Richard Taruskin, in his monumental new history of music, describes such instructional treatises as glimpses of a "great submerged iceberg of sound" — everything about the musical past that dots and lines on parchment do not preserve.
Clark draws upon a world of sound, everything from hip hop and abstract beats, to techno, jazz and soul.
She is still at the early stage of a career in which she takes a childlike delight in the variety of vocal sounds (everything from screams and whoops to clucks and clicks) she can produce.
I always try to incorporate any of those of sounds to everything I'm doing.
It's a bit like Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, with everything very carefully placed, only in the wrong order!
It is not hard to draw a line between his art and a city like Tokyo, where there's "lots of sound, and everything is flashing" and his work.
The piano ballad Sandcastles isn't a bad song as such, and it boasts a startlingly raw vocal that occasionally threatens to turn into a distraught howl, but it sounds a bit commonplace compared to what's going on around it, not least the flatly astonishing Freedom, a dense swirl of sound containing everything from old Alan Lomax field recordings to 60s psychedelia from Mexico.
And in a show created out of nothing but sound, everything turned out to be as ephemeral as McIntyre's lost possessions.
Beautiful Things features an almost schizophrenic range of sounds--everything from folk-tinged rockers to psychedelic mind trips to sparse lullabies and everything in-between.
Even in this mode, though, there's no sense of forward projection to the sound; everything seems to happen behind the screen.
On the following track, "Your Loves Whore," Rowsell and company set things straight, with a cascading wall of sound that crushes everything that came before it.
