 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z It then transforms into something entirely different: a sonic carnival carried by a smoky bass line and a slightly superfluous but adventurous eastern bridge. FKA Twigs 'LP1' Review 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Strom’s vast sonic worlds called out for meditative inquisitions and influenced a new generation of artists creating impressionistic experimental and electronic music. Pauline Anna Strom’s posthumous album cements her legacy as an electronic music visionary 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z “Liminality” is both too large and too narrow, its smattering of narratives and sonic explorations only revealing all the other routes the show could take. ‘Liminality’ Is Theater of the Mind That Explores the In-Between 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Lisiecki’s willingness to recede into the sonic background did not convey the teeming, mercurial atmosphere of this Romantic war horse. Music Review: Jan Lisiecki Makes Debut With New York Philharmonic 2012-12-14T22:19:09Z One of the qualities that made Pinsky such an appealing national poet is his extraordinarily sonorous reading voice; he writes the kind of sonically alive poetry that is built to be read aloud. Robert Pinsky’s new poetry collection is considered and timely 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z The choreography rarely absorbed emotional power from its visual or sonic accompaniments, and what you felt about "The Watershed" ultimately depended on what you brought to it. 'Watershed' misses its moment to commemorate civil rights 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z And yet it was Young, with his simpler runs, who more often hit the sonic peaks — summoning otherworldly growls, demons and shrieks from his battered black Les Paul. Neil Young, Stephen Stills back on stage together 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Ikeda’s visual and sonic installation will be the largest he has ever done, Ms. Robertson said. A Stage as Big as All Outdoors but Without Rain 2010-09-26T21:35:00Z Power, Corruption and Lies is the ultimate icon of relic of sonic/aesthetic kind: the album. The greatest ever album covers 2012-07-06T16:00:14Z “Brooklyn,” an engagingly earthy new album on his Three Faces label, covers that mix of styles, but with a consistent sonic palette. Review: John Patitucci Takes His Electric Bass to the Iridium 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z More explanation would be nice, but it's an alluring piece in which a listener does, in fact, get a sensation of sonic clouds swirling in a starry sky. National Youth Orchestra is sensational at Disney Hall 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z I ran to her and said, “That’s the sonic boom. I thought you said no one could be a sonic boom.” In ‘Afropessimism,’ a Black Intellectual Mixes Memoir and Theory 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z There's a Top Gear sonic toothbrush, Top Gear body wash and Top Gear soap-on-a-rope. The worst Christmas TV gifts 2010-12-22T12:45:18Z She replaces the singer's straightforward pop backups with harmonically unsettled and sonically sophisticated orchestrations. Green Umbrella titles the concert 'Outrageous,' but is it? 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The resulting years, however, have seen them gradually shake free of their own self-imposed sonic straitjacket. Foals on Holy Fire: 'We were inspired by voodoo' 2013-04-25T17:11:02Z There's only a certain amount of sonic depth you can get from a solid-body jazz guitar. Switched-on guitar: Fareed Haque meets the Moog 2011-01-24T14:43:52Z Visually and sonically hypnotic, it’s an intensely sensory blend of internal monologue and unsettling mystery, draped over a thin skeleton of plot approached so obliquely that it seems almost inconsequential. ‘Upstream Color’: Arresting visuals flow in puzzling sci-fi romance 2013-04-11T20:38:36Z Marcus Strickland The saxophonist Marcus Strickland uses the liner notes of his new album to describe the music as weighty, both in sonic density, and, I guess, in emotional resonance. Playlist: New Music From Mark McGuire and Twin Sister 2011-09-24T22:15:07Z The constant efforts to sonically sculpt our emotional realities. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z But absent the oppression of a dust-free studio and imposing electronics working to capture sonic perfection, music lives and dies on emotive expression. 'Letter Home' is stripped-down Neil Young in his ragged glory 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z He created these very elongated horns using different parts of old musical instruments, linking to this idea of sonic potential and performance but also a new state of being. Grace Wales Bonner Has Set Her Sights Beyond Fashion 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Guitar army Titus Andronicus is sure to provide the sonic equivalent of a caffeine injection during their 12:45 p.m. kickoff slot. Lollapalooza day-by-day: Which day is the best if you can only do 1? 2011-06-07T13:03:44Z The babel of foreign languages spoken by tourists visiting it bears a rough sonic similarity to those around Castle Garden in 1885. An Immigrant Named Trump 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z That exchange of sonic energy, plus a love of architecture, keeps Fontana out of pristine gallery spaces and clambering around rooftops or coal holes instead. Bill Fontana: Caught by the river 2010-04-15T21:20:00Z Take a sonic tour of Cuba’s capital with this new documentary. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Once Upon a Time’ and ‘Havana Time Machine’ 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z But it was a weirdness in service of dramatically clear ends, since the whole thing worked as a sonic commentary on the wonders of biodiversity. Review: Julia Wolfe’s ‘unEarth’ Is Crowded Out by Multimedia 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z “He was still searching, still trying to mold this sonic clay,” Mr. Harris said. Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Conductor Who Fled Poland, Dies at 93 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z “The album is kind of disparate sonically, disparate in terms of what the songs are saying, but the connective tissue is self-definition and agency and identity and interrogating those things,” McPherson said. Muna’s Fresh Start 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Such occasional earlier tunes as “Silver Rider” sounded pristine amid the sonic grime of the more recent songs. Everything about veteran indie-rock group Low is emotionally constrained 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Slatkin's resources were slimmer, but the Bowl's robust amplification provided sonic enhancement, and the conductor treated Rimsky's magnificent musical evocation of stories from "A Thousand and One Nights" with solid storytelling gusto. Leonard Slatkin is traditional and bracing at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Zorn has often been cast as a musical transgressor, but his renegade spirit isn’t just a matter of sonic extremity. Music Review | John Zorn: Exploring the Topography of John Zorn?s Continent 2010-02-19T22:52:00Z The string trio, with its thinner texture leaving fewer sonic corners in which to hide, is the far more vulnerable chamber music vehicle. Camerata Pacifica introduces John Harbison's curvy string trio 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z She would later complete a doctorate in mechanical engineering, but her early work provided some of the fundamentals in sonic boom reduction technology. How history forgot the black women behind Nasa’s space race 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z “Music Beyond Borders”: Seattle Symphony hastily arranged a free sonic protest of President Trump’s travel ban — for a packed house at Benaroya Hall Wednesday — with music from Syria, Iraq, Iran and beyond. This land is your land: Seattle Symphony responds to Trump travel bans with ‘Music Beyond Borders’ 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z This is because the tones and sentences with which we speak are coded with sonic meaning, a "sound of sense". Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z Galbraith says Capek’s play was tempting source material for her company because of the possibility of creating contrasting sonic language for the robot and human characters. Mutual Inspirations Festival 2015 celebrates Czech writer Karel Capek 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Each appeared to push the hall to its sonic limits, yet the next proved even louder and more thrilling. Why America got it wrong on Riccardo Chailly and how the Italian conductor is proving it 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Gathering string for this project, he tripped into a sonic wormhole. Books of The Times: Primordial Soup, a Musical Brew 2011-05-12T22:00:06Z How do sonic frequencies, like psychedelic visual patterns, affect our psyches and serve as road maps for better living beyond the micro- communities of artists? Better Living Through Music, Art and Polyamory 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Once you listen to the score — a sonic spell of creaks and human sighs by Pierre Henry — it makes sense, hauntingly and hilariously so. New York City Ballet Is Back, and the Real Jewels Are the Dancers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z In announcing the awards, which were live-streamed on Saturday from Venice, Edwards said that Boyce offered “another reading of histories through the sonic.” Sonia Boyce Wins Top Prize at Venice Biennale 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z The record swells with storming guitars and anthemic synths with a few disco detours creating some sonic distance from her past work’s somber rep. 8 artists to watch at Capitol Hill Block Party 2019 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Brazilian music is impossible to separate from its place of origin, and so sonic exports such as samba and bossa nova immediately evoke white-hot beaches and sun-browned bodies. Seu Jorge and Almaz bring new-school samba to Seattle 2010-08-05T23:07:00Z Not long afterward, the composer met the Indian flutist Hariprasad Chaurasia, traveled to India and Sri Lanka, and became fascinated by the sonic possibilities of South Asian music. Opera’s Perfectionist Tries to Follow His Masterpiece 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Filtered through a computer program written by Mr. Essl, elements of her live playing were looped and played back in unpredictable ways, forcing her to adapt her own playing to the constantly changing sonic environment. Critic’s Notebook: Monica Germino Melds Violin and Electronics 2013-06-16T21:51:17Z The composer revolutionized the stage and sonic world of late 19th-century Europe, and his works - and outsized personality - cast a huge shadow, for good and ill, into the 20th century and beyond. 