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"dissonant" Definitions
  1. (music) (of sounds) not sounding pleasant together
  2. (formal) not in agreement

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MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina — It had become unbearably dissonant.
"Mzwandile" is my favorite track, equal parts hooky and dissonant.
It's dissonant, and it can make the body feel cold.
To Friedman, this normalcy is strange and dissonant and hypocritical.
The Tsimanes, meanwhile, rated consonant and dissonant music as equally pleasant.
The dissonant economic cues are pulling some employers in different directions.
Dissonant guitar wails and piercing electric organ only stoke her contempt.
His color combinations are passages of syncopated chaos, simultaneously harmonious and dissonant.
The sounds are all then smashed together into one terrifyingly dissonant noise.
Bhuvaneswar fully inhabits them, breathing life into their dissonant, beautiful, complete selves.
As I float closer toward the tree, the score becomes increasingly dissonant.
The record's dissonant, jarring explorations reflect the claustrophobic discomfort that produced them.
But it was a day of dissonant messaging from the White House.
Then the note continues, a little arrhythmically, occasionally interrupted by dissonant clusters.
The melodies—when there are any—are dissonant, occluded by static and grit.
The second side is comparatively chiller, but uses a strange, dissonant sample bed.
Eventually, Ross's distorted guitar erupts into dissonant sunbursts over the roughly galloping beat.
That's why it was so dissonant to have somebody like Thomas come in.
Ms. Halvorson, a guitarist, uses bent notes and small, dissonant harmonies to incite.
But Gerwig is the first to interweave the two dissonant life stages together.
Middle America is a dissonant space, pulled between the extremes of the coast.
The moments when they can produce images as starkly dissonant as this one.
Many brought lawn chairs, ready to make this cavernous room their very dissonant porch.
They asked study participants to rate the pleasantness of both consonant and dissonant chords.
The night before Major was born, the atmosphere in the house was emotionally dissonant.
Skittering synth arpeggios, moaning synth pads and looming, dissonant sub bass colour his beats.
And yet the chords aren't dissonant, and the relationship between them is hardly radical.
The guitars of Mr. Reed and Mr. Morrison were replaced by a dissonant soundscape.
Mexican Slang's dissonant clatter is still there on "Leisure Life," premiering on Noisey today.
The gushing article struck a dissonant note, though, with his message of personal austerity.
My music isn't across-the-board tonal, and it's not across-the-board dissonant.
Coupled with The Terror's dissonant piano score, the result is more pastiche than true horror.
The album is an imposing, dissonant mass of unorthodox death, heavily atmospheric and weirdly progressive.
Whether harshly rhythmic or dissonant, these are relatable in ways that programmed sequences often aren't.
Worth noting is that while the Tsimane's music may be dissonant, it is not disordered.
But the familiarity of a carol is now accompanied by a dissonant chord of vulnerability.
The musical language can be unabashedly brash and dissonant one moment, defiantly diatonic the next.
Its orchestration is dissonant but sparse, and its mood is not whimsical nostalgia but irony.
The film ends like a dissonant chord, which makes its message all the more powerful.
The music goes through fitful episodes, with percolating riffs, pummeling percussion and gratingly dissonant clusters.
But more dissonant, unruly material intrudes, and several times the piece dissolves into beatless anarchy.
Mr. Mengelberg's dissonant harmonies and unorthodox phrasing were reminiscent of Thelonious Monk, an acknowledged influence.
That lack of a guiding hand has contributed to the administration's dissonant signals toward Beijing.
Mr. Ruzicka's musical language is heterogeneous and fluid — by turns lyrical, dissonant, shrill and sparse.
Harmonic, rhythmic, and dissonant elements really pushed the limits of the music industry during that period.
From there, it's a cacophony of dissonant keys that transition right into Ableton's new Wavetable synth.
With longtime producer Dean Baltulonis involved, their atmospheric side is highlighted without dismissing their dissonant roots.
That can create better learning, particularly if you have to recall facts in a dissonant environment.
By moving, the kids can disrupt patterns of light, creating dissonant sounds that become a cacophony.
But Mr. Park's description is dissonant with my own experience as a child of such immigrants.
These dissonant "letter of the law" responses to good faith acts of democracy are wildly inequitable.
Each movement is a miniature essay, bringing to visceral musical life the ideas of dissonant counterpoint.
The band's second studio album, "The Switch" (out Friday on Matador), is sprawling, dissonant and hypnotic.
To be sure, "Licht" includes many spells of dissonant chaos, but its spirit is all-embracing.
When Cardona was arrested, he was nineteen, and his delicate-featured face retained a dissonant boyishness.
Mr. Martineau played sensitively, with special alertness to the dissonant elements that activate Schumann's harmonic language.
But those scenes are dreamy, too drawn out, and oddly dissonant with the rest of the film.
The truth would be dissonant to everything they believed to be true about the man they knew.
The Bisbee '217 score sounds ripped from a ghost movie, spiky and glassy and a little dissonant.
However, the researchers found that the Tsimane rated consonant and dissonant tones equally in terms of pleasantness.
Serving faith-based communities and raising venture capital, however, might seem like dissonant ideas for some people.
Tone, or a dissonant layering of tones, is what counts most in a tale of this kind.
Politics is ultimately about disagreement over substance, which is distinct from either dissonant identities or harmonious ones.
The janky, gritty sound effects are bizarre, and the theme song is reduced to four dissonant chords.
Carti himself contributes a guest verse on "Almeda", chirping over whacked drum machines and dissonant jazz keyboards.
An added rest when the character is distracted, a dissonant musical phrasing when the thought is unsettling.
Mr. Garland has a talent for unnerving you with quietly dissonant notes and an occasional grotesque flourish.
"He knew what word would go well with a dissonant note or a harmonic modulation," he added.
The voice is wholly his own — dissonant, offbeat, whiplash, wry — even as it whispers to musics past.
There's a passionate, dissonant climax, and then a sublimely mystical return of the berceuse at the end.
In this staging, it's as if desire were a dissonant chord torturously on the verge of resolution.
A rhapsodic Air begins with an ominous piano solo, thickly chromatic and dissonant, roiled by heaving outbursts.
The economic component was slighted by not listening to dissonant voices from every county in every state.
Morrison frequently collaborates with musicians specializing in dissonant, even atonal compositions, which enhances his works' otherworldly feel.
Spotting Matt was dissonant, even nauseating, because over the past few months, through Snapchat, he'd become completely familiar.
Some of the sounds were combinations of notes that form a consonant chord, and some were dissonant chords.
Arca's own sound is a dissonant, psychedelic take on electronic music that draws comparison as a Latinx Bjork.
Indeed, there were so many dissonant notes in Monday's impromptu, ill-prepared and clearly quite ill-advised summit.
His work, often dissonant, made abundant use of the musical interval known as the diminished fifth, or tritone.
Dissonant, complex, impossible to play, bebop was seductive and gorgeous in a cerebral way, and it defined cool.
Monday morning, millions of New Yorkers received an alarming note on their phones accompanied by a dissonant noise.
It's like a Coltrane solo that gets too dissonant, but then you bring it back to the melody.
The beat is sparse and sputtery, while dissonant keyboards and quavery strings emerge to swarm around his voice.
It's definitely redundant at times, and stylistically dissonant with the rest of the film Ridley Scott wanted to make.
On the opening "Supermodel," she sings over unaccompanied, dissonant guitar strumming, with drums skittering in only toward the end.
In Western culture, consonant sounds are typically described as pleasant, while dissonant ones are tense and a little grating.
Gorka's comments about Tillerson raised eyebrows in part because of the dissonant messaging on North Korea, which continued Thursday.
Even at that, some subplots feel extraneous, and like the first season, the second ends on a dissonant cliffhanger.
When I played a soothing classical piece to relax and distract my thoughts, the sounds became jumbled and dissonant.
Surfing beneath snow-capped peaks may sound dissonant, but the sense of harmony and satisfaction it evokes is not.
A musical tritone, aka the "Devil's interval," has a frequency ratio of 45:32 and is thus very dissonant.
The concluding unresolved dissonant splat of a chord seemed as sensible a way to end the piece as any.
"You will be able to hear how wounded they are, but this is not a dissonant piece," he said.
The painting conveys a post-Fall America, tinged with menace, in which sin and grace manage a dissonant coexistence.
None struck dissonant notes, as were heard at the Wednesday hearing, complaining that their pay was not going up enough.
As well, he creates visual tension and cohesion in a marriage of dissonant materials like the sculptural bases of Brancusi.
Realistically, we are all living in this same bizarrely dissonant world, and we all have some latent unease about that.
But the character of a liberal and manipulative media — in cahoots with the Democratic Party — helps resolve the dissonant information.
It's at once hopeful and dissonant; the whole thing sounds perpetually on the verge of blowing out, but never does.
