His wailing falsetto turned repeated phrases into a keening litany.
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Derince also toyed with tone: buzzy, piercing, nasal, twangy, keening.
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"Adjo" finds keening, percussive synchronicity between voice (Martha Cluver), flute (Ms.
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Ofglen's keening as she watches makes it that much harder to bear.
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Two voices, faint but pure, are joined by a third, softly keening.
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Mr. Klein's keening vocal approach immediately impressed Gabriel Roth, an owner of Daptone.
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A keening home court crowd was not enough for destiny's darlings, the Warriors.
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In his classic work, there is always a hint of keening and need.
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She came quickly, too quickly, clawing at him and keening and forgetting speech altogether.
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A Nigerian woman is keening: her two children were lost overboard before rescue arrived.
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As she tries to define that self, Josie's dental-patient ghosts won't stop keening.
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Unlike beams of tinnitus, these keening, distortionlike sounds were a sign of healthy ears.
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The top is off, and the 3.2-liter V-1403 is keening behind my head.
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Conrad had his own wild, keening sound, both as a violinist and as a composer.
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At our second meeting, with more trust established, he issued a sob, almost a keening.
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Mr. Zeigler seemed somewhat underused, contributing keening harmonics and jittery tremolo notes but little musical substance.
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Such contrasts arise throughout: archaic choral polyphony and modernist whisperings, keening string clusters and plaintive drones.
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But it wasn't a running commentary — a gaping, keening, raging one — on the nation's political life.
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The afternoon I visited, I heard a keening cry from a side alley near the foreigner annex.
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Songs like "Now" had keening harmonies and a crisp sound that only die-hard fans knew about.
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But it was Mr. Starr's keening over the coarsening and polarization of American politics that seemed most noteworthy.
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A keening voice rings out and the dancer's arms flutter slightly, as if awakened by its mournful sound.
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" He had to delete his tweet on election night, keening, "A world is collapsing before our eyes. Vertigo.
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But then they diverge: Richardson's stock in trade is the bluesy smear, bending one keening note into another.
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Keening for the departed George M. Steinbrenner III—"If only George was alive, the team wouldn't be losing," etc.
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In fact, there's a certain joy in it: crisp guitar melodies, nimble bass grooves and Mr. Smith's bright, keening vocals.
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Mr. Almodóvar, for his part, tells her story with his characteristic later-period blend of elegant restraint and keening melodrama.
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It's basically the laments of dead chiefs, and it's based on a tradition called keening, that women would sing at funerals.
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At the end, it lingers with unaccompanied voices carrying a keening melody: a mother's lament, perhaps, for her daughter's imminent trials.
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Robert Plant's keening voice— that sounded lawbreaking to him as a child, not the music that he and his friends made.
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The group drew from a fiery new album, "Wisdom of Elders," with Mr. Hutchings playing in keening gusts and prayerful cries.
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The former slowly builds tension underneath Yorke's keening threats of military subjugation, and the eventual release is a sonic panic attack.
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If these cinematic tear-jerkers don't have you crying, keening, and curling up into a little ball, we don't know what will.
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A woman keening in the kitchen to the pitch of boiling water, you shut her up with the butt of your gun.
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Bobby Kimball comes in with that high, keening part, but note how he mainly drones on the same note the whole time.
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The music, composed by Thom Yorke, of Radiohead, includes a keening lament, and, in every corner of the movie, the past leaks in.
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But until then, we'll be keening in a corner and draping black shrouds over every hairdryer, mousse, and wide-tooth comb we find.
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Amid Mary's "eerie keening, addressed to the underworld itself," Lincoln pulled back the sheet: The boy's eyes had been closed; the hair combed.
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As the keening crowd surged dangerously toward the grave site, I was lifted off my feet, lost in a heaving mass of humanity.
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As the migrants come on board, many of them are keening in distress, with clothes covered in petrol that started leaking in their dinghy.
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There weren't any keening lady think pieces; no one came out and boldly declared 2015 as the year that women keened ethereally without restraint.
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If it weren't for that silence, I never would have heard the soft heartsick keening of Allison working through the stations of her grief.
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Dani discovers Christian in flagrante and finally lets out her howling grief, surrounded by a half-dozen girls who match her keening with their own.
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Yes, I hear Joe Newman's keening vocals, the "la-la" hooks and the clattering percussion but they've never been an act to which I've gravitated.
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The woman said that, months later, she would hear what sounded like a woman keening outside her home, and she believed it was the Mothman.
