My first and most powerful obsession was music — the same records played again and again while I watched them spin, astonished at their evocation of aural worlds that I not only instinctively understood even as a toddler but in which I actually felt comfortable.
My first and most powerful obsession was music the same records played again and again while I watched them spin, astonished at their evocation of aural worlds that I not only instinctively understood even as a toddler but in which I actually felt comfortable.
Her everyday heroines -- played by herself, Kamilah Levens, Marquita Levy and Omagbitse Omagbemi -- are also exponents of lush dancing and a juicily blended aural world of hip-hop, rap and drumming.
In the world of cinema, too, the aural is achieving a sense of focus that has as much emotional impact and serves the story as well as any musical score.
The day I play a concert on a fortepiano will be the day when the whole audience arrives by horse-drawn carriages and the hall is lit with candles and everyone has become totally immersed in the aural world of the early 19th century.
Dominated by a Goddess: Hypnodommes and the Aural World of Erotic Hypnosis.
When Wagner returned to writing the music for the last act of Siegfried and for Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), as the final part of the Ring, his style had changed once more to something more recognisable as "operatic" than the aural world of Rheingold and Walküre, though it was still thoroughly stamped with his own originality as a composer and suffused with leitmotifs.
Later, he becomes fixated on the Voyager spacecraft and the so-called Golden Record — a gold disk that captured many sounds of the world, an aural time capsule sent into space in 1977 to give aliens a comprehensive idea of human life.
The infant/ Lazarus identity belongs to the common oral-aural world of the speaker and hearer of this ritual.
Her acts and words reiterate traditions that have acquired an authority in an oral-aural world of what a woman can do to enhance her chances of successful conception and gestation and the birth of a healthy baby.
