Heralded as 'The Father of Contemporary a cappella', he is responsible for the current sound of modern a cappella, having created the dense vocal-instrumental sound in college, subsequently spreading it around the world.
Ms. Agocs's imagination is fairly nimble: although her harmonic style can be fairly dense, her vocal writing has an almost 19th-century naturalness.
It's all a big leap for a band that makes haunted, meticulous art-rock dense with vocal harmonies and folksy timbres, but Mr. Droste, sipping a homemade seltzer, was taking it in stride.
Because mouse lemurs are nocturnal, solitary-foragers living in dense forests, vocal communication is highly important for regulating social interactions across distances where visibility is poor and olfactory communication is limited [ 38].
They hew to a simple, effective blueprint: a twisting, pleading vocal; dense walls of rhythm guitar and bass; hooks with enough space to encourage sympathetic singalongs.
That, more or less, is where this is: dense beats, rasping vocals, soaring chorus.
Take the endless dense, technical analyses of vocal renditions, which make long portions of the book sound like liner notes.
The chorus of "I Care" was compared to "Purple Rain", with themes of sadness and resentment, the song uses soft background vocals and dense percussion.
The outrage from Rush's fans, the vocal, visible, thick and dense end of the Republican base, forced Steele to backtrack faster than freshly waxed skis on newly fallen powder.
Both the title track and the lead single, "Harder Than You Think," wed Chuck D's hammering vocals to dense soundscapes full of surging horns, spoken snippets, and sneaky synthesizer lines.
