If the robot senses the drummer moving towards the high-hat cymbal, it shifts to the ride cymbal.
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When the drummer moves to play the high hat cymbal, for example, the robotic arm maneuvers to play the ride cymbal.
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A line of Gen16 products attempts to create an electronic cymbal that looks and feels like a real cymbal instead of a drum pad.
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When the drummer moves to play the high hat cymbal, it goes to the ride cymbal, and when the drummer switches to the snare, the robotic arm plays the tom.
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Cymbal wasn't the first service dedicated to social music discovery.
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Cymbal is a music social network for iOS and Android devices.
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Cymbal sounds have been going vintage for the last several years.
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And then: a kick drum, a bass line and some cymbal.
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Tossing a guard against a wall results in a satisfying cymbal crash.
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We were on our second song and I fell into the cymbal.
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Lhakarpo begins to beat the finger cymbal gently as if giving up.
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What does it take to become a master cymbal maker and tester?
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Can you reproduce different kinds of percussion instruments: snare drum, cymbal or conga?
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They mouth the sound of a crash cymbal being hit and then dissipating.
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Ashley: Cymbal was streaming service agnostic, so why do you think it didn't work?
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We were opening Cymbal up that morning and started to scroll through my feed.
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He often flicked a hand out, midstir, to damp the ringing of a cymbal.
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Without interrupting the hypnosis, percussive effects provide variety: cymbal crashes, metallic pops, synthesized thwacks.
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Crash Cymbal Wow some genius had the brilliant idea to smash two instruments together, congrats. 3.
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The technology behind Cymbal is, we wrote an algorithm that matched together all of those libraries.
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As ever, it twists Frank's high string arrangements into country slides and lilting cymbal-splash breaths.
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After unleashing that nimble flurry of riffs and cymbal hits, "Notres Langues Nous Trompes" hit the brakes.
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The song never settles down, fidgeting between crash-cymbal exclamations and muted, tightly-wound, eight-beat riffs.
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We're here with Charlie Kaplan, CEO of Cymbal, which is a social music app, the Instagram of music.
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After the electricity cuts out, drummer Mahmoud Qasim taps his cymbal while the band wonders what to do.
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Bit NSFW, obvs: Please show me something funnier than someone playing a drum cymbal with a rabbit vibrator.
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His left hand, in particular, seems to comment on the music, like a cymbal in a drum set.
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Some cross over into jazz and other forms, as Ryutaro Kaneko, their former hand-cymbal virtuoso, has done.
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Throughout, Peart embellishes with snare flurries and splash cymbal accents, ending with a precise tumble through his toms.
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The odd bowed cymbal or greedily gurgling contrabass clarinet prevented things from getting too fun in jazzed-up numbers.
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It centers on McCraven's heavy cymbal playing, a signature; a subtle but stubborn harmonic pattern; and Garcia's distant saxophone.
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You had a guy who played a drum and a cymbal, and he played it like a windup monkey.
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As Cymbal learned, it's difficult to get people to enroll in yet another social network without a clear, unique benefit.
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Over and over, like a monkey with a miniature cymbal, Teixeira will try to clap this across his opponent's punches.
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PTB: Phibes is really good songwriter and never tells me what to do except for requesting a certain cymbal sound.
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"With the 'Blurred Lines' case, you have high hat cymbal sounds, crowd noise, falsettos," he said in a phone interview.
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Sputtering tom rolls, blobby techno synths, and crystalline cymbal taps blossom and spill out of the theater's massive surround-sound system.
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There are metallic moments coursing underneath, anchoring the flights of harmony with rumbling bass and the two drummers' purposeful cymbal hits.
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"Only Once Away My Son," an instrumental, has a deceptive opening, with an urgent drum-and-cymbal beat that soon evaporates.
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He improvises on a track playing in the background by running a violin bow across a hi-hat cymbal to unnerving effect.
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I also think one of the coolest things is, again, that example of opening up Cymbal and seeing everybody listening to Kendrick.
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He'd do a drum take and before the cymbal would stop ringing, I'd see him on his phone, calling or texting Harrison.
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In the sprawling concert venue that is our universe, black holes often collide to produce cosmic cymbal crashes known as gravitational waves.
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It demanded the player's attention with a cymbal crash, and as a result its constraints and redundancies were all the more glaring.
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He was a genius, for sure, but in his first gig, the drummer got ticked off and threw a cymbal at him.
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Ms. Carrington's unceasing lift on the ride cymbal can be seen as a constant homage to Allen, whose playing was effortlessly propulsive.
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The lights were dimming, the overture was starting — the choked crash cymbal, the kick drum, the keyboard imitating electric piano and glockenspiel.
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As a drummer, he likes to drape a mellow, swerving cymbal beat over everything, letting you feel the looseness of his gesture.
