It's not that Arnold purposely avoids classical music the bow does cross the strings but sometimes he plays the cello like a synthesizer, changing and oscillating tones with various techniques.
The synthesized oscillating tones have three timbres: sine, sawtooth and square wave.
American Life is suffused with Ahmadzaï's characteristic production techniques, like stuttering instruments and vocals, oscillating loop tones recalling 1950s Sonar pulses, morphing vocals consisting of grunts and squeals and treatments that make the music freeze in between rhythms.
There's a constantly scorched edge to his solos, as they articulately oscillate in tone, from a rumbling bullishness up to a controlled howl.
The recurring figure in Mr. Harvey's chaconne is a series of four delicate chords, hazy and elusive sonorities with shimmering sustained tones, oscillating inner voices and rippling figures on the piano.
His heated rhetoric on the subject has driven a wedge among the Socialists: They've been oscillating between a conciliatory tone on independence and a sterner call for national unity in a time of crisis.
The tone oscillates wildly between droning academese and slick flippancy".
Inhyun Kim's "Parallel Lines," a premiere, is an impetuous short piece in which passages of oscillating intervals cascade over chime tones and ominous harmonies in the piano's low register.
Kate Winslet is the stabilising central force as Myrtle "Tilly" Dunnage in a film that oscillates madly between tones.
The opening work, "Increase," another premiere, performed by Alarm Will Sound, a dynamic 20-piece amplified ensemble, was also intriguing: 10 dizzying, propulsive minutes of repetitive riffs and squiggling motives, grounded by a slowly oscillating two-note drone and occasional ominous pedal tones.
