The angels sound terror-stricken as they raise their voices in inaudible song.
Madonna's angels sound useless – it's almost as if they don't exist at all.
In video artist Bill Viola's words: "like angels, sound can cross between the physical and the nonphysical world".
The idea of plays, as they figured within his work, allowed mere mortals to recreate the world, to give form to voids, to transform anger into ecstasy and to speak like angels, or how angels might sound if heaven were a penthouse with views of the park.
The Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz also includes Y Combinator Continuity Fund I, Ron Conway of SV Angel, Ashton Kutcher of Sound Ventures and Jason Calacanis of Launch Fund.
It may not vibrate as much as she would like, but it's not the angel-sweet sound of Alison Krauss, either — it has real richness and body.
When she described seeing a "spiral of light" behind each individual, their very own guardian angel, it sounded as if she was describing a long-forgotten Old Master painting or a scene from director Wim Wenders's 1987 flight of fancy, Wings of Desire, where gentle, trench-coated angels minister to war-scarred Berliners.
But give him trumpets and drums, and, as we all know from the Mass in B minor, there is no other composer before or since who can match the sheer thrill and zest of his festive music: the way it makes your spirit soar – vigorously martial one moment, transcendent the next, giving us an inkling or glimpse of how the angels might sound if only we could hear them play.
You would hear him sing -- on the nights when he was "on" -- and you would swear that this is what the very angels must sound like.
As for our favorite angel, it sounds as though he'll be somewhat more like the Cas of old, rather than the mentally disturbed or power-mad Cas we saw infrequently in Season 7. I've written quite a bit about my dissatisfaction with the last season and a half of "Supernatural", and some of the issues I've had did crop up in the questions I asked Collins.
