Word: aural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fusion of diverse elements extends to their members as well, and Sunday's performance really pointed out how similar their striking visual presence is to the striking aural presence of their songs. On the one hand there's Australian-born Hansen, the gamine, androgynous face behind Stereolab's characteristically sultry French vocals. (She's possibly the only person in music today who can make a complaint about faulty sound systems sexy: "Does anyone else hear that rumble?") Her look-but-don't-touch attitude makes her akin to the too-hip aunt of Bjork and Winona Ryder, a coy mistress...
...short, Stereolab live was very different than Stereolab in the stereo lab. The band's sound is characteristically everywhere: their records run th aural gamut from fuzzy lounge-lizard pop to gritty reverb rock (and most often are a synth-washed mix of both). Through it all, though, they manage to give you the cold shoulder. Morgane Lhote's Moog must have a special dial for "disaffected": a breath of chilling ennui blows through all their music, a vague sense of world-weary aloofness that has its heart somewhere in songwriter Sadier's low-mixed lyrics...
...overactive imagination and penchant towards over-dramatization might have led to an over-glorification of Frisell's one-night stint in Davis Square. But this is an untestable hypothesis. Frisell's music was perhaps the most pure that one could witness. Pure, but not random or delineated by mere aural frequencies; rather, one can be confident that whatever pleasure derived from Frisell's work is not contingent on some distorted desire for the eclectic or youthful psychological echoes. Even through the shadowy progressions of "Blues for Los Angeles," there was no ounce of offense. Frisell never tried to manipulate, although...
...wall, and has the gallery do the work. Ronald Kuivila's Visitations is an audiotape of interviews, songs and the noises of a former factory. Robert Rauschenberg's 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece is a work in progress that currently has 195 parts--some visual, some aural--and measures nearly 1,000 ft. in length. Let's leave aside discussion of the value of these examples of contemporary art. Before people can judge them, they have to be seen or, as the artists would have it, experienced. But how to house such a disparate mix of hybrids...
...rising to a D two octaves above the staff. As stated by the program, "This sort of exposed writing in the upper register is more indicative than anything else of what the solo part in this concerto is about." As the pitches began to stretch the bound of Human aural tolerability, one was truly thankful that it was in the hands of such an accomplished violinist. Mutter handled these delicate passages with grace and finesse, never allowing emotion to overtake the intricacy of the music, her timbre unfaltering. Though Mutter's rendition of the concerto was very bright in tone...