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The drummer, Tommy Lee, knocks over a cymbal before anyone plays a note; the crowd's heckling turns into a full-on brawl.
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Its on-board motors ensures that the stick is always parallel to the playing surface, allowing solid contact with the drum or cymbal.
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Vocations Paul Francis, 48, is a master cymbal maker and tester and director of research and development at Avedis Zildjian in Norwell, Mass.
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A low-volume practice cymbal that looks like mesh is selling well among drummers in Asia who live in apartments with thin walls.
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This gear even turns them into musical instruments: in one scene, a viola and a violin; in another, a cymbal and a triangle.
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Pfahler, though, truly pulled off the impossible, finding ways to turn drum fills and cymbal crashes into moments as memorable as Schwarzenbach's guitar riffs.
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In 1991, working as a lathe operator, I apprenticed under Leon Chiappini, Zildjian's head cymbal tester, who has been with the company since 1961.
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All the while, the roof was slowly smouldering from every cymbal-thwack (covered in rubbing alcohol) that sent more flames shooting across the room.
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The bebop drummer Kenny Clarke led the pack by keeping a flexible, furiously paced, highly individualistic beat, probably on 17-inch Zildjian bounce cymbal.
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A piercing tingsha cymbal sounds as LHAKARPO, a beautiful gentle goddess in a white gown, carrying finger cymbals, walks in front of the dead person.
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His experimentation producing novel cymbal types — swish and sizzle, bounce and crash — would inspire a new generation of musicians to utilize a broader sonic palette.
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When Parker lost track of the chords during a solo, Jo Jones (drummer for Count Basie) threw a cymbal at him and kicked him out.
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The walls are lined with posters of past Onyx Collective shows, and a drum kit with an intimidating cymbal stack is tucked into one corner.
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For a set of closed headphones, Technics' T700s also have an impressively wide sound stage, and I can pinpoint the precise position of every cymbal splash.
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When we played here yesterday, we had a substitute guitarist, and our drummer had to manage those strikes on the right cymbal to keep the timing.
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It's a stuttering collage of organ snippets and cymbal hits, the sounds of the genre ripped from their skeleton to present something wonderfully formless and misshapen.
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Its production is visceral: the opening piano chords that summon pop spirits, the wah-wah guitars, the cymbal crashes, and the use of background vocals are all distinctive.
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A cymbal-crash of a climax is waiting in the wings, but the effect is that of a clanging school bell at the end of a drifting lecture.
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By the end of my first year, I was finish-lathing the top side of the cymbal, which is one of the most skilled jobs in the factory.
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Based on watching him at work, Mr. Sakamoto is more liable to approach a cymbal with a bow or a coffee mug than he is with a drumstick.
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As they were answered by a restrained cymbal crash, Ms. Jansen glanced upward, then swept her gaze along the ceiling, as if following the sound's trail of resonance.
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Should a drummer offer a sturdy baseline underneath him, or would it be wiser to match the leader's protean improvising with a dance of cymbal flutters and toms?
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They're an uncommonly good match: Her playing is dense and richly stacked; his is fluid, letting the gentle persuasion of his ride cymbal lace the music with momentum.
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The first high hat cymbal beat, then the drop of the piano of Dolly Parton's "260 to 5" — Tsss, dun dun dun dun— gets me shakin' it toward productivity.
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As you move your cursor around, each triangle makes a little drum sound—a snare tap here, and cymbal ring there—to add to the feeling of a rummage.
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The head cymbal tester, Leon Chiappini, who has worked at the factory for 57 years, listens to each one multiple times with a standard in mind and pairs them.
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On the group's 2014 album, Mr. Rainey turns in gliding cymbal work as the trumpeter Ralph Alessi and the saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock engage in constant, divisive and shrewd interplay.
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The pair executed a special reenactment of that performance in the gallery, and then Radetzki walked around with a red banner and cymbal, briefly placing them on select locations.
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When the music-focused social network Cymbal launched in 2015, the service promised to be a hub for music junkies to share their favorite artists and flaunt their great taste.
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Bassist Nic Bullen shouts like a sadistic drill sergeant over Broadrick's chaotic riffs, and Mick Harris intermixes raw blasts with dexterous cymbal chokes, two flourishes that still define grind drumming.
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During a photo shoot for the show, "I was in the ocean, up to my neck, wielding the cymbal and seeing how it sticks in the sand," Mr. Davis said.
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His partner, Neeraj Gupta, founded and ran Cymbal Corporation to exit before joining the executive team at the acquiring Patni, aka IGATE Corporation, an enterprise services company now run under Capgemini.
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Then Ms. Kasper wired up the cymbals with motion sensors and fingernail-sized electronic motors that would set each cymbal to vibrating as visitors to the exhibit, called "Star Formation," walked by.