'Autobahn to Bayreuth' - English soprano sings for Wagner's 200th 2013-07-21T15:31:14Z In its original incarnation, on the most recent Coldplay album, “Everglow” is a piano ballad tastefully padded with sonic accouterments: electric bass, pealing guitars, stark and unobtrusive drums. The Playlist: The xx Return in a Brighter Mood 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z I hate to use these terms but it felt like a sonic weapon in my hands. ArtsBeat: Kirk Hammett, Guitarist for Metallica, Talks About His Beloved Marshalls 2012-04-06T17:27:17Z But MCA was a much greater sonic challenge than the nightclubs because of the relatively “live” acoustic environments in the galleries. At the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: Hear! Hear! 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Percussion has always been really attractive to me as a sonic element. Noah Hawley Isn’t Done with ‘Fargo’ 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z I could not help but think: Could this blessed collage of reverberations really be the site of those sonic attacks? Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Set to a sonic collage that includes poetry by Hattie Gossett and driving percussive music by Junior Wedderburn, the work both depicts transience and pushes back at it, through the persevering performances of six dancers. At Alvin Ailey, Finding Shelter in One Another 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z His sonically adventurous, genre-defying albums have generated hits like Gold Digger, Stronger and Black Skinhead, while his innovative live performances have incorporated ballet, Margiela masks and striking production design from Britain's Es Devlin. Kanye and Usher to get BET honours 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Still, the sonic assault she devised altered the musical landscape. Lydia Lunch’s Infinite Rebellion 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z The most striking and frightening scenes involve the sounds emitted by Blair’s creation, a sonic nightmare reminiscent of the effects in Algernon Blackwood’s classic story “The Willows.” ‘The Rim of Morning’ review: Two supernatural novels by William Sloane 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Regardless of the sonic dressing, these universal emotions ring true. Why Tears for Fears deserves Rock & Roll Hall of Fame consideration 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Even the “Lark,” for all its pastoral popularity, has an indeterminate form and a sense of “sonic freedom,” Saylor writes. Vaughan Williams: Complicated, but Not Quite Conservative 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Instead, he lets his ears guide him on an adventure to track down quirky, extreme and historically venerated phenomena of our sonic universe. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Sound Book,’ by Trevor Cox 2014-04-23T21:57:24Z What’s wrong with the desire for a sonic “safe space,” even if it requires us to buy or download more things? The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s sonically assaultive, a riot of full-sprint drumming — by Greg Fox, increasingly this band’s central nervous system — and guitar lines with the spasmodic precision of strobe lighting. Playlist: Breezes of Jazz, Country and Black Metal 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z The orchestra on the whole acts as an even larger sheng and duels with the soloist; finally, the sheng and the full orchestra create a sonic unity by acting as a “hyper-sheng” of a kind. The Philharmonic Takes on a Composer of Puzzles and Turns 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z It is called New Forgetting and it is sublime, if you're into sonic drizzle. New band of the day: Happy Families (No 1,525) 2013-06-04T15:31:08Z Q. Looking at the credits for these first three records, one thing I was reminded of is that you were the producer, so it’s all your sonic design. Jimmy Page Talks About His Old Band, Its Legacy and Himself 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z But in other places, The Cars’ penchant for rapid evolution leads to sonic revelations. They were Just what we needed: Why The Cars matter 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z “The most striking sonic differences for me,” he said, “are the softer, nonobvious musical textures that she fuses with the more aggressive, and — most of the time — more creative, rhythm patterns.” Nídia Is Bringing the Sound of Lisbon’s Ghettos to the World 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z “Luxury Problems,” his second full-length album on the Manchester label Modern Love, is radically moody, steady with beats but stingy with their sonic width, punctuated with machine noises and warm, echoed voices. Playlist: New CDs From El Potro de Sinaloa and Frank Kimbrough 2012-11-11T04:50:13Z But “Pressure Machine” puts some pressure on the band to find a way to incorporate its slower, more introspective songs into a set list that usually features sonic bombast and sly humor. The Killers detour into a new and rich sonic landscape 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z It layers recordings of Ms. Dhegrae intoning the word until the flurry of “no” comes together in a sonic tapestry that is stable and calm. After Trauma, a Silenced Vocalist Sings Again 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z He took sonic refuge in punk music’s frenetic instrumentation and in-your-face melodies. Meet the punk activist who’s changing the psychiatric system from the inside 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Even via YouTube, you'll encounter strange sonic phenomena as the clouds of resonance from Young's piano shimmer and hover in the air, taking on an almost physical reality in the course of the performance. A guide to La Monte Young's music 2013-03-25T17:03:53Z Tully, built for chamber music, was a sonic adjustment for the orchestra. Review: Beatrice Rana Plays Tchaikovsky at Human Scale 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Birdsong — little sonic bubbles let loose on the air — provided an intermittent descant of optimism. Perspective | Is Glenstone a great art museum or a billionaire couple’s folly? 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Goransson tries to give every film a sonic identity inherent to its world. How Ludwig Goransson Became Directors’ Secret Musical Weapon 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z String lines rode up on one another to create a sonic soup in which distant-sounding oboe or clarinet riffs bobbed or floated like vegetable bits. Review: New York Philharmonic’s Memorial Day Concert 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z And there's a rare treat in room two where one of the fathers of UK ambient, Mixmaster Morris, serves up an education in beats, breaks and sonic funfoolery. Clubs picks of the week 2011-03-19T00:06:36Z On a sonic level, it produces a visceral feel for the awe and violence of nature, the smell and timelessness of the sea, along with the mysteries of sex and food. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Despite that sonic expansion, the band’s songs remained resolutely focused on their interior world, a cluster of relationships and personal exploration that felt detached from anything resembling a larger picture. Review: Kindness Remains Intact on Belle and Sebastian's Latest Album 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The group’s commitment to its history and sonic signatures is intact, and impressive, and rewarding. A Tribe Called Quest Returns to a Changed World With Joy and Grief 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z I have to say, the work that came after it was, for me, more enthralling, but in terms of really throwing down the gauntlet sonically, that song was like — Laurie Anderson and Michael Stipe on Music, Art and New Chapters 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z But for many Strauss fans this spectacular sonic depiction of an Alpine outing and its exhilarating climaxes are irresistible. Into the Music: Strauss?s ?Alpine Symphony? Played Twice in One Night 2012-04-13T22:20:54Z Their varying size, design and building materials made for vastly different sonic environments, each with its own degree of reverberation, clarity and warmth. Strapping On His Cello for a 600-Mile Bach Pilgrimage 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z But the Henry-produced songs are so accomplished, the sonic chemistry so enveloping and hypnotic, that one wishes Raitt had taken the entire album in this direction. Album review: Bonnie Raitt, 'Slipstream' ✭✭✭ 2012-04-09T18:25:00Z A projection of an animated sketch in motion, which looks a bit like the product of a seismograph, is accompanied by electronic throbbing generated from the original drawn “sonic codes.” How are these things not like the others? 