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Until digital, record technology had not changed much in principle since the Edison cylinder. On conventional LPs, called analog recordings, images of sound waves picked up by a microphone are traced into vinyl grooves; a kind of aural photograph is "developed" when a stylus retraces the grooves and re-creates the sonic vibrations. Digital recordings are akin to the computer-assisted cameras used in space, which translate images into a series of binary numbers that are later reassembled into pictures back on earth. In digital recording a computer takes 44,000 impressions of sound per sec. and assigns each...
...unquestionably important. Says retired Diva Beverly Sills, now director of the New York City Opera: "The Met has the funding, wonderful facilities, glamour, international stars. It is the most prestigious opera house in the world." As such, the Met must act as an aural museum, preserving and displaying the standard repertory: works such as La Traviata, Tosca and Die Meistersinger. But an opera house must also be active in reviving worthy pieces and commissioning new ones. Under Levine's artistic administration, the Met has successfully explored new territory in such operas as Poulenc's fervid Dialogues...
...rectangular-grills to denote barracks for Woyzeck and a comrade. Monderer's lights and shadows and hellish pink sunsets need no narrative to make them shocking. Now and then they steal the center of attention completely, and Woyzeck becomes a story told entirely in light, without words, an aural equivalent of the children's show Laserium. Words here do not tell, they sigh and flicker: and the ancestry they bring out in us is less monkey than moth...
...honest than many of his earlier efforts, the work pulses in a way much of Cheever's other work does not. Most important, Paradise given the palpable impression that Cheever has, like some literary athelete, raised the quality of his thinking and sensitivity a bit closer to the remarkable aural quality of his prose. He could already skate; now he shows he can score...
...lines and her head. She comes complete with her own outtakes--we can practically hear them in the nervous, senseless way she rushes through a speech as if it were a tongue-twister. Every line in her Method-y delivery proclaims, "I've been through analysis," making her an aural, if not visual anachronism. (This is an era when Freud was still playing with little boys.) Keaton can't convey intellect the way Maureen Stapleton, in fine full figure and sturdy croak...