The arrangements of the songs on Impermanence, Brooklyn singer Peter Silberman's first solo album, are so minimal and sparse that they make his exquisite recordings with his group the Antlers seem positively rococo.
The guitar parts were minimal: an arpeggio, sparse chords or just enough plucked notes to hint at a bass line.
Dan experienced a second epiphany when hearing the sparse, minimal techno of fellow Ontarian Richie Hawtin (AKA Plastikman) for the first time.
MCs are sampled and looped talking about their lives, their voices submerged in crackle and sparse, minimal beats.
As Mr. Bartz snaked through the eccentric harmonies of Billy Strayhorn's "Isfahan," Mr. Barron provided sparse, minimal chords; his own solo turned into skeletal stride piano.
Mr. Hawtin, who grew up near Detroit and came up during the 1990s as a leading proponent of minimal techno — a sparse and sometimes spooky-sounding variant, as its name implies — has long been one of the electronic dance world's intellectual forces.
His guitar playing utilizes a minimal, acoustic and sparse sound and space blended with the live percussion of drummer Chuck Treece, Jupiter-heavy bass lines and keyboardist Greg Galbreath's synths.
We still observe a low existence of minimal k-cores for sparse graphs with (p = 0.1).
Producer Michael Timmins, of Cowboy Junkies, sets these lyrics and their melodies, which come right out of the Appalachian Mountains, in a context which is predominately acoustic, sparse and minimal.
The album was primarily produced by Rick Rubin, who provided a sparse and minimal production style.