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z This kind of irreverence, aggression and sonic experimentation was most decidedly not what The Band or “Last Waltz” fellow travelers like Eric Clapton or Emmylou Harris or Ringo Starr were about. “The Last Waltz” at 40: The Band and their classic movie speak beyond boomer nostalgia 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Still, this was a mismatch: of sonic styles, of performance approaches, of audiences. Eminem and Rihanna Fuse Dark Energy on Tour 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z It’s just fat and full and almost has more in common sonically with a ’70s Black Sabbath record than anything else. | Mark Ronson: An Admirer Of Tight Production, But of Sludge, Too 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z Laura Engel, the executive producer of the album, has worked with Elfman for over 40 years, said he always likes moving forward, exploring new sonic territory and never being tied to a single genre. Danny Elfman writes a solo album with ‘venom’ pouring out 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Still, rigor is relative, and Feldman wielded his control relatively lightly in this murmuring, throbbing sequence of sonic events. Music Review: Janacek Philharmonic Ostrava Plays Morton Feldman 2012-11-07T23:12:27Z In his alluring “Varied Quintet,” for violin, harp, harpsichord and percussion, Harrison let bells ring the way bells like to ring in all their sonic complexity. What do microtones have to do with global warming? Two concerts offer an answer 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z She says of Derbyshire's work: It was a lot more free, daring and experimental sonically than what you hear nowadays. Manchester honours the woman behind the spooky music of Doctor Who 2013-01-10T12:00:00Z Extensive in its sampling and sonically layered, the album was ranked the 156th greatest album ever by Rolling Stone magazine in 2003. Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies at 47 2012-05-04T18:27:21Z Perhaps most tellingly, hip-hop is actually more tolerant now: more understanding of its intra-genre quarrels, more available to different participants, more open to sonic invention and revision. How Do You Capture Four Decades of Hip-Hop? Very Broadly. 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z They share some of St. Vincent’s sonic choices, but they forged them on their own. Sleater-Kinney Grasps at a New Sound on ‘The Center Won’t Hold’ 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The album favors an Arcade-Fire-tinged wall of sound, sonically layered with riffs and hooks burbling up from the beyond. Enigmatic Okkervil River plays Marymoor Park Monday 2011-08-18T23:52:04Z This fine bill, which also includes Buck Gooter and Decor, should prove to be a potent sonic tonic for any rocker’s ills. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Their mixture of acoustic instruments and rumbling electronics creates an icy sonic grandeur, straying into drill 'n' bass. Unsound Adelaide: Lustmord, Demdike Stare, Pole, Ben Frost - review 2013-03-17T07:50:00Z The “Thunder and Lightning,” on the other hand, seemed a little wimpy, the sonic winds indelibly outlined, but the booms and flashes underwhelming. Long-neglected music gets a fresh L.A. Phil spin at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z But Gill was not a fan of Coldplay, revealing in a 2008 interview that he found them “pompous, mawkish, and unbearably smug” and called the band the “sonic equivalent of wilted spinach.” Andy Gill, guitarist for punk band Gang of Four, has died 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Everything showed scholarship, intelligence, security and period correctness, but with sonic impact being muted that was not enough. An ambitious program teams Bella Voce and Callipygian Players 2011-03-06T18:12:00Z From all reports the piece covers a wide sonic terrain from solo cello to subdued choral singing to blazing bursts of orchestral music and much propulsive drumming. The Week Ahead: Sept. 11 ? Sept. 17 2011-09-09T14:39:13Z A lady collective made up of various music media types, this sonic girl gang not only have impressive genre-spanning record collections but, more importantly, want to air them in public. This week's new clubs 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z They revel in the wonder of sonic loops, exploring three- and four-chord patterns while adding and subtracting echoed layers and textures and gliding to eventual conclusion. Essential tracks: Deerhoof, an Elliott Smith tribute and Moon Duo 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z Q: Was there a sonic reason for being up on a riser? At 75, things are coming easy for Ringo Starr 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The latter eventually devolved into a sonic battle with his drummer, and, just for good measure, it took on a physical element when White stumbled through the entire drum kit. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z The band’s third disc, “Junk of the Heart,” putters along on fetching singalongs but doesn’t pack the punch of another sonic invasion. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z The third and final installment, “Happening,” brings sonic tables, cattle auctioneers and a gospel choir together for an aural experience like no other. | How Doug Aitken Stole the Show, Part III 2010-12-20T18:00:22Z Since then, his firm, Nagata Acoustics, has endowed many of the most notable new concert halls in the U.S. and Europe with remarkable sonic immediacy. Musco Center's sound decision pays dividends in hall's debut 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z And that's how Iñárritu knew whom to call last year when he was contemplating a very different kind of sonic backdrop for his Fox Searchlight film. Antonio Sanchez's soaring beat takes flight in 'Birdman' 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z The cycle, written 1946-48, is one of the last things Cage actually composed rather than created through chance procedures, and it's an hourlong sonic wonderland of fragmentary melodies, scurrying syncopations and lullaby-like beauty. An early marking of John Cage's 100th birthday 2012-02-18T00:27:37Z A lyric tenor of some vocal heft, Mr. Bergonzi lacked the sonic weight and brilliance of tenors in the Wagnerian mold. Carlo Bergonzi, Masterful Operatic Tenor, Dies at 90 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z In its tinny, fizzling, trebly way it was bolt of electricity, a threatening weapon, the sonic manifestation of furious emotional energy. My favourite album: Life's a Riot With Spy Vs Spy by Billy Bragg 2011-08-24T14:13:00Z This year marks the 40th anniversary of Patti Smith’s groundbreaking debut album, “Horses,” a sonic boom still sending aftershocks through music, literature and fashion. In her memoir ‘M Train,’ Patti Smith opens up about her life and loves 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z However, while still extant, the former continued down a sonic path lined with reinvention, culminating in 2011’s “Collapse Into Now,” a distillation of the band’s influences and strengths. A modern-day Beatles vs. Stones?: Why people love arguing about the merits of R.E.M. vs. U2 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z She wanted a stronger African look and sound, and found a sonic starting place on “Rhythm of the Pride Lands.” How ‘The Lion King’ Got to Broadway and Ruled for 25 Years (So Far) 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Visually claustrophobic and sonically ominous, it adds to the sense of desperation. Have you been watching … The Fear? 2012-12-06T15:04:20Z Many compared the album's sonic adventures to the first Basement Jaxx record, although some carped that the nods to Chicago's deep house scene of the 1990s were less than original. Mercury Prize 2013: The nominees 2013-09-11T17:04:21Z And I was really proud that the band stepped up like they did and made the song as sonically interesting and expansive as it is. "I went full Christmas": Rhett Miller on writing holiday songs for now and for the ages 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Frühbeck de Burgos molded this sound into a reading rich in drama and grandeur, and emphasized those same qualities and sonic attributes in a brisk, magnificently emphatic rendering of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Music Review: Dresden Philharmonic Led by Rafael Fr?hbeck de Burgos at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-12T22:35:40Z And I also thought about the sound of his voice, and where on the piano I should be playing so it wouldn’t be competing with him sonically. ‘A Really Cool Gig’: Playing Piano for Bob Dylan’s Nobel Lecture 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z I looked for art that I think has the ability to translate some kind of sonic or spiritual potential. Grace Wales Bonner Has Set Her Sights Beyond Fashion 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z This dazzling 27-minute score explores the sonic capacities of the orchestra with bracing imagination and sizzling energy. