Sentences with phrase «discordant sounds»

I play music from my iPad at night to help me sleep, using headphones, and my neighbor has been hijacking it and playing discordant sounds to wake me up in the...

If you see a moody pattern emerging on the type of films they've worked on, you'd be on the money; the pair, influenced by folks like Krzysztof Penderecki, Terry Bozzio and even later - day dark and doomy Scott Walker, traffic largely in droney and disquieting soundscapes, specializing in that sweet spot where discordant sounds subtly burn in the back of the frame rather than overpowering the narrative.

We can create harmony from discordant sounds by the addition of further sounds, but only in music.

Soon that show tune merges with score to create a cacophony of discordant sound, fitting for what The A.V. Club's A.A. Dowd described as «a portrait of a famous dreamlife curdling into a public nightmare.»

Not exact matches

The two prophecies sit side by side, but sound discordant when heard together.

The Guardian: Ding dang... Notre Dame moves to scrap out - of - tune bells Their names sound pretty enough — Angélique - Françoise, Antoinette - Charlotte, Hyacinthe - Jeanne and Denise - David — but the noise they make together has been described as «discordant» and enough to drive Quasimodo deaf all over again.

Research suggests that infants prefer pleasant, harmonic music rather than discordant, harsh sounds.

We like Charles Barron and appreciate his willingness to sound discordant notes.

The editing is choppy and discordant — albeit a few brilliant sound design sequences where Jamie (Michael Cera) and his native Chilean friends partake in the Pedro.

The only discordant notes were sounded, literally, by the squeaks and creaks coming from various locations, and by the ill - fitting dash pad.

Vinny shows that he understands time travel by saying, «Scott Bakula and all that» (for all of you Quantum Leap fans out there) and when future Stewie saves past Brian he starts to fade out like a Marty McFly in Back to the Future — only without the discordant guitar sounds.

As the balloon slowly deflates, it forces air through several acoustic sound - generating devices to a funnel directed at the viewer, issuing a series of discordant noises — the frog's mating call.