Capable of articulating notes with stunning rapidity, he was also an expert with the difficult technique called circular breathing, which allows a wind instrumentalist to play continuous long notes or extended phrases without having to interrupt the musical flow to take a breath.
Beginning with some angular phrases, he then played a row of oddly articulated single notes — they sounded as if they had been recorded and played backward — before spiraling into a controlled frenzy.
The vivace has a wry and humorous opening, with scurrying fast notes; a combative middle section, as the two instruments are responsive to each other and a jazzy quality pervades the final section with running pizzicatos in the cello and dryly articulated fast notes in the piano.
Malkmus had developed a style of singing that alternated between articulating notes and just speaking, as if maybe he had forgotten how the song went.
He has a warm, controlled sound and articulates notes without much hard-consonant attack: his foggy ease can almost mask the extreme rigor behind his playing.
There is a backdrop of rustling sounds and breathing, some produced by woodwind players blowing through their instruments without articulating specific notes.
But during her workshop, participants described one another's armpits in great detail, articulating floral notes and musky tones.
Another of his hallmarks is a disinclination to use slurs -- notes connected within a single bow stroke -- and he shows that it's possible to articulate each note cleanly, even in rapid passages, without producing a reading that is mannered or fussy.
Once you've got your buzz figured out, start your note by saying either "ta" or "da" into the mouthpiece, depending on how you want to articulate the note.
More curiously, it was jazz that behaved like pop — determined, encased in strong melodies and played at medium-full projection — and the musicians were articulating every note.