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z From a sonic standpoint, there's a musical and emotional through-line that brings cohesion. Peter Buck has no complaints: On his new Filthy Friends album, R.E.M. reissues and more 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z Changes happen within these humongous clouds of sounds with 90-second frequency, but they are subtle, under the overwhelming sonic surface. The resurrection of Julius Eastman: gay, black and brilliant 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z “I’ve tried to make it so it’s sonically perfect,” he said of the club’s sound system. MUSIC: Flying Lotus and the Los Angeles Electronica Scene 2010-05-29T04:26:00Z Just months after Beck's surprising win for album of the year at the Grammys, he's back with a new single and a striking new sonic direction. Beck changes course with 'Dreams,' his dance-ready new single 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Even at his most prosaic, on a track like the growling, ominous Voodoo, his work is crisp, powerful and insidiously sonically unpredictable. Bozzwell ? the enlightenment 2010-12-27T12:32:54Z Her heavy chords infused the Samueli Theater with marshmallow-thick string richness, serving as a kind of healing sonic foam setting the scene for an exquisitely resolute Schubert performance. Bang on a Can All-Stars launch their 'Road Trip' in Hollywood, and it's a fun ride 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z The sonic textures are percussively bright but filled in with an underlying texture. L.A. Opera lets Ingmar Bergman's film 'Persona' sing 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z I defer to Alex regarding the details of musical knowledge and craft that Williams displays; I differ with him regarding the emotional and sonic affect of the music. What the Seven “Star Wars” Films Reveal About George Lucas 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Oboes and horns raised their bells for dramatic and sonic painterly effect. Dudamel, L.A. Philharmonic power through Mahler's potent Sixth 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z It demonstrates how sonically rigorous even the most casual, tossed-off Drake songs are. Drake, in Search of an Enemy Besides Himself 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z His set is rumored to feature psychic poetry, language experiments and sonic manipulation. Late notice: Casey Catherwood at the Old Fire House in Redmond, tonight at 6 p.m. (free) 2011-08-03T15:45:08Z "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" is eclectic and sonically diverse — in fact, perhaps the band's most diverse album — and reflected the ways movement and travel impact our perception of the world around us. Mike Mills on R.E.M's "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" at 25: A record "infused by being on the road" 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Gradually the sonic dynamics of the phrase lift as midrange and treble fade in, adding light and optimism to the lyric while musical layers accrue. DJ Dodger Stadium: House music and 'the hypnotic loneliness of L.A.' 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Even minus the little green men, their seventh album retains the sounds of snowfalls in Heaven and presumably a carefully sourced sonic cathedral. Sigur Rós: Kveikur – review 2013-06-13T21:00:01Z The music reveals his fondness for the melodic reach of the Beatles and David Bowie, for the abrupt sonic shifts of hip-hop and for the warped instrumental tones of Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead. After His Coup With Beyoncé, Boots Strides Out of the Shadows 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z "Radiolab's" well-deserved reputation for pushing the envelope of radio production includes such sonic experimentation as layered, unedited dialogue, audio effects and an unorthodox use of music to approximate nonmusical experience. Quirky NPR science show 'Radiolab' offers live version at Paramount 2012-08-23T20:58:03Z But this album is a purposeful move into Top 40 that misses the quirk of well written pop and the sonic inventions of EDM. Tiesto and Deadmau5 make full albums, stretch attention spans 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z As pure a record as this might seem, on my part of it I think I’ve really stepped way ahead of anything else I’ve ever done with these sonic delights.” Making Beautiful ?Le Noise? Together 2010-09-26T22:08:00Z Why is her mimicry of sonic Blackness okay? Iggy Azalea’s post-racial mess: America’s oldest race tale, remixed 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Neither its satire of criminal celebrity nor its tragedy of sullied innocence nor even the sonic pleasure of its catchy score escapes the distorting gravity of its oversized intentions. Review: In ‘The Harder They Come,’ Innocence Lost to a Reggae Beat 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z There’s a difference between following a formula and becoming cliche, however, and Gilbert easily skirts that line with his songwriting, his sonic choices and a more varied vocal approach on the Dann Huff-produced album. Review: Brantley Gilbert’s star-making album 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The Tops track that everyone's raving about, Turn Your Love Around, is funk-lite with a pallid version of soul vocals, melodically malnourished, rhythmically bloodless and sonically anaemic – these are compliments, by the way. New band of the day – Tops (No 1,310) 2012-07-17T16:17:40Z Brass players are tinkerers at heart, always exploring the possibility that a minute change in lip or tongue placement might unlock new sonic worlds. Philip Smith, Master Trumpeter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z “We’re a sonic medium but a lot of times you wouldn’t have known it, listening to public radio. On ‘Radiolab,’ every second was built completely for the ears, considered like a note in a score.” ‘Don’t Break It!’ The New Hosts of ‘Radiolab’ Remodel a Landmark 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Ken would eventually be named the album’s producer, and that album would become Rumours, the Grammy Award-winning sonic masterpiece that has sold over forty million copies worldwide. Fleetwood Mac is “the great American story” 2013-06-03T19:02:00Z But none of that prepares you for the sonic shock of what the hall really sounds like. Happy 125th birthday, Concertgebouw 2013-04-11T18:11:17Z Both men, masterful purveyors of retro sonic ideology, are 36. At the Grammys, the Young Succeed Most When They Seem Old 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, ceremonial military bands added more instruments, opening sonic possibilities. Seattle Wind Symphony to perform Sousa, Bernstein and Nirvana tribute on May 6 2012-05-03T20:20:11Z In “Ode to the Beloved’s Hips,” she rockets through alliteration and other sonic devices as she plunders metaphor for rapturous praise: Poems of Love and Desire That Push Back Against Oppression 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The last record was very much in one vein, both sonically and theme wise. Kid Rock eyes new album mixing musical styles 2011-10-26T17:45:38Z The sound system provided sonic weight where needed and delicate details where wanted. Everything goes right for Gustavo Dudamel in Beethoven program 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Fighter jets flew low over the city, making sonic booms that sounded like explosions. Experience: a coup interrupted our wedding 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z It demanded otherworldly sounds, some sonic landscape to match the disembodied System of the robot realm that is the new frontier of life that the opera imagines. Abroad: The Arts Become Monaco?s Newest Luxury Goods 2010-10-13T14:32:00Z In “Thunder,” performed Thursday at the Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Ms. Tenenbaum uses language, sounds and movement — along with metal sheets — to create a sonic landscape. Review: ‘Thunder,’ Through Body and Voice, at Brooklyn Studios for Dance 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z “People definitely go to these concerts to experience the vibrations,” said Olivia Lucas, a Harvard graduate student who has written about the band in her research on the sonic extremes of metal. News Analysis: Art That Turns Both Heads and Stomachs 2013-07-13T18:23:01Z These are exquisite seances in line with the sonic traditions she pioneered a half-century ago, but suffused with the darkly tinted wisdom of a life entering its winter. Jane Birkin is back with a new album, but her presence is everlasting 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Ritualistic, mesmeric, melancholy, enveloping, the Third supplied sonic ambience in many a home that otherwise lacked classical trappings. