His huge back catalogue demonstrates a sci-fi bluesman documenting the 21st century through a series of wild, fuzzy records.
By analyzing the duration Armstrong spoke each word, the researchers found it would have been easy for listeners to exclude the "a," especially in a fuzzy recording, they report in PLOS ONE.
In the early days of the label, Bob sent Hilary down to London with their first release, a fuzzy recording by The Mekons, in the hopes of pricking the ears of the people at Rough Trade.
Even in a fuzzy video recording of a performance, they appear remarkably animated, as Mr. Twist and his team of puppeteers work their spell.
In some circles, he is probably best known for sound art that combined performance, chance and technology to create surreal, sometimes funny works like "Border Dissolve in Audiospace" from 1970, a fuzzy, echoing recording in which directory operators are called and asked to look up various numbers.
I Should Have Helped, meanwhile, is a fuzzy, K Records-style lo-fi ballad that knows its charm lies in its brevity, and Back to the Bolthole is an impressively heavy sludgeathon – but it's all a little too faithful to its template to be truly arresting.
In such a way, no correlation can be exploited between feature sets protected by two (or more) related instances of the applied fuzzy vault records.
In an world dotted with shiny, overproduced Disclosure replicants, it's refreshing to hear a bit of crackle now and then maybe a fuzzy field recording, or a rhythm section that sounds like you shook that tampon bin in the bathroom at work.
Her team must now rely on television footage and a single fuzzy audio clip, recorded by a campaign staff member in 2011, of the former mayor praising Ms. Quinn at a fund-raiser, where Mr. Koch called her a "rock star".
But the records were fuzzy 1970's-era microfiche files and nearly impossible to read.
