Hints and tips:
...Mark Leckey’s film about a unicorn plushie cast adrift (“Dazzleddark”, 2023), which also starred in his recent Turner Contemporary exhibition, is both enchanting and eerie....
...I found, and I find that I like to listen to the melody over and over and over and over and over again....
...And so that’s when I started thinking I could write, like I really think of a ribbon, like a winding melody, simple melody played on the harp that could really fit in to a song....
...Our sound engineers are Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco, with original music by Metaphor Music. Topher Forhecz is our executive producer and our global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley....
...“I watched the video of Tina Turner’s Private Dancer tour so many times,” she laughs, “and wow, her energy and presence inspired me.”...
...Our sound engineers are Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco, with original music by Metaphor Music. Topher Forhecz is our executive producer. Monique Malema is our intern....
...Our sound engineers are Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco, with original music by Metaphor Music. Topher Forhecz is our executive producer and special thanks go, as always, to Cheryl Brumley....
...I was actually going to have to create the vocal melody....
...Now, familiar melodies are heavily disguised and themes and tempi are stretched....
...It combines the textures and tempos of ‘80s punk rock with the melodies of pop. It was big in the early 2000s, and now it’s back....
...Melodies shimmer almost psychedelically at the edge of the action, like heat haze....
...Themes alternate twiddly lines with warmly voiced stabs or juxtapose sharp-angled melodies with hummable tunes....
...“Into [the] void of daily scents and sounds, a multitude of melodies has been born: balcony concerts, recordings and in-home videos,” she explains in an article for social science magazine Sapiens, noting...
...The music reverses the pattern of “Dexter & Sinister”, opening with a curt bass line and then adding twinkling keyboard melodies....
...The syncopated country strum that introduces “Devil’s Need” sets up another wide-ranging melody, Turner’s harp playing off against Rogers’s vocal....
...the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and 80s Symphonic, on which an orchestra plays with David Bowie, a-ha, Tina Turner, Ultravox and so on....
...As the spirited solos on “Mr Right” soar over precise, closed-form structures and the repeated melody of “Big Tent, Little Tent” plays out over loose-limbed funk, the balance here is just right. ★★★★☆...
...Lindsay was one of the founders of Tunng, celebrated for bringing what he has called “electronica, glitch, cut’n’paste twistedness” to Wicker Man folk melody....
...“Writing complex music on acoustic instruments is very inefficient,” explains Turner. “This felt like throwing the dice — what would happen if I used this plug-in and chopped this drumbeat up?”...
...“Histoire de Molly” even brought in melodies from Cape Breton....
...Sherman’s colleagues sing rapturously of FIFIs — Future Investment Security Instruments; the subsequent crash of the securities recalled the casino scene of Lulu but with melody replacing dissonance....
...McNally became obsessed with its earworm of a melody and gave it a setting that starts like a lost collaboration between Miles Davis and Alice Coltrane, moves through appropriately Protean musical shifts...
...Masekela began with an improvisation around Freddie Hubbard’s original cornet line, all embellishment and no melody, and then, as the piano shifted key, leant down hard into the tune....
...Each part built variations on a theme, and each part ended with Thomas and Turner on an expressionist high....
...“The Vampyre of Time and Melody” is Edgar Allan Poe as 1970s pomp-rock, Homme playing the alienated solitary while a guitar solo does a marvellously grungy impression of Pink Floyd....
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