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The label's international sonic appeal has always been offset by its idiosyncratically British start-up philosophy, placing humility and hard work over hubris. Label of love: Ninja Tune 2010-09-22T11:16:00Z Satan is clearly not his friend, because any sonic tension has clearly dissipated. Neil Young gets back to the country 2011-06-13T15:53:30Z Then he created the Wall of Sound, that dense sonic fusion of joy and torment that seemed to emerge from some teen cathedral to blast the buttons off of your AM car radio. Phil Spector’s Greatest Hit 2013-03-21T09:45:43Z Though we've never done anything that sounds like Passion, sonically the electronic quality carries on. Pet Shop Boys choose their 10 all-time favourite dance tracks 2013-07-11T18:00:00Z Some of Adams’ pieces are conceived as sonic installations that take place out of doors, where listeners can walk among the players. Seattle Symphony reaches another high with John Luther Adams’ searingly beautiful ‘Become Desert’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z You could say the same thing about Legendary Weapons, even though it offers a less radical sonic agenda than Chamber Music's live band approach. Wu-Tang: Legendary Weapons ? review 2011-07-21T14:30:01Z Apart from the fact that ‘Common People’ is rib-achingly hilarious, its sonic structure is the perfect example of the perfect pop song. 12 Amazing Songs With Just Three Chords 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The barriers are sonic too, said Jim Asker, the country charts manager for Billboard. Margo Price, Nashville Outsider, Tells It Like It Really Is 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z There are certainly a smattering of knowing sonic references to Bowie's past works. David Bowie: The Next Day 2013-02-25T16:48:23Z His duo stirs up the sort of terrorizing noise that would otherwise seem out of place at a huge festival, as the group's sonic collisions are better cut out for underground venues and basement parties. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z “I take pride in owning the sound of my city and honoring those like Miss Tony, who opened sonic doors for me as a musician.” The Changing Sound of Baltimore 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Smiling, he beckons her forward, and then, when she is in sonic range, hisses, “Why not geld me while you’re at it?” 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Henry Is All Heat, Fury and Menace 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z His sonic adventures stand on their own merits both in the context of the films he scored and on their own terms as pure music. Ennio Morricone Was More Than Just a Great Film Composer 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z The latter two songs came from U2’s “Achtung Baby,” a sonic and thematic detour that was praised for its adventurous spirit. R.E.M.’s leap of faith: 25 years later, every curveball on “Out of Time” makes perfect sense 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z It's a juxtaposition of two kinds of music – a horizontal unfolding of the clarinets' music and a vertical sonic blast – that propels the structure of the rest of the piece. A guide to George Benjamin's music 2013-02-25T12:41:11Z Amusingly, the main choice of weapons isn’t swords but drums that opponents beat — with insistent, galloping fingers — to create a powerful, mystical sonic force. Review: ‘Legend of the Mountain,’ a Magical Mystery Marathon in Ancient China 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z He detonates a germ of an idea and, like a seed, it grows a sonic forest. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z What his two hands achieved in Gershwin was totally outshone by the sheer sonic splendor and dazzling virtuosity that just one drew from Ravel's Left-Hand Concerto — for me, the evening's greatest work. Seattle Symphony: Three masterpieces and one near-miss 2010-10-08T21:12:00Z In May, the United States expelled two Cuban diplomats after an alleged sonic attack on U.S. When President Obama moved to normalize relations with Cuba 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z It's as though the label is atoning on our behalf for pop's artificiality and sonic profligacy, taking us back to basics with some real and raw rock'n'roll. New band of the day – No 1,303: Houndmouth 2012-07-06T08:00:00Z Her sculpture is mostly sonic now, in her site-specific audio installations. Jennie C. Jones, a Minimalist Who Calls Her Own Tune 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z His hugely influential early production style found the sonic equivalent, deploying lush, nostalgia-triggering samples of vintage R&B hits and gospel affirmations against brittle new beats. Kanye West Writes a Song of Himself on ‘Ye’ 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z The beats and bass are the sonic spine to an album that’s deeply personal and vulnerable, as Nguyen processes her relationship with her mostly absent father. “I’m just weeping and weeping”: Thao Nguyen on how Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead” set the tone for her new album 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z So, if “Secrets” was red, what color is Deep Sea Diver’s sonically fertile new album, blooming with themes of empathy and compassion? Deep Sea Diver’s Jessica Dobson carries the ‘Impossible Weight’ on Seattle rockers’ radiant new album 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The band’s fourth album, “Listen,” puttered along on fetching singalongs and wove in touches of gospel and jazz, but didn’t pack the punch of another sonic invasion. Pop & Rock Listings for June 19-25 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Krasinski helped them tell the story from the characters’ auditory points of view, which he referred to as “sonic envelopes.” Lion roars and a busted grape: How editors and mixers built the sounds of this year’s Oscar movies 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Making music, he says, is "something I've done all my life, for purely personal gain" – and his album is the result of a lifelong obsession with his own, and no one else's, sonic pleasure. Blake's progress 2011-01-22T00:05:04Z His subject matter was tempered slightly, but his sonic approach changed drastically. ‘Starboy’ Places the Weeknd on the Sunny Side of Debauchery 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Summary: Your Bose headphones cannot protect you from the awesome sonic power of "The Box." "Fringe" recap: What's in the box(es)? 2010-10-01T12:30:00Z Meanwhile, Mama's majesty, vibrant sonic color and incomparable low notes that vibrate the floor are heard, seen and felt in Disney as organ essence, an organ drug that takes control of your body and mind. Hurricane Mama's impressive set of pipes 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z “Come to be/to become” — a litany of words teases away literal meaning, in preference for a felt sonic meaning. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z But for me they have become the sonic equivalent of a deep-tissue massage. In these strange times, there’s no better place to relax than the 90s | Hadley Freeman 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z And it’s freeing, this expansion of musical liberation into spaces visual as well as sonic, instinctual as well as intellectual, performed as well as lived. Music: Girl Pop?s Lady Gaga Makeover 2010-07-21T19:40:00Z In "Godzilla," the Kyrie section from Ligeti's unearthly "Requiem" serves as the sonic backdrop for what is arguably the movie's most visually arresting scene -- the high-altitude military jump over a ravaged San Francisco. 'Godzilla': The music of Gyorgy Ligeti and the movies 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The 18-track album is loosely organized into several two-to-four-song suites, in which the compositions morph and unfurl in all sorts of sonic directions. Shabazz Palaces pushes boundaries again| New recordings 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z There are more subtle interpretations of this music than Dudamel's, but as an essay in sonic display, this performance was second to none. Sim?n Bol?var Youth Orchestra | Classical review 2010-03-24T21:45:00Z While Sondheim’s oeuvre is the reason I sleep well at night, it is sonic moments like these that get me up in the morning. In Defense of ‘Diana,’ the Show We Didn’t Deserve 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z In the pit, too, the conductor Vladimir Jurowski proved himself a master of timing, shaping Prokofiev’s seething score in cresting waves of sonic power. Review: ‘The Fiery Angel,’ Devilishly Tough Prokofiev 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z But I was impressed that Mr. Gergiev did not push this work for maximum sonic impact. Music Review: Finding the Right Pace (and Support Crew) for a Marathon 2010-10-22T22:44:00Z Critics for The New York Times have been observing the city’s unintentional artistic experiences this summer, and a rush-hour bottleneck is a smorgasbord of sonic interactions. The Art of Summer: The Contrapuntal Sounds of Gridlock 2011-08-09T23:37:12Z Tyler, grinning, interrupted, asking for one of Flex’s signature sonic embellishments: “I hope y’all drop the bomb right there.” Tyler, the Creator, Funkmaster Flex and the Wildest Interview of the Year 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z More impressive, he matched the Philharmonic’s sound by scaling down the overall sonic realm of the music, with the cooperation of the sensitive Mr. Dohnanyi. Music Review: The Pianist Paul Lewis Makes His Philharmonic Debut 2014-04-11T21:43:04Z Both encouraged Spoon to broaden a sonic palette that's often been described as minimalist, even if Daniel said he'd never use that term himself. Spoon digs back in after hiatus with new album, band member, label 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z But that’s just it—it’s a throwback, a return to a time bottled in sonic amber. The Metropolitan Opera Celebrates Itself 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Everyone’s listening to “the sonic boom of a nation escaping its history.” Review | A.D. Miller’s ‘Independence Square’ imagines how one diplomat tried to secretly manage Ukraine’s revolution 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Miller has a gift for sonic irritation, like the naggingly repeating, bent guitar note that defines “Crown on the Ground.” Critics? Choice: New CDs by LCD Soundsystem and Band of Horses 2010-05-16T22:45:00Z The “Now and Then” demo suffered under the sonic weight of too much ambient noise. "Now and Then": The history of the Beatles' final song and how it's getting released 46 years later 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z As always, he was right – I was indeed drawn immediately into their dense sonic web. You Must Hear This! Banchee’s debut album 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z The group’s tracks are lengthy and meandering, each more concerned with setting a scene or creating a sonic environment than adhering to conventional standards of form and structure. The Orb — strange electronic music that’s also popular 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Inspiring me to claim intergalactic space within the avant-garde, his symmetrical arrow of time created the conditions for Irreversible Entanglements to continue in his sonic tradition with improv. