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...many ordinary tricks of the trade (there are no guitar solos, no violin solos, no funk-style contrapuntal parts, barely even any cymbal hits) is one of the reasons this product of London can nevertheless give any listener a feeling of tremendous horizontal space, of nearly physical limitlessness: the aural space those missing solos, counterpoints, multiple riffs or crowded drumming patterns would occupy is instead left open for the listener to fill...
...allow for the free expression of thoughts and emotions, but they simply can't compare to traditional communication. Because much of the electronic mail system is an illusion. It seems easy to make real acquaintances simply by "talking" to people over the network. But e-mail leaves no lasting aural or visual record of a person. When you shut off your computer, your electronic personality vanishes like dust in the wind. One day a computer program will surely be able to simulate an e-mail conversation even more "real" than ones carried on by humans...
This is one of the rare times when Harvard students experiencing an experimental production do not leave the audience dispassionately dazed. Director Sarah Toby Stewart has fully utilized the Ex's spatial and technological options. She has impressively combined visual and aural effects with striking lighting, appropriate music, and a compelling script...
...answering machine talks to us, and for us, somewhere above the din of the TV; the Walkman preserves a public silence but ensures that we need never -- in the bathtub, on a mountaintop, even at our desks -- be without the clangor of the world. White noise becomes the aural equivalent of the clash of images, the nonstop blast of fragments that increasingly agitates our minds. As Ben Okri, the young Nigerian novelist, puts it, "When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument...
Aladdin meets the Disney quota for exhilirating moments and plenty of visual and aural appeal. We are quickly caught up in the familiar tapestry of the story and find ourselves sympathizing with Aladdin and Princess Jasmine. While animation and musical numbers are superb, Robin Williams' Genie steals the show. Aladdin's story is familiar to all young and old: the uncertainty of first love and the importance of being one's self...