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Instead of his usual grand poetic narratives, the songs on side one feel like short, nihilistic vignettes, full of sharp repetitive guitar riffs, robotic bleeps, abrasive cymbal bangs, and simple keyboard playing.
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Pederson's drums were buried deep in the mix, his fills loose and wiley, and his smacks on a china cymbal sounding like he was punching his fist straight into a trash can.
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Even as the pastor preached, the organ would honk, or a cymbal would crash, or someone in the congregation would open her mouth and let fly a stream of Spirit-given tongues.
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Almost, but not quite: When he administered a subtle accent on one note of a pattern, or added a tap of a cymbal or snare drum, it became a startling, significant event.
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"Even though we built this fabulous community and a product people loved, what we didn't quite figure out was one essential action that you had to do here," says Cymbal CEO Charlie Kaplan.
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Then we talk to Charlie Kaplan, the CEO of Cymbal, a social music app, about why his company is shutting down and why it's so hard to make a sticky social music experience.
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Ghenacia is a frequent cohort of Chandler's who delivers a smooth and steady version that skips along on a shimmering ride cymbal as synth pads slowly stretch and release over fluid percussion patterns.
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It's a world that ends, in his telling, with both a bang and a whimper: apocalyptic brass chords alternating with a hushed stillness, off which rises a mist of cimbalom and suspended cymbal.
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" And with hovering piano chords and hissing cymbal, "Down With the Clique" hints at the anticipation of Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage" as Solange reminisces, "We were rollin' up the street/Chasing the divine.
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While the service was able to gain some traction among devout music nerds, its user base wasn't enough to keep the service afloat, and Cymbal recently announced it would be shutting down this June.
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These do a good job of keeping my cymbal splashes and most everything else I'm doing to a minimum, allowing me to keep up with the music without cranking up the volume too high.
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" But the most emotional moment of all is the 15 seconds of wordless, keyboard-brushed cymbal ticks that transition out of Whack's final line: "I know that I am worth mo-o-o-ore.
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The big surprise comes in the last seven minutes of the nearly 50-minute work: slow, powerful and direct, growing without a steady pulse until it crests with ensemble-wide chords and cymbal crashes.
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In a concert featuring new pieces, a small ensemble of instruments including harp, orchestral chimes, keyboard and cymbal shared momentary clusters of notes or fleeting motifs, like bits of crystal briefly catching the light.
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The production applies the reverential tone and cavernous reverberations of Sigur Ros — tolling piano notes, slow cymbal crescendos, shivery string tremolos — while Jónsi's high voice hovers, in wordless oohs and ahs, like a distant benediction.
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Here, sometimes, the Douglases host a sound bath, which uses an assortment of instruments — in this case, a very large gong from the cymbal manufacturer Zildjian — to calm the nervous system, or so adherents believe.
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Ms. Tanakadate, who is slight of build and said to be a pianist, not only threw herself physically into vigorous taiko drumming with clublike sticks, but also sang and played trombone, bamboo flute and cymbal.
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Impressionistic daubs of sound—a soft strike on the center of a cymbal, a tap on the edge of a drum, a scrape of a stick across a drumhead—conjure a sense of limitless space.
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Look at 1:04 for example, when Barhite taps out Fox McCloud's laser hits on the cymbal, or at 1:32 when he matches Princess Peach's killer turnip blow with a knock on the wooden block.
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"Zora" moves with cautious energy, as a dusty, delayed piano loop stutters over breezy, cymbal-heavy drums; she keeps adding fuzzy electronic whooshes with each chorus, so the song ends in a whirl of frizz and flicker.
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Her fantasy was that a musician would walk through "Star Formation," recognize some well-worn cymbal that he or she once owned, pull her aside and tell her a great back story about the night it got cracked.
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Finally, the metal-jazz guitarist Ava Mendoza closed the night with her trio, Unnatural Ways, playing loose and charging originals that started with a drone of guitar effects and gently draped cymbal sounds, then lurched into slashing power chords.
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"My father always said that the name is bigger than any one person in the family," said Craigie Zildjian, the company's chief executive officer (the first woman to have the job), a member of the family's 14th generation of cymbal makers.
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The earbuds also do a good job of handling high-frequency sound, too: I heard cymbal hits and high hat taps I had never noticed in the punk rock of PUP, and that music is usually muddy as hell on Bluetooth earbuds.
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The famously collaborative group have fostered a multitude of side projects––from Al Doyle playing with LCD Soundsystem to Joe Goddard and Raf Rundell's The 2 Bears––but like a monkey with a miniature cymbal, they always end up where they started.
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Peace out The last bit of rhetorical flourish of commencement is to go out on a cheer line, like the cymbal crash of a symphony so the audience knows when to clap and, in this case, toss their caps into the air.
