Word: ambiente
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...gags. Which is not to say that there aren’t some really funny moments—I respect any comedy that’s willing to kill off likeable minor characters and still expect you to laugh (see The Big Lebowski). Zoolander is just enough to inspire ambient tittering, unfortunately, the humor only crests into real, memorable laughter about a dozen times throughout the film. If that sounds like a fair trade to you, head to the cineplex and get in line...
Noise, in a word, says it all. The Noise movement began in the 1930’s as musique concrete, an attempt to blur the lines between music and ambient sounds, and to incorporate those noises we encounter on a daily basis into music. Today noise often shares a sound and rhythm with techno, while incorporating a variety of not-traditionally-musical sounds. Of course, it’s just as often arhythmic, often amelodic, and consequently, often very unpleasant to listen to—often on purpose...
Simple the album is not. Wowed by electronic-rock innovators Bjork and Thom Yorke, Farrell spent years learning how to program computers, spinning turntables as a club DJ and then applying these skills to create what he calls "sexy party jah music." Ambient pulsations and digital blips bubble alongside more familiar rock instrumentation on the CD, which also continues his fascination with swirling raga rhythms and quasi-mystical lyrics. "I took my cues from Bob Marley, because his sounds are warm and organic and inspired," says Farrell. "If the songs get too cerebral or wordy, you can't kick with...
...dancing off from the punch, while at the same time seeming to absorb the punch, to defy the punch. If we paid your exorbitant price for this memoir, you would just do the rope-a-dope again - the brief illusion of candor, the dignified drawing of the curtain, the ambient vapor of self-pity, the appeal to higher, more important issues at play, then long expanses of intricate policy wonkery punctuated by outbursts of humanitarian rhetoric....If we allowed you to flim-flam us into this contract, you'd pull the same stunt...
...advertisements a day. And he's seeing them in increasingly odd places--at gas pumps, on stickers on apples and bananas, on sidewalks and rooftops, in full-color, full-sound videos at the ATM--a quick pitch for your cash before you draw it from your account. So-called ambient advertising is exploding as companies eschew traditional mass media in an attempt to get at jaded consumers where they work, shop and play. New Jersey-based Beach 'n Billboard, for example, imprints ads on sand, right. For upwards of $20,000, a company can get half a mile...