Each track is a deliberate layering of textures and elements, with every microtone sounding as fussed-over as the sculpted icing on an elaborate wedding cake. |
A microtone is an interval smaller than a semitone. |
The scene's mythic quality is rendered uncanny, even creepy, by the microtone dissonances and irregular rumbles of Stephen Scott's electronic score. |
It's a thrilling disconnect, a heady hybrid of the Welsh Valleys and those microtone specialists, Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares. |
Actually, at the time, I didn't even know the word microtone! |
These contained monophonic lines in microtone tunings based upon speculations by the composers regarding Mozart's melodic writing. |