Based on the principle of structured-light triangulation, a laser line is projected onto the object upon which the distorted line is captured by dual CCD cameras from left and right simultaneously.
As we speak on the phone the next day I can hear Istanbul's daily life through the distorted line: children playing, seagulls, the roar of traffic.
Or they could get knocked around by the squirmy, distorted bass lines, sudden blasts and saw-toothed bits of melody of dubstep, which after years of enjoyment by devotees is now making itself known to a broader United States audience through D.J.'s like Skrillex, whose fans screamed with joy on Saturday afternoon.
Gross-out lyrics, distorted bass lines and complaints about dehumanization had become a formula.
This is music with a lot of empty space: it consists largely of profane rapping over wildly distorted bass lines, which often serve as the only melodic motifs.
But one key reason for the rarity of legal challenges in most countries is that they simply don't face the kind of political manipulations and grossly distorted district lines endemic in the United States.
Jessica Rabbit is still clearly a Sleigh Bells album – the recognisable thud of Derek Miller's distorted guitar lines on bruising opening track It's Just Us Now stands as punishing confirmation of that – but there's a wider sonic palette on show than on previous efforts: snatches of synth and glitchy breakbeats jostle for attention alongside Alex Krauss's clean, poppy vocals.
Opening the concert, the disc jockey and producer Flying Lotus burrowed into dance music's darker crevices: slow, swampy, distorted bass lines to be topped with restless doubletime chatters, blips and bits of vocals to be steamrollered by looming beats and, finally, a sample of Radiohead's "Idiotheque" — a reminder that Mr. Yorke's other band loves rhythm too.
In [16, 21, 22], a linear antenna is adapted to get a linear phase signal out of an image containing (possibly slightly distorted) straight lines.
Madonna's vocals in the number change from distorted, robotic lines to playful, child like chants.
