And singing alone with his cello (his primary instrument) and some echo boxes, he made "World of Echo," a brilliant record of strange and nebulous songs.
Mr. Williams is a skillful guitarist and one-man band, using echo boxes and other gadgets to multiply his quick-fingered lines into upbeat funk.
His novels can sell 70,000 in hardback, and he has been known to sell 10,000 copies of a new book in a single day; Grossman ascribes this to "the way he manages both to describe the most intimate aspects of our lives and to place them in the Israeli echo-box, with all the voices that are sounded here.
Later the band would pile up countless other effects — loops, echoes, distortion boxes — creating the sonic onslaught that has been cited as an influence by virtually every collegiate or indie-rock band that knows how to set off feedback.
Back in his alma mater, the newly rebuilt Fifth Street gym in Miami's South Beach, a veritable emporium of fistiana which is again resplendent with vividly nostalgic echoes of boxing's most memorable bygone era, the Sixties and Seventies, Dundee is in his element once more.
Passengers will hope to echo the huge box office success of recent space dramas like Interstellar and Gravity – the latter was also the recipient of seven Oscars last year.
In a pre-holiday report that refers to the Echo as a "box of intelligence," Amazon told NBC simply, "Echo and Alexa were designed with privacy and security as part of the design, not an afterthought".
If that last comment seems to echo back to Box, and its massive losses in the face of growing a recurring revenue base, you might be slightly confused as to how Netflix is investing in content, and expansion, while still making money.