What impact supporting a politically dissonant movie like "Patria o Muerte" will have on that arrangement remains to be seen.
With its more articulate rhythm and brighter timbre, the melody sounds a sort of anxious trill: indecisive, edgy, almost dissonant.
Although her sonic range has expanded, burbling with stranger noises and more dissonant juxtapositions, her preferred textures remain smooth, silken.
When the opening riff returns, it's slower and warmer, proceeding through chromatic transformations that are sometimes queasily dissonant, sometimes hopeful.
The government has galvanized its enormous propaganda machine and harsh controls as it tries to drown out the dissonant messages.
And where af Klint offers a bright, dynamic symphony, Quaytman responds with a spare, restrained and slightly dissonant tone poem.
We want to understand all the information the book is hoarding, and we'd like to scrub dissonant information that interferes.
However, the initiative drew criticism from advocates who see it as dissonant from the Trump administration's broader global women's policies.
For a party devoted to defending the working class, an address in one of the capital's richest neighborhoods sounded dissonant.
"Cross That River" opens with a dissonant jazz instrumental that slowly builds to harmony and breaks open into electrifying solos.
That leaves all the heavy lifting to Sebastian Wintero's moody, nocturnal cinematography, perfectly paired with James Lavino's dissonant original score.
Much of the piece has an unsettled, brooding quality, with scattered piano pitches accumulating over sustaining pedal into dissonant clouds.
His upheaval is funny and self-consciously melodramatic, with wry humor and tenderness just below the surface of dissonant darkness.
Listen more carefully and discover quietly dissonant invention, modestly pretty and entertaining synthesizer noises, and indeed, soothingly peaceful ear candy.
A so-called California approach might have been appropriate under previous administrations, but it is a dissonant distraction under Mr. Trump.
Franco's performance is dissonant at best; off-putting at worst Though maybe that's due more to Franco than the writing alone.
Excerpts from György Ligeti's haunting "Requiem," with its dense, dissonant clusters of voices and instruments, accompany the appearances of the monoliths.
They might find themselves absorbed by how intuitively the dissonant parts seem to fit together when, by all rights, they shouldn't.
The project's self-titled, hugely impressive first effort plotted a course between dissonant death metal, black metal, and twisted progressive rock.
Where that Swedish artist offers a bright, dynamic symphony, Ms. Quaytman responds with a spare, restrained and slightly dissonant tone poem.
Fiction REVOLUTIONARIES By Joshua Furst The 1960s have settled into our cultural memory as a freighted, dissonant symbol, overburdened by contradiction.
The software, which is still in a prototype phase, uses a technology called voice conversion to translate dissonant sounds into music.
Again, sprinkling so much rom-com-ery in the midst of the usual zombie adventures feels a little tonally dissonant at times.
That tension came to a head in last night's Emmys broadcast, a surreal, dissonant descent into the uncanny valley of intent vs.
It's a train wreck of a movie, mixing and matching wildly dissonant tones, bizarre plot contrivances, and a truly unique lead performance.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads WASHINGTON, DC — For the past several weeks, Transformer Gallery has played host to a dissonant symphony.
The footage begins from her perspective with no dialogue and little sound beyond eerie wisps of wind, muted chimes, and dissonant chords.
Sometimes dubbed the Dust, it's a good one, assured and realistic and dissonant: Alan Licht guitar, Tim Luntzel bass, Steve Shelley drums.
It's got that sort of scratchy, dissonant guitar sound to it, which is something that we've learned from watching them as well.
He interjects dissonant chords into dialogue, chops up sentences into sputters of syllables and capriciously doles out extreme challenges to the singers.
But a Massachusetts federal appellate court ruling last week dismissing a defamation case against Bill Cosby seems dissonant with this growing movement.
Juxtaposing vintage color saturated videography, echoing vocals, and dissonant strings, it's a work of nostalgia greater than the sum of its parts.
"We are an example to the world of the green, sustainable city, and so it's all the more dissonant," Mr. Hales said.
Competing aims and interests and a lack of consensus on what the biennial should be and do made the exhibition similarly dissonant.
But they could add an unanticipated and dissonant note to what otherwise would be regarded as the capstone of an extensive reimagining.
The dialogue among four works — two by each artist — ​suggests​ a dissonant string quartet​ ​as each ​piece asserts its distinctive timbre and range.
And intentionally or not, Niantic has created an AR mirror to an already dissonant, problematic franchise and the real world it exists within.
"Look What You Made Me Do" may be a dissonant, useless track, but Swift has more than a few gems in her repertoire.
The show's usual electronic hum is complemented, and at times supplanted, by screeching strings and dissonant jolts straight out of a horror film.
There's an ominous, dissonant crackle in the background that never disappears, and sometimes swells up as if to drown out a song completely.
On a dissonant note, Kavanaugh declined to sign on to another dissenting opinion that argued unaccompanied minors had no constitutional right to abortion.
It rockets forward, possessing the staccato, dissonant guitar work that the band is known for along with Cedric Bixler-Zavala's newly reinvigorated vocals.
If his harmonies had been as conflict-seeking as his rhythms, he might be considered the most dissonant composer of the Romantic era.
And yes, the fact that a bad man made a good movie about a woman is dissonant, but that in itself is worth unpacking.
People in Western cultures, or with exposure to them, are normally repelled by dissonant chords, which are used in music for an emotional effect.
It's why unpredictable 12-tone compositions create unease in the listener, and why Stravinsky's dissonant Rite of Spring sparked a riot when it debuted.
The sinewy lyricism of Mr. Herbert's baritone never quite rose above the orchestra as it produced one metal-glazed, dissonant outburst after the next.
Using it felt less like having a conversation with a helpful colleague and more like standing in a hellish echo chamber of dissonant voices.
Self-produced songs like "Acid Residue" and "Contribution" modernize boom-bap, combining the warmth of vinyl-sourced drums with sparse, sometimes dissonant electronic soundscapes.
From the dissonant introduction of opening track "Assembly Line" quickly cutting into a growling beatdown, the brutality is threateningly direct and focused without restraint.
After spinning a dissonant web of melodic strands in the opening minutes, the instruments arrive at that most fundamental of intervals: the perfect octave.
The development of tonality, generally, is hardly arbitrary and though the Tsimane music is dissonant with respect to Western scales, it is not chaos.
To give small modern turbocharged engines a large pleasing throat, similar electronics reduce dissonant drivetrain notes and augment pleasing major tones through the speakers.
She can play clusters of dissonant or oddly harmonized notes with a rolling momentum and a tonal sensitivity that become their own comforting logic.
Where the symphony was moody and dissonant, and clearly under the influence of Aaron Copland, the ballet score unabashedly embraced popular music and jazz.
A dull, dissonant chord releases a dark haze, and from there on the music proceeds in an opposition between human gait and atmospheric forces.
"In Honor of NASA and the Planetary Soloists," for string quartet and oboe, featured violins and viola engaged in gently dissonant, softly sinking harmonies.
The network overhauled its branding in early 2016 after realizing the ABC Family name was creating a dissonant note among current and prospective viewers.
The tribute placed Adele's voice into an arrangement that left it utterly exposed — and, when she slipped flat on her first attempt, painfully dissonant.
The final duet in "Solitaire" was better yet, attuned to the dissonant undercurrents in a Schnittke score — hints of impulses more potent than prowess.
The paintings include both lighthearted memories, like family road trips and Solano's first communion, and more dissonant, lonely recollections of grade school and adolescence.
The five short movements are full of striking ideas and clever sonorities, all projected with freedom but with a sure handling of the dissonant textures.
Inspired by Indian philosophy and composed in the late 236s, the hourlong sequence of short pieces ranges from the audaciously dissonant to the sublimely simple.
Our city's brand is also built on progressiveness and forward-thinking; the council's recent vote was emotionally jarring for some, and cognitively dissonant to many.
When Cynthia Nixon, playing Dickinson, waves her fan and laughs besides a friend, it's dissonant with what many of us first learned about the poet.
But the image of a gigantic vanity project miraculously touching down in an impoverished area, no matter its intentions, seems more than a touch dissonant.
If Dissonant Archives is replete with ghosts, these are not so much the ghosts of the archive itself, but the ghosts of the archive discourse.
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is another excellent example of a dystopian political world, one in which dissonant thought is banned and all books are illegal.
The musical allusion in the work's title suggests that the assembled citations are meant as background for the dissonant solos of the poet's own voice.
A problem with her recent work, however, is that it looks too suavely practiced, the unruly, dissonant dimension overly harmonized by her canny formal skills.
Traffic is Dhaka's deafening music, a dissonant theme song of shouting drivers, rumbling engines and, leading the attack, honking horns: vocals, bass, ill-tuned brass.