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One minute he'd be keening beside you; the next, he'd be gone and so would your wallet, intensifying the weeping and wailing over fresh loss.
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Mro'ô's widow embraced him with the traditional Kayapo greeting of tears, in which they produced a high-pitched keening to mourn dead friends and relatives.
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His music creates long arcs of pondering and confession, rising gradually and gustily, often to a peak that offers Mr. Clementine's full voice, keening and exposed.
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It's a high-pitched, keening snort-sigh that's at once desperate and asinine, and it's at the very core of Brent's emergence as a comic antihero.
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The adopted son of a pleureuse, a professional singer at funerals, he learned to sing in church, perfecting the keening falsetto that would remain his trademark.
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It is as rhythmically driving as the First Piano Concerto, but far more elemental, a world of keening cries, choked rasps, eerie silences and crashing waves.
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"Go on ride away / in your Silverado," she laments, curses, sneers, poking at tradition but, in the keening pedal steel, finding something beautiful in it, too.
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Together they performed the wistful 1979 "The Muppet Movie" tune "Rainbow Connection" alongside a keening string section, Nelson's aged rasp a great pair for Musgraves' smooth croon.
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The parallel vocal worlds represented by her shapely lyricism and his emotionally raw, guttural keening created an interesting musical tension that might have been exploited more effectively.
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With entries like DUMB DOWN, ENERVATE, SLOTHFUL and NOTHING, the message in Mr. Saunders's quote and Cox and Rathvon's puzzle is turned up to a plaintive keening.
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He's possessed of a high and keening voice that can seem to reach to the stars, but never shakes off the dust and grime of the earth.
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So when Haggard started recording in the '60s, it was with a guitar-centric, stripped-down sound that prominently featured the keening leads of the Fender Telecaster guitar.
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Keening choirs and cadaverous extras bear witness as Yuri (Max Irons) leaves the family farm and his childhood sweetheart, Natalka (Samantha Barks), to attend art school in Kiev.
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If the guitar of U2's the Edge is the evolution of a fiddle mid-jig, Ms. O'Riordan's voice was keening the dead at the end of a wake.
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Written for three sopranos standing around a grand piano, the opera is a capacious combination of Irish keening, medieval-style close harmony, torch-song blues and Weill-esque cabaret.
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With gently keening vocals, the song works out a kind of emotional equation, gazing at peaceful hearts and ones that are tormented even at Christmastime with equally serene sympathy.
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Tasha: Yup, it was kind of a cheap shot, played for shock, and so was Littlefinger's abrupt and keening cowardice, throwing himself on his knees and weeping for his life.
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For all the security that "Jersey Boys" gave Mr. Young — presumably he could have a career singing Four Seasons hits ad infinitum — that keening vocal style loomed as a musical straitjacket.
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A second-grader we interviewed entered the room silently but burst into tears when we asked who she traveled with to the US. "My aunt," she said, with a keening cry.
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In one of Gozo's best-known poems, "The Keening I Long For," which, like "Kadena," is also ostensibly about the military occupation of Okinawa, he has the memorable line: "B," Boring?
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Born in Ethiopia, Ms. Jernberg wove a keening Ethiopian folk song into her own assemblage of virtuosic vocal tricks: yelps, croaks and hums evocative of birds and of early Meredith Monk.
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The conclusion, after the kinetic fireworks of cello and drums have burned themselves out, sends slivers of electronically processed cello harmonics ricocheting around the auditorium like the distant keening of gulls.
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They combine the tensely fluttering, flickering quality of his instrumental music with a remarkably varied approach to the human voice, sometimes speaking, sometimes keening, sometimes as pure-toned as a boy soprano.
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In "Drive Fast (The Stuntman)," amid keening strings that recall "Wichita Lineman," the singer is a stuntman itemizing his broken bones and scars, reminiscing about a romance on a B movie set.
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In the Larghetto of his String Quartet No. 1 ("Clouds"), a keening cello solo evokes the sounds of the Chinese bowed erhu, woven into a modernist score that is both wistful and severe.
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A heart-rending photo of a keening monkey, mourning what appears to be her dead baby, was taken in India, in 2017 — and the baby monkey has actually tripped and fallen, not died.
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But I keep coming back to one: Barbara Hannigan, the fearless soprano playing Ophelia, singing a keening tone while pounding her chest with her fist, summing up the character's instability with nerve-racking economy.
