Word: backgrounding
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...nine-minute opener, “SZ2,” exemplifies this musical heterogeneity—after beginning with a background of quietly moody lo-fi strings, a heavily compressed guitar enters and begins to accumulate a steady rhythm that becomes set off by the inclusion of a tambourine and emerging discordant notes. The mood is abruptly shattered by an amazing intrusion of loud beating drums and heavily distorted guitar at 5:10. The groove that is created is shattered twice more in the song, as it switches gears to an extremely rapid drum beat accompanied by rock guitar...
This long composition is followed by the album’s shortest tracks, which again show this rapid shifting of genres: “TRAS3,” containing heavily echoed psych guitars that with a little more echo could potentially be the moody background to a Tool song, puts the listener into a reverie which is startlingly succeeded by the immediate kick of loud and upbeat drums starting “IPT2,” which makes use of numerous heavily-effected guitar and synths, and ends after 1:49, right when it leads the listener to believe...
...this space’s rules through rapidly repeating and panned clicks and cut-and-pasted sounds that pop in and out with no effort to hide their digital artifice or artificiality. Sounds unpredictably enter and exit the space, and an extremely creepy alien groaning/breathing noise pervades the background of the piece’s midsection. In the last third of the piece, deep resonant drums start beating, the background sounds cut out and frighteningly arrhythmic drums and cymbals destroy the mood that had been so laboriously created; again Battles break the rules of spatial resonance created by the background...
...student from this kind of background myself, I would be personally very unhappy,” Fitzsimmons said, if the College fails to admit more than 250 low-income students this year...
...background in politics began when she was a young child...