Now and then, Mr. Rothenberg sent volleys of jazzy riffs skyward, but more often the group produced mildly dissonant chords, rhythmic shudders and breathy whispers.
"Deserted Veins" is murky and viscous; vocalist Zach Wise lays down a guttural performance that leaves you gasping, and the track itself exhales dissonant malevolence.
All this might have become oppressive were it not for contrasting moments of quiet, frail beauty: voices braided around one another in gently dissonant chords.
An unremitting, motoric beat and an increasingly dissonant grid of math-rock guitar patterns carry Ms. Leschper's terse lyrics, sketching an ambiguous but intense memory.
He was so good, in fact, that he set a completely dissonant tone for the mess to come — but that's not his problem, is it?
Lutoslawski's densely dissonant funereal music dissipated into isolated notes on a lone cello, which were then subsumed in the enveloping warmth of Brahms's consolatory opening.
Conducted by David Bloom, the quartet nimbly negotiated the score's fluid transitions from gritty waltzes to punk-rock explosions, from rococo ornaments to dissonant chords.
That cacophonous chorus of high-pitched giggles that used to ring out suddenly lacks the essential note that turned your dissonant notes into a harmony.
Here's this Cuban piece that's based on folklore but has these crazy tone clusters and intrusions of poly-temporal writing, and some really dissonant stuff.
His style is sui generis, though in its complex layering of elements, from rustic dance to dissonant pandemonium, it distantly resembles that of Charles Ives.
S. citizens is particularly dissonant in the face of data that has shown domestic terrorism has claimed more U.S. lives since 9/11 than jihadists.
But it is dissonant to promote the new format as improved and newly relevant while also arguing that it doesn't matter how soon children see them.
Ford presented a compelling solution for the network newscasts, a powerful but less organized judiciary, and the dissonant conservative Democrat and liberal Republican factions in Congress.
The dissonant chords in the bridge after the chorus are haunting and slightly horrifying, with a few minor chord orchestrations that add an edge of creepiness.
That simmering contrast between the dissonant roar of dystopia and the looming danger of a frail piano line, is a major theme running through his music.
Serena's is a symbol of Gilead's dissonant ideology, but the time for symbolic anything needs to be over if this show is going to remain interesting.
Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East, edited by Anthony Downey, was published by I.B. Taurus in London in August, 2015.
The highlight was her poetic delivery of the atmospheric "At Night Mooring by the Maple Bridge," a melismatic, gently dissonant song by Li Yinghai (1927-2007).
They fit in nicely, not only with their brand of dissonant, abrasive avant-metal, but by also conforming with the label's dark aesthetic and outsider vibe.
" On the title track, Simone sang of dissonant times in her signature blues-tinged warble: "Oh, Baltimore, ain't it hard just to live, just to live.
But given its foundation as a reaction to unfair discrimination and police mistreatment, the message will at least be dissonant with that of the Trumpists nearby.
It wraps around an E dominant seventh, a chord that's dissonant thanks to the inclusion of a tritone but cheery because it's still a major chord.
In the later acts, the musical language becomes progressively more dissonant and chaotic, with crackling, rustling textures in the orchestra and shrill cries from the chorus.
In the history of professional wrestling tag teams, the billionaire Mark Cuban and his Japanese business partners make for one of the industry's more dissonant stables.
Its set was just as sprawling, touching on improvisational orchestral squall, dissonant chamber-jazz, a kind of parlor song and a musical jungle full of birdcalls.
" In "House of Glass," the band revs up to barbed, dissonant punk as the deadpan singer notes that he's just "Another mirrored image/Corrupted and distorted.
This theory of dissonant counterpoint would invert traditional rules of harmonic writing and, Seeger believed, create a musical language at once radically discordant and uniquely American.
Prince sets himself a tempo with finger snaps and foot taps, and he tries stray chords around the keyboard before settling on one dissonant, repeated cluster.
For the cover of T's spring Men's Fashion issue, Kamara partnered with the photography duo Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott to conjure a hauntingly dissonant landscape.
That facet of his persona doesn't get as much attention as others, largely because it's so dissonant with his determination to notch all seven deadly sins.
The London Times struck a dissonant note, saying in its own review that the third installment was "clogged with researched data" and painfully slow in parts.
On successive albums, she tinkered with ingredients and proportions: a touch more psychedelic guitar on "Ultraviolence" in 2014, melodramatically dissonant string arrangements on "Honeymoon" in 2015.
But the dissonant messaging is intentional: Democrats believe they've finally blunted the GOP argument that they can't impeach the president and legislate at the same time.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads I Can't Breathe, now on view at the Art Gallery at the College of Staten Island, is a dissonant show.
If I were to say that they are bizarre, curious, satiric, self-mocking, nutty, charming, delightful, dissonant and grating, I still wouldn't be doing them justice.
Overall, the tone of the show is dark and dense, but in a cognitively dissonant fleet-footed way — another reason why the retrospective is so surprising.
Diminished chords are the key to emotional success in music through their dissonant, unresolved quality, and "All I Want" uses a truckload of them in its chorus.
To Western ears, dissonant chords tend to sound like they clash and may seem more downtrodden or tense, whereas consonant chords may seem more harmonic and upbeat.
It's just such a dissonant image: Elisabeth Moss as our bruised, brazen protagonist, sitting amidst the hazy, low-lit backdrop of Gilead, watching Friends on a laptop.
Lynch's style can be mesmerizing even when it's confounding -- from the dissonant sounds to the uncomfortable silences, the quirky humor mixed with a foreboding sense of dread.
Even from the opening of the new record, the music is a lot darker and more dissonant than anything you've released so far, was that by design?
The title stands for "Ecstatic Dissonant Mashup" which hints at what you're getting here: quasi-tonal sample-slurries that are equal parts Youtube Poop and proper plunderphonics.
His music is notable for its startling contrasts, with hauntingly beautiful interludes juxtaposed with dissonant outbursts and interwoven with solitary passages tinged with a Renaissance-flavored melancholy.
We have these more glacial, half-note figures that have such a simplicity, compared to how dense and slightly dissonant other clustery parts of the work are.
We harmonize when we agree—starting our sentences a perfect fifth or an octave from where the last sentence left off—and grow dissonant when we disagree.
"Atlanta" is the best analogue to hip-hop I've ever seen on TV — the storytelling is playful, defiant, dissonant, magical, tragic, decadent and triumphant, all at once.
Researchers also caution that it's too glib to say we are all locked in our echo chambers, for most Americans still are regularly challenged by dissonant information.
The performance itself is dissonant; the militia members have to convey to viewers that they feel threatened and invaded, while at the same time showing their dominance.
In October of that year, the company was informed that validation studies comparing LeadCare results with other blood lead analyzer systems produced dissonant results, F.D.A. officials said.
It's so fascinating to consider why minor and dissonant notes give us instinctual chills, like the TRITONE, while "victorious known triads" make us feel cozy and safe.
Ahead of their time, the band's dissonant, discordant heavy-rock is said to have been an influence on the likes of Sonic Youth, the Swans and others.
Concerned with decay, his voice is exhausted, occasionally dissonant, disturbingly plain—the sound of an individual who's staring into the mirror and frankly contemplating a scary future.
A bit of a riff on color blocking, they're often rendered in surprising, dissonant color combinations, like pale green and tangerine or slate blue and buttery yellow.
In Mr. Sadler's and Mr. Buse's hands, clothes in imported Italian and Japanese textiles were outsize, dissonant (pinstripes over camouflage), layered and so offhand they seemed ill-fitting.
According to an editorial in Nature, dissonant chords are "the unstable isotopes of Western music," and often sound like they want to revert back to something more stable.
He studied harmony at the Paris Conservatory with composer Olivier Messiaen and had lessons from Rene Leibowitz in the dissonant 20th-century style known as twelve-tone composition.
If the President grants the global oil industry access to America's Arctic waters, it would be a dissonant chord in his administration's record of hard-fought climate progress.
Across New York City, cellphones blared on Monday morning with the dissonant but familiar tone of an emergency alert, typically used for weather-related advisories or abducted children.
As late as the seventeen-hundreds, the tritone—a dissonant interval of two notes, three whole steps apart—was reviled as diabolus in musica: the devil in music.
Sunday night felt so weird and dissonant partly because, on the one hand, the crazy variety of modern popular culture was on vivid display, as it always is.
While Cobain's dissonant doubled vocals add to the song's creepiness, Amanda Palmer — best known for her time with the Dresden Dolls — takes the song down another disquieting path.
It was a fully realized dystopian realm of its own, bristling with crosscurrents of rhythm, dissonant loops, staticky noise, warning shouts and bits of hard-nosed, trenchant lyrics.
That doesn't mean these populist narratives are entirely fact free — just that their analytical shoddiness puts them a semitone from truth, superficially close, but completely dissonant with it.
