Web ads became garish and styled as pop-ups, television commercials became aural assaults, mailboxes became catalog landfills.
The show began with the sonic terrorism of Panacea, in which drum-and-bass became aural assault, followed by the overmodulated chaos-and-beauty of Kid 606.
Beginning with the use of Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" (1973) on the soundtrack of "The Exorcist," minimalist-derived music became "aural wallpaper" for an increasingly image-driven culture.
During the holiday season many public spaces become an aural purgatory, with hapless listeners subjected to a relentless torrent of Christmas jingles.
For Mr. Wheeldon, it becomes the aural underpinning of a study in human relationships.
No overt sexuality is onstage at this point, but the microphone becomes an aural voyeur to Ms. Amarante, who shrieks when whirled on a chair held by a partner.
Their grand, stormy electric-guitar sound became an aural icon of American underground music in the 1980's, and it is a sound that is still demanded of him by commissions.
When Pablo Casals, whose late-1930s recofdings of Bach's Cello Suites became an aural icon of humanism and peace against fascism and war, was asked to pick one piece of music for the whole world to hear, he chose the sarabande from the fifth suite in C minor.
The day I play a concert on a fortepiano will be the day when the whole audience arrives by horse-drawn carriages and the hall is lit with candles and everyone has become totally immersed in the aural world of the early 19th century.