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According to Jon Cohan's book "Zildjian: A History of the Legendary Cymbal Makers," drum shops and catalogs in the 1920s were likely to carry only so-called Oriental cymbals, American ones made of brass and nickel silver, and the weighty K's from Constantinople.
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Sorey is capable of effects of elemental power: for example, tattooing on a drum with one hand while agitating a cymbal with the other, a mallet clutched in his teeth so that, in the next moment, he can bash a gong behind him.
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He released more than a dozen albums in his lifetime, some on major labels, and often designed his own instruments, such as the trimba, an assemblage of triangular drums and a cymbal, and the Oo, a small harplike device made with piano string.
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"Barbarian," for example, is based on a tale gleaned from Robert E Howard's Conan books, and is a particularly intense workout, with layers of blackened sludge and submerged cymbal crashes courtesy of Mark Greening (one of the most chaotic and idiosyncratic drummers in metal history).
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A base beat of jazz drums accompanies each stage, growing in intensity as you progress to the next level (it can take as little as 20 or 30 seconds to do so), and every action adds a beat or cymbal crash to the mix.
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Dawn Kasper, in trying to create her version of that sound as a project for the Seattle Art Fair, said she thought it might be a little like the fading echoes of a great Seattle rock show, in the resonant hum of a crashing cymbal.
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Then the Artifacts Trio took the stage, taking a different approach: Nicole Mitchell's flute and Tomeka Reid's cello met with Mike Reed's cymbal-heavy drumming to make an aqueous sound that allowed itself to be warped and melted and spread about by the room.
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"Notres Langues Nous Trompes" which, when translated, means "our languages deceive us," opened with a cloud of feedback that slowly filled the speakers, making drummer Greg Drudy's four quick hits on his ride cymbal feel like a warning siren alerting the listener of a coming storm.
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"I have to work a lot on strengthening my hips and being able to be with everything in time," explained Mr. Mullen, who said he had also had to test out various prosthetics that conformed best with the foot pedal and high-hat cymbal of his drum kit.
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Ten years after Sony introduced the Walkman, Nintendo introduced the Game Boy; 10 years after that, Napster launched, transforming music from something physical into data, as Charlie Kaplan, the CEO of Cymbal, a now-dormant social platform for music to now something you don't own but pay to access, put it.
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He's cheerful in the face of the void, happy to swoop down upon the beat and chortle a few free-associative verses while ducking sonic detritus like the simulated electric violin on "Coolest Monkey in the Jungle" or the echoey cymbal effects on "Bukkake," disappearing before it all blows up in his face.
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Just ask the poor fellow in John Sloan's 1905 etching "Man Monkey," in the section on entertainers: Lugging an enormous drum-and-cymbal combination on his back as he attempts to dance while holding out a hat for money, he and the organ grinder accompanying him don't appear to be gaining much traction with — or donations from — nearby pedestrians.
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As he elaborates in this lengthy explainer he created, you have to not only work within the limitations of the hardware (making hi-hat cymbal sounds was impossible), you also have to find clever ways to expand what the hardware can do (using known auditory illusions to make some quiet sounds more apparent to a listener).
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I played a preview build of Ape Out, navigating my way through two "discs," which act as sorts of worlds and contain a handful of levels that increase in difficulty as a percussive jazz track pushes you forward through heavily guarded rooms, sporadic drum beats encouraging a fast pace of movement as satisfactory cymbal crashes punctuate every kill.
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Just before 260 o'clock on Friday afternoon, the bassist Frank Bello and the guitarist Scott Ian, both three-decade-plus veterans of the band Anthrax, arrived at the tiny Greenpoint, Brooklyn club Saint Vitus and took in the scene: Their tour crew was still working out how to fit a festival-size setup onto a stage barely big enough for Charlie Benante's nine-drum, 261-cymbal kit.
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Despite the title, there isn't much disco, future or otherwise, found on the comp (with the exception of good old Dimitri From Paris), and the James remix hews heavily into deep house territory with breezy high-hats hits and steady synth melodies, but manages to do more than just maintain the current musical climate with some dramatic cymbal drops that fall from way above the sea-level groove.
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She started toying around with borrowed a microphone, cymbal, and distortion pedal, attempting to make what she describes as "sheet metal noise" ("That didn't go so well," she says, dryly.) Soon after, while living with her dad in Far Rockaway—a Queens neighborhood at the far end of the A train now most famous as New York's surfer refuge—she began recording her debut EP as Pharmakon with a friend.
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It even had an adorable pet name, "the Clap," whose origins are a little unclear; it's either derived from an old French term ("clapier") for brothel—which just so happened to be where many people got gonorrhea—or from an archaic practice of treating gonorrhea by "clapping" both hands against the penis, like a cymbal crash, which forcefully expelled pus from the urethra and allegedly cured the infection.
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