Word: sonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lenny Bruce -- more studied, less sharp and attacking society from the redneck right instead of the hip-humanist left. But he was no lame-brain Andrew Dice Clay either. What's the difference? Well, stand back, because we have to scream this in a print approximation of the sonic blast that was Kinison's trademark. SOMETIMES HE'S FUNNY! We're not happy about this, but there it is. Alive or dead, in a comedy club or in hell (granted, a fine distinction), Kinison lived up to his self-appointed epithet, Leader of the Banned. For him, hell is just...
...exactly silence. During the course of 4'33", which Cage composed (conceived?) in 1952, the pianist sits quietly at the keyboard, but nature -- in the form of coughs, whispers, rustles, the 60-cycle hum of electric lights and the rush of traffic outside the concert hall -- provides the sonic material. "When I was setting out to devote my life to music," Cage wrote in 1974, "people distinguished between musical sounds and noises. I . . . fought for noises." So defined, Cage found "music" everywhere: in the kitchen, in technology (HPSCHD, a seminal electronic collaboration with composer Lejaren Hiller), in numerology and, most...
...Radiant Storm King, who stayed at home, evolved a sound you'd be more likely to sit in your room and enjoy than to thrash to. On Rival Time there are numerous tempo changes and a few failed sonic, or Sonic Youth, experiments. NRSK's successes, however, are more accessible than Frances Gumm's--especially "Phonecall," which my roommate describes as "a good college-rock song that's actually about college." Sample lines: "Are you enjoying all your classes/Running round in the woods on too much acid?" Beat that for a capsule desription of the Five-College Area. New Radiant...
Janney said Sonic Pass is part of a series of sound-art presentations around the world...
Yesterday, women on walkers, men in suits, dogs, cats and even a squirrel crossed the invisible infrared beams of Sonic Pass, but children seemed to be the most excited by the display...