In 2011, the lights themselves formed a sophisticated atonal lament.
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You name it — serial, atonal, Americana, Minimalist — we've sung it.
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They were just lost in all these complex atonal textures.
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Most cues are high frequency, atonal, prickly washes of electronic static.
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It was weighty, but placid, even at its most atonal moments.
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The duo recently performed at the German experimental festival Berlin Atonal.
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It's the tug between atonal and tonal which makes music poignant.
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Gosfield gives him a full-on mad scene, with deranged atonal coloratura.
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The musical language combines atonal and tonal aspects into lush, mystical sonorities.
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The concerto's chugging rhythms make Ginastera's lively atonal idiom feel accessible, understandable.
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It's not pretty — it's atonal, kind of droning and androgynous, almost bluesy.
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"A wall-to-wall atonal piece can be fantastic," Mr. Ruders said.
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Music plays with the atonal scratching of records and who knows what else.
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It's really cool that they're layering the vocals and making them atonal too.
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It was a gentle-sounding album: roughly produced, occasionally atonal, almost drone-like.
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But the assembled fans understandably can't stand that kind of atonal brass nonsense.
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In Webern's atonal miniatures, islands of sound float in a sea of white.
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Trump's responses are flat and atonal unless he's criticizing an adversary or touting himself.
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Although these chords are built on a simple chantlike melody, they are essentially atonal.
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There's dizzy harmonized guitar solos, disco-adjacent percussive percolations, and hellish descents into atonal static.
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"Later I went back to composing 'normally,' but it was probably still atonal," says Joop.
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On Sunday afternoon, the Upper East Side became a haven for these searching atonal compositions.
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On one side were those whose complex modernist languages involved various atonal and serial methods.
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In Beltrami's score, it's combined with an atonal string harmony rife with glissando and tone clusters.
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It's as intense as you'd expect a blend of nudity, holograms, and atonal sounds to be.
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Together they rise to a kind of driving, repetitive mélange that seems both atonal and melodic.
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In this gripping track, the jazz piano riffs sound almost like pointillist strands of atonal music.
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In several crucial pieces, starting around 1908, he slowly tried to find a new, atonal language.
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In point of fact, when we saw the data, the features are flatter, more atonal speech.
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Go deeper: Who would've thought a bluegrass spoof of atonal music would take off on YouTube?
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As far as laymen coaxing atonal bleats from busted electronics go, Whitey's sets were actually relatively tame.
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The 19-minute "Christina Santa Cruz" composition is rather dark, with the piano notes creating atonal drones.
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And like the title suggests, atonal organ drones do sound more than a little like insectoid swarming.
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I especially love the moody first movement, especially a pensive, near-atonal episode about six minutes in.
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Morrison frequently collaborates with musicians specializing in dissonant, even atonal compositions, which enhances his works' otherworldly feel.
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They can be psychological and internal and atonal, as well as melodic and beautiful, as the situation requires.
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Berg folds remnants of tonality, plush colorings, sweeping lyrical lines and sheer orchestral din into his atonal language.
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"We have never used atonal music," said a spokesman for Transport for London, which runs London's subway system.
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DAVID ALLEN "Brokeback Mountain," Charles Wuorinen's operatic version of Annie Proulx's modern classic novella, is brooding, atonal, noble.
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Something "atonal and angular would have distracted from the intimacy of the text," Alex Mills, the composer, says.
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The aggressively atonal soundtrack by the German composer Hans Werner Henze calls attention to the film as a construct.
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Though often droney and atonal, Olson's sax blasts can trigger future-past memories of an interdimensional Clarence Clemons solos.
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In New York, he discovered the work of John Cage, whose atonal compositions had a lasting influence on him.
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There's atonal stuff, there's tonal stuff, and they're butting up against each other — there's a tension between the two.
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That story usually puts the blame on composers for writing complex, atonal works that no one wanted to hear.
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Not that it's unpleasant to listen to atonal stuff, but for our preference I think that's just what happens.
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Make of it what you will, but I'm pretty sure you'll never see a guy dressed like that at Atonal.
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Drew's audio fuses atonal and nearly-industrial rhythmic music with what sound like menacing broadcasts from some unseen Orwellian power.
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But then teachers introduced her to Indian ragas, Gamelan music and compositions with quarter tones, unfamiliar modes and atonal structures.