The mixture of messages — the feminized dryer, the phallic gun — creates a seemingly dissonant pileup of signification that mixes male and female, desire and danger, laughter and heartache.
Bringing together copious, diverse and sometimes dissonant references (spanning Hasidic masters, George Eliot, Zizek and Beckett, among others), Zornberg gives a new tour of the life of Moses.
Rather, they strike a dissonant chord in a region with a longstanding aversion to intervention and make it more difficult for hemispheric neighbors to make progress on Venezuela.
Today they've shared the title track from their forthcoming EP, Acid Lakes, which announces itself with a distorted fire alarm and proceeds to unravel a needling, dissonant mood.
Whether it's actually true or just makes for a dissonant eating experience, conventional wisdom says not to serve fondue with cool water, lest the cheese lump in your stomach.
She is a woman straddling two cognitively dissonant lives: one tethered to the here and now, one pure façade; one steeped in addiction and criminality, one in sexual fantasy.
When the video starts, you're met with what kind of sounds like a lot of dissonant banging, but in less than 30 seconds the video turns into a masterpiece.
In contrast to Westerners, who rated the consonant sounds as pleasant and the dissonant sounds as unpleasant, the Tsimane participants rated the two classes of sounds as equally pleasant.
It's more than a little dissonant to hear a president who paid such lip service to job creation kick off his administration by calling for people to be fired.
Mindful of American reality, they discarded the opera's happy ending and imposed a bleak coda, with a scrambled, dissonant collage of "Fidelio" music and other Beethoven snippets to match.
At the matinée on February 17th, the Prelude to Act III lacked an eerie chill, and the dissonant climax of Titurel's funeral music failed to induce shivers of awe.
The clearer notes he sounded Friday were a welcome change, but the word salad he soon lapsed into was a dissonant reminder about the man who is in charge.
J.P. Palm, an indie-rock band based in Philadelphia, delights in the dissonant chords and jagged, odd-meter patterns of math-rock, but not to the exclusion of melody.
"The Blinding Light of Dreams" reflects on the history of racism in the South, racing along on an insistent 13-note piano pattern and dodging dissonant interjections from yMusic.
" Schutt's offbeat and dissonant sentences make us experience language anew: "The heavy-headed mock orange, now past, Pie hacked at and hacked at until the shorn shrub looked embarrassed.
But such a message can come across as oddly dissonant because, unlike American politicians, he rarely expresses empathy and has no qualms about sounding like a teacher scolding students.
Mai Khoi's powerful voice feeds off jazzy sax arpeggios and a dissonant riot of wind and string instruments — some traditional, some invented — that might sound unfamiliar to Western ears.
He was his generation's most startling and dramatic guitarist, guiding his solos through a landscape of varied terrains: first rocky, dissonant bends, then long, plainlike notes, sustained like breaths.
In "The Homes and Gardens Book of Flower Arrangement," Young painted the pages opposite staid floral still lifes with expressionistic brush strokes that are at once dissonant and complementary.
"The concept is that we as human beings like to think we're doing things in a consistent way—we're not doing things that are hypocritical or dissonant," he said.
For every overtly dissonant, deconstructed "Satisfaction," there would be tracks that were a little too polished, a little too catchy, with something sinister inevitably going on beneath the surface.
"I think every product naturally comes from trying to solve a problem that you have, or in this case, finding harmony for parts of yourself that feel dissonant," Gong says.
The few seconds even sound like a slowed down version of the thumping, overdriven bass found in gabber, until you realize it's only going to get more grim and dissonant.
His performance here is full of strange, dissonant notes and odd glances; he comes off as angry when he's playing repentant, and utterly insincere when Jake lets his guard down.
Her directorial debut Lives of Performers (227) tells the story of a love triangle between members of a dance ensemble through lovingly captured rehearsals, scraps of text, and dissonant voiceover.
The dreamlike beginning of "Young Ones" recalls a vintage J Dilla beat—one of Knight's primary inspirations—with the producer adeptly juggling more dissonant sounds in the song's second half.
It should also be said that "Stone Wash Freezer Burn," with its merging of viscous paint and a clearly demarcated angular shape, is the least dissonant composition in the show.
You have to be careful here because raising the ceiling with dissonant, moody tracks played too fast or too slow can really bend folks in half, in a bad way.
As Dirty Beaches, he released several critically acclaimed indie rock albums, mixing what Pitchfork called "grimy, dissonant love songs" with a 1950s greaser look that made fashion editors take notice.
In the first movement of his "Eroica" Symphony, that train of thought builds up aggressive momentum, culminating in a series of slashing dissonant chords that are repeated with relentless force.
Mr. Evans, a Philadelphia-based pianist, makes a minefield out of the typical postbop form — impishly twisting up a song's flow or washing out the harmonies with big, dissonant chords.
The 12-hour writing shifts at the Moscow-based cube farm involved creating thousands of fake social media accounts and generating and sharing culturally dissonant articles and tweets in English.
A leftover track from her critically acclaimed 2015 album "Divers," Joanna Newsom's newly released "Make Hay" features her signature poetic lyricism and singularly piercing vocal style over dissonant piano playing.
The artist might end up with something as fascinatingly dissonant as John Chowning's "Stria," and that might not do so well on Jaden Smith's Instagram, but it certainly wouldn't be boring.
In counterpoint to the wobbly stacks, he uses color as a scaffold to hold the forms in place, while infusing them with a rhythmic musicality that is both harmonious and dissonant.
The 11-minute track "Frost" is from its new album "Pyroclasts," and its anchoring, meditative electric-guitar drone is beset by dissonant sustained notes, looming overtones and gusts of white noise.
When Mr. Gervais eventually made reference to Ms. Fey and Ms. Poehler — mocking Hollywood's gender-unequal pay by saying he was being paid as much as them combined — it felt dissonant.
The ambitious volume Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East in many ways responds to the post-1990s archive fever, but from a specific geographic locale.
L'Herbier arranged for a concert by the avant-garde composer George Antheil, instructed him to play his most dissonant pieces and used hidden cameras to film the violently mixed audience response.
The score sets a harsh, dissonant, unrelenting portrait of the power and savagery of Gilead against static, quieter sounds for Offred's interior life, sounds that always feel profoundly menaced and unhappy.
The ecologically minded can come for the very English style of environmentalism, the lyrical depiction of the natural world, the evocation of nature's harsh harmonies and the dissonant cruelty of humankind.
Sung in English, and with a musical style that ranges from the lyrical to the dissonant, "Whiteley" is a risky venture for Opera Australia, the country's main producer of music theater.
What didn't change is his aesthetic: nervy and dense, speedy and ominous, twitchy and unstable, with a distant, dissonant melody line besieged by a percussive overload until a final staticky swerve.
Mazzoli's score supports that dynamic by wedding strong lyric invention to an unsettled, insidiously dissonant chamber-orchestra texture that evokes the jagged beauty both of Skye and of Bess's inner landscape.
Then Mr. Palmieri starts coolly unloading his toolbox of fuses and fire-starters: dissonant chord clusters; quizzical single-note lines; small, busted montunos that bounce between the left and right hands.
"I think there is a high level of satisfaction with the new administration," he said, dismissing concerns about dissonant eruptions from the new president and some of his top staff members.
J.P. A detuned, dissonant funk vamp carries "Europe Is Lost," a bleak and rapid-fire assessment of the state of the world by the English poet, playwright and rapper Kate Tempest.
When Barbara joined a high-profile gallery, it was a change in strategy just when the market recaptured all that dissonant stuff that they had no idea what to do with.
When Barbara joined a high-profile gallery, it was a change in strategy just when the market recaptured all that dissonant stuff that they had no idea what to do with.
And even though families can be as messy as Greek mythology, as competitive as the Pinocchios, and as dissonant as the voices a writer hears in her head, they're all we've got.
But because the minimalist command slams and bites throughout, because the sheer number of songs keeps them all feeling fresh, because all that dissonant percussion ends up sounding pretty cool, it doesn't.
Because these statements ring a dissonant chord with me, I was inspired to write this in attempts to portray an accurate image of the fandom for people who don't know about furries.
"Pool" syncs up a series of plinky, descending, dissonant and/or slightly delayed marimba figures with a crunchy rhythm guitar, while a calming string progression intervenes, intermittently, to balance the nervous pace.
And while there are passages of uncompromisingly dissonant cluster chords pounded out at shuddering volume, it's the tiny yearning motifs that recur, especially in the work's second half, that linger in memory.
The centerpiece of the program was Ustvolskaya's Composition No. 2, "Dies Irae" (1973), which features eight grinding double basses, a hyper-dissonant piano, and a wooden cube being thwacked with two hammers.
Circa 1950, this was understood to mean writing a score for others to perform, whether in the guise of the dissonant hymns of Charles Ives or the spacious Americana of Aaron Copland.
