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Black silhouettes dance against a bright pink backdrop??but no, this isn’t an iPod commercial. It’s the opening image of Olivier Besson’s “A Time Upon Once,” the first of three newly choreographed pieces to debut at the Boston Conservatory Dance Theater Friday night. As part of the performance, aptly titled “3 X 3”, the dance students of the Boston Conservatory and artistic director Yasuko Tokunaga also presented Tommy Neblett’s “Fractured?...
...effect existed before, but it is a matter of degree; our simulation differs by being more realistic, more complete.In the aforementioned Postal Service song, “Clark Gable,” the actor simulates an imitation kiss in the context of a movie, with ersatz rain as a backdrop??“the script it called for rain / but it was clear that day / so we faked it.” It’s an apt reflection of existence; like LeRoy, we live in an artificial, constructed reality. It is a world where The New York...
...following rather than setting musical trends. The album’s obligatory club-banger, “Black Sweat,” sounds like a Neptunes outtake: down to the minimalist drum machine beat and screeching synthesizer effects. Prince’s animated vocal performance deserves a richer melodic backdrop??the kind provided by a studio band, rather than studio equipment. Unfortunately, “Black Sweat” isn’t the only track on which Prince relies more heavily on Pro Tools effects than the New Power Generation’s funky virtuosity...
Thomas I.D. Odell ’04-’05 took his first Arabic class on Sept. 12, 2001 and he calls the attacks “quite a backdrop?? for the beginning of his studies. The summer before the attacks, Odell decided to concentrate in NELC instead of American history, a decision he says his friends did not understand...
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