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Then he released a new track—a cacophonous, atonal, thoroughly unlicensed rework of Alicia Keys' "No One"—just two days later.
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Lyric essays can be highly fragmented, asterisks heavy, atonal wonders, and they can be tightly braided works of memoir and research.
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When we listen to classical music in the car, he whistles ostentatiously along with even the most complex and atonal themes.
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It crawls through muck, broken-down guitars and back-alley bass tripping over lazy drums, interrupted by wailing, atonal background saxophones.
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This autumn, it will try piping "atonal music" into a Berlin railway station, a spokesman confirmed Wednesday in an emailed statement.
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News of the atonal music decision has not gone down well with the Berlin Passenger Association, which represents public transport users.
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He could also summon the elegant delicacy of classical piano or hurtle toward the dissonances and atonal clusters of modern jazz.
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Although the music of "Wozzeck" is ostensibly atonal, glimmers of Wagner, Puccini, Mahler, and Strauss shine through the work's dark façade.
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In 21988, Gunther Schuller devoted a long essay in The Jazz Review to the question of whether Mr. Taylor's music was atonal.
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But her tendency towards jagged melodies breaks through the mix eventually, a bridge with suspended harmony or a jolt of something atonal.
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There are passages of off-kilter swing; crunchy backbeats; and spark plug, atonal improvising — all guided by Mr. Shipp's gangly improvisational flow.
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More recently, a Hezbollah operative based in the U.S. was sent by the group to carry out proper atonal surveillance in Panama.
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They tend to work in stark monochromes, painting the world in claustrophobic grays and blacks, clouding any hope in atonal scraping and distortion.
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Here, Krlic employs the human voice and traditional Nordic instruments to craft slow-moving pieces that dive between lilting melody and atonal mayhem.
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Foccroulle's music, couched in a limber atonal idiom, suggested those eerie moments in dreams when one becomes half aware that one is dreaming.
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The melodic lines are jagged and disjunct, the language is proudly atonal, and the textures can take canonic counterpoint to a fetishistic extreme.
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There's bits that sound like shoegaze, passages that play like misty new age records, and prickly, atonal passages that are straight up noise.
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The flute, for example, was her childhood instrument, but she rebelled against classical composers and learned contemporary, atonal work — the furrier-sounding stuff.
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The sound Rainer Maria produced on their early works is the definition of art house emo—discordant, atonal at times, and cunningly mawkish.
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The structure of the songs come from various attempts at reconciling the relationships between emotion, melody, and percussive, atonal effects, both historically and personally.
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Cinematographer Laurie Rose bathes the movie in shadows and fog, and Christopher Young concocts as jarring score full of atonal sounds and ominous chanting.
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Wherever Andy skulks, tension-raising, warbling leads follow; during the starkly staged kill scenes, synths whirr themselves up into a buzzing, deafening atonal frenzy.
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"Delta," released this morning, is every bit as frenetic: synthetic snares, rustling electronic hi-hats, borderline-atonal blasts in the middle of the mix.
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Yet the abrasive textures that made listening to Wolf Eyes at times a visceral experience are sublimated into subtly atonal sweeps stippled with sharp edges.
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One is an excellent explanation of the difference between tonal music, based on scales and keys, and the atonal sort, which dispenses with such conventions.
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Holmer sometimes goes overboard with a groaning, atonal score, which feels like a garish shout for attention by contrast with all the low-key naturalism.
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But much of Mr. Bilodeau's music utilizes a 51-member chorus and replaces weeping guitars with more modern, atonal chords from a 64-piece orchestra.
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The album's sweeping, sneakily anticlimactic arc suggests a grand joke about symphonic structure, receding back into atonal shimmer right when you expect tragic, triumphant closure.
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In short, it does sound pretty metal—if the kind of metal you fancy falls more into the "horrible atonal noise" camp than, say, Iron Maiden.
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These recordings, with an atonal, droning, and industrial template, much in the spirit of Lynch's most experimental films, are now being made available as an album.
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Grating, borderline atonal synthesizers laser-pitched kick drum rattling your skull is a fitting reminder that everything is, and very well could continue to be, bad.
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That duality was present in his Atonal performance as well; one minute he was professing love, and the next he was describing cum on his face.