Where their last studio LP, 2013's Cold Spring Fault Less Youth,  featured relatively direct dance pop tunes, "We Go Home Together" is an aggrieved, imprecisely dissonant take on electronic soul music.
Hearing "But you can't just diss and come tell man sorry" over that dissonant chord progression and shivering strings is like if Radiohead went grime, which they have thankfully never done (yet).
The fact that it managed to slip through a hyperpartisan Congress currently battling over whether or not to shut the federal government down was hailed as a positive, if slightly dissonant, development.
Facebook could do this by changing its algorithm so that it increases the weight assigned to posts that provide dissonant information — messages that offer a different social viewpoint than the user holds.
The backdrop to President Donald Trump's recent visit to India was eerily disquieting and strikingly dissonant — presidential pleasantries exchanged in almost a Shakespearean contrast to the religiously driven rioting just miles away.
"Dark Spring" and "Dive," meanwhile, are Loveless-esque, matching the band's signature wall of synths with droning rhythms and dissonant key shifts that land in the common ground between anxiety and hopefulness.
In 2018, the trio released their fifth album, "Brighter Wounds," which puts seemingly incongruous sounds — like screeching, dissonant strings and bluesy guitar riffs — adjacent to one another for a compelling, unpredictable result.
One suspects that the cacophonic sounds emitted from the installation that are as compelling as they are dissonant, reflect the artist's complex emotions vis-à-vis the role of America in Japan.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads There is one painting that makes Gagosian Gallery's Nude: From Modigliani to Currin a worthwhile show — one dissonant note that makes the entire gallery come alive.
NYC's Total Freedom took this concept and ran with it, deconstructing the song almost entirely and pairing metallic clangs with dissonant percussion that makes me double check my open tabs every time.
The concise nature of the songs forgoed typical verse-chorus-verse song structure, instead feeling like a barrage of ADHD dissonant chords and breakdowns too wrapped up in energy to worry about convention.
That space between what's heard and seen — a child played by an adult, for example — doesn't feel dissonant; instead, it feels like they're protecting the sanctity of those children who were senselessly lost.
Take, say, "I Serve the Base" — thin, buzzy industrial humming gets twisted into something halfway resembling a melody, with a higher drone adding dissonant backup — no way is that a traditional rap beat.
Figuring out what you're supposed to do and maneuvering around to do it is so satisfying, a feeling aided by the dissonant, almost haunting music that fades in and out at key moments.
The EP, which follows 2015's standout LP Sightless, Unless, fuses plaintive guitar with frenetic beats, dissonant samples (think Burial, FlyLo, and a touch of Broken Social Scene), and layers of lustrous falsetto.
"Sever" conjures up an imaginary harpsichord where the keys pluck wires instead of strings, repeating a simple, dissonant melody for two minutes of glorious key-pounding broken up by a popped bass interlude.
Björk's darkly formidable 2015 album, "Vulnicura," reflected the breakup of her decade-long relationship with the artist Matthew Barney in songs of nearly paralyzing pain and simmering anger, weighted with dissonant, dramatic strings.
But there was something new, something dissonant, in the way we began to use the word — a change meant to accommodate the idea that just 19 men might strike at a nation's being.
"Oh No!!!!" is one of its tormented love songs, wondering, "Why can't I control it?" and arguing with itself over a clattering beat and dissonant guitar, an unresolved flare-up of romantic anxiety.
This 35-year-old pianist plays with utter grace and command, throwing big blankets of harmony across the keyboard; even when his harmonies turn dark or dissonant, they still feel plush and welcoming.
The latter's "my lips from speaking," a virtuosic and sometimes pummellingly dissonant elaboration of a piano riff from Aretha Franklin's "Think," received a riotous rendition from the New York-based pianist Andrea Lodge.
The effect, while not devoid of humor, is perturbing; the whispered chorus in "Vampiro" and the dissonant key change in "El Pozo" (the hook: "Uno dos tres/cuatro cinco seis") prickle the skin.
In future, "searches" will be more focused on completing tasks and fetching information in environments where it will feel dissonant for ads to appear, such as in messaging apps or on smart-home devices.
"As Brexit receded in the financial markets' rear-view mirror, exuberance resumed in full force," said the Switzerland-based BIS, often seen as the central banks' central bank, in its review headed "Dissonant Markets".
As a result, moments of real gravity — like Cesar being handed a gun — feel dissonant and harder to process, but they fit into the big picture if you zoom out of the core clique.
For the vast majority of the world's Muslims, violence is completely dissonant with the holy month, which in addition to fasting is a time for spiritual renewal, prayer and visits with friends and family.
Weaves, a forward-looking quartet that threads together hook-heavy choruses, akimbo songwriting and jittering art-pop sensibilities, is also giving the city the credibility it deserves as an exporter of dissonant, danceable music.
The deliberated, internally rhythmic forms and the impulsive overlay of dissonant dots, squiggles, and scratches – the covering over and digging back into the work – become something new, more than the sum of their parts.
The choice of three female global movie stars — not to mention the director, Reed Morano, who is best known for her work on ''The Handmaid's Tale'' — for this particular rebranding is a dissonant one.
"Amnesia" is filled with conversations — often delivered in somewhat dissonant, sometimes halting English — peppered with bits of exposition and quotidian asides about, say, cooking with herbs (a little lemon verbena is perfect for fish).
So it saddens me to say that I could not help but notice that the alt-right trolls and the Dada-Surreal heroes share many of the clever cognitive-dissonant techniques in their messaging.
Dissonant guitars and purposely unharmonious vocals mirrored much of the Midwest sound of the time, but Rainer Maria's elegiac delivery and mysterious approach to self-promotion gave them a sort of art school aura.
It would also re-contextualize a new arsenal of instruments for a pop audience, wielding synths as both eerie, dissonant sound effects and dancefloor-ready sugar to help the anti-establishment medicine go down.
Guitar strums stretch themselves out and the vocal melodies dart around, while dissonant psychedelic soundscapes and a hybrid of jazz, funk and R&B echo the album's unsettling story of despair, realization and, ultimately, hope.
The new King Tuff, the one who doesn't have to play such a dissonant role, can now spend as much time as he'd like climbing trees, messing around with four-tracks, and wearing bright yellow.
The ambitious volume Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East, edited by Anthony Downey, in many ways responds to the post-1990s archive fever, but from a specific geographic locale.
"Psy Ops" has gnashing, dissonant, trebly guitar riffs over pounding drum syncopations, with Nadia Garofalo wedging telegraphic little bursts of lyrics — "now pay attention/your anger/fear/has got me" — wedged tightly into the groove.
Still, if his perspective about the imperviousness of American power strikes a dissonant note in our current pessimistic climate, the evidence he assembles should be part of any serious debate about where we are heading.
In "Let There Be Light," Mr. Williams instead writes a swelling tone cluster of dissonant strings and wordless vocals, building an eerie tension that bursts and immediately recedes to a thick haze of high violins.
But it's the layers of dissonant, cold embellishments, like the acidic bass line on "After the Fall," from her 2015 album, "Abyss," that have prickly experimentalists and jet-black metal fans flocking to her sets.
The six-and-a-half-minute piece is a snaky composite, full of rugged friction; it ranges from dissonant, naturalistic sounds to tight, tolling minimalism to a subtly ripping piano solo from Mr. Le Boeuf.
Orchestral winds, strings and percussion all participate on this collection of compositions that often use Minimalism in anti-meditative ways: setting up urgent and dissonant patterns, revealing and repeating them, then knocking them wildly askew.
Rather, dissonant sirens fade in and out, simulated evocations of voices blabbering or mosquitoes whining, chopped up into a million tiny little sonic pieces and arranged with exquisite balance over the churning sea of rhythm.
MIT assistant professor Josh McDermott and Brandies professor Ricardo Godoy performed a variety of experiments on members of the Tsimane tribe to see if they had any sort of preference for consonant chords over dissonant ones.
But instead of appeasing the crowd, Coltrane took his band on a search for a new sound that saw him employ dissonant chord structures and grating textures that came to characterize his records for the Impulse!
Any occurrence that defies our worldview and lacks a logical explanation brings with it scores of conspiratorial theories that attempt to reconcile our beliefs about the world with the dissonant reality we are sometimes confronted with.
He just rapped track after track in his tough, nasal, deliberately dissonant voice, offering raunch, realism, hyperbole, sarcasm and compassion over an electronic backup throbbing with ominous bass and pattering drums, like a lowering storm cloud.
The other two programs were more lightly spiced with modernity: Saturday's with the dissonant angularity of Bartok's "Miraculous Mandarin" Suite (1927) and Sunday's with the supersaturated chromaticism of Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht" ("Transfigured Night"; 1917, revised 1943).
