Brass instruments sounded especially strident in the sustain, as if each note was resonating off the head of a crash cymbal.
Not exact matches
It uses the most universal
instrument, the human voice, and
sounds created by earthy things like catgut and skin and wood and
brass.
Making use of
brass instruments that are featured prominently in military bands as well as rock - and - roll anthems appropriated by US soldiers as psychological weapons, the artists have drawn attention to the complicated role music and
sound have played in warfare and nation building.
Philipsz has made new recordings of the
sounds produced from five
brass musical
instruments damaged in Germany during various conflicts, and since conserved in museum collections.
Philipsz has focused on the
brass and woodwind family, as these
instruments need the human breath to produce the
sound and subsequently all the recordings have a strong human presence.
We pay close attention to how clearly vocalists are reproduced, how authentic cymbals,
brass and string
instruments sound and how dynamic and percussive a speaker is capable of being.