Here, though, the band's thick, juddering rhythms begin a transformation into something sleeker and more expansive, and while stadiums are still years away, Love Song still sounds so gigantic that few venues could hold it.
The 5X sounds downright gigantic with a 51mm frame.
Why lose all that just for the sake of a gigantic sound?" Having written off the modern notion of having a big sound for its own sake, Mr. Tetzlaff has also seen to it that he is not constantly on tour.
The same can't be said for Arcade Fire (see Régine Chassagne, left), whose gigantic sound stretched far beyond the admittedly rather modest crowd, making theirs a classic Reading show.
This week, she'll be bringing Deep Listening to the Empac concert hall in Troy in New York State, now that new software can recreate the sound of that gigantic, reverberating cistern.
Utilizing software and hardware including Processing, an Arduino, a MacBook Pro, and of course a nice silver spray paint, the installation simultaneously releases scent and sound through its gigantic nostrils.
Scored for 52 strings, it begins with what sounds like a gigantic chorus of extraterrestrial screams, a dense, anguished cacophony that gives way to a brief, eerie respite.
"I had not really experienced live music outside the classical realm, so hearing these rhythms and sounds through a gigantic PA system, with the sub-bass massaging your entire body — it was an ear-opening experience".
As he got out of the fuel cell-powered Chevy Equinox, he explained that the reason it sounded like a gigantic vacuum cleaner was because a compressor was building up pressure in the fuel cell stack.
Then he dropped out of shirt-and-pants school to become a rap man who sounds like a gigantic, adorable bear.
