As individual, fragmented melody lines converge into group harmonies, the effect is often that of a liturgical choir.
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.
In harmony with the effects on the microcirculation, and in line with previous experimental and clinical studies [ 17- 19, 23], we did not notice differences in arterial pH or in lactate concentrations following TP or AVP administration, suggesting a lack of drug-related impairment of cellular oxygenation as well as the absence of differences in resuscitation quality between groups.
47– 49 The LIBRA and HARMONY trials evaluated the effect of lixivaptan on SIADH in the inpatient and outpatient settings, respectively, while the BALANCE trial evaluated the drug in congestive heart failure.
But it demonstrated the Harmony Effect, which holds that phrasing something elegantly, with grammatical equipoise, is sometimes more important than the truth.
The vocal writing is beautifully crafted to the sensuous rigour of Davies's artistry: during the work's course, he sings against a playback loop of his own voice, and the effect – all close Monteverdian harmony – is ravishing.
But Britons are more blasé than other Europeans about the effect of immigration on national harmony.