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Written by a young vanguardist who had already garnered a reputation for lashing out against the musical establishment, the work is dense, harsh and relentlessly atonal.
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The winner was "an ultramodern atonal work," according to the Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement, that was submitted by a Polish composer named Michael Spisak.
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Different instruments echo and add friction to each other, and then midway through the performance, the written piece ends and a squall of atonal playing erupts.
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His style elaborated the theories of his colleague Milton Babbitt; it also combined the rhythmic vitality of Igor Stravinsky with the atonal vocabulary of Arnold Schoenberg.
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But after the invitation, "I'd like to turn you on," the Beatles have inserted an extraordinary atonal thrust which is shocking, even painful, to the ears.
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Atonal music grinds while unsmiling waiters wearing dark-colored sacks deliver preposterous dishes, giving no hint that they understand the absurdity of the setting and situation.
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You hear echoes of diverse styles — hazy spectral music, Steve Reich-like rhythmic repetitions, bursts of grungy rock, pointillist atonal riffs — in Mr. Dessner's musical language.
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The whole thing made me smile, but it was his high-pitched, Bob Wills-ian "Aha" during the atonal banjo solo that made me crack up.
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Carrie Brownstein's guitar bristles up on Corin Tucker's tremoring yelp through the verses and then falls back into an atonal horror-circus in the pre-chorus.
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ACROSS the cobbles of Vienna's Michaelerplatz the world of empires, waltzes and mutton-chop whiskers glowers at the modern age of psychoanalysis, atonal music and clean shaves.
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The most noteworthy technical aspect in a film bursting with noteworthy technical aspects is the atonal synthesizer soundtrack that ploddingly propels the action from scene to scene.
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Atonal music was pioneered by Arnold Schoenberg, an Austrian composer who in the early 1900s looked to move away from traditional music that relied on conventional harmonies.
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His music is diverse — tender and spare, cacophonous and atonal — and he seems to have followed his intuition to let every piece simply be what it must.
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On their new LP, Lyruljóra, the youngsters have doubled down on their atonal, experimental tendencies, and embraced the elements that make them truly unique at home and abroad.
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But for all Mr. Wuorinen's skill and the risks he takes challenging audiences with unabashedly atonal, fiercely complex music, the score often seems relentlessly busy and ineffectively intricate.
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The Nazis perceived the Bauhaus to be, along with atonal music and Expressionist painting, yet another specimen of the globe-spanning Jewish Bolshevik conspiracy they sought to eliminate.
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Mr. Edberg vividly captured the stark, wailing character of the opening section and the moments of wry humor later on in the piece, which blends tonal and atonal elements.
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Turn it off and stand it on its end and you can imagine astronauts encountering it on the moon as an atonal choir chants them to their impending doom.
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The result veers between cheesy, by-numbers, synth-led psychedelic rock, and electronic atonal noise, punctuated by drippings of sitar and a sort of King Arthur-esque medieval narrative.
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That album lead to key gigs at Berghain and Berlin Atonal Festival, compelling Meier to take the next obvious step and relocate to the German Capital the next year.
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In the years that followed, radical artistic thinking and obscure spiritual strivings intersected in everything from Kandinsky's abstractions to Eliot's "The Waste Land" and the atonal music of Schoenberg.
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Satie's score, written more than fifteen years in advance of Schoenberg's first atonal works, subsequently reverts to a more conventional language, but the fabric of harmony has been rent.
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It's from here whence the bastard genre's progenitors—Amebix, Antiect, Anti Cimex, Mob 47, Hellbastard—first came, kicking, screaming, and spitting out their visions of war atop atonal kängpunk riffs.
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Live performances of her ongoing "Tree Talk" project, with the dark and atonal sounds of the birch trees, will take place in Hirschl & Adler's booth at 2 and 6 p.m.
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Yet Henze's score, written when European contemporary music was dominated by complex atonal styles, stands out for the skillful way he melds modernist elements with vestiges of Mahler and Strauss.
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In recent books, McEwan has sometimes been too showy with his research, and "Machines" is one of those sometimes: His explication of the world's revised timeline is disruptive and atonal.
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"Barry's Kidnapping," one of the soundtrack's many atonal passages, escalates like a Shepard tone and horrifies with piercing strings reminiscent of Penderecki's "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima," from 1960.
