Word: ambiente
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SIGNS OF OVERTRAINING A resting or ambient heart rate of 5 to 10 beats higher than normal; poor sleep; loss of appetite; irritability; and chronic colds...
...battle-panicked infantryman you are, surrounded by hundreds of your fully realized, equally panicked brothers in arms. You can accomplish your goals (or die trying) in whatever order seems expedient: no more invisible barriers. Clouds of dust and smoke float up and block the sun, interfering with the ambient light--war is finally getting its fog. The chaos is astonishingly visceral: you're Joe Grunt, playing your little part in vast events that are beyond your puny ken. This is war the way Tolstoy described it, or Stendhal, or Stephen Crane, seen from the bottom up. Suddenly video games have...
...first surprise of a night that held many, most of the impressive apparatus on stage turned out to belong to openers Keith Fullerton Whitman and Greg Davis, who hunched over looping decks to produce artfully droning, clicking, shearing, squealing ambient suites. As the genial, bearded gents accreted countless sound fragments—seemingly random shards that synched perfectly with the epileptic video collages projected above them—they accomplished the estimable feat of getting the audience genuinely excited for the comparatively familiar pop craft of the Books...
Somewhere between the encore and the final chord the crowd held their breath. The numbing and endlessly emotionalmusic slowed down as the ambient noise surged forward. From the back of the hall somebody shouted, “France sucks.” The crowd booed. Gonzalez looked...
...Williamsburg,” for example, is full of lyrics like, “Tell me all the bands that sound like other bands / that we kinda sound like,” or “It’s a Brazilian psychedelic, pop-post-avant-garde garage punk ambient core outfit...