dissonances

A couple months ago, when Google Desktop was released, I wrote an entry saying I didn’t trust Google, especially because of certain dissonances in its declared policy (Don’t be evil) and its actions — for example, when Google News bowed to China’s government and censored search results.

Reflective Surface - Archives: 2004 December 2004

A couple months ago, when Google Desktop was released, I wrote an entry saying I didn’t trust Google, especially because of certain dissonances in its declared policy (Don’t be evil) and its actions — for example, when Google News bowed to China’s government and censored search results.

Reflective Surface - Trusting Google 2004

The composer wanted to introduce some of he describes as "uncomfortable" notions (such as dissonances, pentuplets and intentionally vague rhythmic packaging) within a more comfortable context; such as blues-influenced melodies and harmonies.

Audiophile Audition Headlines 2010

Bruce Williams played a Coltrane-esque solo on alto, even as pianist Sullivan Fortner seemed to be going out of his way to replicate the angular, spiky dissonances of McCoy Tyner.

A Young Lion, All Grown Up Will Friedwald 2012

As he played Chopin's D flat Nocturne, its simple song and silken dissonances sounding in the ghostly gloom of the Turbine Hall, no one stirred.

Daniel Barenboim - review 2011

Fluttering melodic figures, submerged in whole-tone scales and rippling intervals, escaped into the air only to evaporate into a limpid, Wagnerian fog, specked by floating dissonances.

An Otherworldly Opera Jonathan Blitzer 2011

At times he directs the massed musicians in violent stabs of sound, at others he brings out startlingly lovely dissonances and consonances that are rather like finding a Bird in Igor's yard.

Passing Down the Piano Torch Song Will Friedwald 2011

And it kind of provides these really interesting dissonances but kind of grooves too.

Angola, Spare Standards And A Zooid: New Jazz Albums 2010

But he adds that also in the ecclesial environment dissonances emerged: At times - he ends with a pinch of bitterness - one has the impression that our society needs at least one group for which it does not reserve any tolerance; which one can unperturbedly set upon with hatred.

Advance Report on the Papal Letter about the Lifting of the SSPX Excommunications II 2009

This hornet's nest of densely knotted dissonances and sound effects pushes the four players to the limits, but the performance was mostly a success.

Juilliard quartet newcomer Joseph Lin challenged by lack of gravitas 2011