These ideas come to a head on the album's eerie closer "Never Been Home", a dissonant and haunting track comprised of just vocals and a piano that swirls aggressively with questions of identity and belonging a tornado.
Now, given the benefit of an actual sound system and proper stage, they were absolutely incredible (especially their vocalist Illugi, a haunting spectre with an anguished, earth-shaking howl), and segued beautifully into Wormlust's dissonant, ambitious compositions.
Heathers as a concept feels dissonant with the world we live in now — a world where the connection between bullying and teen suicide is much clearer, and dismissing bullying with a shrug and a gag seems disingenuous.
But over time, if we continue to back candidates who are dissonant with the current brand of the party, run creative and authentic campaigns and detox from Wall Street and Silicon Valley contributions, we can compete everywhere.
Even in the persuasively wintry duets of "Facing North" (1992), there is a sense of togetherness that emerges from the richly dissonant interweaving of two buzzing throat singers, and from the overlapping of toned inhalations and exhalations.
The show was staged inside a disused freight train docked in a loading bay in Paris's 19th Arrondissement, and models walked to a dissonant instrumental track from David Lynch's "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" film soundtrack.
And Lizzie Clachan's sterile white set, which will be thoroughly defaced by the end, and David McSeveney's dissonant sound design, which finds the ominous in everyday noises, suggest that Eric's mind is a terrible place to live.
To highlight the dissonant irony of this juxtaposition, Biancoshock altered the signage in front of the Playmobil amusement park, in sight of the rows of temporary housing modules, directing would-be Playmobil visitors toward the camps instead.
WASHINGTON — The affair felt dissonant from the start: a festive gathering in the East Wing of the White House, thrown by President Trump for the journalists whose work and profession he lambastes on a near-daily basis.
"I have to admit it is a bit dissonant to see these beauty queens reciting grim statistics while the audience cheers at the live event," Cantú said, noting that there hasn't been universal embracing of the protest.
With a dissonant opening riff and ricochet drumming serving as an unstable bed, the band gets extremely abstract as they ponder the meaning of time and life ("It kills me to know / we cannot learn" goes the chorus).
Despite their affiliations and geographical kinship, though, the Reykjavík quintet stands apart; their take on black metal leaves ample room for whiffs of aggressively technical, dissonant death, and their general mien is far more Deathspell Omega than Dissection.
Troller's sinister darkwave set the backdrop for the marital melodrama, with the trio of Adam Jones, Amber Star-Goers, and Justin Star-Goers proffering chilling synth backdrops, dissonant guitar tones, and shrill vocals reminiscent of a shoegaze Goblin.
And, as with most projects of mapping and constructing platforms, Dissonant Archives, with its ambition of constituting a survey of archival practices geographically defined, flattens the historical depth of particular narratives under the regime of this archive discourse.
In the episodic first movement, "Quasi una fantasia," Mr. Bolcom lightly evokes the heritage of the trombone as a solemn instrument in sacred music, beginning with a kind of subdued chorale with dissonant tweaks for brass and winds.
The group cast an even deeper spell in a free concert at the First Congregational Church, a handsome Gothic Revival pile near MacArthur Park: the program featured "Hvíld," an ethereally dissonant work by Hörður Áskelsson, the chorus's director.
The album's first song, "A Private Understanding," opens not with a punky guitar surge but with a stop-start drum pattern that's soon overlaid with dissonant, swimming guitar chords, placing queasy harmonies under the words Mr. Casey intones.
His style is eclectic, just right for our postmodern era: References to music history are nestled like Easter eggs in a spiky lawn of dissonant restlessness, a pervasive anxiety that reflects a time defined by polarization and emergency.
As with Eilish's fragile, pieced-together exercises in pop morbidity, the Death Stranding score assembles a procession of dissonant splats, metal squeaks and piano clonks and drumclashes, embedded in an electronic haze that is continually disrupted and reassembled.
The GOP plan includes some dissonant elements, including new anti-avoidance rules, such as a minimum tax on excess income in low-tax countries and rules to deter companies from shifting income from their U.S. to foreign operations.
Then there's John's choice of harmonies: He will use very close chords together, which are particularly dissonant, but he will also use very consonant chords that are extremely familiar, and seem to be quite old in this context.
While there is a danger in that, it's probably the way it's going to be from here on out, and those who can do it well are more likely to get the attention in this very dissonant world.
Starting off as a composer and pianist (whose wild, dissonant performances nearly destroyed the piano he was playing) and ending up primarily as a theater designer, he is best known for the unclassifiable, untranslatable, polyglot novel Hermaphrodito (4213).
She raps almost exclusively in her mother tongue mandarin, but you don't really have to understand the words to appreciate her sound – a sinister and skulking blend of half-whispered vocal shapes spread over dissonant, glitch-ridden production.
The book reflects elements of Reynolds' own life: At 19, he lost a friend to murder and acutely recalls his feelings: "A suspension of time coupled with the strange and dissonant feeling that we could exact revenge," he says.
Regardless of what rhetorical gymnastics the White House uses to resolve these two dissonant timelines, it's important remember that this means one (or both) of the following statements is true: That's why it's important to investigate what really happened.
The dissonant aspect of the book is that in support of this, the authors frequently decry the decline of the nuclear family, broken marriages, frayed communities, the absence of religion, and evaporation of the spiritually important aspects of work.
But while the feelings I associate with "Valley of Search" are uniquely New York, the sounds are distinctly 501 Canal: At once dissonant and beautiful, spare yet cacophonous, the recording inhales and exhales the chaos of a gigantic populace.
New York, in its current dissonant form, is at ease with a disturbingly paradoxical identity, as a place that says yes to every branch of Dunkin' Donuts and no to the people whose fortunes consign them to working there.
But it's Mr. Benjamin's remarkable music that gives the work its charge: The writing is so lush, haunting and detailed — radiant one moment, piercingly dissonant the next — that you are continuously enveloped by the raucous beauty of the sounds.
The first movement is the most dissonant, with greens, ochers, and bloody reds clanging against each other as chain-link patterns emerge from soot-black fissures, evoking news images of Guantanamo Bay and children in cages on the border.
On J. J. Cale's "Cocaine," the last tune before a two-song encore, the keyboardist Chris Stainton built his solo into a thick, dissonant swarm, and Mr. Clapton joined in with a few roughed-up riffs of his own.
The hard-working journeyman Frames and Swell Season frontman, who launched into prominence thanks to his Oscar-winning work on Once, throws a curveball on this latest LP, ditching straightforwardly accessible folk-rock for knotty arrangements and dissonant experimentation.
Instrumentally, Emily's D+Evolution rides a rich, organic jazz groove unlike any other; defined by Spalding's bass and Matthew Stevens's jangly, dissonant guitar, it's always shifting, crunching, changing angles, refracting shades of kaleidoscopic light through different colors, shapes, dimensions.
But in this context, where just thirty minutes prior, we'd been pitched on a game that was a critical take on warfare, one that would focus first and foremost on characters and big picture ideas, it felt dissonant and detached.
The trio are proudly ragged and dissonant on their debut EP Mon VR de rêve (literally, My Dream VR), with bassist Laurence Gauthier-Brown's taunting vocals rising above and swimming in the Sonic Youth-inspired guitar mire of Simon Provencher.
At the same time, the limited palette holds this cacophony firmly in place, like an unlikely and even dissonant combination of notes, which begins to sound necessary and even natural when it returns as a coda in a musical composition.
With talks to leave the EU at a very early stage, it is a also a rare example of a tangible product that could be affected by Brexit being discussed by top ministers, who have given dissonant signals about the issue.
The first ten are brooding and layered with dissonant strings, while tracks 11 through 16 tap into the musical style inspired by the Caribbean, North Africa, and their diasporas before returning to some harsher reflections in the last few tracks.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Austria's likely next chancellor assured European Union leaders on Thursday of his support for the EU, allaying concerns that his country would become a dissonant voice in the bloc with the far right expected to enter its government.
Like the end of the first phrase of "The Barber and His Wife" from "Sweeney Todd": When Sweeney, recalling his wife, sings, "And she was beautiful," the undulant accompaniment at the word "beautiful" stabs you with a subtly piercing dissonant chord.
To create more unnatural sounds than the ones they use for the more grounded Gems, the trio had Magno — singing backup as two separate versions of Pearl — layer her voice in dissonant chords to keep the song a little off-kilter.
It's as pensive and danceable as it is a droning, dissonant wash of sound to numb your eardrums to, with Walsh, Brian Borcherdt, Matt "Punchy" McQuaid, and Matt Schulz channeling their experimental recklessness into songs that writhe with newfound self-awareness.
An implacable drumbeat, a cutting fiddle line, a distorted guitar, a dissonant string ensemble and a thickening squall of electronics are among the sounds that well up behind her, creating a tsunami of a crescendo that's both ritualistic and rocking.
