Jagged silences competed with startling percussive outbursts.
Any loose ends or jagged edges will get stuck in the machine or damage your original.
No matter how faint or jagged your voice is, there will be a machine to enhance and, to some degree, smoothen it.
Pioneer's 35-pound machine eliminates digital snow, ghosts, and jagged skin tones, even in extreme closeup.
With its jagged bursts, slithering strings and keening vocal line, "La Machine de l'Être," named after a drawing by the visionary French writer Antonin Artaud, is very much in the modernist tradition of Schoenberg and Feldman.
"The machine tends to sharpen things off -- a jagged line or other ramshackle elements -- and sometimes you want things to look a little ragged," he said.
As part of his newest album, Daedelus also explores this deadzone of miscommunication through jagged beats, aural twists and turns, and a melding of man and machine that feels almost post-human.
It was a monstrous machine, all gears, levers, belts, funnels, steam boilers and bits of cotton caught in its jagged teeth.
And Casablancas was definitely breaking from tradition: Though he sang "Instant Crush," his gleaming collaboration with Daft Punk from last year's hit "Random Access Memories," most of his set Saturday consisted of fast, jagged-edged punk songs that left behind the electro-pop precision of the Strokes' coolly received 2013 album, "Comedown Machine".