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Guitars, strumming and keening, rally behind her, fall away and rally again as she confronts both her antagonist and her own self-consciousness: "Everyone will hear me complain," she proclaims in a cappella vocal harmonies.
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In search of mourning rituals, Ms. Baldwin began, with "Keen (Part 1)," to research keening, the Irish tradition of vocal lamenting historically practiced by women, and to play with its features of rocking, kneeling and clapping.
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Fuck the facts and I don't know why I adore them, why they're one of the few bands that can still conjure that strange keening a teenage me felt for Fugazi and Nirvana and (briefly) Cypress Hill.
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One Sunday morning, I heard a keening wail rise from a register near mine: it came from an older woman whose meticulous organizational system, known only to her, was being cheerfully undermined by a well-intentioned assistant.
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On the other hand, her response—a keening lament, which she writes with her sister Ellie (Stacy Martin) and sings live on national TV—earns her a flicker of celebrity, which, far from guttering, becomes a blaze.
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Mr. Wrona is very good at thickening the air with mystery, and right from the start he slips in enigmatic details and figures — the prowling bulldozer, a keening woman, a scowling man — that disturb the ordinary scene.
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Featuring naughty strippers, an Abba-ish quartet of mellifluously keening vocalists, a cameo guest star (mine was the novelist Irvine Welsh) and some airborne gymnastics, "Riot" doesn't seem to have an ironic bone in its bendy body.
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The past few years have brought folksy screeching, glacial silences, drawling speech, powdery bleakness and spiritual solemnity; last year, a keening Ethiopian folk song was tricked out with an avant-garde mixture of yelps, croaks and hums.
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Everything about it is genuine perfection: the keening, longing vocal, those lighter-than-air chords that float and pulse celestially, the perfectly weighted kick, that handclap 59 seconds in, fuck, it's all too much everytime I hear it.
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Unconvincing battle scenes, though, aren't the half of it: this second feature from David L.G. Hughes also supplies keening choirs and gods (hello, Mr. Stamp) who pop out of Valhalla to whisper in ears and dispense magic mushrooms.
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A remake of "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)," with a hurtling rock beat and Ben Monder's keening guitar replacing Ms. Schneider's impressionistic big-band horn arrangement, leaves unclear whether it is a farewell or a murder confession.
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Three years have passed, and at Saturday's opening-night performance of his show at the same club, he commemorated the tragedy with a performance of the much more anguished Coldplay song "Fix You," sung in a keening semi-falsetto.
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He also had a fertile musical imagination, deploying everything from keening rimshots to dramatic shifts in dynamics — and on one occasion, a George Jones-Tammy Wynette session, his bare hands — to galvanize recordings by everyone from Elvis Presley to Henry Mancini.
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She used the pipe organ at the Church Street United Methodist Church for an eerie 47-minute piece that started with one of the very highest notes of the organ, alone: a keening whistle from somewhere far out of reach.
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He was answered by the kamancheh, a viola-like bowed instrument played by Derya Turkan, who in an extended solo drew from it a veiled, keening sound that seemed to belong in equal parts to the wind and the waking lover.
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Sung with keening clarity by the evening's two vocal soloists — the soprano María Valdés and the baritone Efraín Solís — the songs gained tension and mystery from the interplay between repetitive riffs on the piano (Michael Barrett) and softly insistent percussion (Jeremy Smith).
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Upstairs in the lobby, the reading began at full emotional throttle, as Ashanti, reading the part of the chorus, responded to Mr. Giamatti's full-throated opening with a keening wail of her own, before commanding that he, playing the messenger, tell the story.
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Because with this renovation, which started last week, I am hearing every appliance dragged across the room, every scrape as the ceramic tiles are pulled off the kitchen floor, every cabinet as it's been pried from the wall, keening for its life.
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Here's an example: My partner, who lives with me and subsequently became an involuntary participant in my exploration, complained frequently about all of the "ethereal keening ladies" I listened to (Holly Herndon, Matana Roberts, Lapsley, THEESatisfaction, Yowler, and GABI to name a few).
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And time away, too, from both televised Olympic coverage that too often ignores interviewing significant non-American winners and from Rowdy Gaines — that's right, ROWDY GAINES — whose keening voice will forever ring in my ears when I find myself in a swimming pool.
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The restaurant sings with joy when Green takes off his concrete shoes for a few minutes, but then LeBron sinks a corner three right over Thompson and the entire communal table I'm sitting at lets out a disappointed, keening, sigh crossed with a groan.
