She began writing on an "industrial scale," Ms. Spurling notes, slowly losing her readers.
Sitting at the piano, Ms. Holcomb often spun out methodical patterns -- a few chords or a handful of notes, slowly circling -- to be interrupted by her voice, which rushed and then paused, heading toward a resolution and then straying past it.
When it came time for his solo, he started with a series of long notes, slowly bending each one upward; soon, he was down on one knee, like an old soul singer pleading his case, blowing a wild solo full of sharp turns and dissonant leaps.
But as Hubley made minute adjustments to the triangle – muting it with one hand, then releasing her grip slightly, before changing its location on the instrument as the other hand beat away – new comminglings of notes slowly became audible in the room.
For the first full minute of the self-titled debut album by She Wants Revenge, a simple, swingless drumbeat and two repeating guitar notes slowly swell and echo, defining the bleak minimalism that is the band's virtue and its self-imposed limitation.
She has a strong, supple voice, and she controls it well, often stretching out a note and slowly intensifying its effect, adding tension or vibrato, before clipping it off at the end.
And at the start and end of the long instrumental bridge — or whatever it is — Ms. Butcher, her voice echoed-up and edgeless, sings a single note that slowly rises high and disappears.
I hate you.' I did a song which he equally hated and he shouted, 'I hate you so much, I'll give you £20 to leave.' As I didn't think he was serious, I said yes, and then had to endure a horrible silence as this £20 note was slowly passed through the audience up to me".
