Worried about their antique equipment going out of tune, Paddy Kingsland, 66, mutters, "don't breathe on the autoharp!" There's a sudden electrical buzz; "ooh, that's playing havoc with my pacemaker," deadpans Roger Limb (who won't reveal his age).
Instead, he set the wordy text to a lyrically enhanced dramatic recitative, which sits -- sometimes uneasily -- atop his teeming orchestral music: a pulsating and relentless succession of compact thematic episodes, sudden outbursts, buzzing rhythmic figurations, aborted melodic flights, and occasionally a reflective passage that cuts off just when you are settling into it.
The sudden, constant buzzing of his cellphone told him all he needed to know.
And then all of a sudden, a loud, buzzing drone comes out of nowhere, totally interrupting your nap.
The sudden halt in buzzing was caught by tiny microphones set up by more than 400 students, teachers, and volunteers in the path of the total eclipse as part of a massive citizen science experiment.
It felt like someone turned on the light switch and all of a sudden I was buzzing.
You know, when you're playing music in your car on your iPhone or what have you, an all of a sudden that weird syncopated buzz comes out of nowhere?
The image was picked up from his original post by the Instagram account of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week last month, "and all of a sudden, my phone started buzzing uncontrollably," he said, whenever he was alerted that someone liked it.