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The program includes selections from "Our Lady of Late," which she first performed alone in 1972, accompanying herself with keening pitches made by rubbing a wineglass; "New York Requiem"; "Dolmen Music," an early ensemble masterpiece; and, for good measure, a brand-new Monk composition.
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More than 20 years ago, when I sat keening in a hospital anteroom, after the scans and the somber looks and the clueless young intern who told me she would go home and cry for us, my family and I joined the ranks of the unlucky.
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Instead of simply lying on the ground, keening in pain, we use language to express that we are hurt and need help, or hand signals if we can't speak, and utilize that more modern abstraction of human labor — money — to compensate others for their efforts to rescue us.
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His lyrical compositions layer the ghostly frayed voices of his ancestors with jazzy arpeggios on the piano, keening cellos lines and arching phrases sung in his own voice, which is powered by classical training and colored here and there by the tremor and guttural catch of traditional chant.
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Crunchy metallic percussion, pungent electric strings, squealing keyboards, fancy riffs on guitar and sitar shredding past their breaking points, and Reza's own keening voice — all abrasive in theory, instead conjure a garish warmth suitable for a particular brand of melodic pathos designed to linger on every drop of suffering.
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In any case, I'm not sure that having Mr. Zeleke spend most of the play sitting at the back of the stage, providing the keening voice of the people in Amharic and playing an Ethiopian lyre, is a wise way to deploy a black actor in a story about Africans.
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And I'm wholeheartedly on board with Waldman at the poem's end: don't be dazed around criminalstake the wheel of office againboycott, stomp out,plead, hold peace And I can share her understanding of the basic problem in the book's final lines: how get supper to homelessshivering at crossroadswith keening imaginationhowever jinxed!
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It's a pleasingly human irony—he may lead a revolutionary team, but Kerr still finds comfort in the sounds of an era when musicians with relief-pitcher goatees and burlap hats gave voice to the needs and frustrations of other men with similar facial hair by making guttural keening sounds and taking unhurried guitar solos.
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Slowly our main vector of information shifts from sight to sound: the slap of her shoes on the pavement, the buzz of failing electrical wires, the keening whir of car alarms, squealing tires stopping short in the sudden absence of streetlights and stoplights, the pulsating hum and ominous strings of composer Mac Quayle's never-better score.
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In the past year especially, as a nightmarish number of lives have ended with the punctuation mark of a bullet, I've seen my dovish conviction reflected everywhere — in the social media feeds of my friends, the public comments of politicians, the paper's op-ed columns, and in the faces of families, fierce and keening over their lost ones.
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It was a mix of nails on a chalkboard and a whale's keening call — abrasive yet sensual ZACHARY WOOLFE METROPOLITAN OPERA, MAY 16 It may well have been the weirdest audition in Met history: The British director Phelim McDermott was looking for a strongman, to be part of the carny milieu of his Coney Island "Così Fan Tutte" next season.
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There's also the fact that his Star Wars scores have a pretty restrictive mold—blaring horns, dissonantly cosmic string parts, and chaotic, keening action scenes—and in his work outside of the galaxy far, far, away he's since branched out into using different instruments, composition styles, and even electronics as evidenced by his work for the capable, but award-baiting journalism drama The Post.
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But whereas the former opera's "Song to the Moon" is a solitary utterance, the aria for Marina, the Polish woman who has married Dimitrij for the sake of power rather than love, is backed by vigorous choral writing, with the Poles celebrating their victory in roisterous mazurka rhythms and the Russian crowd keening their disapproval in strains that echo music of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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This, it turns out, is the root of that vaunted gift for mimicry, which, along with their striking plumages and beguilingly fixed, wide-eyed stares, has long induced us to keep parrots — neuronally hard-wired flock animals with up to 60-to-123-year life spans and the cognitive capacities of 4-to-5-year-old children — all to ourselves in a parlor cage: a broken flight of human fancy; a keening kidnapee.
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On entering the first gallery, I encounter Glenn Ligon's "Prisoner of Love #44003 (Second Version)" (1992), a text painting in which the phrase "we are the ink that gives the white page a meaning" is repeated over and over and then begins to smudge and become muddy and illegible towards the bottom, as if in the repetition (because it is not heard the first time) the sentiment becomes part of the cultural noise that renders us all crying voices in a cacophonous wilderness — each of us keening with one another as our habitat shrinks and we are inched to oblivion.
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