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...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...
Enter Phil Luckett, bless his heart. In the now-infamous coin toss, Luckett succumbed to a moment of aural hallucination and misheard Jerome Bettis's call of tails, awarding Detroit possession...
With that minuscule but unavoidable flaw out of the way, Rancid begins unleashing the usual all-out aural assault with the album's first single, "Bloodclot." Several "hey-ho's" and "nah-nah's" later, with the melodies acting as some sort of immediately infectious drug and the muscle-bound punk cowboy aesthetic getting full play, the stage is set for the rest of the record to branch out. "Bloodclot" is a successful segue from "Wolves" to the rest of the new album...
...want to say/but I can't even take one breath." On the other hand, a plethora of extra instrumentation helps the quartet explore these comfortable themes more fully than they could in their guitar based pieces. The numerous string parts on "Cry," for instance, cooperate to create an aural combination of soft weeping and more vehement sobs, and add a mournful nuance to otherwise unprofound lyrics. In much the same way, the flute arrangement on "Your Eyes" augments the nomadic gypsy rhythm of the song itself, and horns on "I Can't Wait" mirror the impatience and expectation...