And when the words and graphics are in harmony, the effect is deliciously brutal.
As individual, fragmented melody lines converge into group harmonies, the effect is often that of a liturgical choir.
His first commercial release was in 1969 with La Cage/Erosmachine, a mixture of harmony, tape effects and synthesisers.
Having pursued a high school passion for classical choral music through training at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Juilliard School, he developed a style based on clear melodies, thrilling harmonies, evocative effects and sensitive text handling.
This album, like most of Lucier's work, isn't interested in melody or harmony, but the effect of physical space on sound itself.
Each character breaks off, sometimes a line or word being finished by another singer before returning to unison or harmony, giving the effect of the three old men remembering bits of information, complaints and grumblings in real time".
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The research paper, titled Losing the Music: Aging Affects the Perception and Subcortical Neural Representation of Musical Harmony, explores the effect that aging has on hearing.
If color harmony is, in effect, simply another name for color similarity, then similarity ratings should be able to explain as much variance in pair preferences as harmony ratings do.
Here Rossi's music revealed him to be part of — and sometimes leading — a wider group of composers who were testing the limits of harmony and expressive effects.