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I know I did, since her writing suggested a casual daily sensuality I hoped might be the antidote to the atonal dullness of the prim Connecticut suburb where I lived.
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" It couldn't penetrate us and we would do these things that had slightly messed up rhythms and these atonal, tri-tone little melodies, and both of us would unknowingly go, "Yeah!
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It came at a time when audiences had tired of atonal experimentalism, and Mr Isserlis's glowingly melodious account of Tavener's meditation on Greek Orthodox themes chimed happily with the popular mood.
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With its swirling organ, boogaloo fugues and aggressively atonal guitar bursts, this extended improvisation suggests a musical showdown between the jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock and the avant-garde German group Can.
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It had dodecaphonic (or atonal) elements but was not rigidly conceived in that language, the one preferred by Pierre Boulez and other titans of the post-World War II avant-garde.
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And though he writes in an unabashedly atonal idiom, Mr. Wuorinen often structures his music in such a way that particular notes are frequently reiterated, providing the ear with subtle guideposts.
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Playing some of the really tricky stuff, the really spiky, weird, atonal shit night after night in a club, you become aware that it's not necessarily reaching the back of the room.
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Outside the chirping – endless, atonal, and urgent – continued as the spring sun dried the dew from an insipid little nest in our storm drain and clear skies pushed the rain far away.
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In his pieces for solo piano and chamber ensemble, this means an ongoing wrestle with the question overarching all contemporary classical music: how to deal with the division between tonal and atonal?
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His drives to the rim are a series of straight lines ending in emphatic dunks, just as the best Slayer songs are a torrent of riffs that climax in borderline atonal soloing.
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In To End It All, von Spain's vocal chords partner with unsettling metallic soundscapes hammered out by longtime collaborator and noise artist Masaaki Masao, and take a back seat to the atonal harshness.
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The intertwined sensations associated with those environments—the roiling of crowds, collective ecstasy, blood, sweat, the beating of drums—fuel Irrelevant, an assemblage of tortured club tracks, snipped newsreel samples, and atonal static.
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While Mr. Harnoncourt blasted atonal and serialist composers (like Mr. Boulez) for music that "satisfied neither the musician nor the public," he, like Mr. Boulez, saw a vacuum that needed to be filled.
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" Instead of working in the atonal vein he had used for small chamber pieces, he said, he "threw in a lot of rhythmic stuff, chanting, percussion, wind instruments in your face and aggressive.
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On the album's first single, "Bullets in the Street and Blood," ChesnuTT builds on the haunted atmosphere of last year's album-less "Experiment Number One," an instantaneous-sounding protest song with atonal elements.
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They also paired Webern's Three Little Pieces, Op. 11 (1914), examples of his radically compressed atonal style, with the Two Pieces (1899) from the composer's student days, music beholden to Wagner and late Liszt.
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Who would think to blend a Carrollian poem about crustaceans with atonal caterwauling, piercing Farfisa organ stabs, vintage Jersey Shore suntan lotion slogans, and a seriously raunchy riff played on a four-stringed guitar?
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While on this vocal bender, I also tried out the book's suggestion of holding an "aaaaa" like I was opening up for the dentist and continuously modifying the pitch to produce an atonal song.
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That high-up hum that holds a pretty, meditative, slow melody can be overridden in an instant if Basinski flicks his right hand on the desk and draws the atonal feedback into the mix.
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The viewer is then led to explore the artistic relationship between Richard Gerstl and composer Arnold Schönberg, who spearheaded atonal music and became acquainted with Gerstl because Schönberg wanted to improve as a painter.
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In an intriguing experiment, the quartet then alternated performances of five early Schubert minuets with six radically compact, essentially atonal bagatelles by Anton Webern (a devoted student of Schoenberg's), composed between 1911 and 1913.
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This meant, for instance, the classical strains of Beethoven or the folk-inspired music of Hungarian composer Béla Bártok, rather than the syncopated, jazzy compositions of Maurice Ravel or the atonal modernism of Arnold Schoenberg.
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In this 1970 piece, set to the insistent rhythms and atonal lyricism of Alberto Ginastera's Piano Sonata No. 1, the dancers move with a deeply rooted, grounded quality that feels very much of its time.
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CARAMANICA "Liberty City" was on the 1983 debut album by Mark Stewart and Maffia, a post-punk band that topped funk and dub-reggae vamps with atonal spoke-sung vocals, noise and free-jazz horns.