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z In that sense, "Future Past" is a throwback to "Rio," another sonically and thematically cohesive album where every instrument is audible and pops out of the mix. Falling for Duran Duran's "Future Past," which reflects the band's signature ingenuity and sentiment 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically. Frank Ocean: 'I told y'all my album would be the best!' 2012-12-13T23:59:02Z Ten wired academy musicians will experiment with futuristic armbands that allow the players' movements to alter the sound of their amplified instruments, creating all kinds of new sonic effects. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z But this album also reflects a slowdown in the Drake Industrial Complex: He’s pulled back on sonic innovation, and his story tropes are becoming familiar. Is Drake Tired of Drake? 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z By sonically altering recordings of those chants, she raised questions about what it was like to be perceived as an “other.” She Brought New Sounds to Colombia. The World’s Catching Up. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z She is also an acoustic engineer and served as the lead designer for the intricate Meyer Sound acoustic system that forms Octave 9’s sonic infrastructure. At Seattle Symphony’s new Octave 9, a 24-hour music marathon promises Cloud 9 for new music lovers 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z In fact, the LP is a sonic touchstone for modern production, particularly in the way pop-leaning acts seamlessly combine electro and rock influences. “He could be brash; he could be harsh. He was very motivated”: The real story behind Fleetwood Mac’s “Tango in the Night” 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z He would simultaneously control the whammy bar, volume and tone control of the guitar which – with the combination of harmonics, off-fret slide and left-hand inflection – explored an orchestral range of sonic possibilities. Jeff Beck: The unorthodox techniques that made him such a unique guitarist 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z For Mr. Kjartansson, the big challenge is to choreograph the progression of songs in such a way that they flow sonically. Looking at Songs That No Longer Seem Quite So Romantic 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z As it happens, one of the affected labels, Domino, is actually offering a free 12-track sampler of its sonic wares via Amazon this week, at amzn.to/dominosamp. Click to Download: Sony DADC fire, 14tracks.com, MTV's zero hour 2011-08-10T15:30:01Z The music was enhanced by an elaborate light show and other sonic and visual effects. Richard Hayman, Pops Conductor, Dies at 93 2014-02-07T01:11:04Z For me, sonically, there was just too much going on in the Bad Seeds. 'It's OK to embarrass yourself' ? Nick Cave and the return of Grinderman 2010-09-02T22:00:00Z The number of orchestras with actual sonic or interpretive idiosyncrasies in music of their compatriots is by now almost or actually zero. Review: International Orchestras Are Finally Back at Carnegie 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Hewing to the thriller’s manicured visual and sonic palette — it’s so tidy, the room tone sounds threatening — Marian slinks around in leather miniskirts while Vivian grocery shops in a beige trench coat. ‘Superior’ Review: Double Fantasy 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Their sixth studio album, Ghost Stories, finds them once again employing that sonic approach but with different source material. Coldplay’s Tragic Magic 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z That rhythmic distance is a drag and sonically diminishes the whole. Sleater-Kinney continues the conversation in 'No Cities to Love' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z That leads to a verse with melting synthesizer chords and a fidgety bass line: a sonic equivalent of the murky area between chatting and creepiness. Alex Lilly Keeps Her Cool, and Her Complexity on ‘2% Milk’ 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z In Hicks' hands, the original album shimmers into life with the wider sonic palette made possible by technologies that would have been unimaginable five decades earlier. "All Things Must Pass" is peak George Harrison: 50th anniversary edition serves a feast for the ears 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Their new work, “Borders,” is billed as a sequel and continues their interest in juxtaposing wild movement with stillness and artificial sonic landscapes against the human voice. Dance Listings for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The other thing I would say is that working with her on performance versions of four of her long poems, I learned that the sonic dimension of a poem is all-important. Where does music end and poetry begin? David Grubbs wrote his first poem to find out 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Dank played brilliantly, giving a muscular and virtuosic performance that highlighted the varied sonic palette of the piece, with its Brahmsian sweep, fiendish octaves and serial techniques. Music Review: ‘Happy Birthday, Ursula!,’ a Tribute at Symphony Space 2014-03-11T22:07:11Z What inspired the sonic and thematic direction of “A Kind Revolution”? Modfather speaks 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z I originally thought Sam was the duo's primary sonic architect, but I've been corrected. Song with commentary: "Kama Sutra IV" by Seattle's Stevie and Sam 2011-08-15T19:09:08Z He continued to work with Pop the rest of the decade, and together they explored a range of emotional and sonic textures that weren’t always apparent in the Stooges’ take-no-prisoners world. Album review: Iggy and the Stooges, 'Ready to Die' 2013-04-29T16:16:00Z Watching the trio create the euphoric sonic mélanges proved nearly as thrilling as hearing them. Tune-Yards thrill sold-out Lincoln Hall 2011-05-11T14:16:00Z Fortunately, things pick up a bit after that, thanks to a few sonic surprises, notably the harmonica riff in “Control” and the Alice-in-Wonderland psychedelia of the title song. Album review: Garbage, 'Not Your Kind of People' 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z Every so often they overstuff the arrangements with one too many sonic quirks or spoken-word bridges, but more often than not their risks are rewarding. Haim Steps Into a New Groove on ‘Women in Music Pt. III’ 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z The visceral, full-blooded and richly scored work, which opens with stately passages, reflects his increasing interest in melody, with the aleatoric elements creating in a hazy sonic canvas. Music Review: A Composer Who Rolled the Dice 2011-01-30T22:07:57Z Creativity brings disorientation — or vice versa? — in the music of two songwriters and sonic experimenters in town this week: Son Lux and Chad VanGaalen. | Pop: Two Singular Sensations 2014-05-09T23:02:02Z “No Fear” sounds just like the sonic effigy of a concrete jungle, and Common matches its energy with raps on the primal instincts instilled in street dwellers. REVIEW: Common Speaks to Chicago on New Album Nobody's Smiling 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z The Doctor’s other gadget is the sonic screwdriver. A Dalek is an alien creature that, having survived a nuclear apocalypse, must live inside a robot; they are bad. Doctor…Who?: A Beginner’s Guide to Doctor Who 2013-11-22T19:07:05Z The album’s first and last songs, “Washed Away” and “Far Away,” flow into each other, giving the album the effect of a full sonic circle. How the R&B Innovator Kelela Unlocked a New Level 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Mills, the conductor for the concerts in the series, is looking forward to working with the five-member Ivan & Alyosha in a concert thoughtfully arranged to bring nuance to the sonic partnership of two formidable ensembles. Indie folk-pop band Ivan & Alyosha to perform with Seattle Symphony 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z Splash noted that funk was more than a sonic touchstone. Cimafunk’s Quest to Create One Nación Under a Groove 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Younger, less knowledgeable fans will enjoy the melodies and singing on their own merit, and savvier listeners will chuckle at the obvious sonic references and flashes of inspiration. Review: Fifth Harmony's 'Reflection' Is an Album With Multiple Layers 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Brown not only dances like no one else, he also makes