She praised the live footage as "resplendent in near-perfection", describing the "wide range of dishy, fancy close-ups and pausing effects" and calling the sound "precision-balanced, distinct and clear".
A critic once memorably wrote that Keillor's baritone sounded "precision-engineered to narrate a documentary about glaciers"; Thile would be more suited to announcing a pickup football game played by peregrine falcons.
This is the sound of precision machinery hand-built by a German craftsman with an umlaut in his name.
They're a band who have hit a particular sound with precision, and they stick to it, albeit with more visceral immediacy than on record – 'Balance' and 'Heart Grows Cold', for example, bounce with a joyful club beat over the heart-tugging elegiac synth lines.
Such a soundtrack could be considered something of an aural time capsule or a glimpse into the past for us to hear the sound of precision parts of the last century working in harmony.
Fiddling with a laptop and cross-fader, with a film sequenced across the back showing snatches of the videos from some of the songs he's playing, the producer gives us a 90-minute megamix with some EDM updating, of which disco purists will have disapproved but which ensures that the sound is precision-tooled for the dancefloor requirements of 2014.
They encompass image and sound crafted with precision.
RECITALS BRENTANO STRING QUARTET The pianist Thomas Sauer joins the group, admired for its shining sound and interpretive precision, for a program of works by Bach, Mozart, Bartók (the Quartet No. 6), and Elliott Carter (the Piano Quintet).
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet RECITALS BRENTANO STRING QUARTET The pianist Thomas Sauer joins the group, admired for its shining sound and interpretive precision, for a program of works by Bach, Mozart, Bartók (the Quartet No. 6), and Elliott Carter (the Piano Quintet).
Following objective evaluation for melodic accuracy and precision, sound quality and musical use are demonstrated with the help of didactic videos, live performance videos, and audio demonstrations for typical voices built with the synthesizer.