Yet in the track "Black Panther," which ends with the words, "I am T'Challa," Mr. Lamar is also quite insistently "King Kendrick": "King of the answer, king of the problem, king of the forsaken," he raps over a nagging, dissonant loop.
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For years now, she has made some of the toughest paintings around, articulating her medium with dissonant techniques, surfaces and colors; freely mixing figuration and abstraction into elaborate narratives of process, art and life while regularly trespassing into three dimensions.
On April 18, the bridge looked almost ready to open, except for the oddly dissonant color of the five outermost cables, which are coated in a high-density polyethylene that looks orange, although it is officially described as burnt umber.
The production's a little scattershot, but note how the glittering synth groove on "Twenty 8" segues effortlessly into the stylistically unrelated dissonant piano loop on "Patty Cake," and be grateful he has the nerve to test his voice against disparate settings.
The Brooklyn punk band is known for its dissonant tracks where repeating lyrics end in a cacophony of electric guitar riffs — try listening to Bowie's "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore" and Parquet Courts' "One Man, No City" back to back.
The film is utterly dissonant, recalling the weird camp of Batman & Robin, which illustrates a fundamental conflict between the presentation of what the Venom symbiote is and does and the filmmakers' efforts to turn his story into a Deadpool-esque laugh riot.
The more members of a group reinforce each other's Weltanschauung, the more sceptically they will view dissonant news reports—and, correspondingly, the greater is the economic incentive for news organisations to produce ideologically satisfying news, no matter how poorly it matches reality.
"The Science of Normality" is a curious tale that takes in maddening time signatures with cues from the jazz world, building sirens of sound that tumble over layered vocals and dissonant rhythms that never end up where you think they're going to.
Setting out with a haunting dissonant synth chord, it collapses into a handful of pretty piano notes before the voices of Arkestra members June Tyson, James, Jacson, Edde Tahmas, and Sun Ra––collectively billed under "Ethnic Voices" in the liner notes––begin moaning.
His voice was a grainy moan as he sang about woman troubles and hard luck; his guitar could drive dancers with boogie and shuffle beats or play leads that were lean and gnarled, gliding smoothly and then coiling into a dissonant sting.
The authors considered the reactions of 100 members of a remote Amazonian tribe having little to no exposure to Western music—to sounds that are generally considered to be consonant (pleasing) or dissonant (noisy)—and found that they showed remarkably little preference.
Trump added to a day of dissonant messaging from the Trump White House when her office announced a solo trip for the first lady this fall to Africa — a continent whose countries and citizens her husband has disparaged with coarse language. Mrs.
But the dissonant messages over the probe have prompted frustration among rank-and-file members, particularly those in competitive races wary of impeachment, and it even led to the House's No. 2 Democrat walking back his statement on the committee's investigation on Wednesday.
But the funniest of their films currently streaming is The Big Lebowski, an endlessly quotable marriage of their writing and directing talents with the perfectly dissonant personalities of John Goodman's Walter Sobchak, Steve Buschemi's Theodore Donald 'Donny' Kerabatsos, and Jeff Bridges' Duderino.
It's clear from the dissonant grunge guitar riff in the intro that things are a bit messier here, and Harle keeps the pressure rising throughout with nausea-inducing funhouse synths, playfully devious vocal edits, and what sounds like a clear will to troll.
In fall 2015, the 21-year-old MC released her debut single "Right Now," a dissonant, bass-heavy cut where—like Stizz did with his debut tape Suffolk County—Lee gives her own shout out to her Boston neighborhood, Roxbury, and to her crew.
The model stares coolly at us, her face proceeding through broad facets of light: shaded cheek, sunlit nose, deeply shadowed eye socket, barely illuminated far cheek — and it's difficult not to feel awed by such a powerful, yet strikingly naturalistic consummation of dissonant events.
The top portion, with its pink field and green tints, is painted with a flat, poster-like rigidity, while the undulating curves in the middle increase in size as they reach the band's bottom edge, creating a pictorially dissonant, perspectival illusion of receding space.
That's a fact many in Washington are reluctant to acknowledge, especially some cognitively dissonant members of Congress, who like to rail against fatty bureaucracy at the Department of Agriculture while behaving like any cut to the defense budget is a travesty against our soldiers.
Pyongyang, 2000 AM. The eerie stillness of the morning is shattered as loudspeakers across the city crack to life with the jarring, dissonant synth tones of "Where Are You, Dear General?" as performed by North Korea's state-sanctioned propaganda orchestra, the Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble.
JON CARAMANICA The bass hops around nervously in nearly constant eighth notes, with drums syncopated against it à la the Police; a guitar on the left offers a neat new-wave hook while another one on the right grumbles occasionally with dissonant, distorted squawks.
It seems an oddly dissonant and counterproductive message as Mr. Trump has shifted from warmongering to diplomacy on North Korea and prepares to meet its leader, Kim Jong-un, to get him to abandon his nuclear program, with an arsenal of 20 to 60 weapons.
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It can feel cognitively dissonant, or even like a lie, to feel like (I say this from experience) an absolute whale compared to all the images of tan, lithe, toned celebrities, and be told that there is, supposedly, no difference between you and them.
For example, it's dissonant that cybercop Melania strides into the Rose Garden to introduce her "Be Best" plan to help at-risk children at the same time her cyberbully husband unleashes his cruel Be Worst plot to slash the popular children's health benefits program.
It's full of familiar Norman touches, with its frenetic pace; its clouds of lyrical flight, dissonant and consonant at the same time; and its structural device of an opening explosion, containing within it all the thematic material that the piece proceeds to play out.
These jittery, often dissonant tracks, like the Island of Dr. Moreau-influenced "Jocko Homo," would highlight the band's central dichotomy of high and low culture, laden with ramshackle, sci-fi synths, primitive, gritty guitar work, and the complex philosophy at the heart of the project.
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.
There's endless meaningful conversations on Super Soul Sunday, which now live in its pages, so I asked her how, in today's dissonant world, we can all learn to have similar conversations with people who have a different viewpoint than we do — without it turning angry or spiteful.
For RuPaul to demand that the Vixen engage in a culture of silence, to expect her to choreograph her anger in order to appear less dissonant, less threatening, is to rob her of her voice for the sake of disproving the white myth of black inferiority.
"What's particular[ly] dissonant in Trump's case is his claiming credit for the [African-American] jobless rate while trying to move legislation and a budget that is uniquely damaging to economically vulnerable workers," he says, pointing to the administration's moves on health care and tax policy.
This dissonant experience could explain the utter disbelief on Regina King's face when she won Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie for her role in Seven Seconds; or Thandie Newton's emotional surprise when she won for Supporting Actress in a Drama for Westworld.
Hathenter manages to channel the majestically dissonant tension and release of Glenn Branca's symphonies, the wall of gurgling static of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, the big-band spirituality of John Coltrane's Ascension and, more recently, the doom-jazz chaos of GRID, into a truly bizarre experience.
"Never in my life as a political scientist have I seen two countries — major countries — with a constellation of national interests that are as dissonant, while the two leaders seem to be doing everything possible to make nice and be close to each other," he said.
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Here the highlights are the abrasive thorns stuck in the album's side: Elysia Crampton's "Oscollo (drums only info version)," in which waves of static adorn a rumbling polyrhythmic drum pattern; or Paul's "Preservo," an electronically altered woodwind blowing joyful, defiant, dissonant harmonies in reverse over percussive clicks.
"Diving Woman," a triumph of technologically altered shoegaze, could be Ride's "Seagull" if that track's furiously blurry wall of sound were clinically dissected, pieced back together modularly, and painted over with a thin, vitreous glaze, as the bassline and echoey dissonant lead guitar twist and shiver.
It often sounds as if Mr. Mitchell has pulled out individual elements of the piano's acoustics — the impact of a hammer on a string, the shudder of low notes on the soundboard, the overtones of a dissonant cluster — and distributed them across a fleet of instruments. G.R.
"And yet its founder has a position that is quite dissonant with most people in the U.S." It is certainly possible — even popular — to argue that even if you disagree ideologically with the aims of organizations the chain has donated to, it's fine to eat their sandwiches.
"Never in my life as a political scientist have I seen two countries — major countries — with a constellation of national interests that are as dissonant, while the two leaders seem to be doing everything possible to make nice and be close to each other," Bremmer said.
The ouster of Mr. Mallet thus represents a serious and worrisome escalation in Beijing's campaign to crack down on any dissonant voices in Hong Kong, especially in the wake of the "Occupy Central" movement for universal suffrage that locked down parts of the city four years ago.
For each day of the exhibition, during hours with no live performance, Mr. Pendleton is creating a unique and dissonant sound collage, layering audio material of artists and curators, culled from MoMA's archives, with hip-hop music, for instance, or recordings of Black Lives Matter protests.
