As scenarios for electronic pieces go, that has plenty to offer, and Ms. Ayers responds with distorted voices, instruments and sea birds, filtered to sound as if they were being heard underwater.
Analog tapes, vintage reel-to-reels, a synthesizer, Hammond organ, his own distorted operatic voice all these instruments were used by Ian William Craig to create his highly-acclaimed new album Centres, released on label FatCat's 130701 imprint.
As she mourns a lost child in "Baby Birch," at first alone with her harp, other instruments, including a distorted electric guitar, float in like glimmers of what might have been.
A music video, co-directed by Neil Pollock and Jonathan Bekemeier, to promote the single shows the band playing its instruments through a distorted fish-eye lens, the camera variously panning horizontally across the performance space and vertically over the individual band members.
The theme, as written by Norman and arranged by Barry, was described by another Bond film composer, David Arnold, as "bebop-swing vibe coupled with that vicious, dark, distorted electric guitar, definitely an instrument of rock 'n' roll ... it represented everything about the character you would want: It was cocky, swaggering, confident, dark, dangerous, suggestive, sexy, unstoppable.
They're all rhythm and riffs, studio assemblages of isolated instruments in which a distorted guitar, a lone piano note, or an eerie synthesizer effect can suddenly perforate the mix from any direction.
Fabritius, too, was an optical enthusiast, celebrated for his eye-fooling perspectives; his View of Delft with the musical-instrument seller has a distorted perspective that suggests that it was painted for a peepshow.
Sanctions represent another instrument targeted at raising distorted search and work incentives, which in contrast has no locking-in effects138.
They play versions of C64 game music using real instruments, adding drums, bass and distorted guitars to the synthesiser and techno sounds of those classic computer tunes.
Black Moth Super Rainbow (Friday) This brooding quintet from Pittsburgh chips at the line between man and machine with robotically distorted wisps of vocals and analog electronic instruments like Rhodes piano and theremin.
