microtones

In 1988, with musician Susan Alexjander, Deamer put DNA to music to make "microtones".

Darwiniana 2008

His voice could flit with ease through and around the microtones of a scale, and his eyes would roll upwards in accompaniment, as if he were watching the notes evaporate in front of him.

Remembering India's Golden Voice Samanth Subramanian 2011

Viola and cello retune their bottom strings in microtones, creating unexpected new chords, and the music is filled with trills, tremolandos and glissandos; the goal, Haas says, is "to glide freely through unknown aural landscapes".

This week's new live music 2011

The Ligeti work heard on the "2001: A Space Odyssey" film sound track will use a dense thicket of tones operating in "different underlying tempos," says Mr. Hillier, and, like the music by Iannis Xenakis on t he same program, "makes use of microtones," the pitches between the cracks of a piano keyboard.

The More Melodies, the Merrier 2010

Robert McDuffie, the soloist in the Glass piece, bravely attempted, with a range of exaggerated gestures and unintentional microtones, to breathe life into the work.

LPO/Murphy 2010

In 1930, Carrillo organized the Thirteenth Sound Symphony Orchestra, in which all the musical instruments could play microtones.

Did you know? Mexico's Nobel Prize nominee and music revolutionary 2008

In 1930, Carrillo organized the Thirteenth Sound Symphony Orchestra, in which all the musical instruments could play microtones.

Did you know? Mexico's Nobel Prize nominee and music revolutionary 2008

As she continues in the opening lines of her omnibus review, There are many kinds of poetry; poetry performs many functions; poetry is more plastic than sculpture, has more microtones than any formal musical system — with fewer rules.

More Than Meets the I : Don Share : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

What astonishing music--there's the one part where the piano is going nuts and the strings start doing microtones that's out of this world.

The genius of John Foulds Jessica 2007

It was also because of the radio that she discovered that there were beautiful songs for women, and she sang 'O Mio Babbino Caro' at the top of her voice as she scrubbed the floor on her hands and knees, investing it with oriental microtones and adorning it with ululations, thus abnegating in the very attempt her project of becoming Italian.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003