It opens with a bustling, almost giddy burst of swirling strings, exuberant brass and overlapping phrases.
But mostly the three cellists have an intense conversation among equals, with long stretches of overlapping phrases.
At times Ms. Lim's music, which is full of crunchy chords and eerily sustained vocal lines, makes a mysterious jumble of the words through fitful, overlapping phrases.
The third, for a cappella chorus, had mesmerizing moments, with quivering waves of sustained sounds and harmonies, overlapping phrases chanted at different tempos, aborted melodic bits and more, sung here with lush sound and complete confidence by choristers from the Crossing (who used individual tuning forks to focus their pitch).
Barry Walters from Rolling Stone wrote that on "Yours", "Carey's lead vocals blend into choruses of overdubbed Mariah's cooing overlapping phrases.
The time it takes me to complete any given piece is difficult to quantify because I frequently work on a bunch at a time and there are also lots of overlapping phrases of production involved: writing code, rendering / processing files, 3D printing and painting / composing.
Still, this passage really is a tangle of voices, and there was something terrifying about the way Mr. Gergiev and his players let it be a tumult of overlapping, skittish phrases.
The piece began with the melancholy song of the electric violin looped, three-note phrases overlapping, but never precisely matching up, to create disordered sonic patterns, like uncharted stars.
If Andrew Hill was one of Mr. Iyer's clear antecedents — melodies made from prickly, stubborn phrases, overlapping rhythms, dark and dense harmony turning into beauty — then bebop rhythm was to Hill as funk is to Mr. Iyer.
The piece began with the melancholy song of the electric violin — looped, three-note phrases overlapping, but never precisely matching up, to create disordered sonic patterns, like uncharted stars.