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ZACHARY WOOLFE Finally, the overlap in the Venn diagram of Arnold Schoenberg and bluegrass music is getting a bit larger, thanks to "(Gimme Some of That) Ol' Atonal Music," by the country prankster Merle Hazard.
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"Anthrocene," which features a bed of atonal noise and skittering drums under Cave's vocals, is the outlier of the eight songs; most of them barely contain percussion and are padded out by lush synthesizers and strings.
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The moment when the melodic elements start to break through the cracks of an otherwise atonal wall of sound around, though are absolutely gorgeous and totally worth the risk (easy to say from my desk chair).
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His extended vocal passages stress that he is fighting, rather than embracing, the demons of the Overlook Hotel—Mr Moravic's score uses an effective mix of atonal shrieks and haunting echoes of big-band 1920s music.
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And yet it isn't an anxious record—even when he's drawing on atonal electronics, there's something blissful about it all, the way you might feel if you threw all your clocks from your second story window.
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This week, that exploratory spirit continues with the next chapter in a two-season run of the complete works of Anton Webern, the revolutionary composer who imbued his mentor Arnold Schoenberg's atonal language with crystalline concision.
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No matter, as I agree with you that "soothing" is not the appropriate adjective to describe the Seventh — unless you compare it to the new, atonal, discordant compositions that often begin many of the Philharmonic performances.
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In the middle of the 27-track, 100-minute project—right after the atonal boom-bap funk of "Free Life"—is "Young Niggaz," a spaced-out club track built on squelchy synths and a straightforward Based God delivery.
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There are odd pauses, atonal noises, and the hosts have a question-and-answer patter going that invariably results in a not-quite-credible exclamation, providing clear signposts for the listener to heed a particular moment of revelation.
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The first sound in 2014's Heaven Knows What, a harrowingly brutal yet swooningly romantic biography of star Arielle Holmes' life as a homeless heroin addict, is the almost atonal burbling of synths, accompanying a passionate tarmac makeout.
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It was recorded before the election, and Young, Olson, and guitarist Jim Baljo engage in a disorienting sort of symbology—its hard to pick out the particular targets of a atonal synth squeal, or a cacophony of layered voices.
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When I met Tillmans at Kraftwerk, the venue for Atonal and a gargantuan Berlin techno club in a disused power station full of grimy concrete pillars, his stature—and his being the perfect embodiment of German politeness—struck me.
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Musically, they tread well outside the lines of Toronto's seemingly well carved musical tastes: they play frenetic and quick semi-atonal vocals over fast moving and wide ranging guitar playing that is ultimately punk tempo with a glittery ambition.
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In between the Rzewski pieces, Mr. Tao played Copland's 1941 Piano Sonata, which I've never thought of as expressing American rage — especially the fleet second movement, which darts around like some blend of American swing and atonal pointillist writing.
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In its shadow, children play with stick puppets representing Sita and Rama, iconic lovers of Hindu myth, as the call to prayer issues from a half-dozen loudspeakers, each one slightly mistimed to the others to create an atonal, ambient drone.
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Mr Glass added organs at this crucial moment "to create a lot of sound" in a swirling, atonal cacophony that ends when a wall of windows on the edge of the stage is blasted open by a great gust of debris.
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Friday's program was the finale to "Revolutionaries," a two-and-a-half-month celebration that linked Ginastera, who boldly combined South American musical idioms with atonal 20th-century techniques, to late Beethoven, suggesting that in their own ways both were revolutionary.
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Patients would beckon her into their cubicles, listening fixedly as she sifted through her vast repertoire of classical and contemporary songs, of lullabies and Latin pop, her tranquil notes threading through the atonal squawks and beeps of a raucous emergency department.
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Stewart takes no risks with his material beyond lingering, with an exquisite ear, upon the language of the wilderness in winter, as bracing as the atonal song of wind whistling through the bare boughs that scrape soundlessly against the sky.
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Especially as the season progresses, and things start to get weirder, we would try to do a more straightforward music, in our style, but it just didn't have the same impact that a really bizarre, atonal, rhythmic thing would have.
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That's been the principle of several decades of a certain strand of musicians armed with oscillators, mixers, and other more improvised instruments—that harsh static and atonal cacophony can do wonders for clearing out your emotional gunk, like sonic ipecac.
