John Cage's 4'33" is frequently discussed, though there is broad agreement that this piece is not silent – its content is rather the ambient sounds that occur during its performance.
"It's kind of difficult to put down because sound is rather ephemeral," Mr. McCormick said.
The sound is rather faint - like a man slapping his thigh with a folded newspaper.
Of course there are also times when its sound is rather less than sweet - 'Daddy, that's not fair!'Daddyddy, I'm finished can you come and wipe...'. - but for my purposes here let's stick with the sweetness.
It could be very slight, but somehow the effect stays with me and is rather magical, like the sounds in Wynne's work.
Whereas Finnish orthography is shallow, French orthography has some inconsistencies in sound-to-spelling mapping, but is rather consistent in spelling-to-sound mapping, which renders pseudoword pronunciation less ambiguous in French [ 40].
"The sound produced is rather sinister," Prof Cox said.
Intimacy is not pursued; there is, rather, a kind of public sound, one that renders singers like Janice Chandler and Frederica von Stade intelligible but makes clear that there is considerable space between them and the audience.
Sound quality is rather bad but you get the idea.
The Vatican's concept of "fast track", however, is rather more exhaustive than it sounds.
The fact is that the Iranian regime, contrary to what is generally believed, is not as ideological as it sounds, but is rather characterized by the capacity to "shift gears" according to expediency.
