There was an explosive feeling in the air".
With an explosive feeling of both freedom and confinement, Robert Longo's image "Untitled" (1982) opens this week's fiction section.
Tension between control and explosive feeling is embodied, too, in Screaming Men, a choir of 30 led by Petri Sirvio that shouts rather than sings complex musical compositions.
But it became clear to me as I listened to these death metal CDs, that this entire genre was based on extending that explosive feeling for an entire song, an entire album, an entire career not just a quick crescendo or a peak that served to counter the bulk of more subdued music.
But it became clear to me as I listened to these death metal CDs, that this entire genre was based on extending that explosive feeling for an entire song, an entire album, an entire career not just a quick crescendo or a peak that served to counter the bulk of more subdued music.
Almost 60 years later, private spaceflight company SpaceX is feeling similarly explosive growing pains.
In the Scelsi and Xenakis, power and virtuosity were carefully modulated: even at their most explosive you got the feeling that reason, rather than out-of-control emotionalism, guided Ms. Takahashi's readings.
Among the year's debuts, two stood out for their originality: the hilarious, mesmerising stories in Claire-Louise Bennett's Pond (Fitzcarraldo Editions, £10.99) are all narrated by the same unnamed woman, while in Don't Try This At Home (& Other Stories, £10) Angela Readman fuses surrealism with feeling to explosive effect.
Almost 60 years later, SpaceX is feeling similarly explosive growing pains.... Musk has handled SpaceX's crashes stoically, reasoning that progress requires failures - science is messy.
