Even the sound design is fully thought through here, a mixture of sighing, creaking, balloon sounds and a spare orchestral soundtrack, which blossoms into a tender love theme.
The bubblegum recent single Air Balloon sounded disappointingly slight and inconsequential but the galloping finale Not Fair remains one of the most enjoyable and compelling songs ever written about male premature ejaculation.
That voice, that harp, those verses … Joanna Newsom makes Bridges and Balloons sound exquisit and delicate – although apparently they do irritate calm canaries.
She quickly realized that because balloon popping sounded like gunfire, the student had been emotionally triggered and lashed out.
Ms. Rodrigues's records are skillfully made, and their effectiveness has partly to do with studio technology: when her voice is captured right, it sounds unearthly, and the lyrics float out like round balloons of sound.
Google's Loon project, which is experimenting with delivering the Internet to far-out areas via stratospheric balloons, may sound insane, and it may not work, but at least it's attempting to tackle one of the truly hard problems, which is physical access to the Internet.
The water balloon diet sounds like a new weight-loss gimmick, but at its heart is a medical device: the gastric balloon, several of which are expected to be considered by the Food and Drug Administration as weight-loss aids in the next year or so.
Members can even train as a hot air balloon pilot - sound interesting?
"Up," the elegiac 3-D Disney Pixar balloon movie with sound by Tom Myers and Michael Silvers, recycles a vintage-Disney howling wind (originally created for "A Bug's Life") and introduces a bird language that uses hyena and macaw calls.