dances like no one else by choreographing a sonic world — weaving musical tapestries — as well as a visual one. Ronald K. Brown Has a Mantra: ‘Absolute Victory Every Day’ 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z If anything, her work with the Minnesota Orchestra has eclipsed the field, brilliantly fusing her innovative rap stylings with the sonic power of the concert hall. Dessa's "Sound the Bells": Indie hip-hop collides with an explosive orchestral score 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z It was a gooey, cheesy weekend at the multiplex as the movie series that teenage girls love and many adults love to hate — “The Twilight Saga” — returned with a sonic boom. ArtsBeat Blog: Latest 'Twilight' Movie Packs Theaters 2011-11-20T17:36:50Z The group is developed and ready, yet most of us are only hearing it now as it should have been heard long ago: on a good record and in the Vanguard’s sonic environment. Music Review: Making a Return From Organ to Piano at the Village Vanguard 2010-04-14T22:57:00Z The project’s sonic environments evoke music most of us don’t think of as music: sound-branding on a corporate website, the soundtrack of an in-flight instructional video, the incidental sounds of a computer. | An Artist Who Brings Background Music to the Forefront 2014-03-28T17:01:24Z “These nominees have left an indelible impact on the sonic landscape of the world and influenced countless artists that have followed them.” Jay-Z, Foo Fighters and The Go-Go’s nominated for Rock Hall 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Songs such as Donna, Rubber Bullets and The Dean and I were melodically ingenious, sonically inventive, radical yet hugely commercial, crammed with ideas and hooks. 10cc: 'It was a tragedy we didn't stay together' 2012-11-22T20:00:04Z The program concludes with Varèse’s sonically assaultive “Amériques,” completed in 1921 and still a shocker with its police sirens and lion’s roar. Michael Tilson Thomas?s American Mavericks 2012-02-24T20:12:23Z Even with that sonic blur, though, the performance — Ellis called it “a surrender to the art form” — was exhilarating, original and refreshing, an extension of the 1970s Black Consciousness movement. Review | Jazz meets poetry with Heroes Are Gang Leaders at Blues Alley 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z “It might not sound like it sonically, but rap is definitely a big influence on what we do,” Johnson says. Washington’s newest buzz band Enumclaw earns national praise before playing first show 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Wretch’s refusal to be bound by any of the thematic or sonic restraints that are often found in M.C. culture has informed Stormzy’s approach to music. How Stormzy Crafted His Latest Album, ‘This Is What I Mean’ 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Perhaps “Nine Rivers” is best entered into as a musical ritual, an immersion in a sonic space. Music Review: ?Nine Rivers? at Miller Theater - Review 2011-09-18T22:20:23Z Somewhere between a game and a musical instrument, you imbue geometric shapes with sounds and let them bounce about in a sonic playground, created with a few stabs of your finger. Tablet and smartphone games: ten of the best new releases 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z It’s an album that places more emphasis on Madonna the person than Madonna the sonic visionary, and it benefits as a result. Review: 'Rebel Heart' Is Madonna's Most Consistent Album in a Decade 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z But movie theaters will afford different sonic experiences from those of concert halls, which themselves have wildly differing acoustics. Critic?s Notebook: Orchestra Arrives On Big Screen 2011-01-10T23:01:21Z With three decades of hits among them, the rock gospel messiahs ought to have the sonic power to pull it off. Seattle’s biggest concert weekend in 2 years is here. And it feels kinda weird 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z It’s a great way to take the sonic pulse of the city. Fast-changing Boise offers plenty of adventure, day or night. Here’s a list to choose from. 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Music website Allmusic.com said the band's trademark "full-throttle velocity, wildly chaotic guitar solos, and powerful musical chops paint an effectively chilling sonic background for their obsessive chronicling of the dark side." Slayer heavy metal guitarist Jeff Hanneman dead at 49 2013-05-02T23:58:48Z The line is offensive because this Australian born-and-raised white girl almost convincingly mimics the sonic register of a downhome Atlanta girl. Iggy Azalea’s post-racial mess: America’s oldest race tale, remixed 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Ray brought to each a sonic immediacy so that you almost didn't need to read the program to know which way the wind was blowing. The natural elements prove a breeze for Vicki Ray's Piano Spheres recital at REDCAT 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z “I was really responding to the sonic qualities of the strings, and the sonic qualities that I found on the album I thought would translate into a great cinematic experience,” Zimny said. Springsteen's 'Western Stars' scores standing ovation at Toronto... 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z The music unfolds in the sonic equivalent of waves, with layers of overlapping elements: oscillating figures, rippling riffs, spiraling motifs, pulsating rhythms. Music Review: Seattle Symphony Explores Nature at Spring for Music 2014-05-07T21:12:37Z From the first inviting guitar lick of its title track, “Traveller” is the sonic equivalent of slipping into your favorite college sweatshirt: warm, familiar and immediately comforting. Chris Stapleton brings back introspective, old-school country music 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Rattle emphasized the bizarre in the central Scherzo, pulling the strings and brass as though they were sonic taffy. Is Berlin the world's best orchestra? Answer is irrelevant in two concerts of ferocity and finesse 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Shubin reveals what happens to the gill arches evident in human embryos, why some gonads travel and others do not, and how a gene called “sonic hedgehog” determines the shape of fingers and fins. | Television: The Journey to Humanity 2014-04-04T20:21:24Z And with the museum's organ currently out of action, Stephen Farr was forced to play a mini stage instrument that struggled for sonic punch. St John Passion – review 2013-03-17T18:41:19Z She was expanding the genre’s “sonic palette,” he added, by “incorporating other musical languages,” like “electronic sounds, or some Latin flourishes.” Pongo Turns Her Struggles Into Pop 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z It has groove and clank and tone and sonic depth, and it doesn’t lie down and submit to formula. Playlist : Ambience, Doom and Other Strong Medicine 2011-07-09T04:15:26Z Duologue employ similar sonic tactics, their nuanced songs delicate and full of nostalgic yearning, and dispatched with effortless ease. SXSW music festival: Frightened Rabbit, Charles Bradley and Big Ups 2013-03-15T13:25:17Z In each song Ray got the essence of a basic rhythmic or melodic or sonic idea, and each became something to take notice of. The natural elements prove a breeze for Vicki Ray's Piano Spheres recital at REDCAT 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Those high, pulsing chords linger as a kind of benign tinnitus, a hazy sonic membrane for moments of greater clarity to break through. BBCSO/Volkov – review 2013-02-17T14:00:17Z It may or may not be named after the Talking Heads song — as far as sonic touchstones, Nirvana is far more apparent — but like the Talking Heads, this music, too, is a rhythm thing. Naomi Punk's ‘Television Man' totally uncompromising | New recordings 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z In such numbers as “Wrong House,” the band occasionally opened clearings in the sonic overgrowth for a single voice. Big Hush moves beyond genre at Black Cat 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Later this week, she’ll deliver her self-titled sophomore album, which operates in a similar thematic space but explores new sonic territory. The Week in Arts: Glorious Nubian Art in Boston 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Mr. McGregor, for all his sincere interest in bringing new elements to ballet, generally works conservatively with music, using it as the basis for choreographic structure, not as an independent sonic element. Review: ‘Tree of Codes’ Flaunts Jaw-Dropping Effects 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Credit Drake for being both the most sonically consistent pop star of the last decade and also a work in progress. Drake Was Isolated (at the Top) Way Before Quarantine 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Or, perhaps better yet, they might be more properly enjoyed in your living room, where you can fully lose yourself within the album’s mesmerizing sonic embrace. The Beatles’ new remixed White Album box set is a marvel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “Ritual” expands the sonic palette a bit, with more synthesizers and drum programming — we’re edging into Tears for Fears territory now — but its dimensions are basically the same. