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Word: sonic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kinison Is Back. Aaaaaaaaaagh! | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounds of Silence | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Steve L. Burt One Chord Wonders | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

Janney said Sonic Pass is part of a series of sound-art presentations around the world...

Author: By Hillary T. Coyne, | Title: Passersby Bemused by Sounds | 10/25/1993 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Hillary T. Coyne, | Title: Passersby Bemused by Sounds | 10/25/1993 | See Source »

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