The black paintings in this exhibition are dark, throbbing pieces of work that you can spend hours looking at (should you find the time), experiencing their bold optical effects.
Luhrmann wants to create huge, throbbing set pieces, but he never establishes an adequate ground of normal reality from which those pieces would be an exultant relief.
(Once he's up there, what can he do but cut to the ground again?) He wants to create huge, throbbing set pieces, but he never establishes a standard of normal reality from which those set pieces would be an exultant release.
At stage left, Mally Harpaz switches from harmonium to all manner of percussion, and drives the gorgeous Piece by Piece with throbbing bass.
IF there is a lesson to be extracted from the visual glories of "Miami Vice" — the painterly compositions of tropical sea and sky, the glowing, throbbing nightclub set pieces, the meticulously choreographed deployments of lethal force — it might be that love and work don't mix.
But it really is a very stylish, arresting piece of movie-making, throbbing with heat and fear and violence and with fiercely uncompromising lead performances from Guy Pearce and Danny Huston, whose faces are baked, impassive masks, eloquent of nothing but despair.
For their first appearance in the UK, the seven-piece PPU rise to the occasion with a powerful, throbbing set, prefaced by a black-and-white 1970 short film of the original lineup, leaping around Prague like the Dave Clark Five.
In "Footwork," a 2006 piece by the Australian composer Roger Smalley, a smoky melody uncurled over a throbbing tango rhythm in a manner well suited to a vintage Hollywood detective film.
On a runway amid the dunes of an air force base in the Negev Desert stands one of Israel's most successful pieces of military technology: a Hunter, its Motto Guzzi 750 engine throbbing.
An anonymized man crowdsurfing in the dark over an endless sea of throbbing humanity.