No American president before the end of the Cold War would have found it strange or dissonant to take an interventionist and self-righteous line where Latin America was concerned, while accepting deals with bad actors and wooing autocrats in more far-flung and global theaters.
"Like Me" generates queasy, frenzied tension from the shrewd placement of prickly bass and buzzy, dissonant piano spikes, which ricochet with such precision that it sounds as if many more musicians are involved in recording the song than there are, at least on its first half.
I set aside the dopey, bumbling manner of his technique, the kitschy stencil borders, the garish dissonant color of the Reaper backgrounds, the clumsy drawing outlining his devils, and explored the possibility that Smith's art is not in his painting but in the act of making the paintings.
Curated by Sandra Antelo-Suarez, with the cooperation of Cady Noland, the exhibition Kinetics of Violence: Alexander Calder + Cady Noland initiates a dialogue among four works — two by each artist — that one might imagine as a dissonant string quartet, unfolding as each work asserts its distinctive timbre and range.
Yet it remains less a choir than a cacophony — a dissonant babble of politicians all struggling, in their own way, to cope with the manifold challenges posed by the virus, from its crushing burden on hospitals and health care workers to its economic devastation and rising death toll.
A legend of salsa and Latin jazz-rock fusion, Mr. Palmieri 80, has never let up on his dissonant, endlessly mercurial improvisation style; this large band, which plays a relatively traditional brand of New York Latin dance music, matches his fire while keeping things fluid enough for dancers.
But in a world where Amazon's Echo device goes by the name "Alexa," speaks in a human voice and can be supplemented with various "skills" — individual bits of software that stack up into a crude personality — the concept of a stacked self is neither surprising nor entirely dissonant.
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The piece begins with seemingly distinct statements, with pauses in between: a mini-episode of pastoral-like sonorities with an ominous cello line lurking below; sustained, bustling high harmonies with squiggly flights from the piano; an episode of staggered drum bursts; a haze of dense, piercingly dissonant chords; and more.
Long before many of its contemporaries were scoring historic drama with dissonant music, Peaky Blinders smashed rock songs onto scenes of the English working class and introduced every episode with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand" (Murphy refers to Cave as the "granddaddy" of the show's music).
The joyful dance music that came through was the antithesis of what was depicted in the video: police officers walking through a downtown thoroughfare, using a portable loudspeaker to play dissonant and grating sounds amid verbal instructions to clear the street (which came through the headphones at a subdued volume).
Much of it unfolding in black-and-white and without dialogue, "Part 8" twists up abstract stretches of uncanny cloud tunnels and dissonant sandstorms with comparatively straightforward (but no less cryptic) snippets of a terrifying frog-fly creature, a slumberous radio broadcast, and sooty ghosts jittering outside a smoldering, ramshackle convenience store.
And while my friends—and probably yours—forced shots of Prairie Fires (hot sauce and tequila) and Cement Mixers (Irish cream and lime juice) down my 21st birthday throat ages ago, it's fair to say that we have more dissonant flavors debuting in packaged alcoholic drinks than at any time in American life.
Another cognitively dissonant brand-revelation capped off a wildly popular three-minute musical from 2017 (viewed 18.6 million times so far on YouTube) in which a chorus of men, women and children sing to a religious zealot in a suicide vest, telling him with righteous compassion that he has taken the wrong path.
Tritones are famous as "the devil in music" and through their omnipresence in heavy metal but semitones don't get as much shine, despite being more dissonant when played together (mash two piano keys that sit next to each other at the same time and tell me if that sounds nice—it probably doesn't).
The e-commerce giant has come under scrutiny in the past few weeks for its decision to open its HQ2 locations in Queens, New York, and Washington, DC. Now, with the help of dissonant horns and lingering tones, Amazon becomes a supervillain, a corporation run by Lex Luthor or Hydra with world domination in mind.
Shapednoise: The record is about noise as serenity and harmony through chaos, in the sense that in an era of coercion, violence and manipulation something like noise, which is perceived as a disruption and chaos can actually be an outlet for psychic resistance and lead towards a harmonious vision of the universe's dissonant complexity.
I don't know what goes on in his head, but he'd said I was stupid for liking it so I immediately said to myself "Well, you're fucking stupid for being dark and dissonant and impossible all the time" and sat down and played a nice, pretty major progression on my Korg Trident, filter wide open.
"A Mulher do Fim do Mundo" ("The Woman at the End of the World"), produced by Guilherme Kastrup and featuring a slate of São Paolo musicians including Kiko Dinucci of the excellent band Metá Metá, is up-to-date in sound: strings, electronics, dissonant electric guitars, Afro-Brazilian grooves, a raw samba-rock band.
Yet because he has an ear for tangible textures, and because he enjoys humming a catchy tune, he also includes a startling range of harsh and/or dinky sound effects, heightening and manipulating the music's flow, including steel drums scraped together; plinky, dissonant xylophones harmonizing with the synthesizer; vocoded groans; and electronic creaks and scratches.
For me, the sparseness of the trio's sound revealed the harmonic pungencies and rich details in the music, like the transfixing moment when the avenging Sweeney haltingly sings the lines "There was a barber and his wife, and she was beautiful," and the piano gently jabbed the word "beautiful" with a piercingly dissonant chord.
The most immediately apparent sonic ingredients are the harshest ones: pounding metallic drums, random electronic shrieks, piercingly high bleeps dragged down a chalkboard, blasts of bass turned up way too loud, surprisingly hummable if dissonant synthesizer hooks, Gazelle Twin's own voice filtered through a mechanical groan — a musical forest of whirling knives and churning gears.
GANZ A tenacious 5/4 pulse propels "Crow's Perch" through a slew of post-punk transformations in just four minutes: from muffled bass line through sparse, almost jazzy ballad, through brittle patterns and strangulated one-syllable vocal lines, through a briefly restrained spoken-word passage on the way to a crashing, shouting, dissonant peak.
Oliver Stone's shaky-cam, characters-talking-over-each-other sports fable was a little too dissonant and disjointed in 1999, when we still wanted sports tales to have us at hello, but time has only seasoned this cynical story of a struggling football franchise and the plucky new (blond) co-owner who's determined to turn it around.
He was triggering violent, dissonant, abrasive sounds on a laptop and some MIDI controllers and pedals—seemingly free-form in nature, but often latching on to each other to form an internal logic of some sort—occasionally banging away on a floor-tom he had for assistance, or half-mumbling, half-growling through a distorted filter on the mic.
Together, the guitarist and lead singer Nick Bloom, the violinist Reid Jenkins (also of the Taylor Swift-endorsed folk band Morningsiders) and the bassist David Halpern perform bouncy and earnest songs that take palate-cleansing detours into both lyrical abstraction and dissonant instrumental noise, making for a result that resists clichés as much as it embraces tradition.
Mr. Clague also pointed to the evidence of a Victor recording of "An American in Paris" that was made in 1929, under Gershwin's supervision and presumably using his horns: The taxi horns on that recording sound a more atmospheric, more dissonant set of notes: A flat, B flat, a much higher D, and lower A. Gershwin's original instruments seem to have been lost.
Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg included her in their outstanding 2010 anthology Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics (Saturnalia Books), and while Minnis fit just fine into their aesthetic of "burlesque and camp, girly kitsch and the female grotesque," her work also possessed a hypnotic, seductively estranged, subtly dissonant music all its own, something unlike anything else in recent American poetry.
On the surface the symphony's four movements seem to come from different realms: a brisk, purposeful Allegro with a searching development section that climaxes midway in a gnashing burst of dissonant chords; a grimly imposing Funeral March; a breathless Scherzo at once godly and giddy; a romping, mischievous Finale that is somehow the ultimate statement of the heroic in music.
It was during this early scene—in which a sort of pantomime is enacted beneath Ehle's beautiful voice and Mays's restrained, often comic excitability—that I thought that Rogers and Sher might be on their way to making something that was more reflective of the times than the "truth," a dissonant opera of talk and movement, lies and evasions and beliefs: the stuff of politics.
Whether it's the quivering harmonica that opens "The Rainbow," the radiant choir that appears at the end of "I Believe in You," or the dissonant thing that emerges four minutes into "After the Flood" and sustains itself for an entire minute (Hollis claims that it's two saxophones playing at once, but no saxophone credit appears on the album), every single sound is bursting with life.
"What's interesting about the paradox of Chick-fil-A is that, in many ways, it's probably one of the most socially advanced companies in terms of treatment of employees and its role in the community," Ordahl said, "and yet its founder has a position that is quite dissonant with most people in the U.S." As Rachel Sugar previously wrote for The Goods, the simple fact is that some people, even those who support LGBTQ rights, eat at Chick-fil-A because they like the food — even if they dislike what the Cathys stand for.

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