Portico's message is clear from the pulsating opener, Window Seat, with its lazy, swerving long notes for bowed bass and electronic strings – it could almost be a piece from Australian sonic trance legends the Necks.
Types are generally said to be abstract and unique; tokens are concrete particulars, composed of ink, pixels of light (or the suitably circumscribed lack thereof) on a computer screen, electronic strings of dots and dashes, smoke signals, hand signals, sound waves, etc.
Everything seems to be sustained in tone, including John Mackey's commissioned and apt, jagged score for electronic string quartet and percussion.
As he stood at the head of the vast herd, high banks of loudspeakers began to play the kind of jangling electronic string music you hear in game shows.
His CD of electronic music, Strings and Machines, is available on the EMF label.
Pete Johnson, in his review for the Los Angeles Times, summed up the album as "11 good songs spiked with electronic music, strings, brass, natural and supernatural voices, and the familiar thick texture of McGuinn's guitar playing".
Rather than being a stylistic sequel to OK Computer, Kid A featured a minimalist and textured style with more diverse instrumentation including the ondes Martenot, programmed electronic beats, strings, and jazz horns.
She began with two pieces from "Cathedral City," Victoire's 2010 CD (on New Amsterdam): "Like a Miracle," a dark hybrid of rhythmically driven electronic sounds, string timbres and graceful vocal melodies, and the more angular, ethereal title work.
He surrounds Bell Horses' songs in watercolor washes of sound, disembodied electronic tones, string arrangements and hovering, manipulated vocals; crackling static and spattering percussion appear and vanish with inscrutable timing.
The song features electronic blips, string movements, and upbeat percussion breaks.
Radiohead incorporated a wide variety of musical styles and instruments, using electronic music, string arrangements, pianos, celestes, and the ondes Martenot.
