Sentence examples for sonic backdrop from inspiring English sources
The voices of boatmen, temple priests and a lovesick cow provide a sonic backdrop.
There can't be many service stations that make their own wine and organise walks among the vines - all to a sonic backdrop of roaring traffic.
As in many orchestral pieces by younger American composers, the powerful and propulsive post-minimalist style of John Adams provides the sonic backdrop, just as the lean but affecting neoclassical style of Copland did for an earlier generation.
The hustle and bustle of life here has long taken place against the incongruous sonic backdrop of American soft rock from the 1970s and 80s (much of it sung, impeccably, by Filipinos themselves).
Hers is a voice that swoops and soars, trembles and declaims against a sonic backdrop that you'd be hard pressed to describe as folk, or psychedelic, or electronic, or soul, but which has elements of each.
High string harmonics and harp, shuddering low woodwind and brass – alto flute and bass clarinet, bass trombone and tuba – and delicately scored percussion provided the sonic backdrop for the voices, mostly easy to hear even without surtitles.
The sonic backdrops tend to be minor atmospheric disturbances that don't distract from her voice and guitar.
Just ask the elite roster of knob-twiddlers – Premier, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, Large Professor and L.E.S. – who lined up to provide Illmatic's exemplary sonic backdrops.
Although Minaj is capable of moving between myriad personas and sonic backdrops on record and in her provocative videos, by the time she wound down the first quarter of her 18-song set, she seemed completely uninterested in performing.
Capable of moving between myriad personas and sonic backdrops that cut through hard-core rap, pop fluff and sticky dance floor bangers, the always provocative Nicki Minaj makes us stop and pay attention.
Although capable of moving between myriad personas and sonic backdrops (hard-core rap, pop fluff, sticky dance floor bangers, R&B balladry) on record and in her provocative videos, that command has always been difficult for the rapper to harness onstage.
