Prum thinks that long ago, an earlier version of the bird's courtship dance incidentally produced a feathery susurration.
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Sentences that include the word "skein" or "susurration," or use any form of the disgusting verb "to limn" — they're literary.
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Imagine green clay courts swept clean, awash in supple glow from the humming lights above, pine boughs communing in quiet susurration beyond the fence.
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But Bonds and Rafaeli — as well as Kimie Nishikawa (sets) and Jen Schriever (lighting) — keep pushing toward a starker, more symbolist place, which doesn't sit well with the ultrarealism of actual bacon frying and the clumsy susurration of K's breast bump.
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When I answered, bringing the receiver slowly to my ear, the grumble of static seemed devoid of anything human, though I knew better, and my patient attention and increased effort drew from the susurration faint squeals, like the protests of drowning men fathoms deep.
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From the public conversations I witnessed between Pérez-Barreiro and his collaborators, I gathered that they understood the risk they were taking by filling a building with simultaneous conversations that seemed, when I first entered the building, to form a kind of busy and unintelligible visual susurration.
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The Tutl bus in Sumba, Faroe Islands in 2013, transporting instruments for a jazz concert. Tutl is Faroese for "whisper, susurration"; overseas, it is probably the best-known representative and distributor of Faroese music. For instance, all entries of Faroese artists in the World Music guide (published by The Rough Guide) are released by "the main Faroese record company, Tutl." Faroese musicians such as Teitur Lassen, Eivør Pálsdóttir, Høgni Lisberg, Guðrið Hansdóttir, Knút Háberg Eysturstein and Týr started their career at Tutl, and Blak's own jazz band Yggdrasil issues all their records at Tutl.
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Breathy voice (also called murmured voice, whispery voice, soughing and susurration) is a phonation in which the vocal folds vibrate, as they do in normal (modal) voicing, but are adjusted to let more air escape which produces a sighing-like sound. A simple breathy phonation, (not actually a fricative consonant, as a literal reading of the IPA chart would suggest), can sometimes be heard as an allophone of English between vowels, such as in the word behind, for some speakers. In the context of the Indo-Aryan languages like Sanskrit and Hindi and comparative Indo-European studies, breathy consonants are often called voiced aspirated, as in the Hindi and Sanskrit stops normally denoted bh, dh, ḍh, jh, and gh and the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European phoneme gʷʰ. , as breathy voice is a different type of phonation from aspiration.
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His third and final full orchestral work composed for Birmingham forces, Eden, was first heard at the 2005 Cheltenham International Music Festival, played by the CBSO under Martyn Brabbins, and is an exploration of the non-tempered tuning of the harmonic series. This preoccupation with fusing tempered modality and non-tempered resonance is continued in his largest work to date, Heaven is Shy of Earth, an oratorio for mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra lasting nearly 35 minutes, commissioned by the BBC for the 2006 Promenade Concerts, where it was premiered by singer Angelika Kirchschlager and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. A new version of that work, expanded through the addition of a new (third) movement, 'Gloria (with Bird)', was premiered at the Barbican Centre on 26 November 2010 with Susan Bickley as the soloist. Further choral- orchestral works came in the shape of Alleluia for chorus and orchestra, composed for the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall ("The London Philharmonic Choir, with nowhere to hide in such a revealing acoustic, maintained pitch admirably and delivered a virtuoso cadenza of animated susurration"), and the shorter Harmony, commissioned as the opening work for the 2013 season of the BBC Proms.
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