They found that the concentration required for natural language interaction was higher than set voice controls.
However irresistible the concepts and wordplay may be to members of the art-infused underground like Thurston Moore, who set "Voice Piece" to music on his own CD, they haven't endeared Ono to a world reared on rock.
Against this must be set voices like that of the novelist Ma Jian, whose recently published Beijing Coma looks set to become the definitive fictional account of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
Then it showed the senator in a different setting voicing opposition to universal background checks for gun buyers.
In an orchestral setting [his voice] tends to end up as schmaltzy, it becomes opera.
"The initial figure is like a little ripple on the water, setting the voice in motion," DiDonato told me.
When so many of its fundamental characteristics – drama, symbolism, stage-setting, voice, image, text, audience impact – are praised for their effectiveness, how can the theatre reclaim its proper territory, and stop being used as a term of abuse?
The mezzo-soprano Jane Henschel brought a deep-set voice and feisty character to Herodias, Salome's wily mother.
who may not have the classic Wotan deep-set voice, but his sound is robust and full, his diction a model of clarity.
Egils Silins, a Latvian bass with an earthy deep-set voice, made his Met debut as Don Basilio, and nervousness may have accounted for his tentative performance.
