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For me, what’s really important is enabling the listener to feel the magical physicality of sound, the timbre, the colour, the mass, the weight, of sound. That’s what I feel I’m working with, almost like a sculptor works with different
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501:Neither
465:Stratum
453:Fury II
447:murmurs
435:Company
375:Crimson
369:Miniata
312:QUARTET
116:of the
61:ranked
1337:(2024)
1331:(2023)
1325:(2022)
1319:(2021)
1313:(2020)
1307:(2019)
1301:(2018)
1295:(2017)
1289:(2016)
1283:(2015)
1277:(2014)
1271:(2013)
1265:(2012)
1259:(2011)
1253:(2010)
1247:(2009)
1241:(2008)
1235:(2007)
1229:(2005)
1223:(2004)
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1211:(2002)
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1199:(2001)
1193:(2000)
1187:(1999)
1181:(1998)
1175:(1997)
1169:(1996)
1163:(1995)
1157:(1994)
1151:(1993)
1145:(1992)
1139:(1991)
1133:(1990)
1127:(1989)
1121:(1988)
1115:(1987)
1109:(1986)
1103:(1985)
1097:(1984)
1091:(1983)
1085:(1982)
1079:(1981)
1073:(1980)
1067:(1979)
1061:(1978)
1055:(1977)
1049:(1976)
1043:(1975)
1037:(1974)
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593:(2021)
587:(2020)
579:Myriad
531:Shadow
525:Fletch
411:Traces
381:Fury I
363:Choler
357:blaauw
308:(1997)
227:chroma
184:, the
159:traces
71:Fraser
37:Berlin
935:JSTOR
567:White
513:Still
233:Works
204:Music
163:Proms
897:2018
872:2010
842:2010
807:2010
777:2010
752:2019
723:2019
694:2020
683:ISSN
660:2019
635:2011
573:Skin
555:Alba
549:Void
246:Trio
87:DAAD
63:Skin
927:doi
923:140
519:Ire
282:Duo
122:ARD
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