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-17T22:03:49Z On this follow-up to her 2008 EP, Monáe puts beats together worthy of James Brown and shows as much intellectual curiosity and sonic range as Prince on tour with Sly & the Family Stone. A summer soundtrack: Janelle Mon?e, The Hold Steady, The Roots and more 2010-08-04T21:56:00Z The iPod tempts you not to connect with the present, but to wallow in sonic comfort food from the past. Why I miss the monoculture 2011-09-29T00:01:00Z Personally, I had to detox sonically afterwards by listening to five Cat Stevens songs in a row. Not kerCHING, just thud 2011-02-14T21:35:14Z “I’m aware that sonically it will be a challenge for some people.” Mr. Strummy-Strum Tries a Synth Sound 2010-10-15T21:14:00Z The operas of Anthony Davis — the recipient of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Music for “The Central Park Five” — are sonically audacious and politically pointed. Lifting the Cone of Silence From Black Composers 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z “Town Crank” hurtles into motion, starting with dry, jittery acoustic guitar before mustering a full sonic barrage: a relentless electronic bass line, blasts of drums and distortion, orchestral flurries. Rosalía Issues an English Request, and 9 More New Songs 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z With their remixed "White Album," Martin and Okell have deftly deployed state-of-the-art technology to render the sonic field even more vast, establishing better separation among the Beatles’ instrumentation. The Beatles’ new remixed White Album box set is a marvel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “Once I had those two, I started to follow the melodies, a sonic thing that was happening,” he said. In Ray LaMontagne’s ‘Supernova,’ Hints of the ‘60s 2014-04-30T18:25:15Z In contrast with the other recordings, the “Now and Then” demo suffered under the sonic weight of too much ambient noise. "Now and Then": The history of the Beatles' final song and how it's getting released 46 years later 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z An early example of funk carioca, the scraped-up, breakneck Brazilian dance style that owes a huge sonic debt to Miami bass music and early New York electro-rap. The Essentials of Brazilian Music for Olympic Listening 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Low cloud coverage was to blame for the sonic boom, making for an unforgettable festival debut. The renaissance of drag queen legend Kevin Aviance 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Does his sonic screwdriver double as an electric toothbrush? One last thing... Matt Smith 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z In fact, the quality is strikingly good, filled with a depth and sonic range as close to compact-disc quality as I've ever heard from a stream. Music-streaming's ethics ruse falling on deaf ears 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z The calling card of this ensemble is a sonic vitality that doesn't call upon any one corner of the globe. Sink your teeth into a better Taste 2011-06-23T11:42:00Z Even when Carey’s voice takes center stage on songs such as “O Holy Night,” the choir provides the necessary context, the sonic springboard from which she launches to tremulous heights and to which she returns. Mariah Carey’s Christmas Miracle 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z But, more than a showcase of her flexibility — sonically and literally — the show was a tribute to her fans. Dawn Richard continues the part at the fringes of electronic R&B at DC9 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Still clad in black, literally and sonically, they released the album “Meteorites” this spring. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Aug. 15-21 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Eventually the edges dissolved, and the sonic picture began to seem garbled and strange. Review: Delivering a Touch of Big Band Through a Jazz Collective 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Kigawa vividly conveyed the kaleidoscopic sonic effects, punctuated throughout by long silences. Music Review: Taka Kigawa Plays Piano at Le Poisson Rouge - Review 2011-08-24T21:20:26Z While the message board enlivened some of the drabber songs, Massive Attack’s real power was sonic. Music Review: Massive Attack at Terminal 5 2010-05-13T20:27:00Z When Capaldi stepped into the starring role in Doctor Who, his predecessor Matt Smith left him a time-traveling blue box, a sonic screwdriver and a companion. American Doctor Who fans befuddled by Capaldi's accent: 'He should be called Doctor What!?' 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The company developed an algorithm that it says considers factors like time of day, weather and a person’s heart rate to deliver an individualized sonic experience each time. Meditation Apps Want Us to Chill Out. Musicians Are Happy to Help. 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z More than 30 years later, both hold up as quietly dazzling examples of boundless, intricate movement invention inside luminous visual and sonic landscapes. Review: Trisha Brown’s Mischief, Mystery and Delicate Aberrations 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z It was within this fertile creative space that Cale and Reed met and started playing music together, developing sonically dissonant and lyrically raw songs like “Heroin” and “I’m Waiting for the Man.” A Walk Through Velvet Underground History With John Cale 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Inevitably, the sonic and emotional distance between the cover and original is massive. Fleetwood Mac: magic you just can't cover 2012-07-25T15:09:00Z He’s a like-minded artist and a sonic craftsman — his raw production lending itself to the Staples powerful presence. Mavis Staples Spreads Love and Joy on One True Vine 2013-06-26T09:45:05Z Each band has forged a recognizable sonic identity. Music Review: Meshuggah and Baroness at Terminal 5 2012-05-24T22:31:32Z They are uniquely compelling sonic documents —all the more so for the fact these performances caused Menuhin to be called a collaborator and not welcomed in Israel for years. 'The Menuhin Century' is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Sparhawk sometimes barely strummed his guitar, even as he occasionally bore a passing sonic resemblance to the aforementioned Young. The songs remain the same: striking and beautiful 2011-04-22T13:40:00Z So many hip-hop concerts can be a sonic disappointment, but this is far from the case at Mohawk. Freddie Gibbs at SXSW 2011 - review 2011-03-18T15:50:57Z Stone, whose soulful, limber voice could likely compensate for most sonic shortcomings, was nevertheless visibly frustrated on stage, alternately grimacing and grinning at the crowd apologetically. Seattle artists find fans at SXSW 2013-03-20T18:18:36Z Laura Veltz, a longtime songwriting partner, said Morris has always been in a league of her own, sonically and lyrically, and the new record reflects her ongoing evolution as a woman and musician. Maren Morris is grounded, but not silenced on ‘Humble Quest’ 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z But The King of Limbs is structured not unlike David Bowie's Low: the more obviously song-based material in one half, sonic experiments in the other – but with the tough stuff first. Radiohead: The King of Limbs ? review 2011-02-24T15:30:01Z The self-titled album expanded her sonic palette and brought new attention to the project, including a coveted musical guest spot on "Saturday Night Live." Grammys 2015: St. Vincent wins best alternative music album 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Though tightly wound, emotionally charged rippers are Jetpacks' trademark, the album encompasses many tempos and moods, sonic peaks and valleys. Promising band jets into Seattle 2011-11-10T22:22:08Z More skilled and perhaps more interesting is K.Flay, 26, a Stanford graduate and a talented vocalist who uses rhyming as a sonic technique. White Female Rappers Challenging Hip-Hop?s Masculine Ideal 2011-12-23T14:30:39Z Nor was sonic verisimilitude attempted; it didn’t need to be because the actors lip-synced the writers’ recorded words while embodying them in their expressions and postures. Onstage, the Pen Is Usually Duller Than the Sword 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Instead, as the album’s title suggests, it’s a sonic register: low and deep, Mr. Landrus’s natural range on baritone saxophone, bass saxophone, bass flute and bass clarinet. Review: Brian Landrus Trio’s ‘The Deep Below’ Is All About the Bass End 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z “Remind Me Tomorrow” bears a different sonic signature than her last full album, 2014’s “Are We There,” but the aching and yearning at its core are familiar. Review | Sharon Van Etten’s 9:30 Club show was emotional, jittery and very much a new chapter 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z And then there’s the nostalgia that creeps over much of this album, giving it a sonic through-line and mission statement. Arts & Leisure: Two Titans Share The Seat of Power 2011-08-09T19:00:08Z Many of Mr. Norman’s contemporaries focus on the orchestra’s sonic palette, making subtle narratives that emphasize combinations of instrumental color. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The key to all this is sonic compression, particularly in the standards developed for MP3 files, which is what made the iPod possible and hence the digital music revolution. The brave -- and complex -- new world of digital music 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z This is an extraordinary collection of electronics which filled an entire room, adding to the song with a totally unique sonic palette – akin to a PVC pipe hit with a thong. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z |
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