Word: synced
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...five-song concept album of meditations on death. Central Microphone Phil Elvrum sculpts an appropriately chaotic mélange with his frail, wavering voice, delicate guitar acoustics and haunting background vocals provided by labelmates Mirah and Calvin Johnson. Most prominent, however, are the constantly booming percussion and out-of-sync drum loops, which evoke (respectively) Mount Eerie and the narrator’s phobias surrounding...
Offensively, Harvard seemed out of sync at stretches, especially when foul trouble forced substitutions. But the play of Merchant, who led the Crimson with 18 points, and Cusworth kept Harvard in the game...
...knows what the hell's wrong with me. But at least I can keep a beat. If music be the food of love, then salsa be the messy leftovers: A roomful of strangers, all different ages and sizes, forced to cling together and sway their hips in sync. There is no better way to beat the passion out of both the dance and the dancers. The Gentleman holds me at foxtrot distance and lets me lead; the Groper's idea of sexy is clutching me so close I can count his stubble while he eyeballs the woman in the short...
...piece created especially for the show used chopped-up footage of piano strings being plucked in sync with the audio, while another composition featured a buzzing acupuncture point detector that was pressed against various points of Schmidt’s body and enlarged for the audience with a live video feed. Captivating and thoroughly enjoyable, the duo’s vivid imagery and even more vivid music bridged performance and process, recreating the act of composition onstage and refashioning the link between sound and equipment that often gets lost amidst the technology...
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