Word: instrumentality
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Bloom’s demonstration highlighted her deep interest in improvisation and movement. Not only is she fascinated by the changes in sound that she can produce by sweeping her instrument to create a Doppler-type effect, but she is also interested in physical movement in general. Over the last 25 years, Bloom has collaborated with improvisational dancers, specifically Dubble, in “a unique blend of movement awareness and sound awareness...
...stage Friday night in front of a packed house downstairs at the Middle East, he carried himself like a man aware of his own accomplishments. He said a simple “Hello,” picked up his guitar and played with such attunement and precision that his instrument seemed to be just another part of his body. So began Luna’s final Cambridge show, more than 18 years into Wareham’s musical career...
...World War II. He was with U.S. forces at the Battle of the Bulge and was the first to photograph the city of Nagasaki after the Japanese city was hit by an atom bomb. After the war, he adapted a photo-finish camera meant for horse racing into an instrument for capturing athletes in motion...
...echoing vocals, building up a Sunday morning haze that envelops the damp percussion—is it a drum machine or just some dude beatboxing? Lyrically he more recites blurry jingles and scraps of melody than pronounces anything particularly relevant, using his voice as just another instrument in the fray. In tone he alternates here between a fairly lucid baritone and a whining falsetto, a trend that holds up throughout the disc. This tendency toward wild fluctuations gives an effect of purposely pathetic overextension (see the absurd choir-boy-to-demon shift in “Among Dreams?...
...edition suffered from a junky interior; the new version feels classier, with such options as an aluminum-ribbed dashboard, chrome-ringed air vents and red-and-charcoal leather seats. One funky touch: you can backlight the instrument cluster in one of more than 125 colors...