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The results showed that listeners consistently recognized the intended timbres.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026
Strayhorn’s inspired 15-minute arrangement of “Mood Indigo” moves through three keys, shifting timbres, and even a turn into waltz time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Online, many fans marveled at the song’s ability to replicate the timbres and cadences of its real-life counterparts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
Texturally, their music, with its unabashedly electronic timbres and heavy backbeats, has less in common with bebop combos than with synth-pop, glitch and dance music.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2023
If we could listen to them all at once, fully orchestrated, in their immense ensemble, we might become aware of the counterpoint, the balance of tones and timbres and harmonics, the sonorities.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
