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Recent Examples of polyphonic
Daphne’s original voice cannot be recovered but Mobarak animates a space for its absence to be heard anew, among a polyphonic chorus of human-nonhuman sound that is at once incomplete and overflowing.
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Mariana Fernández, ARTnews.com, 18 Dec. 2024
Every character in this story gets their own voice — the novel’s polyphonic structure comprises 21 first-person chapters, a daisy chain of regret, anger, humor and self-loathing.
—Tomi Obaro, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
At the heart of the exhibition is the collective creation of new vocal datasets—polyphonic AI models designed to handle and generate multiple distinct elements simultaneously.
—Nargess Banks, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
Maria Arnal, the composer behind the film’s score, brought her polyphonic approach, collaborating closely with the director.
—Callum McLennan, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
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Mariana Fernández, ARTnews.com, 18 Dec. 2024
Every character in this story gets their own voice — the novel’s polyphonic structure comprises 21 first-person chapters, a daisy chain of regret, anger, humor and self-loathing.
—Tomi Obaro, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
At the heart of the exhibition is the collective creation of new vocal datasets—polyphonic AI models designed to handle and generate multiple distinct elements simultaneously.
—Nargess Banks, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
Maria Arnal, the composer behind the film’s score, brought her polyphonic approach, collaborating closely with the director.
—Callum McLennan, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polyphonic
Adjective
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Budgerigars are both impressive vocal mimics and also have complex vocalizations called warbles that are a mix of noisy and harmonic calls.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
19 Mar. 2025
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By applying harmonic scaling to energy relationships, this framework integrates these domains seamlessly.—
Eric Solis,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
3 Oct. 2024
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The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
1 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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In exploring this connectivity, Lindeman extends the reach of her music further than ever, while also continuing to grow the Weather Station’s sound into a vespertine orchestral domain all its own.—
Sheldon Pearce,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
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Sparse piano chords, a slow-blues structure, hovering orchestral arrangements and the cry within Ledisi’s voice all hark back to Nina Simone.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Once contact is made, males rub their chins along the female’s spine, contracting their bodies in rhythmic waves, attempting to maneuver into alignment.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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The Alto Knights has reams of rhythmic dialogue inspired by the pattern of the people within that world.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This loft echoes the area’s artistic roots with bright peachy paint accentuated by tonal artwork and accents.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
19 Mar. 2025
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Those qualities don’t necessarily dominate Music, which is more interested in reveling in the tonal breadth of the voice.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Learning Greene’s chordal vocabulary on this record, living in his perfect counterpoint, is a constant inspiration for me.—
Giovanni Russonello,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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The Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi set Psalm 112 in Hebrew, in mainly chordal antiphony.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas News,
2 Mar. 2020
Adjective
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In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen.—
Seth Colter Walls,
New York Times,
26 Aug. 2022
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Widmung as an encore, with natural, songful lyricism.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
25 June 2022
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Moreover, the combination of the specific chord progression in the melody paired with the verbatim hook was a greater than 50% clone of Vance’s original work, in both lyric choice and chord expressions.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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Doja Rat stated that Strange claimed to have over 300 songs and handwritten lyric sheets.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2025
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