Word: aural
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...books. Last month, for instance, they hosted a sold-out show of current indie darlings Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!. Still, be prepared to sit out a little turbulence. One night last year, a friend and I arrived while some maniac opening band was onstage. Their sound was the aural equivalent of a bad Pollock painting: barely controlled arrhythmic screeching that would have made Ornette Coleman wince. My friend and I were glum; had we wasted our money on this? I can still recommend the club’s booking, though, because the headliners we’d come...
...Curry, 41, and his fans, musings about mundane matters like the weather and driving through tollbooths are aural gems, all part of the intimate sound romps he creates for more than 100,000 listeners worldwide. He likens his audio meanderings to radio's heyday, when it invoked the "theater of the mind." "Listening sucks," he says about today's corporate-controlled radio and homogenized programming. "When do you hear a room breathe...
Carole Suzuki is a self-professed Starbucks addict. But a tall half-caf with hazelnut syrup isn't the only thing she's fixating on at her local coffee spot. The 40-year-old mother of two from Culver City, Calif., also satisfies her aural cravings there, frequently picking up a compilation CD or maybe a new album from the likes of jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux. "I won't make a special trip to a record store," she says, riffling through a stack of discs. "But I've bought more than 20 Starbucks compilations, and they're awesome...
...composition can seem an aural puzzle, that is its point. The composer loves the way music can offer up its secrets slowly over time, performance by performance. "No one can know everything about it," she says. "That's why we play Beethoven." Come July, Lim will give up more of her secrets at a workshop for the Contemporary Music Festival in Sydney. Part of her mission will be to teach audiences how to listen. "That's one of the issues of new music," she says. "What are you listening for? It could be about the way the clarinet gives...
...personal closeness and gentle care can be seen throughout the band’s aesthetic, from their hand-screened t-shirts to their individually numbered record releases. A good amount of their music can be downloaded for free from their website—after experiencing the sheer ecstatic aural blossoming of their music; you’ll never quite look at electronic music the same way again...