Word: ambient
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...with electronic sensors, they are actually robots that react to light and body heat by bobbing, swaying, spinning and changing color. Put your hand in front of one, and its petals contract into a bud and turn bright green or red. Stand near another, and notice how the soft, ambient music in the background changes pitch. Now showing at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, through January 2004, Cyberflora Installation was created by Breazeal, a professor of media arts and sciences at M.I.T. Media Lab, and a team of her students. "So many robots are seen...
...plaintive voice onstage sounds much like it does on record, hovering softly over washes of keyboard and guitar played to fluid but complex rhythms. What is surprising about the live show is the band’s newfound energy, which ultimately elevates the Notwist above the realm of sentimental ambient...
...NIGHT-VISION GOGGLES A small amount of ambient light, most likely from the moon, is converted to electrons, which are amplified and projected onto a phosphor screen...
From there, the album travels nowhere if not up. Like the instrumentation, the lyrics focus on being playful—they are simple, upbeat and irreverent. Occasionally, the band does away with them entirely, as in the ambient, obviously Air-influenced “Sunshine,” whose only lyric is the song’s title. And just for kicks, they follow up with the energetic and fun “A Minha Menina,” which is sung in Portuguese...
...vinyl tape that follows and magnifies the pillars and doorways of a double-height gallery. In contrast, Susan Philipsz's art is meant to be overheard - a tune picked out clumsily on a piano; her own voice singing mournfully. David Cunningham's A Position Between Two Curves picks up ambient sound and builds it up through feedback until it reaches a certain pitch of loudness. Like Ceal Floyer's Bucket, which "catches" a recorded drip, this could be encounter by irritation. The show will continue to serve up a feast of fresh ideas through...