"If they have a mass in their sinuses, it will sound dense and it thuds," Dr. Yvorchuk told a handful of students.
If the book sounds dense, that's because it is.
But The Rat just sounds dense and solid, like a little ball.
Brown's "String Quartet" from 1965, which includes elements of chance, sounded dense and coiled with tension.
Actually, the hub is somewhat less grand than it sounds: a brightly lighted room, dense with the fug of electronic heat, lined with rows of Dell computer servers.
In fact, it sounded more like their trickiest record to date, a rich, dense weave of sound that variously involved the composer Nico Muhly, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and a string quartet drawn from the American Contemporary Music Ensemble.
With an ear tuned to the "squelch and slap/Of soggy peat" and an eye focused on the rough-edged and rustic figures that loomed over his youth in rural Ireland, he struck something solid, and the clear ring of his spade against it soon became his celebrated, signature sound: dense clusters of consonants, athletic jumps and jolts, a delight in verbal heft and clang.
Its sound is denser, more plangent and textured, more given to droning groove.
Stretches that sound dense and chaotic on a recording reveal themselves to be careful and collaborative, everyone listening closely to whomever is soloing, guiding one another through the swells of noise with a quick nod.
I suspect that quote will sound fantastically dense in ten years' time.
