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...Founded in 2014, Audiotonix makes sound equipment for concerts and other live events, and has proven a popular and lucrative target for private equity firms....
...Rhythm is provided by the sound of him breathing in and out....
...Lise Davidsen’s performance as Leonora in Verdi’s La forza del destino at the Metropolitan Opera can only be described as towering....
...Music is the centre of my life. I’m passionate about the silence and space and meanings between the notes and the sounds. The silence before the performance and after....
...British-Colombian DJ Bushbby celebrates the heady, underground sounds of Latin dance music at her night Candela Viva....
...Antonoff sounds a lot like that band’s Matt Berninger when he portentously intones lines such as “Jesus is dead and so’s New York”....
...It featured timbres and gestures rather than notes, sounds groping towards the coherence of formal music, the inexpressible in search of a language....
...The overall result was a compelling hypnotic sound that captured other top musicians’ hearts, as Gittins noted....
...A La Sala is hip, convivial mood music. ★★★☆☆ ‘A La Sala’ is released by Dead Oceans...
...Most of the music is country (Keith Urban, Luke Combs, now Beyoncé) but not all of it (Ed Sheeran, Stevie Nicks). Since it’s choreographed, it’s easy for non-dancers to get involved....
...So is Lana del Rey, who told a Grammy’s event in January: “If you can’t already tell by our award winners and our performers, the music business is going country . . ....
...Cowboy Carter leads a move into country by other mainstream stars such as Lana Del Rey....
...Nicky Spence sounds on the young side for the dying Gerontius, but is touchingly tender....
...At the same time, she sounds unmistakably Lemper: wry, alluring, icy yet incandescent....
...In the meantime, here’s his roundup of the best pop albums of 2023, including Lana Del Rey and The Chemical Brothers: https://on.ft.com/3RKPtdm – Ludo is on X at @ludohunter....
...Usually to be found in the pit at Munich’s main opera house, the orchestra makes a fine, cultured sound on the concert platform and Vladimir Jurowski, general music director, chose a pair of full-scale programmes...
...I’m excited to share this spring arts special with you – this time it is steered by the art of sound....
...Half the time, he says, his music sounds “wrong”, experimenting “with my thick musical crayon” until it turns into something viable....
...Starting on Thursday, Swift’s music was being systematically removed and muted on TikTok, along with songs from Universal’s vast stable of stars such as Ariana Grande, Drake, Lana Del Rey, ABBA and Olivia...
...“This has got some really cool sounds on it,” he says, turning on a Japanese “haiku synth” that sounds like a koto zither. “It’s not in a western scale.”...
...“Probably also the capacity to mix venue sound with in-ear sound.” Concert sound increasingly resembles the highly engineered and edited world of recorded music....
...“Summon” is an exercise in horror-movie atmospherics with tense strings and sinister metallic sounds....
...She sounds animated but non-judgmental, a provoking presence amid the foreboding machinery of percussion and noise. ★★★★☆ ‘The Collective’ is released by Matador...
...includes the repertoire of stars such as Taylor Swift, Drake, The Weeknd and Lana Del Rey....
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