Word: gongs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mikrophonic I, all hell broke loose: sounds resembling runaway trains, breaking glass, blasts of hot steam, foghorns and whooshing jets flashed, crashed and faded like movements in some psychedelic symphony. The effects were achieved by two men who rubbed, scratched and bashed a gong with sticks, stones, brushes and mallets, while two other roving performers picked up the sounds with hand microphones and fed them into filters where further distortions were added...
Another composition, Momente, featured an orchestra plus chorus and soloist who, among other things, snapped their fingers, scraped their feet, giggled and whispered lovingly (Stockhausen confesses that he was in love when he wrote the piece). One musician poked a gong with drumsticks while another "played" the organ with the palms and backs of his hands. Stockhausen declared that Momente was still unfinished and, to the dismay of some listeners in the audience, added that "some day it will be played all evening...
...ball celebrating the first anniversary of his Unilateral Declaration of Independence. "Every time it chimes it will be another nail in the coffin of those who want to interfere in the internal affairs of Rhodesia." Then Smith and his wife went out on the dance floor to kick the gong around...
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal clashing...
...concerts in the 4,000-seat tent theater amid the Roman ruins were sold out months in advance, and scalpers got up to $250 for tickets. While she conducted the 20-piece orchestra with flicks of a long linen hanky, her smoky voice quavered like a struck gong, snaked nasally through soaring loop-the-loops, dipped to guttural growls, sobs and moans. Her subtle phrasing and delicate changes of pitch evoked revival-like cries from the whistling, shouting, foot-stamping audience: "Ya qalbi [Oh, my heart!]" and "Ya habibi [Oh, my love!]." The first song, Amal Hayati (Hope...