Word: ambient
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...which boasts a loosely trotting chorus that hints at Spanish guitar and dusty Western dreams, exemplifies Calla’s strengths. The layered vocals and unexpected sounds, like the machine-screechings introducing “Stand Paralyzed” or the “Edward Scissorhands”-worthy ambient monster noise in “Malo,” expand the songs from simple folksy melodies into distinct, subtly beautiful moods. Melodically mournful guitars back ghostly lyrics on “A Sure Shot”: “In my mind / You’re in my head...
...omni-theatrical eye of the circum-ambient fly, even one preserved beyond its season by the warm fuffing of the basement radiators, there is no difference between what a vigilant, if bored, audience member might distinguish as a decidedly attractive male student and an esteemed female Professor of Aesthetics (the attractiveness of the former self-evident, the exalted status of the latter self-assumed), whereas there is considerable and vivid promise extended by the protrusion of a soft sail, a furred white triangle—what that same observer would with private amusement (and a mental note to repeat...
...wood. Here and there lie bits of dead projects and pieces of experiments still in gestation. Amid all this stuff sits the artist, drinking tea and dolefully declaring, "You think I'm happy, but I'm not. I'm totally miserable." But Eno, art-rocker turned producer turned ambient-music pioneer and all-round creative omnipresence in contemporary culture, is fibbing. At times, he wears the look of a visionary grown weary of waiting for the world to catch up with the future he has so long been inhabiting. Truth is, most of the time Eno can't stop smiling...
...certain producers—whether silent film’s D. W. Griffith or Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto—always come to lend their personal stamp to high-profile projects, and the level of specialization and differentiation in the market grows quickly. In the ensuing fragmentation, everything from ambient drone to hip-hop anthems enter into play.While “Gears of War” itself is hardly a masterpiece of subtlety—most of the game still revolves around shooting huge guns at bad guys—the mere fact that a company with Microsoft?...
...Musical Director of the Bach Society Orchestra. The two played “Procession Through a Black Hole” by Calvin Hampton. The piece certainly had an astral tone throughout, with Demirjian displaying his abilities on both the low and high registers of his instrument, and Huff playing ambient swaths of sound not typically heard from a pipe organ. The piece segued into a brief arrangement of the overture from the Phantom of the Opera. The familiar themes were a crowd pleaser.The centerpiece of the concert was the arrangement and performance of the Harry Potter theme by Matthew...