Word: backgrounder
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...amazing guy. He is extremely smart [and a] very good student in my computer science class,” Lewis said. “But he is most interesting because of his background in coming from New Zealand to Harvard and then really becoming deeply interested in international affairs and how they relate to the national affairs of his country...
...This bohemian piece brings literal and stylistic color to the show. The music, a lone wailing violin, makes the performance feel exotic and elegant. The slow and smooth, almost hesitant motions of the dancers suggest a sense of searching, and as the piece ends the dancers slide into the background like the title’s ocean, receding into the distance...
...soundtrack of their own shuffling feet. In The House of Osama bin Laden, Brits Langlands & Bell let you wander through a computer simulation of bin Laden's stark, empty Afghanistan home - war has moved elsewhere, so the piece toys with virtual reality's usual role as the background for a shoot 'em-up. Whether you want to look for parallels between past and present, ask "But is it art?" or pass the time checking out works with a dynamic beauty, there's something at the Tates to grab everyone. tel: (44-20) 7887 8888; www.tate.org.uk
...soundtrack of their own shuffling feet. In The House of Osama bin Laden, Brits Langlands & Bell let you wander through a computer simulation of bin Laden's stark, empty Afghanistan home?war has moved elsewhere, so the piece toys with virtual reality's usual role as the background for a shoot...
...minute or so of the song consists of Yoshimi’s lone voice beautifully singing a wordless jazz riff. Her sustained final note fades into a rising tide of chimes and deep tribal drums that steadily pound away as metallic and organic percussive noise sounds throb in the background and spiral back and forth between the stereo channels. It seems strange to describe a 23 minute experimental-acoustic track as “sparse” and “restrained,” but both of these adjectives are apt to describe this, given the context...