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The dissonance of horror-movie samples are part of the genre's vocabulary, with the tradition carried out today by not only 21 Savage but also by the eerie, atonal keys that regularly back the punkish outbursts of Smokepurpp and company.
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Rebecca Black, who rose to infamy as an awkward teenager in 2011, when a low-budget music video for her puzzling and atonal single, "Friday" went viral, has re-emerged on Cameo, where she seems to have found her calling.
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For his New Year's speech, Mr. Kim, the leader of North Korea, traded his usual atonal, Mao-collared outfits for what looked like the sort of silver-gray suit and matching tie that come straight from the elder statesmen costume department.
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Unlike many bands from their same graduating class, Rainer Maria managed to survive well into emo's mainstream era, though their sound gradually veered away from the dark and sometimes atonal emo they helped shape, and headed more into straightforward indie rock.
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Autechre didn't care that their music sounded atonal, like "jammed electronic machines," because the technical rigor of the songwriting itself was at the same—if not a greater—level as the cyclical loop in hit new wave or pop songs.
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But "Frequent Dreamlands," the record's single, illustrates just about everything that the record does well in microcosm, as jittery rhythmic contortions and screechy atonal electronics underpin Farman's possessed murmurs, before breaking out into a cold-sweat of an acid riff.
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The work, about 24 minutes long, displays many hallmarks of his style: compositional techniques encompassing both the tonal and the atonal; a sonic intensity heightened, in particular, by the exuberant use of woodwinds and brass; and an abiding concern with instrumental texture.
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Similarly, Lacoste, which for the 2016 Summer Games added a fancy curly rooster (the French Olympic symbol) to their tops, seems to have pared down even further for Pyeongchang, and gone for aerodynamic atonal looks, including white on white for the podium.
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It might be a lot better than that, but you can always count on a large quotient of rage and consequent distortion and lacerating atonal shrieks you can almost see graphically represented above the stage as cartoon notes with a shudder running through them.
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But the ideas and art brought forth during the fecund period of Viennese history from the late 1880s to the 19473s endured—from Loos's modernist architecture to Gustav Klimt's symbolist canvasses, from Schoenberg's atonal music and Mahler's Sturm und Drang to Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy.
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Yeah, there's a lot of spidery connective tissue between their droning, atonal dirges and some of Dark Buddha Rising's spacier material, but Atomikylä ultimately carves out its own niche within Finland's small but increasingly deadly dark psychedelic scene (don't worry, Abyssion—we love you, too).
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Onstage and on records like 2012's full-length debut Iron Balls of Steel, Loincloth's neck-snapping rhythms stutter, pause, and double back upon themselves as they seamlessly lock into chugging, atonal riffs while dissonant counterpoints hover above the music like incandescent clouds of noxious gas.
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Under the banner of rock's most appropriately malleable name they've made stoned desert jams, queasily atonal noise indebted to the New York tradition known only as pigfuck, dazed love songs, expansive studio rat rock music, and at least one record inspired by Bob Dylan's least loved era.
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First heard on the English online station NTS and released this week on CDs and vinyl, the music of "NTS Sessions" is largely atonal and proudly artificial, with computerized sounds that materialize, recur and mutate, defining patterns then melting them down, exploring both propulsion and meditation.
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Somber piano chords echo against wide gulfs of negative space, and whirring undercurrents of atonal noise that capture the mounting realization that a creation as innocuous as Facebook was morphing into something far beyond anyone's conception or control, linking millions while exacerbating their isolation from one another.
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The tonal-atonal split in classical music, embedded in Cold War cultural politics, no longer seemed urgent, and the values that shone from such mid-century scores as "Appalachian Spring," the Clarinet Concerto, and "Fanfare for the Common Man"—clarity, optimism, and impregnable craftsmanship—were hugely attractive.
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The musical language he developed soon afterward represented a scientific progression of Schoenberg's approach: Whereas Schoenberg had constructed a system for writing atonal music by reordering the 12 pitches of the Western scale, Babbitt did the same for — or "serialized" — other musical components, including duration, dynamics and timbre.
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His latest, part of the uniformly great new batch of tapes from the New York label Quiet Time, is full of the lush electronics he favors, overlapping dewy synth pads with more formless atonal moments, whirling between those modes and other more complicated ones with a surprising energy.
