Word: ambient
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unlike audiobooks, novel podcasts are truncated into segments and may include ambient sounds, music as well a cast of voices playing different characters. While successful authors pitch their works on their own Web sites, many newer writers are posted on Podiobooks.com. Evo Terra, the co-founder of Podiobooks.com, says 45,000 episodes are downloaded each day. The success of novels is democratically decided: word of mouth leads to more downloads. Voluntary donations to authors (the web site keeps 25%, with the rest going to the writer) are another indicator an author's popularity. In the future, Terra sees authors...
...stations - and, in turn, contributing to big energy and other environmental savings. Some of the innovations are startling: the white concrete used by American architect Richard Meier for the Jubilee Church in Rome contains titanium dioxide, which keeps the concrete clean at the same time as destroying ambient pollutants such as car exhaust...
...Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood "Fellini-esque") and its tributes to popular songs are exquisite. The review of Brian Eno's "1/1," tells how the bedridden singer's inability to reach the volume knob on his stereo led to the creation of an entire genre of "ambient music," and provides eager but inexpert music fans with a greater understanding of pop music's evolution. But the problem with the book - and indeed with many music reviews - is that unless the song is familiar, it fails to inspire. It's one thing to read about Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean...
...Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight,” suddenly jumps to the much folksier “Two Magpies,” reminiscent of McCartney’s solo career. The tone somehow shifts in the last three tracks to feature the more electro-ambient vibe for which The Fireman was originally “known.” Banjo and harmonica make random appearances, as do drum machines, hushed whispers, flutes, violins, and far too many “nah nah nahs” and “ooohs.” Oh, and there are barking...
...contemporaries, and he’s arguably the most technically skilled among them—Fahey was the label’s creative center. His early discography is an unparalleled example of American Primitive, but his later albums depart strongly from that movement in search of ambient and drone-oriented experimentalism. Two of his final albums, “The Mill Pond” and “Womblife,” go as far as abandoning the language of acoustic guitar in favor of churning, feedback-heavy noise-passages. Fahey’s relentless creative antagonism made...