Thundercat

I'm a guy where my perfect pitch has been altered by the fact that I usually tune up to what's going on. When I was a kid, it was horrible! If two notes were playing right next to each other, and they were dissonant, it would drive me nuts. If it was something that sounded like it was in between notes, it'd make me cringe.

American Musician

Margaret MacMillan

The cubism of Braque or Picasso, the dissonant compositions of Schoenberg or Stravinsky, the free-flowing and often erotic choreography of Isadora Duncan and Nijinsky - these were acts of rebellion against the certainties and traditions of the old world.

Canadian Historian

Brian Greene

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

American Physicist

Simon Helberg

I own a fart CD. It has, I believe, over 100 fart sounds. A lovely variety, from the up-close and personal to the more experimental and dissonant. Some people prefer to listen to Bach when they go to sleep... not me.

American Actor

Alan Price

The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically.

Elizabeth Diller

In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant things make me uncomfortable.

Polish Architect

Todd Haynes

Looking at photographs of New York in 1952, you find a powerfully pre-Eisenhower era - sagging, tired, distressed - and the palette is slightly dissonant.

American Director

Alfred Jarry

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

French Writer

Petra Haden

I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes.

Use 'dissonant' to describe opposing ideas or opinions within a group.

Agreement Conflict

'Dissonant' implies a lack of harmony or unity, often creating tension.

Harmony Misalignment

While often negative, 'dissonant' can be positive if diversity of thought is valued.

Not Always Negative

Describes a sound that feels harsh or uncomfortable to listen to.

Harsh Sound

In music, 'dissonant' sounds can create tension, needing resolution.

Musical Tension

Used by musicians to discuss specific types of harmonic relationships.

Technical Music Term

 ones they'd like to look at beautiful faces rather than playing for faces they like to listen to constant melodies instead of dissonant melodies babies really are born with a lot of innate pleasures it was once a statement made by a psychologist that said that 80% of

The surprising science...

 prayer violently pop out of tune at the faintest breeze the bridge wears itself down in a matter of weeks transforming your sweet sitar sound into a buzzy dissonant mess and God forbid anything should break on the instrument

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 And breaking of glass can indicate the end of a relationship or a friendship. Scientists believe that dissonant sounds,