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In another, the contrarianism on Load traces back to the songs on 1983's Kill 'Em All: the fast, atonal thrash on that debut was abrasive music for abrasive people, helping their ratty, head-banging former selves carve out a niche apart from the burgeoning hair metal scene.
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Between the narrated fables of Filipino painter Brenda Fajardo that chronicle the life of women foreign workers, and the simple but stunning personal topographies by Park McArthur, how do we discern from this large ensemble, conceived as a kind of atonal symphony, a relationship to either orthodoxy or Jewishness?
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Critic's Notebook PHILADELPHIA — From Thursday through Sunday, audiences at FringeArts in this city's historic district heard a saxophone distorted through six effects pedals squealing at peak volume, surrealist absurdism from a heritage jazz ensemble, atonal electric harp, and solo flute played in vehement gusts over a track of looming electronics.
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Most notable is their partiality for disgusting sludgy dirges and atonal, textured quality of the guitar work, which is rendered unexpectedly clean on their latest release thanks to the efforts of Bone Sickness' Rusty Graeff (who recorded the songs), Brad Boatright at Audiosiege (who handled mastering), and the band itself, who oversaw production and mixing.
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On "The Hands," the brainy drums and guitars were met with a new articulation by Kinsella, in which the predominant screaming of his past converges with a sort of atonal singing that would drive many people up the wall, although similar vocal approaches were taken by singers like Cursive's Tim Kasher or Conor Oberst on early Bright Eyes and Commander Venus records.
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If it weren't for Foxy Brown losing her hearing in the second half of 2005, Pusha T and Malice (as he was then known), brothers from Virginia who had inadvertently sparked a minor culture war among hip-hop fans, wouldn't have gotten their hands on the beat for "Wamp Wamp (What It Do)," an atonal, dystopian missive for alligator skin and Italian leather.
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Whitman melded the Old Testament, Shakespeare, the raucous opera of his day, Romantic poetry, vernacular speech, and Emersonian transcendentalism, among others, into a unique and unprecedented poetic style; Phish melds classic rock, atmospheric prog rock, free jazz, atonal excursions, space jams, blues, country, bluegrass, Tin Pan Alley, barbershop quartet, reggae, and no doubt many other influences into their absolutely unique musical style.
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Letterism took as inspiration the phonetic sound poems of Tzara, Raoul Hausmann, and Kurt Schwitters, whose nihilistic goal was to trigger the collapse of national communication, as it was precisely what led to World War I. Unlike the Dadaists, however, Letterists focused on blocks of rhythmically organized letters, abstract symbols, and sounds; for Isou, Letterist poems were akin to atonal, rhythmic musical compositions.
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The tree motif is most prominent in Diederichsen's picks — a video by Jackson Mac Low (Tree* Movie, 1961/20053/2009); black-and-white photos of barren trees rotated upside-down by Rodney Graham; and a video by Harun Farocki (Parallel I, 2012) — as well as a collaboration between Oehlen and Wertmüller, which pairs a five-minute atonal composition with flickering lights projected onto a potted tree against a translucent screen.
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He has become known for politically attuned, conceptual multimedia pieces like "Skybox I," in which three LED panels displaying historical texts on oppression, colonialism and class gradually transform into what look like stars in deep space, and "Manifesto 2," an installation that blends atonal music with four revolutionary manifestoes, including ones by Olympe de Gouges and Malcolm X. He has also taught at the influential California Institute of the Arts since 1989.
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If her brother, whom she'd taught to play the piano, spending day after day, hour after hour patiently perfecting arpeggios and atonal music and the concept of particular keys, if the brother she walked to school in the early morning air and did homework with at night, the brother she kept company when he said he was afraid that the dark bedroom might "get him," that it might physically swallow him up like a black hole swallowing a star—because she'd taught him about that, too—if the brother who left her a yellow sticky note saying, "You R my favrite Sistter," knowing it was funny because he only had one, if he, the brother whose sister listened to him talk himself tearless when his first girlfriend, Jillian Jenkins, broke up with him the night before the prom, if he, who unquestionably, undoubtedly loved her, his sister, if he could harbor the word robot and deploy it as a slur, if he of all people could do it, she must have known then what the rest of us in the cities failed to see.
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