Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indie music. Laugh all you want, but I listen to the Little Shop of Horrors soundtrack and Barenaked Ladies. Yet the idea of Australian college indie music intrigues me. I expected Flugelhorn Music's new compilation New Noize #1 to stimulate me culturally, not aesthetically. The opposite happened. Aside from a passing reference to frying UV rays (the ozone is thinning Down Under) and an occasional Aussie accent, I could easily mistake these songs as American. The five bands represented here sound very similar--forceful, loud vocals offset by catchy drum and guitar. There's no refined philosophical system being...
...song gets rolling, "One, two, three...one, two, three...one, two, three four...one, two..." For the next seven minutes we listen to audio clips of artists counting to four. When it's over we find ourselves wishing for the sweet hum of New York City traffic. Sunkist boy has other ideas. He punches the repeat button on his box. The counting recommences. For the next three hours it continues uninterrupted...
...melodic theme--check out a rendition of his In a Sentimental Mood (the version on the 1962 album Duke Ellington & John Coltrane is particularly enchanting). But Ellington was determined to do more than just write beautiful melodies. He strove to create long, complex compositions exploring social and spiritual themes. Listen to the muted trumpet on Work Song, a track on The Best of the Duke Ellington Centennial Edition. The notes almost seem to form words. The four-minute selection is from Black, Brown and Beige, a three-hour work exploring the history of blacks in America...
...shutdown might not be so terrible. When I asked my 16-year-old what he thought of this essay, his reply was, "I wouldn't want to waste my life that way [doing nothing]." Mmmmmm...I think the first night this spring that I walk outside to sit and listen to the frogs croaking in the distance, I'm going to unplug the computer and take my son with me! LORI DUTTER Cedar Grove...
...gaggle of fifth- and sixth-graders trailing her, Barbara Kearns stops on her cross-country skis, shushes the children's squeals, and muses, "Listen to the stillness. It's so quiet, but nature is moving all around us." The kids reflect on her words for two seconds before pushing one another over in yelping heaps of skis and poles. Kearns, an elfin woman with twinkly eyes, smiles at the antics and pushes ahead into the thickening snow blurring the Adirondack wilderness ahead. She's leading her students on an overnight field trip to discover the beauty and history of this...