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Recent Examples of polyphonic
At its heart is the creation of new vocal datasets, polyphonic AI models capable of blending human and machine voices, pulling audiences into an immersive, participatory experience.
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Nargess Banks, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
Everything [in Georgia] symbolizes wine—like the architecture of the medieval century, like churches, even Georgian polyphonic singing, which reminds me of the curly vines.
—Kurt Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 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
Rykeyz was on the Roland Juno-106, a polyphonic synthesizer manufactured in the mid-late ’80s.
—Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
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Nargess Banks, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
Everything [in Georgia] symbolizes wine—like the architecture of the medieval century, like churches, even Georgian polyphonic singing, which reminds me of the curly vines.
—Kurt Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 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
Rykeyz was on the Roland Juno-106, a polyphonic synthesizer manufactured in the mid-late ’80s.
—Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polyphonic
Adjective
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Similarly, when accomplished jazz musicians collaborate with generative AI to compose new pieces, the algorithm's vast knowledge of harmonic possibilities, combined with the musician's emotional intuition, creates symphonies beyond what either could achieve independently.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Frequency response is reported to run from 20 Hz up to 30 kHz, total harmonic distortion is 1% at 1 kHz, and the sound pressure level is given as 105 dB at 1 kHz (1 mW).—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 June 2025
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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
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The Argentine musician was among the first to apply a broad range of musical ideas to film and TV scores, from jazz and rock to more modern and complex techniques of orchestral writing.—
Jon Burlingame,
Variety,
26 June 2025
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In Los Angeles, after the dancers, the Hollywood Philharmonic took the stage for orchestral takes of some of the group’s hits.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
23 June 2025
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The novel’s ending is the sort of style-melding genre-bending writing Oates is known for, where the plot is wrapped up in a burst of emotive, rhythmic, fantastical, almost abstract yet deeply human prose.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
15 June 2025
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This involves swirling an oil cleanser over my face in smooth, rhythmic waves.—
Mark Holgate,
Vogue,
15 June 2025
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The harmonies disperse and gravitate toward tonal nodes, until, suddenly, stunningly, pure E-flat major materializes.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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The fact that the story works at all despite its bizarre tonal shifts and erratic pacing is a testament to how strong the game’s themes and characterization truly are.—
Hayes Madsen,
Rolling Stone,
23 June 2025
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Hudson buttressed Al Kooper’s original organ part into a chordal fortress, part of an incendiary performance that surges to peak after peak.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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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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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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Told in lyric prose, intercut with biblical references, excerpts of history and nature writing, and myth, this memoir contains essays, vignettes and a series of lists, that read like deep-sea poetry, and which ultimately portray a love of language and everything that exceeds it….—
Dylin Hardcastle
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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Kate Beckinsale debuted a new tattoo in honor of her late father, Richard Beckinsale Richard died in 1979 when the actress was 5 years old Her arm tattoo features a David Bowie lyric Kate Beckinsale is honoring her late dad.—
Catherine Santino,
People.com,
5 June 2025
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